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by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 12:54:19 PM EST
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Likely we are talking about the B61-11, or maybe some secretly developed Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 12:57:04 PM EST
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Rather grim background info with graphs here:

Nuclear Warfare

There are also some comments on the other thread.

The huge problem really is the fall-out. It's unavoidable even for relatively low yields. And it isn't going to respect national boundaries.

Still Jack Straw says it's not going to happen. So we can all sleeply soundly now.

But then he also thinks there's no civil war in Iraq.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 04:44:20 PM EST
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