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Even Nuclear Arms Might Not Bust Enemy Bunkers, Scientists Say
Kansas City Star
| March 26, 2002
| Scott Canon
Posted on 03/28/2002 12:14:54 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: dighton
Let's ROLL!!
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04/16/2002 8:07:05 PM PDT
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timestax
To: timestax
bump
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posted on
04/17/2002 7:44:38 AM PDT
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timestax
To: PhilDragoo
The operator illuminates a target with a laser designator and then the munition guides to a spot of laser energy reflected from the target. OK, so who volunteers to stick around and illuminate the target until the nuke hits it?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The underlying importance of this article, though it be filled with faulty assumptions, is that it recognizes nukes as a legitimate option.
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posted on
04/17/2002 9:12:06 AM PDT
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okie01
To: okie01
Good point!
Keep the enemies guessing!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Keep the enemies guessing!" May not be any guess to it. I would not be at all surprised if the first blow was a nuke on Iraq's command & control, WMD research center and/or Saddam's bunker.
This would be in accord with our stated national policy that we would be prepared to respond to any chemical or bio-attack with nuclear weapons. It is becoming increasingly clear that the anthrax came from Iraq. And that Iraq may have been waging a surreptitious war against us for as much as a decade.
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04/17/2002 11:53:51 AM PDT
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okie01
To: okie01
And that Iraq may have been waging a surreptitious war against us for as much as a decade. Ya mean they're still fighting the Gulf War? Nahhh. We won that one fair and square...
To: SauronOfMordor
OK, so who volunteers to stick around and illuminate the target until the nuke hits it? A UAV.
To: vannrox
bttt
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posted on
04/18/2002 9:59:17 PM PDT
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timestax
To: Stand Watch Listen
These guys aren't thinking really well .... we've got megaton range bombs ... if that's what it takes, so be it.
To: Centurion2000
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04/19/2002 5:59:01 PM PDT
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timestax
To: M Kehoe
bttt
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05/02/2002 5:40:32 PM PDT
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timestax
To: Centurion2000
bump
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05/11/2002 1:44:58 PM PDT
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timestax
To: muggs
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posted on
05/16/2002 10:06:22 PM PDT
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timestax
To: Stand Watch Listen
We have hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical weapons going to waste when they could be exterminating the ratholes of terrorists and their defenders. Screw UN treaties and Amnesty Intercommunist, I say give a soaking dose of Arab "Raid".
To: timestax
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posted on
01/15/2003 10:44:10 PM PST
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timestax
has the Bush administration contemplating a taboo -- unleashing nuclear firepower Let's Roll
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01/15/2003 10:47:33 PM PST
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Mr. Mojo
(The Silver & Black is back!)
To: timestax; *miltech
To: Psycho_Bunny
What a stupid article. Nukes could take out most of the worlds bunkers. Only places built like Colorado Springs could survive direct nuclear arms. Now wait a minute... The article was clearly discussing how effective nuclear weapons would be in Iraq *given certain constraints* which are likely to be the case.
Sure, you can crack just about anything by repeated application of 50 megaton H-bombs... But the side-effects are going to be a bitch (like giving most of Turkey radiation sickness).
The point of the article is that if we *did* use nukes as bunker-busters in Iraq, they'd have to be smallish ones, and they'd have to be applied deep enough underground to minimize long-range fallout. Given the reality of our situation there (we're interested in keeping civilian casualties to a minimum), that's understandable.
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01/15/2003 10:57:28 PM PST
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Dan Day
To: SauronOfMordor
"OK, so who volunteers to stick around and illuminate the target until the nuke hits it?" "Hey, Abdul, could you hold this for a minute? I'll be right back."
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01/15/2003 10:59:30 PM PST
by
Billy_bob_bob
("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
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