🚀 go-pugleaf

Hey Jane you are definitely not safer so you better tuck in your liberal 
tail and run for the hills and hide in a cave with Osama, cuz the 
conservatives are gunning for you.


"Jane" <jane4536@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:jxUhd.2058$BU6.1867@trnddc05...
>      November 1, 2004
>      October Surprise
>
>
>      by Gordon Prather
>      http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41189
>      To the dismay of the neo-crazies, the Iraqi puppet government has 
> just reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that 195 
> metric tons of HMX, 141 metric tons of RDX, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN 
> have gone missing.
>
>      Why report that to the IAEA? Because Iraq had imported or 
> manufactured all three of these high-explosives for use in their illicit 
> nuke program Hence, the Iraqi stocks had been subject to the IAEA 
> Safeguards and Physical Security regime ever since they were discovered at 
> al-Qaqaa in 1991.
>
>      How long have they been missing?
>
>      The IAEA last checked the integrity of their seals in March 2003, 
> just days before Bush attacked Iraq. Bush has not allowed the IAEA back in 
> Iraq since.
>
>      Mohammed al-Sharaa, who headed, then and now, Iraq's Safeguarded site 
> monitoring department, says, "It is impossible that these materials could 
> have been taken from this site before the regime's fall."
>
>      An IAEA spokeswoman says that after hearing of the looting at the 
> principal Safeguarded site at Tuwaitha in April 2003, the IAEA formally 
> expressed concern "about the security of the [Safeguarded] high explosives 
> stored at al-Qaqaa."
>
>      But not to worry. One of the Pentagon neo-crazies - John A. Shaw, the 
> deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security - 
> has just told Gullible Gertz at the Washington Times that he "believes" 
> Russian special forces, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost 
> certainly" took custody of all those Safeguarded high-explosives and 
> smuggled them out of Iraq - to either Syria or Iran - just before Bush 
> invaded.
>
>      Neither Shaw, nor Gertz, nor even John Kerry seems to have grasped 
> the import of Shaw's accusations.
>
>      A Bush administration weenie has just formally accused the Russians 
> of conspiring with the Iraqis, Iranians, and perhaps the Syrians to 
> subvert the IAEA Safeguards regime and to assist Iran or Syria acquire a 
> nuke capability, in flagrant violation of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation 
> of Nuclear Weapons!
>
>      Maybe it would help you to know what Shaw knows about HMX and RDX.
>
>      In a first-generation implosion-type nuke - like the Fat Man we 
> dropped on Nagasaki - a spherical sub-critical mass of fissile uranium is 
> surrounded by "shaped charges" of chemical high-explosives (HE). When 
> detonated, the HE shaped charges create a spherically-symmetric imploding 
> shock-wave, which compresses the 7-inch-diameter sub-critical sphere into 
> a teeny-tiny highly super-critical sphere. A fission chain reaction is 
> then initiated, which continues exponentially until enough fission energy 
> is produced to blow the supercritical mass apart.
>
>      Since half the nuclear yield comes from the last generation, the art 
> of the nuke designer is to compress the fissile material as much and as 
> quickly as possible and then to keep it supercritical for as long as 
> possible.
>
>      To do that, the nuke designer needs a special kind of HE that didn't 
> really exist in 1944. As a result, the Fat Man - which used conventional 
> explosives - had a low yield but weighed about 10,000 pounds. So, to get 
> the yield up and the weight down, U.S. nuke scientists began developing 
> their own high energy, but relatively insensitive, explosives.
>
>      By 1947, scientists at Los Alamos had created RDX, the first 
> plastic-bonded explosive. Soon afterwards, scientists at Lawrence 
> Livermore developed the even more energetic HMX. Most of the nukes in our 
> stockpile today utilize RDX and HMX plastic-bonded explosives.
>
>      So, the HMX and RDX the IAEA found at al-Qaqaa was for Iraqi nukes. 
> They had built an RDX production plant at al-Qaqaa. It was destroyed in 
> the Gulf War and never rebuilt.
>
>      However, the Iraqis were unable to produce significant quantities of 
> fissile uranium, so the HMX and RDX stocks were never needed.
>
>      But RDX and HMX can be used for other purposes, such as mining, 
> tunneling, or demolition. Hence, the Iraqis were allowed to keep their 
> stocks of HMX and RDX - safeguarded by the IAEA - until they could come up 
> with plans for using their stocks peacefully.
>
>
>      Until now, the pre-election brouhaha has focused on the possible use 
> in Iraq of those "missing" hundreds of tons of "conventional" 
> high-explosives.
>
>      But in the extremely unlikely event that Shaw is not crazy, it might 
> be a good idea for Kerry to bring up the nuke programs the neo-crazies 
> allege Iran and North Korea have jump-started because Bush invaded Iraq.
>
>      Iraq had RDX and HMX for nukes, but no fissile material. But both 
> Iran and North Korea have - or soon could have - fissile material for 
> nukes, but no RDX or HMX.
>
>      So, who says you're safer now than before Bush invaded Iraq?
>
>
>
>      Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing 
> official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal 
> Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the 
> Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the 
> Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant 
> for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. --  
> ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate 
> Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier 
> worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National 
> Laboratory in California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.
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