You can make 'em big and healthy. But you still have the maintenance issues. Leaving one shuttle through the US transportation system would probably cause a fizzle yield. (There's something to be said for a national transportation infrastructre that's right at its operating limits.)
How possible is it to shield those from satellite sensors? Copter, drone sensors? Sensors on harbor cranes?
Shielding a nuke means hiding both the gamma emission (which means a fair amount of lead) and the neutrons (which means lots of lightweight material, like resin or styrofoam.
Unless it's very carefully done, the weight distribution of the shielding might call attention to it.
However, there are plenty of dunces around who should be more alert and careful in their jobs.
Maybe those of us who tend to be paranoids will make up for them? LOL.
What do you think we as a nation, as officials, as security personnel, as citizens . . . should be doing differently?
I noticed in one of the Al Qaeda rants today some phrasing that asserted that, as I read it, they essentially have moles at pretty high levels. Personally, I think all Moslems and anyone fitting a fairly broad hazardous profile should be removed from anything having anything to do with security for the President or any other thing except maybe counterfeiting. Forget the noise about profiling.
It seems to me a lot of us on FR and maybe on this thread could come up with some creative ideas for increasing security that perhaps no one else had thought of. I'm continually impressed with the minds and expertise of FREEPERS. Any ideas anyone?
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While I'm thinking of it, on another topic:
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BTW, Have mostly finished Greer's book and started
UFOs and The National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973
by
Richard M Dolan
Author bio:
Richard M Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of a U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public's imagination for more than half a century is the question of unidentified flying objects.
He studied at Alfred University and Oxford University before completing his graduate work in history at the University of Rochester, where he was a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship. Prior to his interest in UFOs Dolan studied U.S. Cold War strategy, Soviet history and culture and international diplomacy. He lives in Rochester, NY, where he is at work on volume two of his study.
One Reviewer:
"This book represents a milestone in the field of UFO research. With uncommon discipline, precision and balance, Dolan integrates 30 years of eyewitness reports, both public and classified military-intelligence studies thereof, and surrounding relevant developments in world affairs and science into a single coherent chronology. The result is breathtaking, as it peels away the cover of official secrecy surrounding the most important events of the 20th century. UFOs and the National Security State is one of the most important books to be published in the past 100 years." --Joe Firmage, chairman Motion Sciences Organization
When I scanned it after receiving it, I was disappointed and not sure I'd even read it. It looked very dry and academic and mostly a rehash of plenty I'd alread read tons on.
QUAKE NEWS . . . INTERESTING location and timing . . .
Anyway--I've gotten into parts of the book and am impressed with his scholarship and access. Even you, Poohbah, MIGHT find it worth your time.
If you care to respond about that, please do it in the following thread:
HERE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004960/posts
I will likely post some excerpts there, on that thread within 48 hours.