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Nuclear Explosion Suspected at Epicenter of the Sichuan Earthquake
Epoch Times ^
| 6 June 2008
| Wu Weilin
Posted on 06/03/2008 5:44:39 PM PDT by mondonico
An unnamed expert believes that a nuclear explosion caused the recent 8.0 magnitude Sichuan earthquake in China, where three weeks after the catastrophe the death toll has reached 69,000 plus.
Overseas Chinese website Boxun News reported that the expert confirmed there was a nuclear explosion near the epicenter, based on witness reports and the discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come from an underground military installation.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; china; chinesemilitary; earthquake; nuclear; nucleartrigger; oldnews; pulled; trigger; trysearch
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To: mondonico
It seems pretty circumstantial, and there were earlier reports of radioactivity and of military nuclear facilities in the area.
If it was a nuclear explosion, I would expect that to show up in the seismographic readings, as interpreted by experts. A lot of study has been put into telling the difference between the signatures of earthquakes or volcanoes and nuclear explosions, going back to the cold ar days.
I wouldn’t necessarily expect any officials to talk about it, however. Coverup mode seems to have become the standard reaction to this sort of thing.
Certainly only speculative at this point, but I’d like to see some trustworthy analysis of this story, if there’s such a thing as a government agent or scientist who can be trusted these days. They all seem to have fish to fry.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:09:54 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: mondonico
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:10:09 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: mondonico
BS... the Cannikin shot at 5 MT and 5000 DOB produced a very brief 6.5 shock on the richter scale. This quake could not have been produced by a nuke, the scale, depth, and seismic profile is all wrong.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:10:45 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
To: MindBender26
driven by prevailing winds into international waters where it would be easily detected by US snooper aircraft... I was not aware that our Elint A/C were also looking for man-made radiation.....
You are obviously more up to speed on what the recon A/C are actually looking for...
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:13:25 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
To: Squantos
没有红色导线! I got a link to a great chicken removal program, if ya need help.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:15:05 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
To: LasVegasMac
Awww Mac that’s Chinese for “cut the red wire” !!
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:19:54 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: dead
A nuke explosion also has its own unique signal through the earth which is how an underground test shows up on sensors around the world. The signal of an earthquake is different and the difference is easily detected. Some what analogous to running different signals over a phone line.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:21:59 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Squantos
LOL.........
need to brush up on the ciphern'.......
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:23:33 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
To: Dumpster Baby
Let me guess - the wheels were not chocked and the truck was in neutral ang got pushed away from the dock as soon as the forktruck wheels hit the dock.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:23:51 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: Dumpster Baby
*snort*
I always wondered what happened to that employee!
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:26:02 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
To: mondonico
“An unnamed expert”
That’s all the proof I need!
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:28:41 PM PDT
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: LasVegasMac
Special A/C are used. There are special U-2s that do this, at very high altitudes. It's very important, because the byproducts of an explosion tell us lots about the explosion itself.
It can even tell in which reactor the plutonium was “made”, even when and where within the reactor by looking at the “waste” products.
It's very good intel.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:30:09 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
To: virgil
It's the old “eating mashed potatoes makes boys into serial killers because studies have shown that every serial ever investigated ate mashed potatoes” argument.
Earthquakes happen.
One unnamed “scientist” seeing broken concrete does not make a fission explosion.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:33:17 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
To: Dumpster Baby
Cripes, hope that is photoshopped...
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:35:13 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
To: Cicero
It would be a stroke of real genius to detonate a nuke in an area criss-crossed by earthquake faults from the entire Tibetan plateau and near a huge damn built only recently which holds back billions of gallons of water.
Zheesh!
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:41:43 PM PDT
by
Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
To: Bratch
Gee, I wonder what Debka has to say about this? ;)
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:47:47 PM PDT
by
manapua
To: MindBender26
You are telling me nothing new.
Man-made radiation is not Elint intell, right?
Maybe the new platforms can do.......I don't know.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:49:40 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
To: ought-six
With China, who knows what’s the truth and what’s the cover story.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:50:10 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: Panzerlied
An unnamed expert Yes, I stumbled over that one, too. OTOH, if a real Chinese expert said this, he certainly wouldn't want to be named, or they'd have him in a gulag and remove his organs for sale before you could say Jack Robinson.
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posted on
06/03/2008 6:53:04 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: count-your-change
You are correct. As a matter of fact if the cause of this earthquake was a nuclear explosion even an underground one then the U.S> and Russia who monitor each other because of the Test Ban treaty would know that there had been a nuclear explosion. International organizations that monitor nuclear activity would also know. The likelihood of this being a nuclear explosion is slim unless of course there is a conspiracy and everyone is in on it.
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