enigma@neuro.usc.edu (02/04/91)
From: enigma@neuro.usc.edu [mod.note: Followups to alt.desert-storm. - Bill ] In 1974 John McPhee published a series of interviews with Ted Taylor in The Curve of Binding Energy. This book contained conceptual descriptions for many nuclear devices including a fission device pumped nuclear shaped charge for instantly drilling tunnels through mountains. While Hussein's bunkers are supposed to be constructed withstand nearby omnidirectional nuclear and thermonuclear device detonations, I rather strongly suspect Dr. Taylor's proposal for a fission device primary pumping a more or less passive U238 hollow cone shaped charge would easily penetrate and destroy any of Hussein's currently known bunker designs.