To: Tim Steadham <tstead@ntirs.org>
From: "Russell D. Hoffman" <rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Why Germany abandoned its nuclear program
In-Reply-To: <20010712213803.4221.qmail@web9101.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <4.2.0.58.20010711141010.009fb180@mail.adnc.com>

Mr. Steadham,

Here, you're mixing up the diabolical experiment we started this discussion on, with real life and the dispersal of radioactive materials into the environment.

Is it really this hard for you to keep track of all your arguments? I'm composing a response to your previous letter, but this sort of silliness will really delay my ability to tie up all the lose ends. Please spend a bit more time rereading what you send me from now on for logical fallacies, before you send it.

And please, cite your references. I mean, you tell me you "found a reference". That's weak. But anyway, I have a more useful reference for past releases, that lists those releases in Curies, not pounds. (NASA's 1995 FEIS for the Cassini Mission, page 3-44.)

Thank you in advance.

-- rdh

At 02:38 PM 7/12/01 , you wrote:

P.S. Back to the 1 lb of Pu argument. I found a
reference that states that over 10,000 pounds of Pu
have been released into the environment as a result of
weapons testing. Do your figures correlate with that
because if they do then there has been enough Pu
released to kill the entire world thousands of times
over (if one assumes the 1 lb. argument is correct
which it clearly is not.)

If you take the 12 deaths/mg as accurate - that is
about 54 billion people or roughly enough to kill the
entire world almost 9 times over. Are you sure that
the 12 deaths/mg is correct or is the 10,000 lb of Pu
in error?