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Re: Can anyone remember...?

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: Can anyone remember...?
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Date 2015-10-03 19:10 +0000
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In article <mup4hq$n47$1@dont-email.me>,
William Vetter  <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote:
>nuny@bid.nes wrote:
>> On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 10:35:48 PM UTC-7, Gutless Umbrella Carrying 
>> Sissy wrote:
>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>>> news:nvMpww.L4n@kithrup.com: 
>>> 
>>>> In article <mungof$da1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> William Vetter  <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>>>> In article <XnsA527A3CE39C94taustingmail@69.16.179.43>,
>>>>>> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Interesting note: in wargames that involve both civilian and 
>>>>>>> military leadership, in which a political crisis is simulated
>>>>>>> that could conceivably lead to nuclear war, the military
>>>>>>> commanders _never_ fire their nukes, even in response to the
>>>>>>> other side doing so. And the civilian commanders _always_ do
>>>>>>> so, even with other clear paths to resolve the crisis being
>>>>>>> available. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Interesting.  Considering the one time when nukes might have
>>>>>> been used after 1945.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It was the Korean War; it wasn't getting anywhere; General
>>>>>> MacArthur wanted to nuke Beijing.  Truman forbade it. 
>>>>>> MacArthur told everyone what a stupid President Truman was, he
>>>>>> didn't understand military matters.  Truman recalled him.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was in fourth grade, and the teacher told us all to remember
>>>>>> when "General MacArthur came home.  You can say, I was in
>>>>>> fourth grade."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> They made it as easy on him as possible, under the
>>>>>> circumstances, and he made a speech to Congress: "They say old
>>>>>> soldiers never die, they just fade away; I am an old soldier,
>>>>>> and now I shall fade away."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But, in that one instance when nukes *might* have been used,
>>>>>> it was the military man who wanted to use them, and the
>>>>>> lifelong civilian who wouldn't let him.
>>>>> 
>>>>> No, there was talk about the US using tacnukes on behalf of the
>>>>> French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
>>>> 
>>>> There may have been talk.  Nobody used them.
>>>> 
>>>> In similar fashion, poison gas was used in WWI and prepared
>>>> against during WWII ... but nobody ever actually used it.  They
>>>> had learned that gas had an unpleasant habit of following a
>>>> change in the wind and poisoning your own troops, not the
>>>> enemy's.
>>>> 
>>> And was dangerous to handle when not in actual use, and really 
>>> pissed off the enemy, and a variety of other reasons aginst it.
>>> 
>>> The Nazis made, literally, tons of chlorine triflouride at one 
>>> point, to use as both a weapon and a rocket fuel. But the stuff is 
>>> so dangerous, and a better oxidizer than pure oxygen[1], that they 
>>> decided that wasn't a good idea.
>>> 
>>> [1]If you spill it in your lab, whatever you spill it on, including 
>>> the concrete floor, will catch on fire. If you grab your handy 
>>> bucket of sand (no chem lab is complete without several) and dump 
>>> that on it, the sand will catch on fire. If you douse it with 
>>> water, the water will catch on fire. If you scoop it into a vacuum 
>>> chamber and smother it in asbestos, the asbestos will catch on fire 
>>> _in the absence of any atmostphere at all_. There is no known way 
>>> to extinguish it. And the main byproducts of it reacting with stuff 
>>> is chlorine and fluorine gas. (And it's not *nearly* as dangerous 
>>> as dioxygen diflouride, which causes ice to catch on fire at 270 
>>> degrees below zero.)
>>
>>   And then there's the appropriately named FOOF. This guy details those and 
>> other truly terrifying chemicals:
>>
>> http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/
>>
>>   It's the sort of stuff some hard SF author ought to use, but editors would 
>> probably not believe it.
>>
>You can't use something that predetonates as a weapon.

So the thiotimoline bomb is right out?

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
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