Bina on Iraq

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Feb 24 04:07:43 PST 2003


On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, andie nachgeborene wrote:


> Hell, their jets were using vacuum tubes.

That was because vacuum tubes survive EMP (the electro-magnetic pulse generated by atomic blasts) and transisters don't. The soviets knew perfectly well how to make transistors.

Michael



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