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| From | BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Can anyone remember...? |
| Date | 2015-10-02 23:38 -0700 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <muntak$8pu$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <nvMHD7.5sJ@kithrup.com> <mungof$da1$1@dont-email.me> <nvMpww.L4n@kithrup.com> <XnsA527E5DE3DE18taustingmail@69.16.179.43> <fa2213b2-99a8-4cc3-917c-6fcb1599d6df@googlegroups.com> |
On 10/2/15 11:19 PM, nuny@bid.nes wrote: > On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 10:35:48 PM UTC-7, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote: >> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in >> news:nvMpww.L4n@kithrup.com: >> >>> In article <mungof$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. -- Dave Scruggs Captain, Boulder Creek Fire
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Re: Can anyone remember...? "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 13:24 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 17:53 -0400
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Re: Can anyone remember...? William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 15:47 -0400
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Re: Can anyone remember...? wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-10-04 06:53 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2015-10-04 09:25 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2015-10-04 13:32 -0700
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Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 05:31 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-06 19:48 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-10-06 21:54 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2015-10-07 09:27 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-10-07 11:50 -0700
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Re: Can anyone remember...? William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 13:52 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-03 19:10 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-10-05 08:14 -0700
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Re: Can anyone remember...? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-04 03:38 -0500
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Re: Can anyone remember...? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-10-04 10:46 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-05 04:30 -0500
Re: Can anyone remember...? Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-10-04 08:26 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-10-04 12:54 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-10-04 13:49 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2015-10-04 13:37 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-04 21:43 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 18:12 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-04 22:06 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-10-04 15:08 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org> - 2015-10-05 17:18 -0600
Re: Can anyone remember...? wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-10-07 07:53 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-06 20:11 -0700
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Re: Can anyone remember...? Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2015-10-13 16:15 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 14:38 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2015-10-03 09:09 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 13:54 -0400
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Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-03 14:47 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 14:45 -0700
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Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-05 14:35 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-10-05 23:08 +0100
Re: Can anyone remember...? Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 01:03 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-10-03 09:39 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-03 16:59 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 16:49 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 14:42 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-03 21:51 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-10-03 15:32 -0700
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Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 16:48 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan) - 2015-10-03 22:29 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? patmpowers@gmail.com - 2015-10-03 06:31 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-10-03 14:57 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-10-03 16:19 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 18:50 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 19:14 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? - Slight thread drift BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2015-10-04 13:54 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2015-10-13 16:15 +0000
Re: Can anyone remember...? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:33 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-10-13 13:25 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 17:57 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? patmpowers@gmail.com - 2015-10-05 08:45 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-10-05 11:54 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-10-06 01:10 -0600
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 22:30 -0400
Re: Can anyone remember...? Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-10-03 00:30 -0700
Re: Can anyone remember...? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 06:53 -0400
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