Posted on 04/17/2015 11:53:58 AM PDT by RBW in PA
A police investigation has shut down a section of Route 15 bordering Picatinny Arsenal Friday afternoon, police said. As of 1:20 p.m., Route 15 between Route 80 and Berkshire Valley Road was closed due an ongoing investigation, township police said in a Nixle alert. Employees have also been sent home early from Picatinny Arsenal base, the New Jersey Herald reported. The eastbound and westbound ramps for Route 80 to Route 15 north were also closed as of 1:42 p.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. The DOT also reported delays of 20 to 25 minutes in the area. Motorists should plan an alternative route to avoid the area, police said. That section of Route 15 runs along the border and main entrance of Picatinny Arsenal.
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Because of the racism?
The Nimitz displaced 100,000 tons. Think 6 aircraft carriers.
The Nagasaki bomb, Fat Man, was about 20 Ktons, or 21,000 tons HE equivalent.
It must have been 600 Ktons of munitions.
So how long ‘till we are allowed to know the name of the driver of the truck?
Mo..
My uncle told me of a similar incident at the DuPont in Old Hickory Tennessee plant back in the 1940s.
The fire started at one end, slowly crept through all the buildings blowing them up all through the week. Everyone in town gathered on a hill to watch the fireworks.
Periodically they would test some of their concoctions (at the time it was 155mm shells) out in the back 'enclosure' so your day on base was punctuated with a series of kabooms. One of the buildings that I visited was situated at a spot where the shockwave from their testing apparently got funneled down the valley and invariably took out the glass in the main entrance door - and only that door. They finally replaced it with plexiglass/lucite/some such stuff that didn't shatter.
Went back to the drop tower one day and interrupted them dropping a case of flashbangs (they were testing the shipping case/crate thing to verify that it could be tossed out of a helicopter at 130 feet without bothering the contents enough to cause a nonsalubrious manifestation...) The dude doing the 'test' allowed that if we could figure out a way to account for them, some unknown quantity of flashbangs could mysteriously appear in my vehicle, like, if some flashbangs flashbanged the count could then be fudged. Unfortunately the shipping case under test was adequate to the task, there was no flashbang, thus none could be liberated...
When I first started going on the base security was pretty lax and you just got waved through the gate (Clinton years). After Bush replaced Clintoon you had to stop and show ID. Then... 9/11 happened and they tightened the place up like a trap. Full vehicle searches and document checks and everything. If you were a contractor for the DOD you could apply for and (usually) receive a DOD sticker for your windshield and a photo badge citing what areas you were allowed to access which then allowed you to roll up to the dude with the weapon, display your badge, he would check both that and your DOD sticker and give you the 'Have a good day, Sir' as he waved you through while the guy behind you who did not have any of that got cavity searched...
Last I checked the 'news' they are saying no explosive threat was found in the truck...
It was Hillary’s chipotle.
‘No explosive threat’ at Picatinny after base evacuated, Route 15 shut down
http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2015/04/no_explosive_threat_at_picatinny_after_base_evacua.html
No name yet.
I did. 600,000 tons of TNT would have blown the whole state of NJ of the map. It must have been munitions, not explosives, 2 entirely different things.
“I like their rails...”
I was there years ago doing environmental sampling of many of their buildings. One was a test area for small Electromagnetic Rail Guns. (Now THAT would be cool to hang off your AR-15!)
I wonder if they are still live testing their mixology there..
Not only do the locals have the ‘test’ blasts from the Arsenal, there is a limestone quarry basically right across the road that also blasts. The guys at PICA-ARDEC told me that they always got blamed for blast damage even on days they didn’t blow anything up, and in most instances it was the quarry setting off more than they should have..
AND on top of all that, just down the road from the Arsenal there was this joint called ‘Hercules Powder’ which blew up for the last time around in 1986 or so.
Ah, Hercules powder..
I get that. The conventional test at alamagordo was 110 tons and the blast was heard 60 miles away. This would have been a hell of a bang at 60k tons notwithstanding 600k tons.
Could very well be the gross weight of the munitions that were involved, casings etc, not the HE.
I concede that the total weight more than likely was all of the ordnance combined but as I heard the story at Picatinny (they have a small museum there), the main detonation was at a bunker filled with a very large quantity of old TNT.
I am more than acquainted with large-scale detonations: I participated in several nuclear tests and nonnuclear simulations using ANFO. And no, 600kt at surface wouldn’t “destroy all of New Jersey”. Newark, maybe, (as if it isn’t already destroyed) not all New Jersey. This even acted like a very, very large surface nuclear event, minus the thermal and the direct Gamma.
If you were around the rail gun then you were in the shadow (so to speak) of the drop tower. I see it is still standing, at least in the birds eye on bing...
The view from the top was excellent.. ;-)
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