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Old 06-18-2012, 07:41 PM
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Don't the active isotopes of gold have short half-lives? And also the most likely use for the gold is to sit in bank vaults as backing for bank-notes or copper and silver coinage. Gold is typically reserved for very large transactions in gold based monetary systems.

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To a certain extent I'm reminded of Goldfinger - although it's been a long, long time since I saw it, if I recall correctly, wasn't Auric's idea to make the gold radioactive, and therefore effectively useless as a trade item? Similar thinking may have been taking place during the summer of 1997 as nukes started flying in Europe. Who knows how impenetrable Knox's vaults are? It may be possible that whilst the gold may not be destroyed, a heavy enough attack could render it radioactive and therefore useless - who would accept a bar of radioactive gold as payment knowing that handling it could be fatal?
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