Can the fluctuations in head-on ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions be large

We apply the Low-Nussinov model of hadron-hadron collisions to nucleus-nucleus collisions. We show that fluctuations in the multiplicity are large and of the same order as the multiplicity. The dependence of the total multiplicity on A is difficult to estimate. String formation and breaking is discussed using classical chromodynamic equations to describe the gluon fields. These equations display amusing collective phenomena. (orig.)