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Watchdog: Firm nearly detonated nuke bomb (1.2 megaton bomb near Amarillo)
Arizona Daily Star | Cox News Service ^ | 12/15/06 | Jeff Nesmith

Posted on 12/16/2006 7:11:23 PM PST by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker
I can't believe it got this far before someone made this connection-

We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo

With apologies to Walt Kelley...

81 posted on 12/16/2006 9:04:14 PM PST by castle05 (gun control means consistently hitting where you're aiming)
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To: COEXERJ145
Sadly most people don't know this. They think a nuke will go full yield just by hitting it with a hammer.

College graduates? 99.9% of them don't know this; never mind the great unwashed Democratic voter base.

Just like a suitcase nuke will wipe out a city when set off on the surface. A very tiny tiny city, perhaps...

82 posted on 12/16/2006 9:07:14 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: e_castillo

I don't know. Haven't really been back to try since I was a kid. I bet I could take a big chunk out of it anyway.


83 posted on 12/16/2006 9:13:21 PM PST by RichInOC (If God did not mean for us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?)
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To: RichInOC

Free 72 oz. steak!


84 posted on 12/16/2006 9:13:22 PM PST by texpat72 (<><)
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To: LibWhacker

85 posted on 12/16/2006 9:15:41 PM PST by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: kittycatonline.com

"Oh, we were really looking for somebody with more experience"

The answer could also be: "The job will not be challenging enough for you. We feel that you are over-qualified."


86 posted on 12/16/2006 9:15:45 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: LibWhacker
No 'boom', no foul!

I suppose this 'watchdog' group would close the only facility of this type (if that is so)...because someone was taking a leak to the press.

87 posted on 12/16/2006 9:23:26 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: COEXERJ145

Polonium sandwiches on the house.


88 posted on 12/16/2006 9:24:07 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: gcruse

Ya, pantex and amarillo are both woman things.

Pantex is for that monthly thing and women like to order amarillo sour at the bar...tastes like marisheno cherries I think.


89 posted on 12/16/2006 9:27:56 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: edpc

LOL! I love U2!


90 posted on 12/16/2006 9:28:40 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Ben Mugged

From an engineering standpoint...the possibility of making the bomb explode....based on this story...is less than .01 percent and it seems to me alot of folks don't know what the heck they are talking about. But since this is Armarillo....thats about what one would expect.

However, since we are in the habit of publishing bogus stories...I should offer this scenario...which the local liberal press might like. The checklist that the boys used at "Larry's We-Dispose-of-Nukes"...has a clause that says "if any nuclear bomb goes off...deny that you had any contribution to the act...insist that Ossama and the wicked Islamic dudes are at fault...and have Homeland Security draw up paperwork to make the mile-wide hole a national monument to first nuke that the Islam boys ever donated on American soil."

And if we had any sense on this whole thing...we'd ask why build such a disposal site in such an important place as Armirillo? People should realize how many blonde babes from west Texas live there and this is wrong, wrong, wrong!


91 posted on 12/16/2006 9:46:38 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: LibWhacker

This story is BS, as many others have pointed out. However, back in the 1950's or 60's (don't remember exactly when) there was an accident in New Mexico involving a hydrogen bomb which did cause loss of life. The bomb was being transported in a cargo plane to Los Alamos when it broke free from its restraints and slid out the cargo bay door. It landed on a cow, I believe it was actually a rancher's prize bull, and killed it.


92 posted on 12/16/2006 9:51:34 PM PST by tarheelswamprat (So what if I'm not rich? So what if I'm not one of the beautiful people? At least I'm not smart...)
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To: LibWhacker

Step 1. Cut the red wire.

Step 2. But first, cut the green wire.

Mark


93 posted on 12/16/2006 10:13:07 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: tarheelswamprat
It was 1957 and was a Convair B-36. The weapon was accidentally released and went crashing through the bomb bay doors. Thankfully the weapon didn't have the necessary capsule inserted so it couldn't go nuclear but the high explosives did go BOOM.

IIRC it was either a Mark-14 or Mark-17 weapon but I need to check to be sure.

94 posted on 12/16/2006 10:19:53 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
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To: Frank_2001
if you carelessly toss a lit cigarette and it hits that non-nuclear high explosive...;)

Glad you put that smilie in. Otherwise readers might think that a lit ciggie could actually trigger an explosion.

I've burned HE for things other than blowing stuff up, and know a few folks who have used cemtex to heat their dinner.

HE needs a pressure-spike trigger to go off. Fire alone WON'T do it, and pressure triggers have to be at or over certain minimum levels. A smoke dropped on it PLUS a hammerblow at exactly the right time MIGHT do the job, but you'd have to be extraordinarily good with your timing.

95 posted on 12/16/2006 10:54:30 PM PST by Don W (Stoneage man survived thousands of years of bitter-cold ice. Modern man WILLsurvive global warming.)
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To: texpat72

... if you can eat it in an hour, including the salad and baked potato.


96 posted on 12/17/2006 12:12:48 AM PST by AZLiberty (Wanting to die for your beliefs? Good, because we're willing to kill for ours.)
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To: AZLiberty

Forget the steak, order the lamb fries. Yummmm!


97 posted on 12/17/2006 12:45:58 AM PST by Rte66
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98 posted on 12/17/2006 1:07:09 AM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Criminal Number 18F
"They are an extreme left anti-military group that opposes all weapons (nuc and conventional) and all defense spending. "

So GW completes destruction of entire nuke system so POGO has to make up something negative and which no one can say anything about.

Another leftist fabrication with another victim that can't speak.

yitbos

99 posted on 12/17/2006 1:18:32 AM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Zack Nguyen
I love U2!

Easy there....we hardly know each other.

;-)

100 posted on 12/17/2006 2:43:39 AM PST by edpc (Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
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