At 01:22 PM 3/3/00 -0500, David Honig wrote: >At 01:26 AM 3/3/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote: >> >>Must be a typo - isn't it >>"HOW Should The United States Use Nuclear Threats To Deter >>Chemical and Biological Attacks? A Debate." :-) > >The only way this would be politic (and even then it wouldn't) >would be to put a small nuke in a bunker buster munition and >make sure it goes off deep underground. I don't know >if this is possible; the forces in a BB might exceed that >of being launched from an artillery shell. > >Otherwise you can't use airbursts, for something as >petty as Osama or Saddam. IMHO. IANADiplomat. I thought we developed bunker busters using shot-out gun barrels for the casing, that overpenetrated the target bunker? (for the gulf war) Just make the warhead smaller. Reese
