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To: mikegi
Did anyone else notice two things:

1. 37 lbs = 1/3 of 110 lbs. If a shipment were divided into three equal parts, this would leave two of those parts missing right now. Is 74 lbs enough to do anything?

2. Detonating bomb over Manhattan is definitely more efficient. Now couple this with the stories of Al Queda having fully qualified airline pilots and you have the next generation suicide bomber.

BTW, this has an interesting wrinkle. If the gun fires, but for some reason the bomb does not fission, fly the aircraft to some foreign location and recover the HEU.

It may be possible to design a bomb which would not destroy the aircraft if it fizzled. May not even be possible to tell anything happened from the ground.

141 posted on 12/23/2003 8:58:37 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave
Did anyone else notice two things:

1. 37 lbs = 1/3 of 110 lbs. If a shipment were divided into three equal parts, this would leave two of those parts missing right now.

Yep

Is 74 lbs enough to do anything?

Apart from use in a dirty bomb, nope. Well, not without weaponry of the sophistical that the U.S. possesses, anyway...

2. Detonating bomb over Manhattan is definitely more efficient. Now couple this with the stories of Al Queda having fully qualified airline pilots and you have the next generation suicide bomber.

Yep.

175 posted on 12/23/2003 10:53:48 PM PST by Prime Choice (Americans are a spiritual people. We're happy to help members of al Qaeda meet God.)
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