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US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled
ABC NEWS ^
| October 25, 2011
| BETSY BLANEY
Posted on 10/25/2011 7:48:27 AM PDT by penelopesire
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To: RedStateRocker; Strategerist
Your post actually makes me feel a little better..however something tells me that Obama isn’t finished disarming this country...he has only just begun.
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:11:39 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
(TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
To: goodnesswins
We’ve been reducing the number of our nuclear weapons throughout the Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama administrations.
Still plenty to destroy the world several times over.
To: penelopesire
We’ll just have to reassemble it in 16 months.
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:12:43 AM PDT
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Obama - No matter how thin he slices it, it's still baloney.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
the Pt would make a nice anti-asteroid warhead, when mounted in a suitable delievry vehicle.
To: Squantos
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Why? What will you deliver it with? What possible reason do we need it for? We have a TON of smaller, more accurate nukes that’ll do the job. You will kill just as many with them as with this.
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:18:59 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
(The United States of America. Great idea...while it lasted.)
To: Strategerist
I read somewhere last year that the Obama regime was not maintaining our nuclear missiles the way they are suppose to be though. Something about routine maintenance was not being done properly if at all. ???
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:22:31 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
(TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
I wonder if they will sell the parts on E-Bay....:^)
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:23:09 AM PDT
by
az_gila
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:30:07 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: RitchieAprile
Wikipedia says the B-53 actually uses Oralloy (Oak_ridge_alloy = 90+% pure HEU) and *not* Plutonium! That’s how old it is! Seriously, this is something like a 1955 design. Good for Chevys, bad for nukes. (almost good enough for tagline material right there)
Thing is > If we really, truly needed it for asteroid repulsion, I’d want a much lighter (and thus more reliably launched) and newer (more reliably fired) device, I think. When it comes to frying Mecca, I wouldn’t be as picky. (just not really kidding)
To: penelopesire
Did Perry and Obama get together and plan this terrorists temptation?
Assuming a detonation at optimum height, a 9 megaton blast would result in a fireball some 4 to 5 kilometers (2.5 to 3 miles) in diameter. The radiated heat would be sufficient to cause lethal burns to any unprotected person within 28.7 kilometers (17.8 mi) (995 square miles). Blast effects would be sufficient to collapse most residential and industrial structures within a 14.9-kilometer (9.3 mi) radius (300 square miles); within 5.7 kilometers (3.5 mi) virtually all above-ground structures would be destroyed and blast effects would inflict near 100% fatalities. Within 4.7 kilometers (2.9 mi) a 500 rem dose of ionizing radiation would be received by the average person, sufficient to cause a 50% to 90% casualty rate independent of thermal or blast effects at this distance.
Gee, if terrorist broke in and steal this weapon, what would they do with it?
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:33:31 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die!)
To: penelopesire
Now they can build a bunch of small ones for home defense!
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:37:06 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
To: az_gila
We destroy our stockpile and China builds theirs
http://chinatunnels.drupalgardens.com/karber_report
Why is it that the only government programs ahead of schedule involve destroying American assets? Nukes, forest roads, nothing to see here, move along . . .
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
Buchal
("Two wings of the same bird of prey . . .")
To: hoagy62
“What will you deliver it with?”
You put it in the basement of your embassy in crappy countries for instant effect.
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:49:17 AM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: Strategerist
Still plenty to destroy the world several times over. Just like you don't need more than one bullet for your gun because "one is all it takes to kill someone".
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:03:17 AM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: penelopesire
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:06:01 AM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: LibLieSlayer
“obama promised to disarm America and he is doing so at an accelerated rate.”
Tragic indeed and it is shocking that Obama while just a college sophomore way back in the 1980’s could give the order to dismantle our most powerful atomic bombs.
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:06:35 AM PDT
by
trumandogz
(In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
To: freedomlover
“Do you know what kind of a bomb it was?”
“The exploding kind.”
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:07:48 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: penelopesire
...the Obama regime was not maintaining our nuclear missiles the way they are suppose to... It is not up to the Administration to dictate how missiles or anything else in the military inventory is maintained. It is up to the Air Force and the subcontractors.
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:08:20 AM PDT
by
Mr. Quarterpanel
(I am not an actor, but I play one on TV)
To: Mr. Quarterpanel
Obama is the CIC and is using his power like any leftist dictator would do. I will try to find the article later today if I can. I remember Clinton ordering the military to take the nuclear tips off of bombs during his ‘reign’ and then he used the decommisioned warheads in his bombing of tents and aspirin factories during his ‘Wag The Dog bombings in Iraq and Kosovo. That’s how he went stealth and got rid of some bombs.....so this is not unheard of for the left to do in this country when they have power.
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:15:14 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
(TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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