>I think it's mentioned somewhere that there is an agreement between the >Empire and the Alliance that the war would be fought by conventional >means. That was part of why there was such a shock over the use of nukes >at Westerland. I think it was more shock at nukes against ground targets and against civilian targets. Nukes in space are probably all together a different matter. The large distances involved make nuclear warheads with their high yield to mass ratio invaluable if there is going to be enough fuel for the missile. I don't think it is said if the fusion warheads used are similar to today's or whether they are "clean" direct fusion. The missile yields are I think also never explicitly stated so their yields may range from strategic level city destroying to tactical warheads or maybe micro nukes. >-Hank _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com