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2004-04-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Prices Fall Dramatically for Secret Plans for Nuclear Weapons

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-04-08 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What better way for Fred to get respect--and mondo linky love! Throw some more money in the tipjar and help Rantburg become the first nuclear power in the Blogosphere!

Posted by Seafarious 2004-04-08 12:16:48 AM|| 2004-04-08 12:16:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I am not minimizing the potential for havoc by selling plans for nuclear weapons (on EBAY even...too much!). It is one thing to get the plans. It is another thing to acquire the materials, tooling, and infrastructure to manufacture these weapons. You do not machine plutonium like normal metals on your South Bend lathe, for example.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-08 12:31:15 AM|| 2004-04-08 12:31:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I just noticed that this is from the Onion. Too late in the day. Had me fooled for awhile. *red face*

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-08 12:39:17 AM|| 2004-04-08 12:39:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 One of the best things about The Onion is that they constantly point out to the world, with their funny stuff, just how stupid "real" journalism can be --example yesterday when all the major "legitimate" media sources were reporting a "widespread" uprising in Iraq like it was actually happening. Newswriting is a specific style of writing, and unfortunately, carries a carte blanche sense of "authority" when, really, a lot of time it's just smoke and mirrors.

One of The Onion's best stories on the WOT was Starving, Bandaged Bin Laden Offers U.S. One Last Chance To Surrender

(My favorite Onion headline was "Haunted Tape Dispenser Disturbed Over How To Display Hauntedness" )

Posted by ex-lib 2004-04-08 1:46:13 AM|| 2004-04-08 1:46:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually I've always fond of "Mr. T to Pity Fool". ;)

Posted by eLarson 2004-04-08 8:50:05 AM|| 2004-04-08 8:50:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, thought it was a joke UNTIL the Quebecois separatist cell thing...THEN I wondered if it was real....

Posted by Steve D. 2004-04-08 9:37:50 AM|| 2004-04-08 9:37:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Like AP said, anybody with half a brain and a decent college education that includes physics and chemistry can design a nuclear weapon. Building one is a bit more difficult. I got in an argument with a bunch of people at work one day, and walked over to a drawing board. In fifteen minutes, I had convinced them that not only did I know HOW to design a nuclear weapon, I knew all the problems that would have to be overcome to make it work. Scared the bejonkers out of my boss, it did...

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-08 11:10:33 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-08 11:10:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Throttle back, OP Mike. Someone at work is going to get freaked out and turn you in, heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-08 11:18:17 AM|| 2004-04-08 11:18:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Makes you wonder what goodies are in OP's garage, doesn't it?

Posted by Raj 2004-04-08 12:09:11 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-04-08 12:09:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually, there's not much of anything 'dangerous' in my garage at all... Still, my neighbors are always EXTREMELY polite whenever they visit. Like the man said, it's not what people know that scares them, it's what they DON'T know, but could well imagine that makes them quake in their boots - something we could use to our advantage, but aren't, in Iraq.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-08 1:24:52 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-08 1:24:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I've several portable, electrically powered, semi-focused, random photon generators in my garage.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-08 7:29:07 PM|| 2004-04-08 7:29:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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