ROFL. One of my favorite shows.
Posted on 03/30/2011 6:22:44 AM PDT by library user
CHICAGO (CBS 2) – The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America.
People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau’s Chicago office is leading the investigation.
FBI Special Agent Andre Zavala said, “Yes, they alarmed a lot of people.”
Attorney Tracy Rizzo was alarmed. A number of days ago, an envelope, with a Chicago postmark and a hand-written address to her private investigations firm, came in the mail.
The letter inside said, “The Al-Qaeda organization has planted 160 nuclear bombs throughout the U.S. in schools, stadiums, churches, stores, financial institutions and government buildings.” It also said, “This is a suicide mission for us.”
The writer, who claims to be Osama Bin Laden, tells the reader the nukes are remotely controlled. “It was clear the writer wanted to scare me,” said Rizzo, “Yes, it frightened me.” Rizzo was one of eight people in the Chicago area to contact the FBI.
Agencies in Oregon, California, Texas and Florida also got the letter with the Chicago postmark.
“There are items in the letter that lead us to believe it is a hoax,” said Zavala. “There are several demands documented that aren’t fully coherent.”
He said much of what’s in the message doesn’t add up, but in a post 9-11 world, the FBI can’t let it go – even if it does appear to be a hoax.
“The FBI investigates every element. We can’t take that chance,” said Zavala.
So, why the threats?
The writer alluded to how families in Afghanistan have to live. The FBI said it will find that writer, and when it does, he could face 5 to 10 years in prison for each letter mailed. Anyone who’s received a similar letter should call the FBI.
I’ve long said this could be a possible explanation for what goes on behind the scenes in our government.
Even ONE hidden nuke and solid evidence of same would have great influence on our government behind closed doors.
With the amount of people and material moving accross the border unchecked, it is entirely possible.
The W80 has a user defined variable yield of 5-150 KT. It is the operational warhead of air-launched and sub-launched cruise missiles.
The smallest nuke available (W80) is about 300lbs and 31.4 by 11.8 inches. It’s more like a footlocker than a suitcase.
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The Davy Crockett is a Nuke Warhead designed to be shot from a recoiless rifle and was developed in the late 1950s
The M-388 round used a version of the W54 warhead, a very small sub-kiloton fission device. The Mk-54 weighed about 51 lb (23 kg), with a selectable yield equivalent to 10 or 20 tons of TNT (very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead). A total of 2,100 being made.
THAT was more than half a century ago. A decade before putting a man on the moon. Before Personal Computers, before Microwaves and Cellphones. The size of a nuke now is so small you can fit one anywhere.
51 pounds in the 1950s = x in 2011
You've got the self-discipline to restrain yourself to one episode at a time? I downed tools and watched them as fast as Netflix would deliver them.
I doubt it but, they can get tons of drugs in daily with the help of our federal G, they could certainly slip nukes in, but we would have probably found at least one...
But the overall scenario is very realistic, whole armies already in place to attack when ready, nukes from Russia are very possible...and our leadership says oh we are concerned, then FRIGGIN SHUT DOWN THE BORDER YOU LYING SACKS OF SHIITE members of Islam! !!
Aw Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez,well , there I go again..OK, popcorn please...lets rock...
Yep, easy to see.
There is a bigger chance of my wife asking me to find a “sister wife” than a nuclear bomb or even a dirty bomb going off in the United States.
I used to be worried about this. But, if they had them, they would have used them long ago.
Red mercury is used to trigger the fusion device, instead of plutonium.........low radiation.......
Russia, China, France and Israel have them............weapons inspectors in Iraq found evidence that Saddam was buying red mercury........
There is even talk that Bush 43 used a mini to secure the Baghdad Airport at the start of the Second Gulf War......Bush 41 shut down America's neutron bomb program, so , it probably is just talk...........but, the weapon is real..........
I think we should be making them by the thousands......
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You are absolutely correct... *ussy in chief.
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I didn’t mean to imply that the W80 was the smallest nuke ever, just that it is the smallest currently available in the US arsenal.
I don’t believe the laws of physics permit a warhead to be miniaturized as you suggest. A pure fission plutonium only weapon still has to have about 8kg of Pu in order to even go boom. The MK 54 to which you refer had about that and only had a yield of 10-20 tons of TNT, about 1/1000 of the Hiroshima bomb, or alternately five OKC bombs.
If you’re just looking for a dirty bomb, a couple hundred grams of plutonium and an OKC size conventional explosive will contaminate a city.
If they did have nukes, my feeling is that it would be a few dirty bombs. Radio active materiel and some explosives to spread it. Basically a mini-Chernobyl. A fully functional nuke seems to be stretching it, more so if we are talking 160 of them. It doesn’t take much to make a dirty bomb compared to a nuclear warhead.
Of course UBL’s in Chicago. Guess who invited him to his town house.
Lets just say that the advances since the 1950s are not all going to being available to the civilian side. Especially advances that would pertain to micro destructive devices. To think that we have not learned how to make something smaller than the DC in the last 60 years, while seeing the incredible advances in Science and miniaturization during that time, is not a risk I'd bet on. Thanks.
Although this smacks of Bill Ayers and company—a little social engineering—it bears remembering that KGB sleeper agents and even entire cells continue to be deported from the US every year; 65 last year, for instance. It is also an open secret that middle eastern cells are currently operating in the USA.
Snicker.
I think I read that both side has small nukes but their triggers have expiration dates.
Not disagreeing with you, yet adding ... zer0 could be in on it, and the actual blackmail is a fraud which zer0 is knowingly using as a ruse for zer0 to hide while the chess game is played. Too bad no congress-critters are talking, and the suspect list grows of those who would know what the game is, which is being played.
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