Posted on 12/22/2015 11:22:55 AM PST by SJackson
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Maybe if we ignore it, and pretend these aren't Islamic terrorists the risk will go away.
Can you imagine ISIS in Pakistan?
Given their madrassas that create Taliban, etc. I’d say they’re about 95% there already. Especially with them harbording OBL. Of course, they had no idea he was there. /s
oops s/b “harboring”
Obama is more worried that Muslims’ feelings will get hurt if we prohibit potential terrorists from entering the country.
It’s a good think that Obama and Kerry are right on top of Iranian nuclear developments. As Obama would say, “I took care of that little problem. In my spare time.”
Great article. I am going to add it to my references.
It does not discuss the engineering side of nuclear weapons for terrorists. These feral psychopaths are not all stereotypical primitives, but include university graduates accommodating fanaticism within academic excellence in sciences and engineering.
Hence, frightening capabilities emerge from fifty-year-old worldwide technologies and stockpiles for weapons such as Davy Crockett missiles firing 51-pound nuclear 0.02-kiloton warheads, and Astor torpedoes carrying Hiroshima size warheads.
If organizations such as ISIS can learn to use social media, they can just as well organize the collegiate environments needed for graduate degree folks to build miniature nuclear devices.
Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29
Astor Mark 45 torpedo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_45_torpedo
Obama said in his NPR interview that we didn’t have to worry about the use of these weapons by ISIL in this country. Of course he doesn’t even recognize radical Islamic terrorism as a threat, so why would he concern himself about them having a nuclear weapon.
But it is also important for us to keep things in perspective, and this [ISIL] is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us, and they can hurt our people and our families. And so I understand why people are worried.
My younger son and daughter-in-law live a few blocks from a large mosque in Washington DC. It is an ideal location to have a nuke squirreled away in the basement awaiting the ultimate suicide-homicide bombing. The kids are well within the crater.
How do we get that mosque inspected?
Cesium 137 is used for some nuclear medicine. A few jihadist doctors in the past have been found to traffic in it..
fire inspectors, or claim that their wiring might cause a fire..
“How do we get that mosque inspected?”
Elect Donald Trump. Seriously, who else has the guts to do it?
So why don’t we open Yucca Mountain and move our radioactive waste to a safe location?
Well, if you can’t get the mosque inspected have your son’s head examined for living in any part of D.C.
Producing nuclear weapons, including the required materials - plutonium and uranium - is beyond the skills of terrorist groups. The level of skills needed for the fabrication of a sophisticated weapon are judged to pose a barrier for terrorists. However, terrorists may seek to weaponize radiological materials in other ways.
Long story, but he went to college there (architect), was hired for an internship his sophomore summer, worked full time the next summer and was hired right after graduation (all the same company). A couple of years later a bigger company hired him away for a lot more money and chances for advancement. Met and married a lawyer who had just bought a DC townhouse (She's a sweetheart, too). Doesn't even need a car, rents one to visit us. He loves it.
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