<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Well is there anything between nuclear and the conventional bombs? It would be nice, in a gruesome kind of way, to have bombs capable of killing the same number of whatever as nuclear ones but no radiation. Has a total, all out war, sparing nothing, been fought in modern times? All those little piddly wars between FRance and Britain were largely fought with mercenaries. Why didn't they put every man who could carry a weapon into the wars? That would be a very very short war. But no, they fought limited wars, and mostly nobody won. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:36 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3274271871241716568WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] better than Google<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">You guys and gals. What I want to know is whatever happened to the neutron bomb? Wasn't it supposed to kill people but leave buildings intact? Maybe it was really dirty, radiation-wise. bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">BillW, it was nearly useless as a weapon. The ideal weapon would do the opposite: wreck the equipment and leave the people intact. That’s why we hear so much more about the EMP, which wrecks the communications, the computers, the electrical infrastructure, the engines and such, but the people don’t even notice until their solitaire game won’t turn on. Then FaceBook is gone, and oh dear, they realize they just lost World War 4.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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