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November 6, 1989: The Berlin Wall falls down and all soviet
communists disappear.

     August 16, 1997: A seismic event characteristic of a nuclear
explosion occurred near the Russian nuclear test range at Novaya Zemlya.

     Russia is now missing 100 suitcase nuclear bombs with a yield of
between 60 and 100 kilotons.  Modern nuclear weapons are much smaller,
and much more powerful than those we used in World War II to stop
japanese aggression.
     The bomb used of Hiroshima had a yield of only 12.5 kilotons of TNT
as compared to the 60 to 100 kiloton yield of each missing backpack, or
suitcase Atomic bomb, yet it killed 140,000 thousand people instantly
with another 60 thousand dead within a year.
     It was physically a huge bomb. It was 9 feet long, and 2 feet wide
with a total weight of 4 tons.  It was named "Little Boy".
     It created a fireball a 100 feet wide with a core temperature of
300,000 C.  Its mushroom cloud reached 51,000 feet, or about ten miles.
     Most people exposed to the thermal rays within a mile of ground
zero died.  Tile, and glass melted; everything else was on fire.
     The blast force generated a shock wave with a force of 35 tons per
square meter.  Top wind speed was over 1300 feet per second. All wood
structures within a diameter of 3 miles collapsed.
     Radiation exposure within a diameter of 3000 feet of ground zero
was absolutely fatal.  Everyone within a 3 mile radius had radiation
induced illness including cancers.

     Though some say that no bombs are missing from Russia, you have to
wonder how much you can believe what our government says about anything
at this time.

                     Jay Stewart, the director of foreign intelligence
operations for the
                     Energy Department from 1990 through 1994, said the
international community
                     has much reason for concern regarding Russia's
nuclear program. 

                     ``It's my belief that the Russian Ministry of
Defense itself doesn't know
                     where all the tactical nuclear weapons are and
cannot account for them,''
                     Stewart said in an interview. ``If these suitcase
devices have fallen out
                     of national government hands, the question becomes
where are they, who has
                     them and what are their intentions. In the former
Soviet Union everything
                     is for sale.''Laura Myers ASP Sept 6, 1997.

     Each suitcase nuclear bomb has an explosive yield of 4.8 to 7.2
times the power of the A-Bomb dropped on Hiroshima which killed 140,000
people instantly.  Imagine what one small, highly transportable suitcase
bomb would do to a city of 1 million or more.  
     What would some dictators pay to have just one suitcase with the
power to wipe out a major city and kill 300,000 people instantly? 
     Will the first bomb be used on a major US city?  Will it be walked
to the top of a tall building at fifteen minutes after noon on a
Friday?  Will it be brought aboard a ship into a major port somewhere in
the world?  Will it be flown in a tourist helicopter ride above New
York, London, or Paris?  Will it enter through an unprotected region of
a border? 
     Are terrorists willing to use such a device?  Would the World Trade
Center be standing today if a suitcase nuclear bomb had been available
instead of ANFO in a Ryder truck?
    
     The real question is not whether a terrorist will use a nuclear
weapon, but only when.