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Risk of Nuclear Attack on Rise - washingtonpost.com, 4/16/08 -
"the risk of such an attack on U.S. cities has grown in
the past five years because of the spread of nuclear technology and the growth
of a global terrorist movement ... the threat is greater and is increasing every
year with the march of technology ... A 1-kiloton device, which could fit into a
suitcase, could kill about 25,000 people ... A 10-kiloton explosive, which could
be hidden in a van, could kill about 100,000 ... the amount of burn victims that
you're going to have would stress any system" - This article was in the
health section. I guess nukes are unhealthy especially the nuclear fallout
if you live. I'll never figure out why the majority of people consider the
economy more important than preventing this. We're only talking 1940's
technology for the
fission models and 1950's technology for the
fusion models (over a
thousand times more powerful) plus most of what they need to know is on the
Internet (fission
/ fusion (2)
- fusion requires a fission reaction to generate the heat to start the fusion).
That article is fission figures so multiply by 1000 for fusion. If that happens
there ain't going to be an economy. What's really scary is that it's the
Washington Compost as Ollie North calls them because of their liberal bias
saying that. What more of a perfect storm could you have than a free haven
for Al Qaeda if we pull out of Iraq and a psycho with unlimited oil money making
nukes next door in Iran. If it happens the Monday morning quarterbacks
will be asking why we didn't see that one coming for ages. Instead of
oversimplified, inaccurate to say the least one liner campaign rhetoric that
most people fall for it's too bad they can't find a way to educate the voters.
The liberal bias in the media doesn't help. It's serious stuff and people
just ignore the problem. I would think that the
52 suitcase nukes
that they've been taking about for years that Russia might be missing are
fusion. They had the technology so why would they go fission. So
picture some insider letting the suitcase passed x-ray at the departure end then
someone coming through customs at LAX or JFK and they open the suitcase latch
and 250,000 people get fried. That's just one of thousands of possible
easy scenarios. If 3,400 9/11 deaths caused the economy to crash, what's
250,000 going to do and that's assuming only one suitcase bomb. It's not
even a big banger. Study Details Catastrophic Impact Of Nuclear Attack On US Cities - Science Daily, 3/20/07 - "The likelihood of a nuclear weapon attack in an American city is steadily increasing, and the consequences will be overwhelming ... modeled the effects of a 20 kiloton nuclear detonation and a 550 kiloton detonation. (For comparison, the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in the 12 to 20 kiloton range). Bell explained that a 20 kiloton weapon could be manufactured by terrorists and fledgling nuclear countries such as North Korea and Iran, while a 550 kiloton device is commonly found in the arsenal of the former Soviet Union and therefore is the most likely to be stolen by terrorists" |
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