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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (65043)	6/15/2005 2:22:20 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 74559

The case of Timothy McViegh is weird but I think most of the sad truth is already known. His high point was in the army, and he did a good job of what was expected of him. Regarding the "smallness" of 20 tons of TNT explosive equivalent. It's a fairly easy calculation to consider. OK 20 tons = 20 * 2000 pounds = 40,000 pounds of high explosives. A WW2 UK Lancaster aircraft could drop 14,000 pounds of explosives in a single load. Later that was increased to 22,000 pounds (earthquake bomb) at a push. bomber-command.info Yes, I think a full load drop on target from two WW2 Lancastester's could easily have demolished the Fed building in Oklahoma (not that we would want to do that of course) imho. /edit The "second bomb" was probably an emergency reaction response to an observer on the scene assessing the situation immediatly after the explosion. When a bomb goes off, there is probably a set check list, and one of the first items will be "Is this a come on to another bomb for the emergency response team"? A potential problem was seen, a safe action was taken, but the alarm proved to be false. This explains the lack of news on the second bomb.

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