[eastforker]

Afghanistan has a state named Nevada?I didn't know that.hehe

[Frankiedi]

I am not critical of this test. It is FYI.

[wysiwyg]

On Monday, the U.S. Energy Department announced that a sub-critical nuclear test will be conducted on Wednesday at a site in the state of Nevada.

Ok, I guess we could move the test to Afganistan...and forget about the sub-critical part of it!

[DCBryan1]

A leader of an organization of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima has denounced U.S. plans to conduct a sub-critical nuclear test as intolerable.

And your Chemical and Biological tests on human civilans was tolerabe?
And your killing of 300k civilians in Nanking is tolerable?
And your forced march and starvation of Bataan survivors is tolerable?
And your cannibalization of Allied POW's to feed starving Japandes soldiers in New Guinea is tolerable?
And your beheading of Airforce Pilots 12 days after your surrender is tolerable?
And your deleting of your imperial militarism from your high school books is tolerable?
And your refusal to admit blame for the start of WW2 is tolerable?

We didn't drop enough nukes on Japan!

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nuff said.

[DCBryan1]

A leader of an organization of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima has denounced U.S. plans to conduct a sub-critical nuclear test as intolerable.

And your Chemical and Biological tests on human civilans was tolerabe?
And your killing of 300k civilians in Nanking is tolerable?
And your forced march and starvation of Bataan survivors is tolerable?
And your cannibalization of Allied POW's to feed starving Japandes soldiers in New Guinea is tolerable?
And your beheading of Airforce Pilots 12 days after your surrender is tolerable?
And your deleting of your imperial militarism from your high school books is tolerable?
And your refusal to admit blame for the start of WW2 is tolerable?

We didn't drop enough nukes on Japan!

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nuff said.

[Question_Assumptions]

How do the Japanese feel about unauthorized sub-critical nuclear tests in Japan carried out by incompitent atomic energy workers -- like the one a couple of years ago that happened while mixing atomic materials in steel buckets at a processing plant north of Tokyo?

[The Other Harry]

What's "sub-critical" mean?

[ArrogantBustard]

About bloody time we got back to nuclear testing.

[Coop]

Our correspondent says the planned test is intended as an act of deterrence by the United States.

I fail to see how a sub-critical test by a nation with proven nuclear weapons capability will deter a bunch of wacko terrorists.

[Redcloak]

This reminds me of one of the few things Clinton did that I liked. He turned his lawyer's eye for loopholes to the CTB (Comprehensive Test Ban) Treaty. In typically Clintonesque fashion, he found a way to sign the treaty a look like and hero to the lefties while continuing to test. (And do good science to boot!) The treaty bans "nuclear" explosions. "Sub-critical" test do not produce sustained nuclear reactions. These are not banned under the terms of the treaty. While they do not give as accurate a picture of yield as full tests do, they are useful to nuclear scientists. They allow tests of components such as triggers, explosive shells, and metalurgic studies. I'd have to review the treaty, but "fissionless" neutron bombs may also be legal to test.

Good ol' Slick! He found yet another way to screw over his pals.

[michaelt]

But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random.

No, nuclear weapons usually kill people in the vicinity of the explosion. If it was random, people in Capetown, Paris, and Peoria might have died too.

I'm sorry, I just couldn't let that line go by uncommented.

Seriously, this has nothing to do with the recent incident.

[Rodney King]

But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random.

Sorry pal, but the deaths weren't random. We decided to blow your asses back in to the stone-age, and did so just as was planned.

[Frankiedi]

Hospital sources said up to 250 beds have been added to the 800-bed Civil Hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The mountainous province is a rocky desert between the Arabian Sea and Afghanistan.

``We have been asked by the provincial government to be prepared for any eventuality. I can't say what eventuality they are expecting but we have been told not to make our preparations public,'' said a senior doctor who asked not to be identified.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010922/wl/attack_pakistan_hospital_dc_1.html

[Hugin]

A leader of an organization of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima has denounced U.S. plans to conduct a sub-critical nuclear test as intolerable.

You have two choices.
1. In the words of Emperor Hirohito, "Tolerate the intolerable".
2. Commit Sepeku immediately.

Fankly, we don't care which.

[M Kehoe]

Hmmmm. Testing triggers and tritium I suppose.

Not a good sign if you live in Afghanistan.

5.56mm

[Species8472]

experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The third and seventh largest cities in Japan today! (so much for "long term" effects)

[Kozak]

"But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random."


Not at random. That was the plan. And boy did it stop a bunch of fanatical suicide pilots....