Posted on 10/30/2001 6:33:30 AM PST by PrivacyChampion
FOX NEWS just reporting that there is a potential risk of a nuclear terrorist attack against the US, maybe within the Continental borders with a 'dirty nuke' that has been smuggled across the Mexican border.
This is the threat that AG Ashcroft warned about yesterday.
A "salted" nuclear weapon is reminiscent of fission-fusion-fission weapons, but instead of a fissionable jacket around the secondary stage fusion fuel, a non-fissionable blanket of a specially chosen salting isotope is used (cobalt-59 in the case of the cobalt bomb). This blanket captures the escaping fusion neutrons to breed a radioactive isotope that maximizes the fallout hazard from the weapon rather than generating additional explosive force (and dangerous fission fallout) from fast fission of U-238. Like this?
"Variable fallout effects can be obtained by using different salting isotopes. Gold has been proposed for short-term fallout (days), tantalum and zinc for fallout of intermediate duration (months), and cobalt for long term contamination (years). To be useful for salting, the parent isotopes must be abundant in the natural element, and the neutron-bred radioactive product must be a strong emitter of penetrating gamma rays."
What has been the direct cause of the capitulation of the Constitutional duty to defend is THE WAR ON DRUGS.
Protect the country or piddle away resources looking for drugs.
If and when a weapon of mass destruction is used in the US, all the pro-drug-war folks can console themselves with the latest 100 kilo cocaine and marijuana bust at the border.
Fools.
I mean the government has credible info that states there will be an American attack. They know the date, they know enough to warn all governors in every state, yet they dont know what the attack will be. Don't get me wrong I dont think the goverment is lying I just think they are holding out so that there isnt MORE mass hysteria.
Of course it is possible that the source is credible enough even without exact details but I am unsure at this point.
That is conventional warfare thinking. The goal of terrorism is long term.
Precisely.
People if you think they don't have nukes because they haven't used them yet you are crazy. If YOU had NUKES and other non-conventional means of attack wouldn't you use up everything else first? Of course you would. If I am the terrorist I am going to use up all of other means of attack first. I am going to use my plane attack, shoot off my Anthrax, and whatever else I have AND save the BEST for LAST.
There are a number of good reasons for this. First of all if Washington (or another major city) were to be NUKED, planes crashing into buildings wouldn't have the same psychological/propaganda value. Ditto with Antrhax. Pretty much every things else you use pales in comparison so you better use it first. Second, It would be much much more difficult after having used a NUKE to implement these other attacks (NOT VICE VERSA). The most likely result of a NUKE being detonated on US soil would be the internment of every Arab and Muslim in the country. Third, Osama is looking at the big picture. He has baited us into attacking Afghanistan (which I believe we have to do) in order to JUSTIFY what he is going to do next. Once he has the SYMPATHY of the MAJORITY of MUSLIMS in the world (cause we are bombing Afghan children) they will APPLAUD when he NUKES us.
In short I think it is VERY VERY likely there are alreay nuclear weapons of one form or another already in the country, and they have been here for quite some time. I think it's simply a matter of time before they are used.
Do you think thats what the 6,000 dead Americans thought at the World Trade Center?
Think before you type.
Boston_liberty typed: 4,000?
Would that make a GD difference with you? Why are some of you people attempting to minimize this slaughter? No one will know the exact death figure for many months to come anyway. Would you feel better if I had typed 3,879 dead? Gezzz. Wake up.
Our borders and immigration policies have become a complete national disgrace, and now a national security nightmare for all of us.
If the threat of any kind of nuclear attack in this country is real and present and, God forbid, imminent, Bush needs to strike NOW.
How can any nation stand for the possible nuking of Southern California and still consider itself civilized?
Our watch words need to be "NO MORE MEMORIALS!"
Not ours anyway.
Tactical "dirty" nuke
Entered US from Mexico, vicinity of Brownsville.
NEST mobilized.
National Guard Civil Support teams (specialists in Weapons of Mass Destruction) activated.
List of potential targets in no specific order:
Sears Tower
Mall of America
TransAmerica Title building
Golden Gate Bridge
Statue of Liberty
CNN Center
Targets are supposed to be symbolic in nature.
Don't ask me to source because I won't. Flame me if you please. I am fading back into the woodwork.
Attacking a school where children are the targets.
Using a dirty nuke.
Terrorism is defined as: the use of violence against the citizen populace for political purposes.
We didn't start this fight with the Taliban. And there should be no moral questions about the constitutional requirement that our armed forces defend this nation from such attacks.
Pray that this does not happen and that the "real world" measures are put into place to prevent this from happening.
Sadly the threat does not expire Sunday evening at midnight; but instead a new vigilance and sense of urgency is needed.
To me the most important thing is this:
If you only had a few nukes WOULD'NT YOU USE UP EVERYTHING ELSE FIRST? I mean what type of impact is a few Anthrax letters going to have after you use a NUKE?
If disclosing information saves even one life then to me it was worth not telling. The government gets accused of lying when it doesnt tell the truth so i think they decid to tell hald the story and that puts them on trial even further. They are in a lose/lose situation.
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