On Mon, 31 May 2004 17:06:43 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

Unless you have one like mine, which comes with the Nuclear
Effects circular slide rule in the back pocket.

...and I assume you immediately did what I did; crank it all the way to
the top (20 megatons, IIRC) and set the burst height at zero to see just
how big of a crater you could make. What was that again? Around 400 feet
deep?

....Which, depending on the location, would pretty much guarantee water
table contamination on a total, long-term basis.

OM

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