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   XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Markku Grönroos  wrote:   
      
   > "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   > viestissä:ddfr-6C43F8.08255710082008@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net...   
   > >   
   > > If you intend this seriously, you are either vastly overestimating the   
   > > power of nuclear (or thermonuclear) weapons or vastly underestimating   
   > > the size of the U.S.   
      
   > Most of the US territory is naturally irrelevant as primary nuclear targets.   
   > For instance a Russian R-39 submarine launched ballistic missile consists 10   
   > warheads each discharging about ten times more energy than those two air   
   > bombs dropped to Japan during the WWII.   
      
   A single submarine equipped wth SLBMs could kill a very large number of   
   people, but it couldn't come close to shelling the entire US dead, let   
   alone lifting and melting bedrock from coast to coast.   
      
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