From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Geo. says...

> How much of the building it contaminated doesn't really matter, they shut
> down the whole building didn't they? Isn't that just as good?

If it's for strategic reasons, I would think not.

> Transport tons? My thought was that if saddam has bio weapons or a uranium
> bomb he would plant it in his own oilfields to assure that he could destroy
> them should it become clear that he had lost power. Kinda like lighting the
> kuwaiti oil fields in the 1990 war.

Think of it this way -- a ground-exploded uranium bomb would contaminate a
very small portion of the Iraqi oil fields. Let's say 50-60 square miles.
Is that an efficient use of the technology?

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