Posted on 09/13/2010 8:40:02 PM PDT by Kabud
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Russian suitcase nukes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke
In 1997, former Russian National Security Advisor Alexander Lebed made public claims about lost “suitcase nukes” following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In an interview with the newsmagazine 60 Minutes, Lebed said:
I’m saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia. I don’t know their location. I don’t know whether they have been destroyed or whether they are stored or whether they’ve been sold or stolen, I don’t know.[citation needed]
However, the Russian government immediately rejected Lebed’s claims. Russia’s Ministry for Atomic Energy went so far as to dispute that suitcase nuclear weapons had even ever been developed by the Soviet Union. Later testimony however insinuated that the suitcase bombs had been under the control of the KGB and not the army or the atomic energy ministry, so they might not know of their existence. Russian president Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Barbara Walters in 2001, stated about suitcase nukes, “I don’t really believe this is true. These are just legends. One can probably assume that somebody tried to sell some nuclear secrets. But there is no documentary confirmation of those developments.”[citation needed]
The highest-ranking GRU defector Stanislav Lunev claimed that such Russian-made devices do exist and described them in more detail.[7] These devices, “identified as RA-115s (or RA-115-01s for submersible weapons)” weigh from fifty to sixty pounds. They can last for many years if wired to an electric source. In case there is a loss of power, there is a battery backup. If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message—either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate.” According to Lunev, the number of “missing” nuclear devices (as found by General Lebed) “is almost identical to the number of strategic targets upon which those bombs would be used.”[7]
Lunev suggested that suitcase nukes might be already deployed by the GRU operatives at the US soil to assassinate US leaders in the event of war.[7] He alleged that arms caches were hidden by the KGB in many countries for the planned terrorism acts. They were booby-trapped with “Lightning” explosive devices. One of such cache, which was identified by Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities tried to remove it from woods near Berne. Several others caches were removed successfully.[8] Lunev said that he had personally looked for hiding places for weapons caches in the Shenandoah Valley area[7] and that “it is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the US” either across the Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip undetected when launched from a Russian airplane.[7] US Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had “exaggerated things” according to the FBI.[9] Searches of the areas identified by Lunev have been conducted, “but law-enforcement officials have never found such weapons caches, with or without portable nuclear weapons.”[10]
Holy crap. After reading all that, I feel like sitting and downing an entire bottle of Vodka.
This attack by Russians and Kazakhs at a nuclear power plant makes me very suspicious.
Russia/Soviet/coldwar2 PING!!!
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vodka- is exactly the thing that may get you killed
drunk people cant think straight
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“The three were released after being interviewed by task force members”
Nothing to see here.
They weren’t burning any Korans, so there is no crime here.
This sounds like three Mooses to me. Islamoterrorism, not Rooskie-sponsored pranks, and they probably didn’t have any bomb at all but were just going through the motions to create, well, what terrorists create. Terror.
On the uber remote chance this were true, there is no way in hell our government would ever let this news cat out of the bag.
WTF? Is this some DEBKA/WND crap or the real thing?
While I am HIGHLY skeptical of all the kookery in this post... I am not pleased with the level of Russian activity and the slap on the writs letting them go. We need to execute spies. This is the only signal they will understand. If you are a spy, you die. End of debate. Or we hold them forever and trade them for any of our spies. After interrogation, of course.
I think he was kidding.
well, what if the news is not exactly all the truth
what if those three were watched for a looong time....
Russian “special forces” being arrested by county deputies...??
Sounds like you got some anti-semite commie symps inside the wire there in Georgia. Root ‘em out. Send ‘em packin’. ;-)
you are someone:
kookery in your view comes from everywhere: Ruski Generals, prominent spies who came to our side, renown historians
i have a very grounded suspicion abput people who maek statements like RachelFaith
so, there.
This seems possible, though conjectural. My own thought was that these might well be Muslims from Russia. As I recall, one of them was from Kazakhstan.
It is certainly extremely curious—and troubling—that they were simply let go, without a good deal of questioning and investigation first. I thought that clinton’s Justice Department was bad, but Obama’s is even worse. Eric Holder makes Janet Reno look pretty good.
what if you try to give it some thought:
a dry run to test power plant security
USA HLS are highly professional
spetsnaz soldiers make mistakes: young, not here long enopugh
THINK: thats a very exciting endeavor !
Yes YOU CAN!
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