Finally IRAN-You Ragheads, I Love you all-Except the Terriorist's...Can you do something about them?
MIRVman
collectivly protected from the 21st century Nuclear Terrorist ? My
research and experience dictates that we, as group and indicvidual,
need to take a closer look at the avaiable technology, and how we can
detect/identify and prevent this potential disaste....
......Finally I get to voice my opinion's after 30 years of
abstinence....I personally disassembled the Air to Air, Air to ground
ABM Nuclear missiles for a VERY Strategic Nuclear Base, I was at Fort
Campbell Kentucky when the "Kinetic" weapons were tested with the
Abrams A-1.., I disassembled "HOT" Nuclear Weapons at every broken
Arrow/Bent Spear 1973-1978......
......I spent 30 years in the "Public sector Bomb:" business. and now I
have a conscious....I disqualified myself under the CNWDI Human
Reliability program as a consciousness objector...could not handle the
stress's of "Signing Off" the assembly of Mass destruction
Devices...I'm probably going to be punished for talking about these
issues, but my PTSD is overwhelming.....
.......Before I ramble on....Keep up the dialog people, let' make our
republic stronger.....The devastation of September 11th is inexcusable,
the criminals should be caught and tried and punished. Yet does this
mean we as a nation should expect our own everyday personal freedoms to
be lessened because of a minority of fanatical individuals in the
world?.......
.....It worries me as an American citizen when the government has
decided to use resources to investigate our personal tastes in what we
do with our minds..
...
Recently our FBI has been allowed to investigate public library and
internet records. We can all sleep well now that the Chinese communists
have MIRV and BUS technology thanks to Clinton and the #1 contributor
to the Democratic National Committee Bernie Schwartz and his company
Loral.
Now China has the MIRV and BUS technology plus the advanced nuclear war
head plans from our New Mexico and their little Chinese spy there.
MIRV: Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle. The ballistic
missile carries a number of warheads that can be targeted at separate
targets. The warheads sit on a "bus", basically a flat plate at the top
of the missile and protected by the nose cone ,until out of the
atmosphere(Remember this term ). During descent the bus releases the
warheads in sequence.
MRV: Multiple Re-entry Vehicle. The ballistic missile carries a number
of warheads all targeted at the same target as part of a saturation
attack. First deployed in 1970-71 but replaced by MIRV MK12A. (Not
true, each MIRV is independantly targeted) ( I added that!) more
trouble i'm in I am !
.....Targeting accuracy depends on a number of factors, including the
sophistication of the on-board guidance system, the precise knowledge
of a target's location, and taking into account such variables as
slight thrust variations in the missile's propulsion system,
atmospheric effects, and the Earth's uneven gravitational field.(Alot
of bologne, any 'ol Nuker can tell you this is "Canary fece's!)
.....Some missile's will use external guidance updates (radio commands,
stellar navigation via a small telescope (Multi-mirror gyroscope) , or
signals from navigation satellites like GPS. (Ask the PApA about this
!)
.....Inertial guidance means the guidance system is designed to detect
slight changes in the missile's flight path via gyroscopes (either
mechanical or laser) and make corrections. It's based on the principle
that at lift-off the guidance system knows exactly the position and
attitude of the missile, that has been given a pre-programmed flight
path ,the missile needs to fly in order to reach the target.
.....American satellite companies helped China "perfect" its strategic
missiles through technology transferred with the approval of the
Clinton administration, according to a senior House member.
.....The CI (confidential informant) said Beijing's strategic rockets
were unable to target the United States effectively eight years ago but
benefited greatly in the past several years by acquiring technology
with both commercial and military applications.
".....I am very sad to say [the Chinese] they now have the capability
of landing nuclear weapons in the United States and we are the ones who
perfected their rockets," the chairman of the House Science
subcommittee on space and aeronautics said in a floor speech on April
xx (YR classified)
.
......Then CI said he is investigating claims that several U.S.
companies helped improve Chinese missiles by supplying"
stage-separation" technology -- the capability used to assist rocket or
missile stages as they break away smoothly during launch. More alarming
are reports that the Chinese have acquired the technology used to
"dispense" satellites in space once they reach orbit.
.....Such technology is identical to that used in launching multiple,
independently targable re-entry vehicles, the so-called MIRV
multiple-warheads, he said. U.S. intelligence agencies have said
Chinese strategic missiles lacked multiple-warhead capabilities but
that new systems are expected to have the advanced several-warhead
configurations. "So the American companies proceeded to provide
stage-separation technology, as well as technology that enabled a
rocket to spit out satellites.....
.....or nuclear warheads, whichever the communist Chinese might want to
use on any particular day," the CI said. U.S. intelligence agencies
have said Chinese strategic missiles lacked multiple-warhead
capabilities but that new systems are expected to have the advanced
several-warhead configurations.
.....So the American companies proceeded to provide stage-separation
technology, as well as technology that enabled a rocket to spit out
satellites, or nuclear warheads, whichever the communist Chinese might
want to use on any particular day the CI said..
.....It is somewhat amusing that the text almost assumes the Chinese
couldn't have built MIRVs by themselves, and now that they can it is
because Western know-how has "leaked" there. Also noteworthy is that
the US already fields a large number of MIRVed ballistic missiles,
which rather consumes the intended moral indignation in the above text.
.....The CI comment is only one example of the general patronizing
attitude the West has toward developing countries. The recent Indian
nuclear tests have raised a totally disproportionate amount of
international racket. It is strange that India is being targeted by
sanctions considering that the US and France conducted nuclear tests in
the '90s
.....similarly before signing the test-ban treaty - and reported the
exact same reason for them. (completing computer simulation models to
make further tests unnecessary) I love this,,,,Why is okay for France
or the US to have nuclear weapons whereas it isn't so for India ?
.....If the US sanctioned Russia for its violations to the same degree
it is sanctioning India,the international space station would be in BIG
trouble.
Well, I think it could be said that the satellite-separation
technology" in question is more or less commonplace by now, and buying
technology is a normal way of acquiring it.
.....There are surprisingly few technologies that can be used
exclusively to further benevolent ends. It's not a question of the US
has MIRV's, shouldn't all other nations also have MIRV's in order to be
f"if air?" The moral indignation expressed above is directed at a US
Administration that has apparently given military assistance to a
country that could very well threaten the existence of the US
.....Allowing a private company to let the Chinese use their
satellite-separation system is hardly "military assistance", even if
the system would be directly dual-use.
A quote"
".....Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin
Franklin
See my group...
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MIRVman
# posted by Nuclear Citizens in Motion : 3/20/2006 03:12:00 PM 0
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My Father has a picture of him on the "Great China Wall" in 1939,
......Finally get to voice my opinion's after 30 years of
abstinence....I personally disassembled the Air to Air, Air to ground
ABM Nuclear missiles for a VERY Strategic Nuclear Base, I was at Fort
Campbell Kentucky when the "Kinetic" weapons were tested with the
Abrams A-1.., I disassembled "HOT" Nuclear Weapons at every broken
Arrow/Bent Spear 1973-1978......I shot 3 MK 12a's from Vandenburg
AFB,.... then Vietnam....
......I spent 28 years in the "Public sector Bomb:" business. and now I
have a conscious....I disqualified myself under the CNWDI Human
Reliability program as a consciousness objector...could not handle the
stress's of "Signing Off" the assembly of Mass destruction
Devices...I'm probably going to be punished for talking about these
issues, but my PTSD is overwhelming.....
....Before I ramble on....Keep up the dialog people, let' make our
republic stronger.....The devastation of September 11th is inexcusable,
the criminals should be caught and tried and punished. Yet does this
mean we as a nation should expect our own everyday personal freedoms to
be lessened because of a minority of fanatical individuals in the
world?.......
.....It worries me as an American citizen when the government has
decided to use resources to investigate our personal tastes in what we
do with our minds.
. ... Recently our FBI has been allowed to investigate public library
and internet records. We can all sleep well now that the Chinese
communists have MIRV and BUS technology thanks to Clinton and the #1
contributor to the Democratic National Committee Bernie Schwartz and
his company Loral.
(ask your dad about this) Now China have the MIRV and BUS technology
plus the advanced nuclear war head plans from our New Mexico and their
little Chinese spy there.
MIRV: Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle. The ballistic
missile carries a number of warheads that can be targeted at separate
targets. The warheads sit on a "bus", basically a flat plate at the top
of the missile and protected by the nose cone ,until out of the
atmosphere.
During descent the bus releases the warheads in sequence. . MRV:
Multiple Re-entry Vehicle. The ballistic missile carries a number of
warheads all targeted at the same target as part of a saturation
attack. First deployed in 1970-71 but replaced by MIRV MK12A.
Targeting accuracy depends on a number of factors, including the
sophistication of the on-board guidance system, the precise knowledge
of a target's location, and taking into account such variables as
slight thrust variations in the missile's propulsion system,
atmospheric effects, and the Earth's uneven gravitational field.
Some missile's will use external guidance updates (radio commands,
stellar navigation via a small telescope (Multi-mirror gyroscope) , or
signals from navigation satellites like GPS. ( This is the clasified
S___)
Inertial guidance means the guidance system is designed to detect
slight changes in the missile's flight path via gyroscopes (either
mechanical or laser) and make corrections. It's based on the principle
that at lift-off the guidance system knows exactly the position and
attitude of the missile, that has been given a pre-programmed flight
path ,the missile needs to fly in order to reach the target.
American satellite companies helped China "perfect" its strategic
missiles through technology transferred with the approval of the
Clinton administration, according to a senior House member. The CI
(confidential informant) said Beijing's strategic rockets were unable
to target the United States effectively eight years ago but benefited
greatly in the past several years by acquiring technology with both
commercial and military applications
"I am very sad to say [the Chinese] they now have the capability of
landing nuclear weapons in the United States and we are the ones who
perfected their rockets," the chairman of the House Science
subcommittee on space and aeronautics said in a floor speech on April
xx (YR classified) .
Then CI said he is investigating claims that several U.S. companies
helped improve Chinese missiles by supplying" stage-separation"
technology -- the capability used to assist rocket or missile stages as
they break away smoothly during launch
More alarming are reports that the Chinese have acquired the technology
used to "dispense" satellites in space once they reach orbit. Such
technology is identical to that used in launching multiple,
independently tar gable re-entry vehicles, the so-called MIRV
multiple-warheads, he said.
U.S. intelligence agencies have said Chinese strategic missiles lacked
multiple-warhead capabilities but that new systems are expected to have
the advanced several-warhead configurations. "So the American companies
proceeded to provide stage-separation technology, as well as technology
that enabled a rocket to spit out satellites, or nuclear warheads,
whichever the communist Chinese might want to use on any particular
day," the CI said.
U.S. intelligence agencies have said Chinese strategic missiles lacked
multiple-warhead capabilities but that new systems are expected to have
the advanced several-warhead configurations. "So the American companies
proceeded to provide stage-separation technology, as well as technology
that enabled a rocket to spit out satellites, or nuclear warheads,
whichever the communist Chinese might want to use on any particular day
the CI said..
It is somewhat amusing that the text almost assumes the Chinese
couldn't have built MIRVs by themselves, and now that they can it is
because Western know-how has "leaked" there. Also noteworthy is that
the US already fields a large number of MIRVed ballistic missiles,
which rather consumes the intended moral indignation in the above text.
The CI comment is only one example of the general patronizing attitude
the West has toward developing countries. The recent Indian nuclear
tests have raised a totally disproportionate amount of international
racket. It is strange that India is being targeted by sanctions
considering that the US and France conducted nuclear tests in the '90s
- similarly before signing the test-ban treaty
- and reported the exact same reason for them. (completing computer
simulation models to make further tests unnecessary) Why is okay for
France or the US to have nuclear weapons whereas it isn't so for India
?
If the US sanctioned Russia for its violations to the same degree it is
sanctioning India, the international space station would be in BIG
trouble.
Well, I think it could be said that the satellite-separation
technology" in question is more or less commonplace by now, and buying
technology is a normal way of acquiring it.
There are surprisingly few technologies that can be used exclusively to
further benevolent ends. It's not a question
of...............................
"If the US has MIRV's, shouldn't all other nations also have MIRV's in
order to be fair?"
The moral indignation expressed above is directed at a US
Administration that has apparently given military assistance to a
country that could very well threaten the existence of the US Allowing
a private company to let the Chinese use their satellite-separation
system is hardly "military assistance", even if the system would be
directly dual-use.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
See my pitafull group.....?
http://groups.google.com/group/Nuclear-Citizenry-in-Motion?lnk=li&hl=en
I used to buy-off aerospace fims to accept "reject;nuclear components !
Don't get me started.........
# posted by Nuclear Citizens in Motion : 3/20/2006 11:09:00 AM 0
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Small Nuclear Weapons and the Hardened Bunker-exploding even a
1-kiloton nuclear weapon at a depth of 50 feet would eject 1 million
cubic feet of radi
I'm new to the Groups, I'm sure there was allot of previous activity,
and as I do more research I'm sure I will get up to speed rather
quickly... So......Could these weapons be used against the American
Public?
In February 2002, the United States put on the most impressive display
of precision bombing in the history of warfare and demonstrated the
unmatched power of the U.S. military. But despite this overwhelming
conventional superiority, the Bush administration is pursuing a new era
of smaller, less powerful nuclear weapons.
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to end a 10-year-old ban on
the development of small nuclear arms, and the repeal of this ban is
expected to pass the full House and Senate as part of the defense
authorization bill later this month.
In addition, the committee approved the administration's request for
funds by allotting $46.5 million to conduct further research on
advanced nuclear weapons concepts and to allow the Pentagon to
recommence nuclear weapons testing. Despite denials of plans to build
such bombs, according to the Nation, the Bush administration is the
first since World War II to endorse a policy not based on nuclear arms
control
It's a shocking piece of legislation that shows the Pentagon wants the
option to use nuclear weapons not just for deterrence against nuclear
states but for war-fighting against non nuclear countries as well. Its
chief goal is the capability to destroy deeply buried bunkers, where it
believes rogue states may house weapons of mass destruction. That would
indeed be a good capability to have, but nuclear weapons can't provide
it.
If we wanted to use a nuclear weapon to destroy an underground bunker,
we'd need to know precisely where the bunker was located, and we'd need
to be very sure that destroying its contents was worth breaking a
58-year taboo against nuclear use, enraging our allies and friends and
scaring our enemies into developing their own atomic arsenals.
Our recent experience in Iraq shows just how elusive that certainty
would be. Of all the rogue states thought to be pursuing weapons of
mass destruction, Iraq should have been the one about which we had the
best information. After all, in addition to the work of our own
intelligence agencies, which made Iraq a priority, we also had eight
years of on-the-ground reports from U.N. weapons inspectors.
And yet 3 years after our forces crossed the Iraqi border, we have yet
to find any chemical or biological (let alone nuclear) weapons. That
does not mean they aren't there, but it does show how difficult it
would be to obtain intelligence good enough to sanction a nuclear first
strike.
Even if our intelligence were good enough, the depth to which a
speeding warhead can dig before it disintegrates is limited. Our
current earth-penetrating weapons can dig only a few meters into the
ground, and even with further research, physicists believe that the
limits of existing materials would prevent weapons from reaching below
50 feet. The bunkers we're worried about could be buried as deep as
1,000 feet.
The Bush administration had wanted to repeal the ban on low-yield
nuclear weapons because it thinks they can do the job while limiting
collateral damage,making their use more acceptable. But according to
nuclear physicist's , exploding even a 1-kiloton nuclear weapon at a
depth of 50feetwould eject 1 million cubic feet of radioactive debris
into the air from a crater the size of Ground Zero. And it wouldn't
destroy a target 1,000 feet down -- you'd need a weapon hundreds of
times larger to do that.
Logistical and technical arguments aside, using a nuclear weapon to
destroy a target in a non nuclear country would destroy U.S.
nonproliferation efforts. Ournuclear policy already balances on the
thin edge of hypocrisy -- after all, we have thousands of nuclear
weapons but we insist that others do not develop them. It's a one-sided
arrangement that has held only because of a treaty promise we made to
work toward nuclear disarmament. That is a distant goal, but moving in
the opposite direction is inexcusable and self-defeating. Building new
nuclear weapons would make it nearly impossible to roll back nuclear
programs in states such as Iran, India and North Korea. Bush officials
who support new nuclear weapons ought to heed an old cliché and put
themselves in the shoes of their enemies.
What would they recommend to their leader if faced with a United States
that declared a doctrine of preemption, named countries against which
it was prepared to use nuclear weapons and sought to build new nuclear
weapons whose use would be more "acceptable"? In that situation, I'd
recommend immediately building a nuclear deterrent.
What about those bunkers? Well, if we have good enough intelligence, we
could probably seal them off by destroying entrances and air ducts.
And, if we needed to destroy a bunker itself, physicists are
researching the idea of droppingsuccessive precision-guided munitions
on the same spot, digging a deeper hole with each strike until the
bunker is reached and breached. Intelligence and creativity are the
answers to this problem, not nuclear weapons.
MIRVMAN
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# posted by Nuclear Citizens in Motion : 3/20/2006 09:40:00 AM 0
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Nuclear proliferation...Wanna take a Ride?
Should we be very concerned about both India and Pakistan developing
nuclear weapons. Some say the more members added to the nuclear club,
the more chances for someone to use them.
It is strange that India is being targeted by sanctions considering
that the US and France conducted nuclear tests in the '90s - similarly
before signing the test-ban treaty - and reported the exact same reason
for them i.e. we were "Completing computer simulation models to make
further tests unnecessary"
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) http://www.ctbto.org
Why are some concerned ?, because we don't want more nuclear nations.
That much being said, India has some good reason to believe that it
needs these types of weapons to protect the peace, in particular being
neighbors with both Pakistan and China (China will be my next BLOG)
Why is it okay for France or the US to have nuclear weapons whereas it
isn't so for India ?
Reluctance would only be implied if the original nuclear powers were
contemplating using their weapons against the new nuclear powers, make
any sense?
Why can't we understand why one powerful country would be reluctant to
have another country become just as powerful? People and countries do
desire control over their environment, and it is only natural to resist
losing that control.
Just as it is only natural to try and acquire more control over one's
environment, as India is doing. The Clinton administration was quick to
condemn India for their first nuclear tests, but barely uttered a peep
over what US intelligence describes as an underground nuclear test in
Russia 8 years ago !
The United States has not condemned either Russia or China for
enhancing India's and Pakistan's nuclear weapons programs and weapons
delivery systems. I think "free trade" has been taken to the extreme
with this administration, and if there is money to be made, they seem
to ignore any problems that might interfere with business. The US
doesn't do much business with India, so they think they can afford to
act tough on weapons violations.
All of a sudden, India is viewed with open hostility. Not
congratulations, "Welcome to the club", but are faced with economic
sanctions. I really don't think having nuclear missiles is necessarily
bad, what would be bad is if India and Pakistan had Multiple
Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle (MIRV) (MIRV"S will be
addressed in a separate BLOG) capabilities. MIRVing is a missile turned
into several missiles as each re-entry vehicle is programmed to strike
a separate target. Now that is a problem, is India or Pakistan
developing this technology?
It's not a question of :"If the US has MIRV's, shouldn't all other
nations also have MIRV's in order to be fair?"
The opposite side, the moral majority, quotes " The US Administration
has apparently given military assistance to a country that could very
well threaten the existence of the US, in the future."
A very patronizing attitude the West has shown toward developing
countries.
I believe the recent Indian nuclear tests have raised a totally
disproportionate amount of international racket.
In terms of nuclear weapons, I really can't understand. Neither the US
nor France lose anything when the Indians build nuclear weapons. The
only people who lose are the Indians, who spend scarce money to build
expensive weapons.
Strategy
In the short term, this might make a conventional attack on India less
likely, and thus reduce the risk of war. But Pakistan is now advancing
a nuclear program, and that involves a risk that such weapons would be
diverted to use against Israel, which would indeed involve extremely
grave risks for the world.
Food for thought: As India is a poor country, and with some illiberal
tendencies towards non-Hindu minorities such as the Sikhs, can we be
confident it will indefinitely remain a democracy.?
However: There is some anti-immigrant sentiment in France as well, and
religious bigotry and racial tensions in the US. If the situation in
India develops agreeably the Indians might dismantle their nuclear
weapons later on. (as South Africa did)..
In conclusion, most non-nuclear countries desire weapons of mass
destruction, if only for their deterrent value. The cost of a program
is extremely high, both direct and non-direct, such as potential
sanctions.
What can I do? Sit and write my feelings down in a public domain
atmosphere and Pray that our leaders know the right path.
MIRVman
# posted by Nuclear Citizens in Motion : 3/18/2006 03:09:00 PM 0
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Dad & Son 1995
http://www.enforcer31.com/Patchgraph/corr002.jpg
# posted by Nuclear Citizens in Motion : 3/18/2006 07:29:00 AM 0
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We have 6-20 Foot Depth conventional "Bunker Buster" Bombs now-Do we
need NUKES too?
So Mr. Bush has decided to go on record as to the supposed NEW
development of a NUCLEAR Bunker bomb. Guess what, wev'e already got
it.......
If you have read my earlier dissertation on dirty bombs, it applies
here.
BUNKER BOMB PICTURE
http://www.thaimtb.com/webboard/14/07460-16.jpg
The Existing Conventional (HE) "Bunker Bombs" penetrate from 6-20 foot
underground.........
Penetration of reinforced concrete: 1.8 m (6 ft) BLU-109 Penetrater
(Mark 84 bomb) GBU-10, GBU-15, GBU-24, GBU-27, AGM-130
Penetration of reinforced concrete: 3.4 m (11 ft) BLU-116 Advanced
Unitary Penetrater (AUP) GBU-15, GBU-24, GBU-27, AGM-130
Penetration of reinforced concrete: 3.4 m (11 ft) BLU-118/B Thermobaric
Warhead GBU-15, GBU-24, AGM-130
Penetration of reinforced concrete: more than 6 m (20 ft) BLU-113 Super
Penetrater GBU-28, GBU-37
If an Enemy or Ally were to compromise Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD), or
other US "Hard Sites" W e would definitely be in the stuff...More later
on EMP bomb terminologies.. MIRV man
:)
# posted by Nuclear Citizens in Motion : 3/18/2006 06:25:00 AM 0
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Let's cast a vote for America, foil the terrorist-and support the Union
!
........I'm not an alarmist folks, a realist actually. Someone would
have to be specifically looking for the following non-classified
argument, So here goes....If I can surf and figure some of it out, how
about a terrorist cell phone bomb expert?....Hugh?
......To some, the threat of nuclear terrorism is closing in upon us,
Chemical terrorism is at hand, and biological terrorism is a future
danger. None of our 2500 Mega Ton's of nuclear weapons can protect us
from these threats, can they?......
......Not a penny of the $425 billion (~$1600 per capita) dollars a
year we spend on so-called defense, can actually defend us against a
terrorist bomb, true? (Only "Delivered weapons via aircraft, submarine
or ICBM are we technologically capable of vanquishing )
.......Nuclear (war) technology is in itself a fairly scary
proposition. I have a large extended family, and I do worry....I worry
that as I scan the internet for public domain details that are decades
old, what technology is available to the terrorist cultures today?
........No matter how technically advanced our Laser/Killer Satellites
are, no matter how many trillions of dollars were poured into them ...
can "They" protect us from even a single hand delivered terrorist bomb?
Am I overreacting the specifics?.......
It's been decided, we have to erode our constitutional rights, to
protect ourselves. Bad Karma, tough choices , to Follow.....
.......The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to compel
Google, the Internet search giant, to turn over records on millions of
its users' search queries as part of the government's effort to uphold
an online pornography law.(?????????????-I ask!).
.....Google has been refusing the request since a subpoena was first
issued last August, even as three of its competitors, America Online,
Yahoo and MSN, Microsoft's online service - had complied with subpoenas
in the case., and agreed to provide information, according to court
documents made public this week.
.....Not one weapon in our vast arsenal can shield us from a nuclear
weapon delivered in a small boat, shipboard /53 foot tractor trailer
container or a Cessna single engine plane or in a suitcase, or a Yellow
Ryder rental truck.......
.....The warhead configuration of a suitcase nuke could simply consist
of a tube with two pieces of uranium, which, when rammed together,
would cause a blast. Some sort of firing unit and a device that would
need to be decoded to cause detonation, may be included in the
"suitcase."
abc
......I worry about these Suitcase nuke's or suitcase bomb's, they
would contain a very compact and portable nuclear weapon and could have
the dimensions as small as 60 x 40 x 20 centimeters or about 24 x 16 x
8 inches. The smallest possible bomb-like object would utilize a single
critical mass of plutonium or
.....If Pu-239 was utilized, it could weigh as little as 10.5 kg and
would be about 10.1 cm across. It doesn't take much more than a single
critical mass of it to cause significant explosions ranging from 10-20
ton's........
.......It is the emissions of U-235 that are relatively trivial.
Plutonium has a half-life 30,000 times shorter and is correspondingly
more radioactive. It also typically has additional penetrating
radiations such as gamma's and neutron's, different from Pu-240 and
Am-241 contaminants, that create worker safety hazards in weapon grade
material, and worse ones in non-weapon grade material..........
.....To accentuate my personal noncontagious paranoia, on 7 September
1997, the CBS news-magazine Sixty Minutes broadcast an alarming story
in which former Russian National Security Adviser Alexander Lebed
claimed that the Russian military had lost track of more than 100
suitcase-sized nuclear bombs, any one of which could kill up to 100,000
people! Oh Boy-just Peachy-Keen........
.....The CIA had intelligence reports from senior Arab intelligence
officials alleging that in October 1998 bin Laden had obtained one or
two nuclear suitcase weapons from a Central Asian republic in return
for $30 million in cash and two tons of heroin worth $70 million - a
deal brokered by the Chechen mafia.
......So how about that IRAQ/IRAN and the other preschool nuclear
countries... what are we looking for in our Satellite photographs
?..... Emissions ..... Fissionable material acquisition.....
Technology- of course...and a very well developed EGO /Determination of
the futurist terrorist to be a PLAYER in the world politics of what my
brother would compare t-shirt logo's like "My LAYWER CAN BEAT UP YOUR
LAYWER". well...can they?........
.........The erosion of whole sections of the Bill of Rights quickened
when the president signed the USA PATRIOT Act on October 26, 2001. With
Attorney General John Ashcroft insisting on the crucial need for speed,
the House passed the 342-page document by a vote of 356 to 56, although
few had the chance to read it. ............Several members later said
that parts of the new law seemed unconstitutional, but in view of the
coming elections, they did not want to be attacked as "unpatriotic" by
their opponents. In the Senate, only one senator, Wisconsin's Russ
Feingold, voted against the PATRIOT Act.
....In the House or Representatives, dissenter David Obey of Wisconsin
said bitterly, "Why should we care? It's only the
Constitution.".................
......The Act has radically extended government electronic
surveillance-on and off the Internet-with often reduced judicial
review. For example, FBI agents can enter a home or office with a court
order-while the occupants are not there-and insert the "Magic Lantern"
(also known as the keystroke logger) into a computer.
...........I have always believed in the deterrent benefit of our
(US/ALLIED) weapons strategy, bankrupting the Communists et al...
however I think that we should have budgeted for the subsequent sale of
Russia's Weapons / Technology /Hardware and Personnel, what's your
opinion?
......In 1944, Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: "Though we neither
can wish nor possess the power to go back to the reality of the
nineteenth century, we have the opportunity to realize its ideals --
and they were not mean. We have little right to feel in this respect
superior to our grandfathers; and we should never forget that it is we,
the twentieth century, and not they, who have made a mess of things. If
they had not yet fully learned what was necessary to create the world
they wanted, the experience we have since gained ought to have equipped
us better for the task. If in the first attempt to create a world of
free men we have failed, we must try again. The guiding principle that
a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive
policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth
century."..................
......The following is why terrorists can't simply "Make" their bombs,
(LET ALONE a practical Delivery technology) this written section
equates to an elementary dialog of rudimentary High School science.....
And 2+2=4 level mathematics.....
..........The documented critical mass of weapons-grade uranium is
about 48 kg, in the specific context of a bare sphere of uranium at
normal density. The critical mass of a sphere of weapons-grade uranium,
at normal density but surrounded by a reasonably efficient
tamper-reflector is 15-20 kg depending on the exact composition of the
tamper.
......And this same critical mass of a sphere of weapons-grade uranium,
surrounded by a moderately efficient tamper-reflector, and compressed
to twice its normal density, is 4-5 kg.
.....This has important implications for weapons design. If all you're
going to do is slap together two hemispheres of HEU, they're going to
be some pretty hefty hemispheres, 24 kg, just to get a hint of a
nuclear reaction, and for a reasonable yield you really want two or
three critical masses ......
......A gun-assembly bomb, while it does have the advantage of
simplicity, is scarcely better than the slap-two-hemispheres-together
(32 detonator's) ( FAT BOY) model. You can integrate a tamper-reflector
with the gun, but only within limits. And you can't get any sort of
compression out of a gun. So you're going to need 30-60 kg of HEU to
make a bomb.
Thus.................................
.....With an implosion bomb, you can use the very best tamper/reflector
materials, and then wrap the thing with explosive lenses that will
compress the whole lot to twice normal density
..... Now you only need 8-15 kg of HEU to make a bomb, with about the
same performance as the gun.
.......A proper reactor for producing weapons-grade plutonium is
normally graphite-moderated and water-cooled. It isn't very useful for
power generation, ( Gee where have we heard that particular terrorist
Lie?) ......or anything except Pu production.
...... It's actually a bigger smoking gun for proliferation than
enrichment. To take a nation that people trust, such as the Dutch or
the Germans, they have large amounts of enrichment plant technology,
and could make HEU any time if they wanted, but they don't have Pu
production reactors. They make lots of civil plutonium , which has more
of the isotopes that you don't want, and make a bomb prone to premature
detonation with reduced yield.................. but nobody seems
worried about that either.
..........Military significant amount of plutonium can be produced in
much smaller reactors. The Hanford production reactors were originally
250 MW ( Today's top 3000MV!)... A 25 MW reactor can produce 6 kg a
year, assuming operation for 250 days per year, enough for one weapon
with 1st generation design techniques.......
...As far as Satellite/Infrared photographs of Iraq and Iran's reactors
goes , Commercial coal or oil power plants are usually over 1 GW
(thermal), so a large power plant would easily hide the thermal
signature of a reactor. Petrochemical operations - burning field gas,
advanced extraction techniques , steam injection, refining /cracking
etc. -can also produce allot of covert camouflaged heat.
....If weapons-grade uranium is something you get by way of covert,
illegal, industrial-scale alchemy at a cost that makes gold look cheap,
you are not likely to throw up your hands and say, .........."Oh, when
we get a hundred pounds of the stuff we'll let a high school shop class
fashion a gun to use it".
........Our theoretical terrorists are going to do the math and take
some money out of their uranium-enrichment budget, use it to send some
of the best and brightest zealot's to university ( MIT Maybe?).... to
figure out how to make four implosion bombs using the same hundred
pounds of precious weapons-grade uranium that would have made one
simple gun-assembly bomb. And incidentally make your first bomb that
much faster.................
......That gives me the warm fuzzy that they will try and go the
economical ( Long term) path, with time for the UN to forcibly abort
their Nuclear progress! ......
Other Concerns:
........I have reacted like other US Citizens/Foreign Allies, to the
controversy surrounding foreign control of our Sea Ports, inadequately
protected National Borders and the ease, even after 9-11, of entering
US customs with an assumed identity!
.....Our Airport's and Train stations, even with "Sniffer" Machines,
Dogs, armed guards and beacoup video cameras, how can they stop a
determined Terrorist that decides he or even she, will be compensated
with Virgins and Camels in Heaven, and be rewarded with a postmortem
GOLD stipend to their survivor family members in the $thousands$ ! I
mean what kind of "Bonus" is that?.......
.....Another portable weapon I'm scared of is a nuclear "backpack"
bomb. It could have as much as a 3-to-5 kiloton yield, depending on the
efficiency of the explosion. The Soviet nuclear backpack system was
made in the 1960s for use against NATO targets in time of war and
consists of three "coffee can-sized" aluminum canisters in a bag. All
three must be connected in line, to make a single unit explode.
......The detonator would be about 6 inches long, and each trigger is
used to uniformly ignite a pentagon or hexagon of a very special form
of plastique explosive, about the shape of a football , closely formed
around a sub-critical sphere of metal. All the detonators have to go
off simultaneously within microseconds to give a uniform "squeeze".
Hence multiple speedy fuses. It's kept powered during storage by a
battery line connected to the canisters....
....Speaking of Triggers : a few years ago...ISRAEL was facing the
possible embarrassing new scrutiny of its unconfirmed nuclear weapons
program, after the arrest in Spain of an American arms dealer who has
been on the run for 16 years.
......He had been charged with selling 850 Krytron nuclear triggers to
the Israelis. ( An absolutely/Mandatory device for the do it yourselfer
bomber/martyr/all around terrorist ).......
....Bigger news the other day, was about smuggling parts for nuclear
bomb triggers to Iraq. TV news said they were "capacitors." On the
McNeil-Lehrer news hour on PBS, an expert called the devices "Krytron's
and said that although they have other uses, the nuclear-trigger
application is so "classic" that they require an end-user certificate
for export...
.....Krytrons are used in nuclear weapons to control the discharge of
high voltage capacitors with microsecond-precision into the multiple
bridge wires used to detonate the explosive array elements.
.....The trade name "Krytron" is owned by EG&G. and is manufactured
today as a thyratron , and is the gas tube predecessor of a silicon
controlled rectifier (SCR).
.....Since a 2D21 or equivalent industrial thryratron will do the job
almost as well I'm not so sure why they were worried....
........I suspect that the Krytron issue is merely an easier way for
certain government agencies to get "good press" about anti-nuclear
proliferation efforts. I would be MUCH more concerned about the "Other
Problems" in nuclear industry than any issue involving Krytrons since
they won't do anyone one iota of good without fissile material!
.......US Nuclear Weapon accidents are practically nonexistent today. I
saw a program on the History Channel about the various Broken Arrows (
Nuclear Incident's) that have occurred in the past. What we have to
realize is that weapon's Chute deployment circuits , altitude, inertial
( spin) , (accelerometer) switches, ready-safe device's, and ground
approximation sensors (A Total of 5-8 safety system's) play a major
role in nuclear arm and disarm security. The weapon has got to feel
that it is the right time to continue with the arming process which
begins at release.......
.......As a secondary "Failsafe" PAL devices are a separate circuit
that are built into the weapon so a foreign country ( Allied ) can use
them (England). The US must enable the PAL before use.
.....As far as US testing , a guesstimate of the largest test
conducted, was around 141 megatons. There probably have been somewhere
in the vicinity of 815 underground tests, mostly under 20 kt, but a few
in the megaton range, and a bunch in an intermediate range (50-500 kt),
but most underground tests do not have precise yields quoted, only
ranges of yield.
.....WASHINGTON, Oct 14, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX)
-- " Israeli security last month arrested a man linked to suspected
terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden armed with a radiological backpack
bomb, as he attempted to enter Israel from the Palestinian Territories
via a border checkpoint at Ramallah, according to U.S. government
officials.
Ok what is a radiological Backpack "Dirty" bomb?
.....A dirty bomb is not really a nuclear bomb. Instead, a dirty bomb
uses a conventional HE explosive to disperse deadly radiation.
Technically, dirty bombs are considered "radiological dispersion
devices." Some designs call for devices that simply emit radiation
without requiring an explosion to produce the deadly result. This
variation is known as a "radiation emission device." Or "RED" , "EMP"
weapon. (Neutron Bomb)
.....Another Story...I can not vouch for the first hand accuracy of
this, however the internet story goes thus....Once upon a time A public
storage facility in NYC changes hands...
.....The new owners are gung-ho and thorough and one of the first
things they do is check the rental records of the company. They note an
oddity: a bay that was paid up in full for twenty years in 1981 and
never visited after 1970. Attempts to contact the renter go nowhere
fast and after some legal paperwork gets filed they open the bay to
find an object that looks to one of them like a bomb of some sort. A
911 call soon follows. The bomb squad that shows up very quickly
realizes that while the device is a bomb, it is not a bomb they are
equipped to handle, as it appears to be a US-made B-53 nine megaton
nuclear device. The task force OEMT is sent to the site to deal with
the problem quietly, although by this time the press has been alerted
by one of the bomb squad members and a certain amount of alarmist
headlines soon follow. The device was on a timer but appears to have
totally failed to go off for reasons that are not clear. Go Figure
...scares me...
.....Of course the US had the unique individual technology of the
nuclear 155mm cannon/tank round. They were around 41 inches long and
IIRC , which is a bit longer than a standard HE projectile but not as
long as the Copperhead CLGP.
.....And since you are talking about a 155mm system, that is the
projectile only--those kind of guns used separate propellant charges.
Weight of the nuclear round is given as 118 pounds.
Boosted Fission...." non techies can skip to the end, need not
read...Whatever...
.....First...today, the amount of tritium (3H) used for a
boosted-fission device is typically between 10 and 30g. Most of the
small light-weight weapons are using this boosting technique. Total
Tritium amount for the US, e.g. 10.000 devices would be approximately
200kg. Tritium has a half-life of about 12.36 years, an important #
providing for long-term continuance.....
......At a minimum usage, the consideration that 3 grams (a mole) would
produce 1 mole of neutrons , and fission 1 mole (239 g) of plutonium
directly, with a yield of 4 kt or so. With modest multiplication in the
core, it should reasonably drive a yield of 10 kt or more, sufficient
for triggering a thermonuclear weapon. Neutron bombs required more in
line with 10+ grams......
.....Tritium-Deuterium or Deuterium-Deuterium fusion reactions are used
in Fission weapons as a neutron generator . Tritium-Deuterium generates
higher energy neutrons by "boosting "the fusion weapons. Tritium is a
"mild" radioactive material, of which the Beta radiation is stopped by
0.2 mm water. 3H is used for luminescence watch dials...I never Knew !
.....A few grams of it will essentially supercharge the fission
reaction by fusion reactions between the tritium and deuterium, which
start when the temperature's are about what, -250 or 300- tons of
fission yield in a bomb.
..Second...It can be used as part of a system called "pulsed neutron
generation" which as the name implies, uses electricity to fuse tritium
and deuterium in a compact particle accelerator.
....That fusion, like boosting fusion, releases neutrons, which then
speed up the reaction or change/advance the timing in a fission bomb.
It also may be used in the fusion parts of a thermonuclear or H-bomb,
in similar fashions to supercharge the reactions as they are starting
up......
.....There was some public discussion years ago, related to the
shutdown of the last Savannah River reactor, that this was the last
remaining (US) production of tritium, which was needed for
thermonuclear weapons stockpile maintenance. That tritium had a half
life somewhere in excess of a decade, and that there was a period of
several years to resolve or "backfill" that particular production void,
there were concerns......
...... It's believed that most or all US (and probably, Russian,
French, Chinese, English, and possibly many Israeli, Pakistani, and
Indian) bombs are boosted fission or boosted fission first stages in
thermonuclear bombs
IN CONCLUSION (For now anyway...)
.....The former chair of the United Nations disarmament committee said
there are more than 16,000 strategic and tactical nuclear weapons
worldwide, ready for deployment, and another 14,000 in storage.
......The U.S. has nearly 7,000 ready for action and 3,000 in
storage...
.....Russia has about 8,500 on hand and 11,000 in storage, he said.
According to Roche's book, China has 400 nuclear weapons, France 350,
Britain 200, Israel 200, India 95 and Pakistan 50. NATO has stationed
480 U.S. nuclear weapons in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany
and Turkey.
.....As of February 2005 Defense Intelligence Agency analysts were
reported to believe that North Korea may already have produced as many
as 12 to 15 nuclear weapons.
.....This nation was at it's strongest prior to 9-11, because we as a
people had retained and defended the freedoms we were blessed with by
our founding fathers. Yet ,today is another Day.
I am afraid society and the world has outgrown our ability to afford
our former innocence as a nation.
.....The devastation of September 11th is inexcusable, the criminals
should be caught and tried and punished. Yet does this mean we as a
nation should expect our own everyday personal freedoms to be lessened
because of a minority of fanatical individuals in the world?.......
.....It worries me as an American citizen when the government has
decided to use resources to investigate our personal tastes in what we
do with our minds.....
.....Recently our FBI has been allowed to investigate public library
records to monitor the reading habits of citizens.
....The veil of a perceived threat can now include individual
incarceration by the government without bail or a charge of a crime to
any citizen.
.....A single misplaced word, spoken or written can cause investigation
into innocent personal lives.
.....Security agencies ill prepared and unwilling to work together
since their creations are now forming alliances.
This is America? Let's work for our Freedom's...I have faith we can
help, somehow....
Signed,
An American Vietnam Veteran