Giraffe, You may not be aware of it, but one of the major fears of Israel, as well as the other nukular powers(to use the DC spelling)
is the acquisition by third world countries of USSR nuclear weapons.
Fortuneately the tritium used to help them blow big has a short half lifetime and once they lose too muc they become squibby and 1/50th as yieldy. Still good for fissionable metals to make old style atom bombs. The laser timing loop means they can now trigger a symmetrical implosion with the precision to give the compression and contanment time to do a reasonable job. Arab money is tempting to the starved anbd crooked watchers of the bombs. Apparently many has disappeared and there are many Russin, israeli and USA "black ops" to get this stuff back and destroy it.
So Charters hasa kernel of truth in what he says.
This is a subject of extreme concern, witnes the recent bombs on Iraq. Israel would act in a heatbeat to stop such actions. there are rumors but CNN seems blind to it for political or state reasons.
One fear is a 20,000 ton suitcase bomb. This needs fresh tritium and can be made in a shielded case at 60-80 pounds in weight. there are scitillation counters hidden all oev the USA, in airports, highways, bus stations looking for cetain key energy signatures that can pass through shielding. Some of these are totally absent in nature so if you see any something is up. These are linked to cameras and they photograph the radiation source and send a signal and the hunt starts. So far just old Xray stuff. They did find some 1000s of tons of iron railings that were holding cobalt from a cobalt 60 source that a scrap dealer broke up and sent to the steel mill.
So do not live in paranoia, but be aware that some third world governments are trying to get nukes and poor mans nukes)chemical/bio weapons). Are they arabs? Follow the money. that one who was bombed a few weeks ago is numero uno on the bomb acquisition suspect list.
As to war? No way. Just acts of terrorism, New York Bomb, DC Bomb, no enemy to smash, no way to satisfy them.
Do they want money? or religious rule?
Bill |
