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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (21594)3/17/2002 6:58:10 PM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hawk,
certain types of construction are not easily attacked by explosives...dams, tunnels and filled arch bridges are high on that list.

it would take huge quantities of well placed conventional explosives to collapse any large concrete and steel reinforced dam...i am talking freight car loads. dams get thicker and thicker at the base...they are strongest where you need to attack them.

of course anything can be destroyed by a big enough nuke.

it is a plausible idea imo...i doubt the dam is the highest priority target...but it certainly could be on a list for another coordinated, multiple, target attack. they seem to like infrastructure damage and that would certainly apply here...ole miss is major transportation system.
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