Posted on 08/15/2007 4:41:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
My point is that the tone of this article is right up there with Odovacar is at the gates and we should prepare for wholesale rape and plunder.
Will be be attacked? Who the heck knows. We are at war, which is what the media and rest of the idiots have forgotten.
I often wondered how much land would be needed to prevent an attack. If I were a looter and I thought that you had someting that I wanted, I might just lob a gasoline bomb on you house and shoot the people inside as they ran out.
Dogs would be shot and eaten of course before attacking.
Getting close enough would be hard if there were more than a few acres of flat and treeless land around the house.
\not a looter
All that you have mentioned were prototypes, one-offs, or experiments, except for the land mine, which was deployed in small numbers and never assembled into a workable configuration outside of the US. It was considered too dangerous to use offensively, and was slated as a denial weapon. Also, all of these "projects" were initiated in the 1950's during a period of great advancement in nuclear weapons design in the US.
None of these lightweight and advanced implosion designs could be built by terrorists with a 3rd grade education using a hammer and a grenade pin in some cave somewhere, and none of these designs exist in any arsenal today. Security, storage, and usability make them impractical footnotes of history, nothing else.
Ding... ding... ding... we have our winner.
And yes, I have plenty of the above (except for canned spaghetti --gag.)
9/11 wasn’t a wide area radioactive event. Contaminated areas will not see delivery of much needed supplies including refrigerated medicines. First responders will be at home with their families. Unless you’ve got lots of cash tucked away to move and establish a new life, your home and perhaps other hard potentially contaminated assets (read metals which absorb strontium 90, cesium and Carbon 14) will be worthless. And something tells me New Yorkers will be screaming loudest about living in a FEMA trailer.
You would have thought that Hurricane Katrina would have proven that what he’s saying is true, and a nuke would make that look like a cakewalk.
If this happens, woe be the inhabitants of the ME.
“Protect the food!”
Who said canned? The water is to keep my italian MIL alive to cook.
And if you were completely honest with yourself, you would embrace the ammo comment, wouldn’t you. I know I do every spring when the cotton heads that pop up over the head rests of the huge Lincolns and Continentals start arrving back north.
I’ll give you fifty bucks to keep them over the summer? Just tell me where to send it.
Neither would a dirty bomb be.
Unless you’ve got lots of cash tucked away to move and establish a new life, your home and perhaps other hard potentially contaminated assets (read metals which absorb strontium 90, cesium and Carbon 14) will be worthless.
If I survived, my home would be fine and my firm would take up residence in its disaster recovery facilities in PA. It would lengthen my commute significantly.
And something tells me New Yorkers will be screaming loudest about living in a FEMA trailer.
A FEMA trailer would be more spacious than the average Manhattan studio apartment.
In the event of a nuclear attack on US soil, the US Northern Command is in charge of crisis management and consequence mamagement.
Next.
“All that you have mentioned were prototypes, one-offs, or experiments, except for the land mine, which was deployed in small numbers and never assembled into a workable configuration outside of the US. It was considered too dangerous to use offensively, and was slated as a denial weapon. Also, all of these “projects” were initiated in the 1950’s during a period of great advancement in nuclear weapons design in the US.
None of these lightweight and advanced implosion designs could be built by terrorists with a 3rd grade education using a hammer and a grenade pin in some cave somewhere, and none of these designs exist in any arsenal today. Security, storage, and usability make them impractical footnotes of history, nothing else.”
Nice rewrite of history, shame it isn’t true.
Here is what your “never assembled....” project became:
The Davy Crockett was deployed with U.S. Army forces from 1961 to 1971. Between 1956 and 1963, 2,100 were produced at an estimated cost (excluding the warhead) of $540 million (in constant 1996 dollars).
The point of bringing this up is that the hardware and knowhow exists here and most likely in the former USSR. Depending on who you believe there are many nuke devices missing around the world. The Universities churn out PHDs in Nuclear Physics every year.
The now aging hardware is around, and the know how to make it work is also around. Take some firebrand USA haters and some cash, you never know what they will come up with.
America needs to quit thinking our enemies are a bunch or uneducated camel jockies. Bin Laden, for one, is highly educated, and he isn’t the only one.
Sure, they have their wingnuts, but we do too.
*ping*
I hereby expose you as a plagiarist who stole that line from a piece of papper in a fortune cookie!!!! 8~)
You sound like someone a day before 9/11..
Amused at the concept of two planes hitting the trade towers and the trade towers falling down going BOOM..
SLAP SLAP Wake up.. This could happen.. A mere theater nuke in say Detroit/Chicago or New Yawk City would have devastating results on the economy, finacial system, and scare the living hell out of literally EVERYONE.. i.e. successful TERRORISM..
After then the terrorists would have to merely threaten..
-OR- someone would be elected to nuke back in return..
Thats when the terrorists would attack MALLS, schools or some other people gathering sites.. or bridges or dams..
CLUELESS?... Denial is not a river in Egypt..
“Unfortunately, I don’t think even a nuke going off would wake this country out of its stupor. After one nuke, you’d have the NYT (if NY got nukes, substitute the WAPOST of LATIMES) calling for immediate negotiations, urging restraint, and stressing the many benefits of diversity and free-trade. Maybe if they took out Washington DC, NY, Boston, and LA it would do the trick. Very sad, but I suspect true. The reality-free liberal mindset is so entrenched in this country that it would take the death of a massive number of them to spur action.”
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I agree with you 110%
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