Ashcroft's Warning: Dirty Bomb

[Larousse2]

Thank you very much for replying:-)

[Brownie74]

I am over here in East Dallas near Lakewood. I guess I could always jump in White Rock Lake. I don't know if you saw this NUCLEAR BLAST MAPPER thread or not. If not, check it out.

[6ppc]

A smuggled nuke from 1988 does not have enough radioactive material left to cause any damage.

Unfortunately that's not the case. If it uses tritium as a booster, that will have decayed, but it would still go off, even if the yield was reduced. Even a fizzle would be pretty nasty. The primary damage from a strike like that would be economic. On the macro scale physical damage would be minor...comparatively speaking.

[semaj]

Nuclear bombs are tuned to produce a certain explosive force or "yield". Along with the explosive force is also produced radioactive particles, both short-lived and long-lived (alpha and beta) particles. Dirty bombs produce more of the long-lived particles that hang around for approx. 20,000 years before breaking down into less radioactive particles (half-life). A Neutron bomb could be considered a clean bomb in that it produces a a high volume of short-lived radiation in the form of neutron particles with a smaller explosive yield.

The "OTHER" dirty bomb is a simple bomb made of conventional explosives wrapped with spent radiological material. Upon detonation this material is dispersed over an area that is now effectively contaminated with toxic fallout without the force of a nuclear explosion.

[Mia T]

Powell Doctrin-aire:

PC Proportionality and 285,467,375 Caged Canaries

In a quainter, less enlightened time, miners used to take caged canaries down to coal mines with them to alert the miners to "bad air"...

[kingh99]

It could br pellets scattered around without any explosion. In fact, considering the cold blooded way they are going about killing our citizens, I would expect it to be done that way. Makes sense why Gorbachev wouldn't come here. He has to figure his chances of being hit by an explosion are pretty slim. But a hidden killer sending out deadly radiation. That' my take.

Fuqing A, pay back for all of this is going to be a B%tch.

[kingh99]

How do you fight someone who will poison your land?

[DrCarl]

Krauthammer and I agree. I heard myself say this stuff before I read what he wrote, so I'll say that he agrees with me :-)

We need Bush to address the nation so that he is heard by the world and we need him to say that the United States is currently facing the possibility of nuclear attack by "terrorists" who are operatives for known foreign nations. We need him to say that in response, all of our nations nuclear capability is now pointed at all nations who are suspected of supporting these nations in any way and upon being attacked, we will unleash everything, ending the war in a day (and freeing up a lot of surface area for future human expansion.)

We may actually have to fight a nuclear war and if we do, we need to demolish the entire enemy world in one massive attack.

As it stands, I am waiting to be hit by nuclear weapons in New York City. The government is waiting until I am dead before going to phase two.

[Henchman]

Dear BOT You said exactly what I was thinking. The towel heads will not go far with the bomb. They will be afraid of detection. So I believe that possibly Dallas etc but most likely LA. Why? They are persistant and were after LA on a few prior occassions. Therefor I think they will hit LA with an outside chance of of San Diego. I wish you well and hope they catch the SOBs

[Don Myers]

"Who do we thank again for NAFTA? I think we should drive this point home."

That would be both Republicans and Democrats. It even includes Rush Limbaugh. The Labor Unions fought against it. A few Democrats spoke out against it.

[Don Myers]

"SEND ALL MOSLEMS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!"

I suspect that if the terrorists detonate one of these devices here, it would be too late to get the Muslims out for their own protection. I think that Americans would be so angry, anything might happen.

[loveliberty]

Do any of these terrorists' sponsors or their sympathizers not ever ask the question: Who will feed and clothe the world if the American economy, stemming as it has from freedom of individual enterprise and individual initiative, is wiped out or severely damaged?

Has not every totalitarian regime in the world failed, and have not most of the underdeveloped and developed nations in the world been the recipients of America's tax dollars?????

Who will create those tax dollars in the future if America's critics within and without have their way?

[Mia T]

As it stands, I am waiting to be hit by nuclear weapons in New York City.

The government is waiting until I am dead before going to phase two.

 

Precisely. Are they merely wrong-headed?

Or are they standard-issue craven politicians??

 

P.S. Krauthammer agrees with both of us. ;)

[boycott]

The terrorists cannot do it if they're not here!!!

[AFreeBird]

Potassium iodide is an antidote for radiation poisoning. (I have learned most of this from fellow FReepers)

Well, not quite. What is does is protect the thyroid gland basically by saturating it with iodide which keeps low doeses of radiation from building up in it over a period of time. But it will NOT protect you from a high, fatal does that gets into every tissue in your system.

Nulcear War Survival Skills will discuss the issue of iodide in a little greater detail. Read the part about giving it to children! Also, DO NOT "taste" iodide in its pure form. The manual states that it is a most unpleasant, and painfull experience.

[AFreeBird]

Houston is only a few hours north of the Mexican border.

Great, and as the Greatful Dead once sang... "Houston, too close to New Orleans..."; which is where I'm heading next week.

[Mojo-jo-jo]

Pass more legislation restricting our civil liberties...

Dry up. Drastic times call for drastic measures...don't like it...move elsewhere.

[PurVirgo]

Potassium iodide is an antidote

Not to totally dash hopes, but this statement is not entirely true. What potassium iodide does is fill your thyroid up with harmless iodine, thus preventing the absorption of radioiodine. KI must be taken before or directly after insertion of radioiodine in the atmosphere. Funny thing is, America is one of the few developed countries NOT stockpiling KI in the event of an emergency.

FYI

[PurVirgo]

damn,.... guess other ppl have seen this and corrected it as well.... maybe I should read the whole thread before replying too!

MUST HAVE COFFEE!!!!!!!

[DrCarl]

>MUST HAVE COFFEE!!!!!!!

May as well have good coffee then. Try THIS STUFF. Split a load with a friend and go for the Twenty 12oz vacuum packed bags of beans. Inexpensive but good Costa Rican delivered right to your door.

As a "weekend brew", we can talk about Peaberry Kona or Wallingford Estate Blue Mountain, but later for that. I'm having some of the Blue Skies Kona right now, actually :-)