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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (153816)6/17/2001 7:42:50 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
American Spirit, Well, I can see Bush succeeing in getting the Russians to agree to a small scale system suitable for dealing with rogue states as long as he makes it some kindnof joint effort with some shared work. After all both the USA and Russians can send 1000's of missiles against each other and a system designed as a perimeter defence against sneak attacks from rogue states is more likely to be used defending Russia than the USA.
As for china, they wll know what would happen to them if the were on the receiving end of 1000 nukes, so all they might try is an anonymous strike from within(suitcase bombs) or the sea. That would leave the USA/Russia with no retaliatory target. yet with the limited defense it is not likely they would be able to send many sea based one with none being found.
As for suitcase bombs, they are the ultimate terrorist threat. With a weight of about 60 pounds and a yield of 1000 to 15,000 tons of TNT(depending on the trigger and other details as well as who you read about them from)

There are radiation detectors at all ports and border crossing that looks for certain frequencies of gamma radiation thet would tell the tale even with shielding.
It take 2000 pounds of shielding to shaild a bomb from these detectors, but once in the country there are few internal detectors. There are a number with cameras on the Federal interstates that take a phot of any veehicle emitting radiation, but it is not a comprehensive web..

Bill
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