Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy, take 2
Justin Ho (iluvatar45@hotmail.com)
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:47:22 +0800
>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
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