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To: Travis McGee
What is the likelihood of a nation doing its first nuclear test in combat? Of it working as expected by the designers?

When you have a limited amount of nuclear material, it is perfectly reasonable to run the "tests" in a combat environment. What do you have to lose? If it fails to go boom, it would have done so in the test environment too. If it does go boom, mission accomplished.

I suspect Saddam's definition of a "combat environment" will be somewhere in Israel or a major U.S. city. He won't do it personally. He will let his Al Qaida buddies attend to that task while he watches the homefront.

21 posted on 12/06/2002 4:42:04 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
I agree, but I think a smallpox or anthrax mega release are more likely.
50 posted on 12/06/2002 7:27:15 PM PST by Travis McGee
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