"WWII machining tolerences, no better. Easily exceeded with CNC machines." -GingisK
Incorrect. The detonation timing is *electronic*, not mechanical, and must be very, very precise.
Posted on 07/14/2005 12:24:33 PM PDT by Sweetjustusnow
Paul M. Williams author of The Al-Queda Connection which is due to be released soon, provides a compilation of data based on; FBI, CIA, Vice President Cheney, Homeland Security, Attorney General Ashcroft and news sources. Makes a strong case that there are 20 suitcase nukes in the USA which have been smuggled in through the border with Mexico.
Go to Cairo and hang out on the street for a month. Listen to the 6 year olds. Most of them have more patience than your teacher. You'll be ordering a glass of juice on your own within days. Granted, it is easier for learning to be totally immersed from birth. BTW, I consider it a great personal accomplishment to find a particular Arabic word in an Arabic dictionary.
(especially our borders)
LOL
Might as well laugh. It's either laugh or cry.
Our government's attitude toward border security is pathetic.
How big a truck would be needed to haul 2,000 TONS of TNT. We are talking "how many box cars", really.
C4 indexes at 1.2 TNT. (I think I remember that. I don't have my manuals anymore.) Explosives don't really get much stronger than nitroglycerine.
There are nukes under 1 kton. 20 truckloads ought to do it.
The decision has already been made ... the terrorists in the Islamic world know it ... as Dirty Harry once said "Make my day ... asshole."
WWII machining tolerences, no better. Easily exceeded with CNC machines.
Fortunately, the secrets that are carefully kept are the dimensions, shapes, and arrangements of all of this crap. If one buys one from the Soviets, on the other hand, all off this has already been perfected. It is not entirely reasonable to think the Russians couldn't keep supplying replacement parts for a good price. I am somewhat reluctant to count them as "bussom buddies", even at this stage.
I hope these reports are crap.
I heard that joker on Coast the night before Savage. Word for word the same. Not that it matters, but I can't buy his story. It's funny, though, on Savage he didn't mention DEBKA or Coast, or did I miss that part?
Twenty shipments out of how many thousands of drug drops? The odds are good that they could slip through.
Apparently, there are only a dozen AQ operatives in the US and the only people crossing our borders illegally are dishwashers.
Don't you feel better now?
"WWII machining tolerences, no better. Easily exceeded with CNC machines." -GingisK
Incorrect. The detonation timing is *electronic*, not mechanical, and must be very, very precise.
Actually someone did say at least four years ago that terrorists were going to fly planes into the trade center towers. The full details were posted on the internet and I wish I had printed out the warnings because I cannot find anything in the archives now.
One nuke here equals Mecca and Medina vaporized - well if I was Prez.
These guys are dedicated warriors. They would prefer to measure our response before they would proceed. It is unreasonable to believe that they would risk large tracts of thier homelands. If it seems that we would not slag Mecca and other holy sites, they will proceed. This is why we must deal with terrorism from a position of strength rather than appeasement.
"Don't worry. They can not be close to completing their goal . . . because they have not yet completed their goal.">>>>>>>
Well, of course man, I can't be gittin' nowhere close to dyin' on account as to how I ain't done dead already, got it?
It is easy to achieve the necessary precision in electronics, especially today's electronics. When the original bomb was made, the triggers were "thyratron" tubes. Here the "total propagation delay" was long, and clearly subject to the mechanical construction of the tubes. Even I can purchase electronic SCRs with picosecond tolerances, and then match them up with an over-the-counter scope with sufficient precision.
The tolerances of the shapes of the explosive charges affect the timing of the detonation shock wave in the explosive mass, and hence the evenness of the burst, and the regularity of the compression of the core. If the explosive wrapper around the core does not detonate rather perfectly, the bomb will lose effectiveness. The explosive wrapper must fit the core quite perfectly, and the shape of the explosive mass of each segment must shape the explosive shock just right. These are "shaped charges" which each produce a convex rather than a concave shock. All of those segments must fit together to form a perfect sphere in the center that exactly encases the core. They must detonate to form a spherical compression of the core. It is, in fact, a machining problem rather than an electronics issue.
You are confusing "fanaticism" with "dedication."
A fanatic will torch his own house and explode his own suicide bomb.
A "dedicated warrior" will study and train for years. A dedicated warrior can become a 1 klick sniper. A mere fanatic can not.
#1, it isn't "easy."
#2, you can't do it with mere over the counter SCR's.
At the atomic level, mere resistance even in the *wires* matters.
I was taught to respect my enemies, lest they kill me in exotic ways.
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