On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:11:08 GMT, (Dave Mundt) wrote:
Take a gander at this story from
the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2779069.stm

I suppose it is not totally off topic,
as it does involve some fairly intricate metalwork.
However, if any of y'all are involved in the
recreational creation of nuclear devices, I REALLY
want to know...mainly so I can consider moving
a BIT further away (*smile*)
In any case, here is a story with meat
and serious implications for America, and, it
receives NO publicity, and no discussion. Instead
we are bombarded by tedious discussions about relatively
trivial issues - Kobe, gay marriage, "Governer Arnold",
etc.
My question is this: Is this story suppressed
because the news organizations have finally given up
and admitted they are no different from Jerry Springer
in the sort of program they produce, or, is our government
using the questionable powers of the Patriot Act and other
leverage to keep the sheeple from hearing something
disturbing?

The only conclusion I can draw from this article is that
the mail must be very slow to Britain, or that BBC writers
read very slowly.

I first saw the mini-nuke story in the October 2002 issue
of Popular Mechanics (cover story). The story was also in
the January 2003 issue of Popular Science, and it has
been covered since then in Time, Newsweek, and an
assortment of other news magazines in the US.

BTW, one of the architects of this new generation of
bunker busters noted that Congress' 1994 prohibition
on development of new nukes (not a treaty, just a
Congressional resolution) would mean that no *new*
nukes would be developed. Instead, they'd simply use
the atomic triggers from some of the 10,000 or so
thermonuclear weapons being dismantled as part
of the Salt agreements with the Russians.

Those triggers are the right size and yield for the
project, and they're already at hand, and fully tested.
The only part of the project requiring testing are the
penetrators, and those can be tested without active
nuclear material.

Gary