The "plutonium implosion device" we built was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, weighed five tons and looked like this:
Even if you leave off all the "bomb" packaging, there's still no way it's gonna fit in the back of a Volkswagen.
Even a "bus".
Posted on 06/05/2007 2:12:24 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
America is facing a nuclear attack from al-Qaida terrorists living in the U.S. or crossing our all but unguarded borders, warns Dr. Paul Williams in his chilling new book "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World."
Remarkably, just hours after NewsMax.com conducted an exclusive interview with the author, U.S. authorities announced the arrest of three terrorists who planned an attack on New York City's JFK airport — which read as if details surrounding the plot had been taken directly from the pages of his book.
Williams, a former FBI consultant and an expert on the subjects of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, also is the author of "Osama's Revenge," "The Next 9/11," and "The al-Qaida Connection." He has long maintained that the menace posed by this sinister group of murderous terrorists is both real and widespread. [Editor's Note: Get Paul Williams' explosive "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World" FREE — Click Here Now.]
In his interview with NewsMax, Williams discussed al-Qaida's successful efforts to obtain nuclear weapons for use against the United States.
NewsMax: Does al-Qaida have nuclear weapons?
Williams: They definitely have nukes. There's no doubt about it. There's positive proof. As I wrote in my book, in the first three months of Operation Enduring Freedom — the Gulf War — our troops found in a cave outside of Khandahar in Afghanistan a canister filled with Uranium 238 [the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb] and in Turnak Farms [where at one time 1,800 members of al-Qaida lived and worked] they found jars and jars and jars of yellow cake [pure uranium, dried].
The most alarming thing of all involved a Pakistani operative who was driving over the Allenby Bridge between Jordan and Israel in a shabby Volkswagen mini-bus. The Israelis stopped him and in the back of the Volkswagen was a plutonium implosion device, the most sophisticated of all nuclear weapons. According to the Mossad people I spoke to, it was in excess of 10 kilotons.
It could have taken out all of Israel in the blink of an eye. If one of these babies went off with 10 kilotons, first of all you'd have the conventional explosion, which if it occurred at the site of 9/11, would take out all of lower Manhattan.
From that would come a fireball that would be about 750 feet in diameter — the core would reach a temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius, which means in the blink of an eye everything would disintegrate. After that would come juggernaut blasts ripping through the city with winds in excess of 640 miles per hour, and after that would come the mushroom cloud and the radioactive fallout that would spew into the five boroughs of New York, into Connecticut and New Jersey. The end result is that millions would be dead.
NewsMax: What is the possibility that there is a store of nukes here in the United States?
Williams: There's no doubt about that. Before 9/11 a guy by the name of Sheik Kabbani, the president of the Supreme Islamic Council of North America, appeared before the Senate and the House and said that over 48 nukes were here. There was also a Waziristan summit meeting in Pakistan in April 2004. Attending it were the leading planners of the next 9/11. Included was one Sharif al Masry, and Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the next Mohammad Atta, and a terrorist from Brooklyn.
They all confirmed that nuclear weapons had been developed by al-Qaida with the help of scientists and technicians from the A.Q. Khan Research laboratories. The most chilling thing, they said was that all of the weapons had been forward deployed to Mexico and transported over the border into the U.S.
This story was reported in a little tiny paragraph in Time magazine. It was buried in there. The fact that nuclear weapons had been developed [by al-Qaida], and the researchers at the A.Q. Khan facility had confirmed that, and transported to Mexico and then into the United States — you couldn't get a bigger story than that.
NewsMax: Doesn't this indicate the seriousness of the problem with our borders?
Williams: It's madness. The borders are not just open. People say the "porousness" of our borders but that's not accurate — our borders are wide open.
© NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved.
Hey Tom,
Neutron detectors, while portable can be heavy. And their effiency/accuracy is not the best. A better meter would a gamma detector, as these transuranics, while they do emit neutron, also emit gamma.
He republishes the same book every summer, and NewsMax and WorldNet Daily spin several stories each to bump it into the "alternative" news feed.
If you use neutrons, you’d probably use an external neutron source to probe the vehicle and look for neutrons with a different energy coming out.
There are gamma detectors here and there on the road and in airports, but I don’t think anyone’s been brave enough to ping cars with neutrons just yet.
Anything including outrageous lies, hyperbole and wingnutter delusions? Wouldn't that do more harm than good, giving the Dhimmicrats and other 9-10ers reason to dismiss or diminish genuine warnings? IMHO the truth is frightening enough. There's no need, and much harm, in legitimizing lunatics like this guy.
I seriously doubt al-Qaida currently has nuclear explosives, but certainly has the will, money and friends in places like Iran, Pakistan and N. Korea who may eventually help them get nukes. However, al-Qaida can easily assemble so called “dirty bombs” made from radioactive materials dispersed by conventional explosives (rent the British film, “Dirty War” for a realistic account of how this can be done)
Because our response would destroy Mecca?
An nuclear attack would renew our resolve.
Ron Paul Williams?
The "plutonium implosion device" we built was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, weighed five tons and looked like this:
Even if you leave off all the "bomb" packaging, there's still no way it's gonna fit in the back of a Volkswagen.
Even a "bus".
Someone should clue Mr. Williams in on the boy-who-cried-wolf thing.
For something you can carry around, just Google "portable radiation detector", there are many.
What does "wide open" mean? To me it would mean an illegal could walk right across the border pretty much anywhere, anytime he wanted.
If our borders are "wide open" then why do illegals generally cross at night? Why do they cross in remote areas, miles and miles from cities and towns, often walking for a couple of nights, laying up during the day, having to carry water, etc. If the borders are "wide open" why not just walk across in or near a city and catch a cab on the other side. This, after all, is exactly what illegals used to do 20 or 25 years ago when, by my definition at least, the borders really were pretty close to being effectively "wide open".
If the borders are "wide open" today then why have the fees charged by coyotes (people smugglers) increased by nearly an order of magnitude in recent years (as I'm given to understand from something like one or two hundred dollars often to a thousand or more)? Why are coyotes even needed? They didn't used to be so common.
If the borders are "wide open" then why are the cheap apartment complexes I drive through here in Texas now nearly full all winter long? They used to be nearly deserted that time of year. A large proportion of Mexican illegals used to prefer to work in the United States during the Spring, Summer and Fall and then go back to their villages and families during the Winter. If the borders are "wide open" is should be a simple matter for them to cross back and forth several times a year and continue this time honored practice. Why don't they?
The fact is the borders have been tightened to a considerable relative degree since 9-11, indeed gradually but progressively over the 15 or 20 years preceding 9-11.
I agree completely that the degree to which border security has been improved is dangerously inadequate. I'd like to see the number of border agents tripled post haste. I'd like to see hundreds of miles of new fence. I'd like to thousands of new beds for detentions. I'd like see the 30 new federal prosecutors that have been recently added in the southwest for border control issues backed up with the hundreds of lower level employees and new courthouses and other infrastructure they need to be truly effective.
But you know what, just because much more needs to be done, I'm not going to lie or delude myself and others about what has been done. You can't solve a problem if you're willfully deluded about it's nature and dimensions, which nevertheless seems to be where well over half of freeperdom is these days.
Frankly I'm quite appalled and disgusted with the pervasive and abysmal level of intellectual dishonesty that I'm finding in this forum lately. We're becoming little better than DUers.
If this turns out to be true, history will not be kind to George W. Bush.
W-40 Warhead. Yield is 10 KT and it weighs about 385 pounds, it was used in Bomarc SAM and Lacrosse SSM. first version manufactured 6/59-8/59.
Or for a little higher yield, but having dial a yield if you insist on 10 or 20 KT This one, which weighs about 290 lbs, and is 31.4 inches long and 11.8 inches in diameter, is the W-80 ALCM warhead warhead, also used in Tomahawk nuclear variant. It was manufactured in the 1980s. Yield is 5 to ~ 180 KT.
Of course it all depends on where the terrorists get their nukes. Pakistan's are probably somewhat larger than the '50s US tech W-40 above, but probably not so very much larger.
If the warheads come from the former Soviet Union, but maintained by "who knows", they could easily be as small as the '50s or even '80s US designs.
Of course larger yield are quite possible with fusion devices. Here's the W-62/Mk-12 warhead still in use (AFAIK) on the Minuteman missiles, it's yield is 170 KT, and the warhead, which smaller than the Re-entry vehicle shown, weighs a mere 253 pounds, and is 39.3 inches long and 19.7 inches in diameter.
As you can tell from the haircuts, they were produced from 1970 to 1976.
Those are nice historic pictures. However, all of those warheads would NOT work today unless they were maintained. Specifically; the triggers, timing mechanisms, and nano-timed explosives all tend to deteriorate very quickly.
Newer warheads require very sophisticated arming and detonation triggers. That is not to say that some electronic genius couldn’t go to a radio shack and get the necessary parts to accomplish this.
The lifetime of a warhead is depending on model and delivery vehicle requires aver 20 – 50 (latest estimate I heard) hours of maintenance for every hour available and on line. It is almost guaranteed that a Fizzle is the default for a perfect 100% trigger of a nuclear reaction.
I still think that this whole sensational report is a book sales ploy as opposed to actual knowledge of reality.
As far as implosion detonation goes, it is probably the most difficult type of detonation. If all of this yellow cake and U-238 (I assume that U-235 is also readily available) is around, I would think that the cannon delivery of fission would be simpler for a terrorist organization. Maybe a little bulkier than the warheads shown, but more easily engineered for effect.
great... i’ll be dying either immediately, or of cancer... it’s so reassuring that we’ll be attacking back
*rolling eyes*
Really? You don't think the PC politicians among us would wuss out?
I do.
lol! cute
I’ve read bits and pieces of that book- it gets your attention.
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