Posted on 04/24/2007 9:39:37 AM PDT by needlenose_neely
I don’t think that not doing a thing and merely “waiting for the inevitable” is a good strategy, either. I sincerely don’t know what to do. Glad I am not the President.
The problem, of course, is that Cheney et al have led us down this path before . . .
Unfortunately, indictments don't bring back the dead.
As bad as nukes are,
when you cut through the nuke "hype" [?]
you don't "lose cities"
when a bomb goes off.
There are web calculators
that show nuke effects.
Thousands would die and
a city would be messed up,
but not turned to glass.
That is my argument with the liberals. When I ask them what they think the target for another terrorist attack will be, they of course say a large city. Then, I ask where the liberals live and they have the same answer.
That is when I tell them they had better support the WOT or get ready to lose many of their voters. I told one lib that if we would lose, LA, San Fran, NY, Boston, Chicago, etc., that would eliminate many democrat voters. They have yet to come up with any argument to contradict my point of view.
>It could be several cities.<
Unless Al Queda has the goods and the means to deliver airborne missles, my guess is that ‘suitcase’ bombs which have been smuggled into the country over nonexistent borders, open ports, and the Chinese operated Panama Canal, could be denonated strategically in a number of locations. Then watch the remaining backbone of the country crumble as all those ‘illegals’ come to collect us. A nightmare, Mr. Cheney. Thank you very much.
One thing we can do is make sure that the Islamofacists don’t get control of Pakistan and their nukes.
I don’t think true fusion bombs have ever been miniaturized, have they? The max yield I’ve seen for suitcase nukes is in the 10-15KT range.
You are right. Trouble is that the onus of dealing with it would fall totally on the federal government. Can you imagine the hysterical calls for the government to do something? And who knows what action the federal government would take, then? Martial law? Suspension of the Constitution? Confiscation of all private guns?
There was a time in this country when residents of a city faced with a disaster would band together and get back on their feet. That time is long past. Now, they just trudge to the Superdome and wait for the Gubberment to do something.
Stanislov Lunev first warned of that kind of scenario in the 90s.
I heard that due (or one like him) on Coast To Coast AM one night. Very frightening.
The biggest problem is, multiple explosions at once, in various cities.
Sadly, most Americans are not prepared for any kind of disaster. Most of us live from week to week. I live in hurricane country and learned the value of having vital needs stored for emergencies. Most in the cities have nothing stored for emergencies.
Never heard of Stanislov Lunev, so my concept must be an affirmation.
Wasnt Nagsaki a 10KT bomb?
Read up:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=stanislav+lunev&spell=1
Yep.
This isn't a suitcase bomb but it would certainly fit in a truck or a container. W-80 warhead (10-150Kt fusion weapon)
Another little blurb
The W47 was 18 inches in diameter and 47 inches long, and weighed 720 pounds in the Y1 model and 733 pounds in the Y2 model. The Y1 model had design yield of 600 kilotons and the Y2 model had a doubled design yield of 1.2 megatons.
Glad someone else has realized this.
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