[Leica] Jeffery is OK/ answering JB

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

The energy released is on the scale of nuclear weapons, not
conventional explosives. And the scale is vastly different since the
swath of destruction is so vast.

There were early comparisons to a nuclear device having gone off and
in many ways it's a good one. No radiation, of course, but in terms of
energy released - right on.

Adam

On 9/1/05, Frank F. Farmer <summicron@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> And, of course, there is no rest for the weary either.  My 
> step-uncle-in-law (if there is such a thing) just returned from guard duty 
> in Iraq (just over a year and a half over there).  He is now in Gulfport, 
> Miss.  working SAR.  He says the destruction is unbelievable (quite a 
> statement from an engineer who was charged with rebuilding things in an 
> actual war that had been blown up).