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To: mishedlo who wrote (121447)	9/13/2001 1:03:44 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 436258

I don't know the range details I'm almost sure all of taht is classified, in general it's set off at a certain altitude to cover a certain area, the higher the more area.There are limits depending on the size of the charge. If you just want to take out a small target you would explode it closer to the ground. I suspect a larger charge set to go off at 1000 ft or so could take out a large city.( 50 mi radius) While a smaller one set at ground zero would limited to about a 1 mile radius or less. ( a larger one at ground zero wouldn't likely kill much further than 1 mile ) While the neutrinos will go clean through the earth they would be scattered enough by then that I doubt you could even detect them (without some very very special detectors). Still to get a bunker deep enough to protect you even from a small one you would have to get a mile deep. :-( !! -------------- Most of this is "range thing" is speculation on my part from what I've managed to piece together from the little I've read..don't take as if I know absolute fact. ------------- I just know we have had a "bunch of them" for a long time. Some small enough to be fired by tanks. I first read about them in 1955, then heard nothing more about them until the late 60s. I think the Chinese recently stole the blue prints,. or Klinton sold em to them. Jim