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Davie wrote:
> 
> 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.

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