Re: "Nazis Run Our Space Program" -- Peace Activist Bruce Gagnon

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:55:10 -0600

Nathan Gant wrote:

>
>Bruce has perfectly rational objections about launching plutonium in
>rockets. That would make a decent terrorist weapon -- blow up the Space
>Shuttle when it is a few miles in the air, with a large amount of plutonium
>on board.
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>
>

The Plutonium is encased in ceramic designed to withstand not only a
in-flight explosion, but even a reentry, IIRC.

Pat

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