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Why it won't work...
26199 Started conversation Apr 26, 2001
Having just done a few rough calculations using what physics I can remember at the moment (grin)... if you focused all the light from a 60 watt light-bulb onto your detector, you'd end up with something like a ten millionth of a newton of force... or about the weight of a hundred thousandth of a gram.
Detecting that little force is hard enough in the lab, to do it under real life conditions seems impossible...
I'm not going to swear to any of the above figures, though 
26199
Why it won't work...
Peregrin Posted Apr 26, 2001
Seems about right...
And re. the nuclear reprisal thing, good idea in principle but it'd be very easy to get round. Most nuclear countries have bunkers in really weird places, for a start. And it'd be easy to fire decoy missiles and stuff.
Oh and why does it need that system in particular to detect it? I would have thought a nuclear explosion would be a pretty easy thing to detect...
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