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[quandary121]

May 08
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act is Good Policy 30 Years On

Alicia Godsberg, Nuclear Proliferation 2 Comments »

It is impossible to entirely separate a civilian nuclear power program from a potential nuclear weapons program. President Bush knows this, which is why he is so concerned about Iran’s nuclear energy program. And this is why our country should not undercut nonproliferation goals by restarting a domestic reprocessing program, now called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). After putting the effort aside three decades ago, GNEP would reprocess plutonium from civilian nuclear power reactors. Reprocessing is dangerous — creating more fissile material that can be sabotaged or stolen by terrorists from storage or during transportation. But most importantly, a renewed U.S. reprocessing effort will set precisely the wrong example for the rest of the world. Continue reading »
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[earth_as_one]

The US and other nuclear powers have no intention of disarming. But they do occasionally publicly decomission obsolete weapons and secretly replace them with newer more modern weapons create a perception of progress. Maintaining a nuclear weapon stockpile requires constant replacement of parts.

February 8, 2006

...The U.S. currently has 5,700 nuclear warheads that are ready for use, plus another 4,200 that are "out-of-service," but held in storage, just in case. Plans will apparently be made to have some of the older, and proven (via live testing) warheads kept in service for a long time. Keeping these older weapons around for decades is not unreasonable, as by replacing worn out components, the warheads can be kept in working order. The warheads have many electronic parts that don't age well, as well as other components that degrade with constant exposure to radiation. So constant replacement of components is required to keep the weapons working.

There are also some radioactive components (like tritium or Polonium-210), that lose their radioactivity relatively quickly. A common component found in nuclear weapons is the neutron pulse tube trigger. This device accelerates microscopic amounts of Tritium or Deuterium into each other, producing neutrons at a carefully controlled rate, and this in turn starts the chain reaction (the big explosion.) Less sophisticated designs use a Polonium-Beryllium trigger. This version is easier to build, but the Polonium-210 used in the trigger has a short half life (140 days) and has to be replaced every two years, otherwise the trigger won't work. The more modern designs use radioactive materials that last longer, but still have to be replaced or refreshed every 5-10 years...

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htchem/articles/20060208.aspx

This article might interest you q:

Why the future doesn't need us.


Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

By Bill Joy

...The 21st-century technologies - genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (GNR) - are so powerful that they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses. Most dangerously, for the first time, these accidents and abuses are widely within the reach of individuals or small groups. They will not require large facilities or rare raw materials. Knowledge alone will enable the use of them.

Thus we have the possibility not just of weapons of mass destruction but of knowledge-enabled mass destruction (KMD), this destructiveness hugely amplified by the power of self-replication...

..."Plants" with "leaves" no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous "bacteria" could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days....

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html?pg=6&topic=&topic_set=

 

[quandary121]

Thanks earth_as_one i just read the article on
(NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS and the Designing New Nukes That Cannot Be Tested and that The "untested" designs will be subject to continuous simulated testing, as newer, and more powerful, software comes on line. Meanwhile, most of what is in these warheads can be tested, with the radioactive material removed)

my question is for what purpose would the designing of such weapons be if like they keep saying that they want to get rid of the worlds NUCLEAR arsenal by 2012 or as i suspect there is no intention of decommissioning and just want the rest of the world not to have NUCLEAR capability's such as Iran and other uncertain groups who if allowed to possess WMDs would be a threat to world security ?

 

[quandary121]

The US and other nuclear powers have no intention of disarming. But they do occasionally publicly decomission obsolete weapons and secretly replace them with newer more modern weapons create a perception of progress. Maintaining a nuclear weapon stockpile requires constant replacement of parts.



This article might interest you q:

[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]nanotechnology Ive been studying this growing phenomenon
on my utube channel http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-wOfhL4x2xo&feature=PlayList&p=B5155DD26A89FD67&index=0&playnext=1
some very interesting ideas and implications like the [/FONT]RFID CHIP there trying to make compulsary

 

[MikeyDB]

Several years ago I was trying to get into the RFID biz with a firm in California. I could have planted ID chips in products and tracked those products anywhere....like say for instance...a trucker's haul get's a new set of tires.... suppose you could sell those tires by trading on downgrade tires and pocketting the difference.... Well GOLLY GEE...RFID markers in most tires and in many products. I just missed out and the costs were ridiculously low!

 

[quandary121]

Several years ago I was trying to get into the RFID biz with a firm in California. I could have planted ID chips in products and tracked those products anywhere....like say for instance...a trucker's haul get's a new set of tires.... suppose you could sell those tires by trading on downgrade tires and pocketting the difference.... Well GOLLY GEE...
markers in most tires and in many products. I just missed out and the costs were ridiculously low!

Now why does that not surprise me!!!
RFID is a NWO toy

 

[quandary121]

Nuclear War against Iran

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, January 3, 2006


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Video webcast: Michel Chossudovsky's Presentation on The Dangers of a US Sponsored Nuclear War at the Perdana Peace Forum, Kuala Lumpur, December 2005



The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now in the final planning stages. Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness".
Various military exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack.
Since early 2005, there has been intense shuttle diplomacy between Washington, Tel Aviv, Ankara and NATO headquarters in Brussels.
In recent developments, CIA Director Porter Goss on a mission to Ankara, requested Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "to provide political and logistic support for air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military targets." Goss reportedly asked " for special cooperation from Turkish intelligence to help prepare and monitor the operation." (DDP, 30 December 2005).
In turn, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given the green light to the Israeli Armed Forces to launch the attacks by the end of March:

All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran.... The end of March date also coincides with the IAEA report to the UN on Iran's nuclear energy program. Israeli policymakers believe that their threats may influence the report, or at least force the kind of ambiguities, which can be exploited by its overseas supporters to promote Security Council sanctions or justify Israeli military action.
(James Petras, Israel's War Deadline: Iran in the Crosshairs, Global Research, December 2005)
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The US sponsored military plan has been endorsed by NATO, although it is unclear, at this stage, as to the nature of NATO's involvement in the planned aerial attacks.

 

[quandary121]

"Shock and Awe"
The various components of the military operation are firmly under US Command, coordinated by the Pentagon and US Strategic Command Headquarters (USSTRATCOM) at the Offutt Air Force base in Nebraska.
The actions announced by Israel would be carried out in close coordination with the Pentagon. The command structure of the operation is centralized and ultimately Washington will decide when to launch the military operation.
US military sources have confirmed that an aerial attack on Iran would involve a large scale deployment comparable to the US "shock and awe" bombing raids on Iraq in March 2003:

American air strikes on Iran would vastly exceed the scope of the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osiraq nuclear center in Iraq, and would more resemble the opening days of the 2003 air campaign against Iraq. Using the full force of operational B-2 stealth bombers, staging from Diego Garcia or flying direct from the United States, possibly supplemented by F-117 stealth fighters staging from al Udeid in Qatar or some other location in theater, the two-dozen suspect nuclear sites would be targeted.
Military planners could tailor their target list to reflect the preferences of the Administration by having limited air strikes that would target only the most crucial facilities ... or the United States could opt for a far more comprehensive set of strikes against a comprehensive range of WMD related targets, as well as conventional and unconventional forces that might be used to counterattack against US forces in Iraq

(See Globalsecurity.org at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iran-strikes.htm
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[quandary121]

Consensus for Nuclear War
No dissenting political voices have emerged from within the European Union.
There are ongoing consultations between Washington, Paris and Berlin. Contrary to the invasion of Iraq, which was opposed at the diplomatic level by France and Germany, Washington has been building "a consensus" both within the Atlantic Alliance and the UN Security Council. This consensus pertains to the conduct of a nuclear war, which could potentially affect a large part of the Middle East Central Asian region.
Moreover, a number of frontline Arab states are now tacit partners in the US/ Israeli military project. A year ago in November 2004, Israel's top military brass met at NATO headquarters in Brussels with their counterparts from six members of the Mediterranean basin nations, including Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. A NATO-Israel protocol was signed. Following these meetings, joint military exercises were held off the coast of Syria involving the US, Israel and Turkey. and in February 2005, Israel participated in military exercises and "anti-terror maneuvers" together with several Arab countries.
The media in chorus has unequivocally pointed to Iran as a "threat to World Peace".
The antiwar movement has swallowed the media lies. The fact that the US and Israel are planning a Middle East nuclear holocaust is not part of the antiwar/ anti- globalization agenda.
The "surgical strikes" are presented to world public opinion as a means to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
We are told that this is not a war but a military peace-keeping operation, in the form of aerial attacks directed against Iran's nuclear facilities.

 

[quandary121]

Mini-Nukes

The earth-penetrating capability of the [nuclear] B61-11 is fairly limited, however. Tests show it penetrates only 20 feet or so into dry earth when dropped from an altitude of 40,000 feet. Even so, by burying itself into the ground before detonation, a much higher proportion of the explosion energy is transferred to ground shock compared to a surface bursts. Any attempt to use it in an urban environment, however, would result in massive civilian casualties. Even at the low end of its 0.3-300 kiloton yield range, the nuclear blast will simply blow out a huge crater of radioactive material, creating a lethal gamma-radiation field over a large area. http://www.fas.org/faspir/2001/v54n1/weapons.htm

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[quandary121]

The implications are overwhelming.
The so-called international community has accepted the eventuality of a nuclear holocaust.
Those who decide have swallowed their own war propaganda.

 

[quandary121]

Ever since my childhood the threat of a nuclear holocaust has hung over our heads they made a really stupid cartoon to explain what the effects of a nuclear holocaust were and how to protect oneself lol pathetic remarks like paint your windows white and make a small shelter within your home using mattresses and doors what a joke when this was published pamphlets were given out telling you more bull**** which im sorry to say the masses believed in and probably still do !

 

[scratch]

Ever since my childhood the threat of a nuclear holocaust has hung over our heads they made a really stupid cartoon to explain what the effects of a nuclear holocaust were and how to protect oneself lol pathetic remarks like paint your windows white and make a small shelter within your home using mattresses and doors what a joke when this was published pamphlets were given out telling you more bull**** which im sorry to say the masses believed in and probably still do !

Your treatise?

 

[quandary121]

Your treatise?

A treatise is a formal, lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.!!!

scratch your aptly named as i scratch my head at every remark that you have posted to me.! do try to study the English language if you want to make a valid point as i fail to see what your on about bud.? :lol:

 

[scratch]

A treatise is a formal, lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.!!!

scratch your aptly named as i scratch my head at every remark that you have posted to me.! do try to study the English language if you want to make a valid point as i fail to see what your on about bud.? :lol:

I have.

 

[quandary121]

I have.

Too bad stupidity isn't painful.

 

[dancing-loon]

Ever since my childhood the threat of a nuclear holocaust has hung over our heads they made a really stupid cartoon to explain what the effects of a nuclear holocaust were and how to protect oneself lol pathetic remarks like paint your windows white and make a small shelter within your home using mattresses and doors what a joke when this was published pamphlets were given out telling you more bull**** which im sorry to say the masses believed in and probably still do !

Quandary, why shouldn't we believe what they tell us?
I went on the ww web and found a Canadian site with clear instructions about how to protect ourselves from fallout.

http://www.ki4u.com/survive/index.htm#step04

I detect no bullsh*t in it. How would you protect yourself? Camp on the roof??:lol:;-)

 

[MikeyDB]

Dancing_Loon

Good day my sweet!

I'm tired of living in a world where human beings are reduced to marketting units and life is talked about in the lexicon of the trader.... We've become so centered on money and wealth and the metrics of "value" that we've abandoned the idea that "value" is something that inheres to the experience of life itself. I'm certain that should some (another) unimaginable stupidity like a nuclear war befall the human species that I wouldn't want to continue to fight for reason and justice in a world so prepared to turn its back on anything but a dollar.

 

[quandary121]

Quandary, why shouldn't we believe what they tell us?
I went on the ww web and found a Canadian site with clear instructions about how to protect ourselves from fallout.

http://www.ki4u.com/survive/index.htm#step04

I detect no bullsh*t in it. How would you protect yourself? Camp on the roof??:lol:;-)

Hi loon the very fact that
If a nuclear weapon is exploded on, or near, the ground, danger from radioactive fallout is greatest. The force of the explosion may make a crater up to a mile wide and to a depth of one hundred feet. Millions of tons of pulverized earth, stones, buildings and other materials are drawn up into the fireball and become radioactive. Some of the heavier particles spill out around the point of explosion. The rest are sucked up into the mushroom cloud. you would not stand a chance and there would be very little you could do to survive afterwards

 

[quandary121]

The Perfect Purim Gift: Airspace Over Iraq



Report: Israel Wants to Fly Over Iraq | By DAVID STRINGER

LONDON -- Israel opened negotiations to fly through U.S. controlled airspace in Iraq to carry out strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a British newspaper reported Saturday. Israel's deputy defense minister denied the claim.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted an unnamed Israeli defense official as saying the talks were aimed at planning for all scenarios, including any future decision to target Iran's nuclear program.
Israeli bombers would need a corridor through U.S.-administered airspace in Iraq to carry out any strikes, the official was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Ephraim Sneh, Israel's Deputy Defense Minister, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the report was incorrect. "This is baseless information," Sneh said. "Maybe people like to divert (attention from) the need for immediate economic sanctions (with) stories about imminent Israeli action, which is not on the agenda."
The international community's focus should be on imposing economic sanctions on Iran for defying U.N. Security Council resolutions, he said.
Senior officials of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- Britain, the U.S., France, China and Russia -- and Germany are meeting Monday for an emergency summit in London to discuss measures against Tehran.
The U.S. and its Western allies insist Iran must suspend uranium enrichment before any negotiations over its nuclear program take place and accused Tehran of using a civilian program as a cover to develop weapons.
Iran, has rejected the condition to suspend enrichment and insists that its nuclear program is peaceful.
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I have written my congress. I have protested in the street. I suppose I should pray more about this problem.
I heard someone on the radio speaking about "Islamo-fascism" and what a ridiculous term that was. He said that the Muslim culture was very much opposed to fascism. I confess ignorance in these matters, and I know nothing of the Koran. I do know that the US government has a habit of calling other people names that are more applicable to itself.
Someone on this site linked to maps that spelled out the plans of Israel and the US to make pipelines flowing out through Israel. All of this "fear" over Iraq and Iran seems like nothing more than an excuse to steal the oil.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/720