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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.... -------------------------------------------------- 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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