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| Subject | Re: Can anyone remember...? |
| From | Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> |
| References | (2 earlier) <nvMHD7.5sJ@kithrup.com> <mungof$da1$1@dont-email.me> <nvMpww.L4n@kithrup.com> <XnsA527E5DE3DE18taustingmail@69.16.179.43> <fa2213b2-99a8-4cc3-917c-6fcb1599d6df@googlegroups.com> |
| Message-ID | <XnsA52894E3012E4taustingmail@69.16.179.42> (permalink) |
| Organization | Forte - www.forteinc.com |
| Date | 2015-10-03 14:38 -0700 |
"nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote in
news:fa2213b2-99a8-4cc3-917c-6fcb1599d6df@googlegroups.com:
> On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 10:35:48 PM UTC-7, Gutless
> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>> news:nvMpww.L4n@kithrup.com:
>>
>> > In article <mungof$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:
That is dioxygen difluoride, yes.
>
> 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.
>
ClF3 is nearly as dangerous, and much easier to make in very large
quantities, apparently.
--
Terry Austin
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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