Aucbvax.1431
fa.arms-d
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!JEFFC@MIT-MC
Thu May 28 08:51:42 1981
Tues PM;Weapons Crisis Week at Stanford
 ...1) Urban firestorms will deplete the oxygen; blast shelters in
    the firestorm area won't work unless they have 10s of hours or days 
    worth of bottled oxygen....
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I am curious about this.  I have read that the density of flammable
material is not sufficiently high in modern US cities to support a
firestorm (as opposed to the high density of wood in Hiroshima in
'45).  Did Tsipis address this point?  Or did he simply assert that
there will be firestorms.

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