>>On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:22:46, "David V. Loewe, Jr"
>><davelo...@charter.net> wrote:
>>>On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:54:15, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>Whatever else, how would the Captain know that he wasn't going to hurt
>>>>anyone by detonating a thermonuclear device, even if it WAS 200 miles out
>>>>in the Atlantic.

>>>>I'd say, he'd be likely to kill a lot of people,
>>>>not to mention, severely

>>>Who?  Good grief, you practically have to be under the thing at sea to
>>>be killed by it.

>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads>

>>>>impact the entire North Atlantic fishing industry.  

>>>How?

>>>Do you have any earthly idea how many nuclear tests were conducted by
>>>the US, UK and France in the Pacific without severely impacting the
>>>Pacific fishing industry?

>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Uni...>

>>>Castle Bravo alone was over 30 times bigger than that W88.  Over 30 of
>>>the Pacific shots were larger than the W88.

>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple>

>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moruroa>

>>>>Thousands of tons of severely radioactive plankton are going to end up
>>>>concentrated in the fish we love to eat.

>>>Nonsense.

>>Well, okay, I overstated the problem, but I still think it's bigger than
>>your total dismissal.  This wasn't an air burst, as you seem to assume. It
>>was at or below sea level.

>You are wrong.  I have been assuming a surface burst.

>>Do you know why Bikini could not be reinhabited after the testing?  It
>>wasn't because of ground radiation; it was because the natives' food
>>source, fish, was unsafe long after the surface/underwater testing had
>>occurred.

>In confined waters with lots of material available to activate.