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2005-07-19 Home Front: WoT

Report on Boxun there are suitcase nukes ready to explode in USA - Link to machine translation

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Posted by phil_b 2005-07-19 05:27|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 been alot of this going around lately.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-19 05:41|| 2005-07-19 05:41|| Front Page Top

#2 If the editors or his Fredness think this is too out to lunch then can it. IMO even the slightest possibility it's true makes it important.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-19 05:42|| 2005-07-19 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 This is wishful thinking by Chinese message board posters. You might think this kind of bloodlust is really strange. I guess by current Western standards it is strange. But the fact is that the Chinese slaughtered over a million of their own people during the Cultural Revolution. This was ordinary people hacking away at the people around them. FYI, Hu Jintao was in one of the winning factions.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-07-19 06:01|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-07-19 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 agonist.org.... hummmmm. LOL, remember when they exploded?

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-19 06:50|| 2005-07-19 06:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Believe me. If they were here, they'd be going off.

Posted by tu3031 2005-07-19 08:10|| 2005-07-19 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah phooey. "Suitcase nukes" are overrated. First of all, they need tons of sophisticated routine maintenance or they don't work. Second of all, only the most advanced nuclear powers could build them in the first place because their klystron has to be nanosecond accurate and their other materials have to be very high grade. Third, they don't last--their shelf life is short. If AlQ has any such weapons, they are probably pitiful radiation bombs, and low-rent ones at that, capable of dirtying up a block or two for a week or two. There is a basic conflict: source material is either so heavy it just sits on the ground and can be swept or sucked up; or is it so light that it diffuses quickly *and* has a really short half-life. The few medium weight and half-life isotopes are hard as hell to get (for this very reason.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-19 09:51|| 2005-07-19 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 This has been going around the internet since Sept 11. Some new group discovers it, gains hope (or loses hope) and the story is regurgitated into the public realm again, and again, and again.

If they had the nukes they would have used the nukes, its' as easy as that. More likely they thought they had them but Doc sold them pinball machine parts instead.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-07-19 10:40|| 2005-07-19 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The Norkies are eating grass, robbing graves, and aborting andor stewing children for, well, stew, except fat anti-China = pro-China Kimmie, etal. of course. The Commies, like Radic Islam, have no qualms about waging nuke war WHen it comes to choosing between war or maintaining /losing THEIR power! THEIR POWER IS THE REASON FOR GULAGS, DEATh/RE-EDUC CAMPS, AND BLOODY OR SILENT PURGES AND GENOCIDES. FEEl-GOOD, POPULIST, LAISSEZ FAIRE "EQUALISM", PARITY, INTERNATIONALISM, AND UTOPIANISM IS FOR NAIVE DUPE WESTERNERS, NOT ORIENTALIST CENTRALISTS OR ASIAN COMMIES! The Chicoms are more worried about Japan, etc. dev nukes than Kimmie dev and firing one at Seoul andor Tokyo.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-07-19 22:15|| 2005-07-19 22:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Anonymoose:
Good points on the maintenance problem. I would doubt that the heavy duty gaskets required to contain the radiation would have a long effective period. And even slight radiation would render the ignition coils inoperative.

I like Joseph Farah, but his religiosity often takes him in bizarre directions. And most of these doomsday scenarios issue from WND.

Posted by Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-07-19 22:25|| 2005-07-19 22:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Anonymoose:
Good points on the maintenance problem. I would doubt that the heavy duty gaskets required to contain the radiation would have a long effective period. And even slight radiation would render the ignition coils inoperative.

I like Joseph Farah, but his religiosity often takes him in bizarre directions. And most of these doomsday scenarios issue from WND.

Posted by Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-07-19 22:25|| 2005-07-19 22:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Anonymoose:
Good points on the maintenance problem. I would doubt that the heavy duty gaskets required to contain the radiation would have a long effective period. And even slight radiation would render the ignition coils inoperative.

I like Joseph Farah, but his religiosity often takes him in bizarre directions. And most of these doomsday scenarios issue from WND.

Posted by Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-07-19 22:26|| 2005-07-19 22:26|| Front Page Top

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