Posted on 07/13/2005 4:37:32 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
It sells books, I suppose.
Investigative journalist?
fyi ---
The author was just on with Savage , was on Coast to Coast AM with George Noury last night..
Book doesn't come out until September.
If there really were 6 suitcase nukes detonated in the US, can you imagine the backlash? Can you imagine what people would demand as payback?
Pinging.
WND doesn't understand Physics.
Suitcase nukes are SMALLER than ordinary nukes.
The smaller the nuke, the shorter the shelf life.
The less shielding that you have, the sooner that your electronics and conventional explosives deteriorate from the radiation.
The less fissionable material that you have, the faster you generally need your atomic trigger isotopes to emit neutrons. The faster you emit neutrons, the shorter your half-life. The shorter your half-life, the less time that you have before the nuke simply fizzles instead of booms.
This is simple physics. Moreover, heavy metals like uranium and plutonium are among the most brittle materials known to man, and the slightest bit of humidity turns them into uranium oxide or plutonium oxide (i.e. worthless rust).
So a "suitcase nuke" from 1991 (the fall of the CCCP) is likely little more than a rusted, shattered, fragmented collection of wiring and explosives today.
Very scary. Anyone know how credible the source is?
Williams is meeting with Tancredo tomorrow.
However, had AlQueda already smuggled nukes into the states, they would have used them by now.
Not that I'm saying we shouldn't do everything possible to make sure they don't get them or bring them in. Sealing the border (for real) would be a good start. Shutting down Iran's and North Korea's nuclear ambitions (by any means necessary) would be a good next step.
When and if we get hit with a Nuclear device, I myself would not want to be a resident of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Syria!
NO New York?
Mecca will surely be dust...
Mecca will surely be dust...
They probaly found it much more difficult than the agents of the (former) USSR.
Some people may laugh, but I am genuinely concerned about the possibility of some kind of nuclear hit here. It might not be exactly as Williams has described, but the threat is real. If we thought 9-11 changed the world forever, just think what a nuclear detonation would do.
Thank you for your sensible post.
I am a lot more worried about the dirty bomb scenario than the mythical "suitcase nuke".
Starting with Mecca.
Yes, the "dirty bomb" will almost certainly happen. But a real atomic explosion? No way.
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