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Bin Laden Nuke Bomb Shock ( "dirty bomb" was a factor in the terror alert )
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| 12/04/2001
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Posted on 12/04/2001 12:48:36 AM PST by KQQL
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To: snopercod
Large fuel rods, yes, I agree with you. However, what about rods from research reactors, or Cesium or Cobalt irradiation rods. It would take a lot of lead to transport, and the handlers themselves would probably receive a lethal dose (they are suicidal anyway), but it is a threat.
To: Dan Day
Somewhat true, but what if the highjackers that went into the WTC and Pentagon had a few 3 or 4 foot long Cobalt rods in their checked luggage? As long as it is taking to clean up the WTC, you could multiply that time by 10 fold if you added a radiation threat.
To: abwehr
to locate two missing computer hard drives containing U.S. nuclear secrets, officials say. The search continues for the missing hard drives. Ask Clinton. He may have needed additional campaign money.
I'll bet he's still pis*ed about the Al Quata being way too late.
He told them December, they thought he said September.
He should've used Sprint.
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To: freefly
Your reply was excellent to the bent mind. Did you ask which agency he draws his paycheck from?
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12/04/2001 2:40:38 PM PST
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jammer
To: abwehr
Just who do you think has to be evaded and overcome to set one off? Are you really that stupid or are you just pulling my leg? A "Dirty Bomb" is just a conventional explosive surrounded by radioactive material. Think of a pipe bomb surrounded by hazardous materials. Its explosion would create a hazardous radioactive mess but the explosion would be no larger than the power of the conventional explosives. Critical mass would not be acheived in the detonation. There would be no fissionable or thermonuclear components to the explosion.
The data on the N.E.S.T. hard-drives would not be applicable in this instance. Disarming a "Dirty Bomb" would be similar to handling a conventional bomb in a Hazmat suit. Nothing high-tech just messy and dangerous.
My brother was on the N.E.S.T team several years ago.
To: lavaroise
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posted on
12/04/2001 7:30:41 PM PST
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GOPJ
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To: jammer
"Did you ask which agency he draws his paycheck from?"
No, he wouldn't have answered that either.
But it doesn't really matter.
He's working for them whether he gets paid or not.
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12/05/2001 10:05:03 AM PST
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freefly
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