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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
| Subject | Re: Can anyone remember...? |
| Message-ID | <nvnzAo.152L@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-10-03 21:49 +0000 |
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| Organization | Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. |
In article <XnsA528951D7A943taustingmail@69.16.179.42>, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote: >BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote in >news:muntak$8pu$1@speranza.aioe.org: > >> On 10/2/15 11:19 PM, nuny@bid.nes wrote: >>> On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 10:35:48 PM UTC-7, Gutless >>> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote: >>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in >>>> news:nvMpww.L4n@kithrup.com: >>>> >>>>> In article <mungof$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. >>> >>> >>> Mark L. Fergerson >>> >> I have read the link, and a bunch of other stuff there. There >> seems to be a recurring theme there: fluorine. Nasty stuff. I >> got the impression that FOOF would explode if someone in the >> next room even thought about it. At least ClF3 has an industrial >> use. >> >It's used to clean circuit boards in some kinds of electronics >manufacturing, and to clean uranium oxides from the inside of >reactor chambers. Industrial use, but not in industrial quantities >(thankfully). > Hmmmm. Saved to disk, because I may have fictional use for this. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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