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| That '62 Sedan was a Real Bomb |
| 2005-03-12 |
| Are we witnessing the birth of a new conspiracy theory? That '62 Sedan Was a Real Bomb By Al Kamen Washington Post, Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A21 Sudan's foreign minister told Al Jazeera television Wednesday that his government wanted to know more about a U.S. nuclear test in Sudan in 1962 that was disclosed last week at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing. The Sudanese summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires to explain what this stunning revelation was all about. Turns out it was a false alarm. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) checked the subcommittee transcript and, sure enough, there is Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) talking about a previously undisclosed 1962 "Sudan" nuclear test, which "displaced 12 million tons of earth and dug a crater 320 feet deep" with more than a 1,000-foot diameter. But the FAS said the context makes it clear Tauscher was talking about the 1962 explosion in Nevada code-named "Sedan." "The remarkable crater it left behind can be visited today by tourists." Both the Federal News Service and FDCH Political Transcripts mistranscribed Sudan for Sedan, and it "has been so recorded in the Nexis news database, where it continues to cause mischief," FAS reported. ....and will no doubt assume the status of historical fact among eco-wackies, and find its way into NEA inspired lesson plans for elementary students. Sudan's agriculture minister was reported to have suggested Wednesday that the test may have caused cancers in Sudan. Seventeen NGOs initiated studies to prove this before the issue was cleared up. After talking to embassy officials, the foreign minister said the confusion was cleared up. "They want to confirm the tests did not take place in Sudan but in Sedan, part of the United States in Nevada," he added, according to Reuters. Oh, never mind. French luddites and America-haters can pick up the story from there. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #3 I rather doubt that the government of Sudan follows the doings of the House Armed Services subcommittee that closely. I'd wager they were tipped-off by the intelligence service of a nation hostile to the U.S.(read: Russia, France or China) seeking to embarrass the U.S. If so, it backfired nicely. |
| Posted by: Biff Wellington 2005-03-12 11:06:21 PM |
| #2 So that's how they did it! |
| Posted by: Napoleon II 2005-03-12 10:35:15 PM |
#1  The 1962 "Sedan" plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet deep and 1,280 feet wide. "By the Prophet's nostrils, Achmed, it looks like Sudan. After all, the story was on Al-Jazeerah and this Tauscher is a member of their Dhimmi-crat party, though still only a woman. Maybe she was just trying to blow the whistle on them and made this "mistake" to slip it past Bushitler's evil censorship." |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-03-12 4:56:25 PM |