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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (51444)	5/14/2014 1:36:37 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 86355

Hi Wharf Rat; Re: "Dust... remember this?"; Sure. From your own link: Groundburst - at hardened missile silos, for example - generate fine dust. Airbursts - over cities and unhardened military installations - make fires and therefore smoke. My point is that you only get to use a nuke once. Any nuke that is used to set a minor forest fire with an air burst can't be used to generate dust with a ground burst. You're talking as if there were so many nukes that people would use them to plow the other side's farmland, LOL. This is some weird fantasy. Farms and forests are not targets because their value is too low. These are places where unwanted bombs are dropped when a mission is scrubbed, but you think they're targets. The US has something like 18,000 cities and villages. Even the smallest of them would be bombed before farms or forests would be targeted. No one would ever get around to targeting enemy tundra, LOL. -- Carl