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To: i-node who wrote (393649)	6/23/2008 7:55:11 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578927

CJ just argues for argument sake.

To: i-node who wrote (393649)	6/23/2008 9:46:28 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578927

"As far as we know, they were auctioned to the highest bidder." By the Russians? Even at their most dire point, they knew that the few million they could get was a risk of nuclear destruction. You, Brumar and Shorty like to pretend everyone but Americans and possibly the Israelis have a collective IQ of maybe 20. That isn't true. If they were stolen, odds are high that whoever stole them doesn't have a clue as to how to use them. From what we do know, those devices are pretty sophisticated and require a great deal of training to deploy. "I think one can intuitively conclude the odds of dying by being hit by an asteroid during the next few decades would be lower than that of being a victim of a nuclear terrorist attack during the same period." How is that intuitive in any way shape or form? We have 8000 nukes, ready to go. With some lead time, we can more than double that number. And we have all kinds of delivery systems, many of which cannot be countered by anyone. Assuming we have a leadership with any brains, any analysis of the debris would yield a short list of suspects. In many cases, the list can easily be reduced to 1. There are several classes of weapons that only the Russians, for example, could produce. And once the source of the weapon is found, their days are numbered. Now, assume they aren't morons. Then, they know this. "More importantly, the probabilistic expected number of deaths from a nuclear terrorist attack is far, far higher." Oh, God. That is the most ignorant statement that has ever been posted here. An asteroid strike can account for most of the living higher organisms on the planet. A strike on a continental landmass could kill everything that masses more than 20 kilos or so just by the shock. An ocean strike would be, if anything, worse. The tidal waves would drown huge numbers. The water vapor and debris kicked up would mean years without sunshine. There would be no surviving civilizations. Google the Alverez hypothesis. No conceivable terrorist attack could do this.

To: i-node who wrote (393649)	6/23/2008 10:11:54 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578927

Here Dave: nsc.org Worry about something that might actually HAPPEN to you. A terrorist attack isn't even in the picture.