🚀 go-pugleaf

Doug Mohney <sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu> writes:
> Actual use of a nuclear weapon .. would result in ..
> EMP problems you'd cause for commercial sats and 
> (possibly) electronics on the ground. 
> It would be bad. And a waste of good fissionables 
> for other purposes.

There could also be megabits of nugget-sized space 
junk to ventilate any later space vehicles.  But also, 
if plutonium warheads are "destroyed" by Smart Pebbles 
(or whatever they're being called now), couldn't the 
atmosphere be filled with enough plutonium dust to 
give every person on the planet bone cancer ?

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