<div dir="ltr">They're about as strategically useful as other nuclear WMDs - which is to say, the amount of indiscriminate death they inflict would trigger a nuclear war if they were used against an enemy.<div><br></div><div>That said, the ones that have been produced can't penetrate modern tank armor, which caused them to fall out of favor: if you can't use them against enemy military, having them around is a clear sign that you want to use them against enemy civilians, which is a no-no. (You can have stuff that in practice might mostly hurt civilians, but you can't be seen to be preparing to specifically target civilians and not military.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:59 AM William Flynn Wallace 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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div></div>
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