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N. Korean Authorities Urge Civilians to Evacuate Near Site of Possible Nuke Test (Breaking)
Headline News Yahooo Japan (in Japanese) JIJI PRESS ^ | 19 August 2006 | JIJI Press, quoting Joongang Ilbo Daily

Posted on 08/18/2006 7:46:33 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

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To: Centurion2000

I haven't heard any new news about Iran or N.Korea today. But everything I already knew about the Ramsey story was repeated again, and again, and again. sick, isn't it?

I was just thinking that if this thread's title, and information, is true, it reflects a very disturbing lack of interest. This thread was posted yesterday and it has only had a little over 500 replies. You'd think we'd have to be fighting to get the next word in, but alas, it's been very quiet.


521 posted on 08/19/2006 9:55:49 PM PDT by Chena ("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
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To: Chena
It's the weekend, and FOX has been a bit diverted since the kidnapping. They are trying not to inflame whatever passions caused this kidnapping, and I can understand this quite clearly.

I would do the same, if I were Murdock.

After they get them back, the worm will turn.

522 posted on 08/19/2006 9:59:18 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Earthdweller

Perhaps you meant to highlight the last part of my prior comment. LOL Anyhow, I do believe that most journalists have a passion for what they do, and I respect that. The ones who travel to war-torn countries or put themselves in harms way anywhere, are brave, IMO. I don't like the biased reporting that some of them do, but hey, I don't like alot of things in life. LOL

Steve Centanni is a good guy. He and his cameraman do not deserve what has happened to them, no one does.


523 posted on 08/19/2006 9:59:49 PM PDT by Chena ("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
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To: garbageseeker

Was the cavity dug vertically like that for the test, or was it filled in and the bomb mostly blasted upward?


524 posted on 08/19/2006 10:01:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Cold Heat

I do not fault Fox one little bit for how they are handling the kidnapping of their two journalists. They are doing what they need to do, and I think they've been handling an extremely horrifying situation in the best way possible.

My complaint to Fox is not at all related to that. It's about allowing the JonBenet story to take over their programming when there are so many urgent and important events happening as we speak. I don't mind hearing about the Ramsey story, but I don't need it to be dripping on my forehead like a primitive water torture either.


525 posted on 08/19/2006 10:02:33 PM PDT by Chena ("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
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To: All

Signing off now. Enjoy your evening. chena


526 posted on 08/19/2006 10:03:20 PM PDT by Chena ("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
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To: Chena
Centani's reportage was very balanced IMO....he pretty much said nothing that would have PO'd the locals...

This is pretty weird....I wonder if they were taken to give them a story that the Pali's want to be told.

Either that, or it is a ransom thing...

They (The Pali's)are seriously short of money and jobs right now. This rabble is capable of anything.

527 posted on 08/19/2006 10:03:53 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Chena
Yeah, most of that nonsense is for the stupids, who comprise the ratings. I have been asking FOX to start a new channel dedicated to geopolitics and world events. But they did not do it.

So I stick around here.....:-)

528 posted on 08/19/2006 10:07:08 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The bomb blasted upwards for that test. There are a lot reasons for that. Maybe soil composition of the blast site and the yield of the blast. There was an underground test in Nevada where the blast caused the entire surface to fault.Literally the entire surface cracked and uprooted paved roads. In the Cannican blast, it caused the entire island to be raised several feet and cased a 5.0 magnitude earthquake. Usually in most blasts, the explosion causes a molten sphere to form.


529 posted on 08/19/2006 10:09:08 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

With nuclear tests all sorts of weird things to happen. When the U.S. first tested the Hydrogen bomb in 1953, the blast had a yield of 10 megatons. The blast completely vaporised the test island and cause a 30 foot deep underwater crated.


530 posted on 08/19/2006 10:11:50 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker
There was an underground test in Nevada where the blast caused the entire surface to fault.

Ironically, the test was named "Faultless". It was a ~1 megaton test to see if the site could handle the 5mt. test of the Spartan ABM warhead.

Since the site could not, the test was moved to Amchitka. This of course is the test known as Cannikin.

The earthquake that resulted from the Cannikin was a 6.0.

531 posted on 08/19/2006 10:14:26 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: COEXERJ145

Thank you to for reminding me. I have to keep up with so much imformation on the Operations, shot names and yields.


532 posted on 08/19/2006 10:32:32 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: COEXERJ145

I have footage of both Fautless and Cannikin


533 posted on 08/19/2006 10:34:06 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker
Keeping up with the names can be a pain. There are so many to try to remember.

I have so many atomic bomb video clips (as well as VHS/DVDs) that I really need to one day organize them so I can know exactly what I've got.

534 posted on 08/19/2006 10:39:42 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: COEXERJ145

I wish that the Russian government would release footage of their testing.


535 posted on 08/19/2006 10:42:38 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker
Yeah, it'd be nice. There are a few floating around (usually only very brief clips) but nothing substantial.

I like the video of China's first atomic bomb test.

536 posted on 08/19/2006 10:44:57 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: COEXERJ145

What was funny about the Chinese test that the horses were had radiation "suits" complete with gas masks.


537 posted on 08/19/2006 10:46:44 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker
What was funny about the Chinese test that the horses were had radiation "suits" complete with gas masks.

Yep, I remember laughing the first time I saw it.

Then they go riding right through ground zero.

538 posted on 08/19/2006 10:48:25 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: COEXERJ145

Hey, the Chinese needed some guinea pigs. I would not run into a nuclear explosion. I bet most of the soldiers who did that are dead from radiation related diseases


539 posted on 08/19/2006 10:50:19 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
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To: garbageseeker
Most probably didn't live a week although I wouldn't be surprised if a few survived.

IIRC, a few of the firemen who responded to the Chernobyl disaster survived a dose of radiation that should have been 100% fatal.

540 posted on 08/19/2006 10:51:46 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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