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2004-08-29 Home Front: WoT

It's more a question of when and where, not if or how...

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Posted by RJB in JC MO 2004-08-29 10:40|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It seemed like quite the coincedence that I would run across this current George Will column after reading a similar one yesterday on WorldNetDaily.

This topic is probably my biggest concern in regards to the Islamofreaks and the best reason I can think of to re-elect W.

Posted by RJB in JC MO 2004-08-29 10:58:00 AM|| 2004-08-29 10:58:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Please post exceprts to "Login Required" sites.

I dont trade my privacy to the Post or Times, and there are others here like me. So this like is bascially useless to us.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-29 11:16:38 AM|| 2004-08-29 11:16:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "I dont trade my privacy to the Post or Times"

try www.bugmenot.com

Posted by Anonymous6207 2004-08-29 11:49:41 AM|| 2004-08-29 11:49:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I just don't see much of a possibility for a fission weapon in the US. Small and portable is very expensive, and it gives off a major gamma signature which is pretty easy to detect by monitors all over our ports of entry.
Radiation bombs are terribly overrated, except for "fear factor", by their own nature. Heavy isotopes are very hard to disperse any distance (think blowing 'up' lead powder as to how far it would travel.) Light isotopes have short half-lives, from a few days to a few weeks--half-lives that mean as soon as you have the stuff you have to use it, so unless it's made *in* the US, it's probably not going to happen.
If nuclear weapons are going to be used, I suspect less that they would be used by terrorists, than by an (unnamed) Asian power, inside a ship at the ports of San Diego and Bremerton, to try and disable our Pacific fleet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-29 12:16:00 PM|| 2004-08-29 12:16:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 You sick monster! A radiation weapon would render most of NY State uninhabitable for the next 300 years! Can't you read? It's in the damn papers! It would be like dropping Yuca Flats on Manhattan! The radiological effects would reach almost to Jefferson Mississippi! Wake Up America!

Posted by Conventional Wisdom 2004-08-29 3:28:54 PM|| 2004-08-29 3:28:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 IIRC most of the container ships that come in to SD are searched before they get in - we have a lot less cargo ships than Long Beach or SF or LA

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-29 3:57:42 PM|| 2004-08-29 3:57:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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