To prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power and a possible threat to
our so-called "ally" in the Middle East ... hey, "with friends like
that, who needs ..."
...or a more likely motive: to try to salvage the failed presidency of
its once-vaunted commander-in-chief with a new crisis, the Pentagon is
rumored to be ready for a "surgical strike" on Iran’s nuclear facility.
This would happen closer to the next election, if things are still going
as badly for the Hawks at that time as they are now (in the polls)...
even after the planned PR boost of the Bin Laden capture (or at least a
close look-alike).
The small distraction of a thermonuclear war might also set the stage
for a convenient emergency suspension of the election itself until
Diebold (gotta luv the name) can get the new software ready.
The facility at Natanz Iran is buried deep in the Earth - too deep for
any conventional bombs to destroy. The tool of choice for the Generals
to overcome this problem is the latest version of the B61 series, the
smallest tactical nuclear weapon systems in the arsenal. The B61 is a
variable yield bomb which can be calibrated as low as 300 tons TNT
equivalent, or has high as 170 kilotons (roughly ten times more than the
Hiroshima bomb.
In keeping with our country’s magnanimous "humanitarian" effort to
minimize civilian casualties, this particular nuclear weapon system, the
B61, has been re-engineered and reclassified by the Pentagon as "safe
for the surrounding civilian population."
The radiation released in the lower yield versions has been minimized to
"acceptable" levels. But how, and what is "acceptable"?
There are at least a few observers who believe that some of the new
bombs' lack of fallout and low radiation profile is related to using a
similar technology which has, as most Vo's are acutely aware, been
semi-officially neglected and ostensibly shunned by DoD and DoE - under
the guise of cold-fusion pseudo-science ...
... and that whole class of "pathological" science (including Mills) but
dealing with specialty versions of deuterium hydride under catastrophic
failure modes -- and specifically titanium-deuteride or
beryllium-deuteride in which the D is "pre-shrunken," i.e. BGS (below
ground state). Supposedly the Ti transmutation products in such a device
do not become terribly radioactive after the explosion and no fission
trigger is required. In the case of Beryllium and deuterinos, you might
end up with a totally clean nuke.
In one version of the B61 - it is rumored that the trigger is even
partly electro-mechanical - a type of "compulsator." As you might have
guessed, that information is not exactly coincidental to a prior
posting, and is derived (guess) from snooping around for information
about the compulsator in the trade magazines ... and wondering why so
much DARPA funding has gone into miniaturized versions of this power
supply, based on filament-wound flywheels.
This is the culmination of an effort which all goes back to the infamous
thermal runaway "meltdown" of P&F in 1989. Does anyone really believe
that this kind of thing would go unnoticed by the Pentagon? Doh. A
"radiation-less nuke" is like a gift from heaven (make that Mars) to
these guys.
What happened there (the P&F thermal runaway) was that they left a CF
apparatus going over the weekend and found on Monday that it had
destroyed itself in some kind of violent fashion, leaving a crater in
the concrete floor - or not - depending on who reports it.
However, the fume hood in which the experiment had been sitting was
still intact, so the explanation that fits best with the available
facts, according to critics was that there was a hydrogen fire which
melted the Pd. The skeptics preferred to not to believe that there had
been any kind of CF "meltdown" and that the gouge in floor had been
there all along and the Pd just happened to land there. The tests for
radiation turned up nothing huge, as is typical for LENR. And
surprisingly there are fewer first-hand accounts of this incident than
one would think.
...almost as if the good Mormon grad assistants and Profs who were
there, had been warned to "forget everything you saw".
Anyway, because these new weapons, which might be based on a version of
that anomaly, need to be field tested - and are now considered to be
"safe" or at least as safe as conventional munitions, their use is at
the discretion of any old "theater commander."
IOW "safe" in this context means that civilians will either die an
immediate violent death or else survive without getting cancer.
Presidential approval is no longer needed to start this kind of nuclear
war, and certainly Congress is not to be consulted ... so the stage is
set for all kinds of "deniability" by the White House - if one of these
weapons should be discovered to be what it is - nuclear. I should say,
used and discovered to be non-conventional. They probably have developed
some kind of acronym or euphemism for it that makes it sound like it
really in not even nuclear at all. Daisy-cutter-deluxe.
The only 'fly in the ointment' now, is a little Italian woman. Nobody
could have foreseen that a silly slip of the tongue ... my "kingdom for
a macaca" - that kind of a minor slip, would have put a determined
little lady on a collision course with a five-sided freight train.
Her constituents hope that she does not meet an untimely accident, as
once seemed to be in the cards, courtesy of the Pentagon travel office
and their new version of Air-America for Bush-Bashers.
Signed,
Harry Tuttle, Buddhist reprogrammer & bug-doctor (chants-4-ants)
