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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (302574)10/1/2002 2:03:37 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
CNWDI-Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Informatin - A Department of Energy Compartment
PCM - Positive Control Measures - A combination of technical and procedural measures guaranteeing the surety of nuclear weapons.
PAL - Permissive Action Link - A technical PCM. A coded device used as an authorization/enabling mechanism for certain nuclear devices. PALs are within the protected boundry of a nuclear device. [You might even stumble on a story on the internet that claims that PALs are used in US ICBMs. They're wrong. PALs have never been used in any US ICBM.]

If one cannot flit around with joules then one is simply ignorant of how to make comparisons of tons of tnt to the energy released by a gram or a kilogram of enriched uranium.

The discussion was irrelvant is two respects. First, no nuclear weapon achieves a theoretical conversion of energy. Second, it was irrelevant to the original point. Which you either completely missed or did not wish to address. And opted instead to go off on a tangeant.

The original point was the the first release of the story was substantially incorrect. The updated story had several apparent "facts" that indicated that the story was still incorrect or misleading. A discussion of joules and tons of tnt that theoretically would be released by a gram[s] of enriched uranium isn't remotely relevant to that point.

If you want to pretend that I've minimized the significance of 5 oz of enriched uranium, you've mis-interpeted what I've said [I'm being generous]. I've made the observation that with what we have from the updated story, we don't even know whether or not it's enriched [or weapons grade] uranium. For all I can tell from the updated story, it might very well be 5 oz uranium ore. Which would really make a discussion of conversion to energy pretty silly.

I've also made the point, though I'm not positive it was on this SI Subject [or thread if you prefer]. That every arab country in the mid-east would love to have nukes. Israel has a bunch. If you think that Iraq is the only potential buyer for weapons grade uranium, you would only be deluding yourself.

The 5 oz of uranium, enriched uranium or uranium ore that was picked up in Turkey was 155 miles from the Iraq border. It was also 30 miles from the Syrian border. Who's the "buyer"? It's pure speculation. It might have been Iraq, Syria, Lebanon or a number of other countries. The whole thing might have been a scam on the part of a couple of guys with a lead box and a hunk of uranium ore. There's been a bunch of those.

Have a nice day,
jttmab
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