Posted on 11/14/2002 7:48:21 AM PST by newuserOH2002
Edited on 11/14/2002 8:03:24 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I believe modern ones do. The variety used in the Fat Man device used Polonium, which decays in a few months. Modern initiators use Dt-T reactions, and last as long as their tritium does, which is years.
Unless we do this:
GET 'EM OUT!!!
Cancel all visas from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Pakistan. Give holders of cancelled visas 48 hours to report for internment and repatriation.
Turn INS Interior Enforcement over to DOD. Begin arrests of any holders of cancelled visas immediately upon expiration of the 48-hour reporting period.
Begin military action against non-visa holding nationals of the above countries. Execute any males from the above seven countries aged 17-50 apprehended without papers or evading pre-repatriation detention.
GET 'EM OUT!!!
The polonium initiators generated a fizzle yield inside of one week.
Modern initiators use Dt-T reactions, and last as long as their tritium does, which is years.
The half-life of tritium is 12.3 years; however, tritium decays in to 3He2, which has a truly voracious appetite for neutrons and will generate fizzle yields in very minute quantities. A D-T initiator is going to need new tritium in less than one year.
Al-Usuquf starts by criticizing Washington's disrespect of the Kyoto Protocol on climatic change.
The Kyoto Protocol was an Enviral Whacko Proctocol to economically weaken if not destroy America. One of these days we will be able to connect the dots from the Islamofascists and the Opecker Princes and their blood money to create the Kyoto Protocol and to make us more dependent on Opecker Oil the last two decades since Jimmy Carter started on that road.
The guy has no understanding of the U.S. After being nuked, every American man (except the girly-man, cowardly pacificst) would do whatever they could to help this nation. The outpouring of patriotism after 9/11 was incredible and that was in a situation where there wasn't a whole lot the average American could directly do in the aftermath because the terrorist attacks were in just two cities. Americans did do the very best they could through donations of money and blood to relief organizations and the local people put their lives on the line to find survivors. If whole cities were devastated, that patriotism would manifest itself in the greatest show of fellowship, support and help this nations has ever seen. Nuking would galvanize the U.S. in ways never seen before. The world of Islam could never conceive of the holy hell they would experience thereafter.
John Ashcroft, you know what to do.
That works if the owner of the nukes has something to lose. Alqaida doesn't.
If we were to use them, they would be sent to Mecca and Medina. We would probably give 24 hours notice to minimize civilian losses. Muslims worldwide would be whipped into a frenzy, and the shooting war begins in earnest.
The nutjob Jihadist who wrote the piece is wrong on a few counts, however. The economy would not collapse, the nation would not cease to exist, and wild horses couldn't drag a SINGLE American, ESPECIALLY the soldiers, from the fight after these cultists murder 800,000 more innocents.
We should certainly be mindful of how evil and rotten to the core these people can be...
But, let's not give them any more credit than they've earned
Two 12 year old boys could come up with every detail in the plan described by this story. This is the stuff of stories told in middle school and not the plan of a sophisticated military attack.
Ye olde pin on the Holy Hand Grenade. Good call.
Question, how much apparatus and infrastructure does it take to do this kind of work? Pressure bottles, controls, flow meters... that sort of thing? How big and sophisticated does the shop have to be? Could you fit that into a container? Is there a way to stabilize the tritium for storage and transportation? Are there large power requirements?
Bud I wish you were right. There are folks within our borders who would be smiling down deep inside if such an event took place. They protest loudly in Washington, D.C. quite often. No I'm not kidding.
Tritium is generated in a nuclear reactor. The market price is $50,000 an ounce. Controls are TIGHT because it can be stolen.
Pressure bottles, controls, flow meters... that sort of thing? How big and sophisticated does the shop have to be? Could you fit that into a container?
You need a fuel-processing facility. Not exactly portable.
Is there a way to stabilize the tritium for storage and transportation?
Tritium is easily transported as lithium tritide (chemically identical to lithium hydride). Just keep it dry (it sucks moisture out of the air). However, it still decays--you can't stop that.
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