Posted on 09/11/2004 11:02:01 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A large cloud that appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago was not the result of a nuclear explosion, according to a U.S. official.
The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.
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And God didn't make little green apples.
Sounds like a crock of crap cover story to me.
Kinda hard to hide atmospheric radioactivity.
A forest fire? I've seen about 20 links that reported a blast or explosion.
If this happened Thursday then wouldnt the Japanese and S. Koreans already have detected radiation?
ok what about the hole in the ground was that dug by chipmunks trying to escape the heat? this doesn't pass the Rather test...
I think you'll find most, if not all, of those links referenced the same Yonhap story.
You are correct sir, and have proven that you are more than qualified to take over Rather's chair!
We get brushfires out West every summer, and the initial burns plume up a column of white smoke that look just like nuclear 'mushroom clouds'. They're lots bigger than 3 kilometers in size, that's for sure.
If the event happened Thursday, it would have already been worldwide news that it was indeed a nuclear test.
I would think so. Chernobyl was detected fairly soon after it happened. We knew within a few days after the Russians exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949.
Do I get to Lysol it first?
We can take 'em anytime we want ... just drop tons of Burger King Whoppers in the north end of that country and just walk across the DMZ picking up their dropped rifles as we go.
Seriously, IF this was a nuke, then it changes the overall equation very little. They are still stuck with the same 3 options: Deal, Lose, or Lose BIG.
LOL
If this was an atmospheric test last week Thursday, then yes there would be radiation that special air planes could have collected over international waters.
We should know by now. When the fertilizer train exploded a month or so back, they first thought it might be a nuclear explosion, but latter realized that it was on heck of a large explosion.
I suspect that what happened is catastrophic no matter what happened.
On the other hand, is it conceivable that any other type of blast could have done this. I am beginning to question the accuracy of the "2 1/2 mile" wide mushroom cloud. I doubt it was a "forest fire".
And Billdo doesn't like interns;
and
Shrillery isn't a Machiavellian, Marxist, traitorous, evil power monger;
And CBS is patriotic and great champion of capitalism and freedoms
. . .
/satire
Are there sufficient dectors outside of government/puppet masters heavy handed control?
I suspect the "Grays" have a hand in this.....
Right now I'd be highly skeptical of how big the "mushroom cloud" was if it even existed.
But if one did, any explosion can create a cloud that could appear to have come from a nuclear detonation. In 1947 Texas City was destroyed when a ship carrying several thousand tons of ammonium nitrate exploded with the force of a small nuclear device. Pictures and video from the time look like a nuke went off. In 1988 a rocket fuel factory exploded in Nevada with an fireball and cloud that was simply amazing. Just before the Trinity Test in 1945, we stacked up 100 tons of TNT to use as a calibration test for our instruments. A video of it looks like a small nuke going off.
i DON'T know if you're joking or what.
Supposedly all the ET races are fiercely against nukes.
I certainly would expect a coverup from the puppet masters if the timing didn't suit them just right.
I wonder if that might be exactly what happened here?
- Some kind if industrial accident involving rocket fuel or high explosives.
- A calibration test using hundreds to thousands of tons of high explosives.
They WOULD say that, wouldn't they? Hmmmmm.
There was a new twist on that issue in the last 6-12 months or so.
Some writer claimed that some race of ET's had claimed that our setting off nukes produced some time/other dimensional perturbation which mangled ET's home worlds or universes or some such.
First I'd read of that notion.
Interesting what some writers come up with.
I am SOOOO glad that I live in the Southern Hemisphere..
Obviously an exploding flashlight.
After all, don't Communists do EVERYTHING in lockstep?!
The media sure as hell doesn't want us knowing about it either, because it would just legitimize a lot of what Bush has been saying.
The DU posters have it as a forest fire
...and unfortunately one of them decided to light a cigarette. This could have serious impact on the ozone, we need to send in Greenpeace on this one.
The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.
All of this and N. Koreans are beyond eating tree bark How sad.
Maybe they're toasting their tree bark before they eat it.(sarcasm/humor)
A calibration test using hundreds to thousands of tons of high explosives.Hmm... interesting idea... it'll be clearer once the exact spot of the big boom is known, y'know, because it looks like a lot of people live and work in that area, and of course, it's near the border with China.
Can you say Space Based Laser?
Just watched Behind Enemy Lines 2. They insinuate that this blast was a result of a covert operation on a missile site performed by a combined U.S./S. Korean force.
Fantastic movie.
With the teeny tiny chance that the 1 KT blast in a COAL mine ignited it.....
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