Posted on 02/13/2011 5:32:43 PM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Some years ago, but post 9-11, Christopher Hitchens admitted there was a scare in Washington, DC which led to a weekend exodus by some.
There was nothing “official”, but those who had back channel info weighed out whether it might be a good weekend to skip town.
I suggest you look at a map that goes beyond Texas. This is about San Diego, CA, not San Diego, TX.
San Diego, CA, among the nation's largest cities, sits on the southern border with Mexico.
Can you remember where you read that?
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No, Sorry, Cannot. Was back in 2001-03.
Still it is a possibility, regardless of where it was rumored. NEST admitted it cannot ID nukes unless they are nearby. So it is possible someone could have smuggled them over the border anytime since the Cold War began, or later my Iran et al. Certainly both the Soviets and the Iranians have the will and the motive.
I regret my sarcasm was missed....... Sorry about that chief. (Yes, I worked in SD CA for several tours. This is a bout a democrat party that doesn’t know - in court testimony - what the meaning of “is” is.)
Precisely! Nothing to see here.
Here’s one WMD in the U.S., for sure:
“B-52 Crash Remembered: Adam Mattocks, pilot aboard the B-52 that crashed on Jan. 24, 1961, in eastern North Carolina, last week gathered with crash witnesses and first responders at the mishap scene to remember the three airmen who perished that day. Five airmen survived, including Mattocks; he’s the only one still alive after all these years. The B-52, carrying two Mk 39 nuclear bombs, was on an alert mission along the US East Coast that fateful day when it experienced a massive fuel leak, reported WNCT, eastern North Carolina’s TV news station 9. The bomber went down in Pikesville as the aircrew attempted to land it at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, just outside of Goldsboro in the eastern part of the state. The Air Force recovered one of the two nukes; but the second lodged itself deep in the swampy earth, preventing its recovery.”
Hmmm, interesting thought.
Malignant narcissists lack the capacity for caring.
I’ve heard that folks have recently been trying to recover that bomb. It contains tens of millions of dollars worth of nuclear material (lithium-6 deuteride solid fuel and a multi-ton uranium tamper; the plutonium pit was removed). Unfortunately (or fortunately) the exact location of the bomb has been lost to history. Recovery may be dangerous. In the case of the bomb that was recovered only one safety was still working.
I can imagine that digging for it would be a risky venture.....
“Bonk”
“Boom”
>>Wonderful.
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>>What would you call it?
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>>Would the size of the conventional explosive and the amount of radioactive material and the location of the explosion matter?
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>Idiot!
I’d call it explosively scattered toxic waste.
If the radiation contamination was bad enough to get a 50% lethality dose in an hour, I’d call it a radiological weapon.
Getting a square block of city contaminated by the contents of an X-ray machine does not a WMD make.
Yes, you could further enrich the materials, but since it took North Korea years to do it, I say “you can’t.”
In 1997, former Russian National Security Advisor Alexander Lebed made public claims about lost "suitcase nukes" following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In an interview with the newsmagazine 60 Minutes, Lebed said:
I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia. I don't know their location. I don't know whether they have been destroyed or whether they are stored or whether they've been sold or stolen, I don't know.[citation needed]
However, the Russian government immediately rejected Lebed's claims. Russia's Ministry for Atomic Energy went so far as to dispute that suitcase nuclear weapons had even ever been developed by the Soviet Union. Later testimony however insinuated that the suitcase bombs had been under the control of the KGB and not the army or the atomic energy ministry, so they might not know of their existence. Russian president Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Barbara Walters in 2001, stated about suitcase nukes, "I don't really believe this is true. These are just legends. One can probably assume that somebody tried to sell some nuclear secrets. But there is no documentary confirmation of those developments."[citation needed]
The highest-ranking GRU defector Stanislav Lunev claimed that such Russian-made devices do exist and described them in more detail.[7] These devices, "identified as RA-115s (or RA-115-01s for submersible weapons)" weigh from fifty to sixty pounds. They can last for many years if wired to an electric source. In case there is a loss of power, there is a battery backup. If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message—either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate.” According to Lunev, the number of "missing" nuclear devices (as found by General Lebed) "is almost identical to the number of strategic targets upon which those bombs would be used."[7]
Lunev suggested that suitcase nukes might be already deployed by the GRU operatives at the US soil to assassinate US leaders in the event of war.[7] He alleged that arms caches were hidden by the KGB in many countries for the planned terrorism acts. They were booby-trapped with "Lightning" explosive devices. One of such cache, which was identified by Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities tried to remove it from woods near Bern. Several others caches were removed successfully.[8] Lunev said that he had personally looked for hiding places for weapons caches in the Shenandoah Valley area[7] and that "it is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the US" either across the Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip undetected when launched from a Russian airplane.[7] US Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had "exaggerated things" according to the FBI.[9] Searches of the areas identified by Lunev have been conducted, "but law-enforcement officials have never found such weapons caches, with or without portable nuclear weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke
Read Lunev’s book “Through the Eyes of the Enemy” for more info.
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