Grok sez: > As the smoke cleared, Jones Beene <[email protected]> > mounted the barricade and roared out: > > > Ever since Iran reportedly accumulated enough fissile material > > for a Bombe (please use the Peter Seller's pronunciation here) > > there has been a gigantic theft of tritium - from all over the > > world ... and get this: most of it is from signage. And > > therefor would have gone unnoticed till it reached epodemic > > proportions. > > The thing about Tritium is not only its relatively short half- > life -- @12,3 years -- but from what I remember: its relatively > weak radioactivity doesn't tend to penetrate even any glass > container holding the stuff. And so in fact, hydrogen bombs have > to be regularly replenished with fresh isotope -- otherwise, the > nukes' 'past due' shelf-life date is passed: and they in effect > become duds. And so there is a regular commerce with the stuff... > military or otherwise. > > And so given all that, it's been my own pet theory for quite some > years that various government agencies and militaries -- guess > who? -- have in fact been systematically siphoning-off a certain > percentage of the output, and using it for purposes such as > poisoning the coffee/drinks/whatever of targeted individuals with > e.g. tritium water -- which would be easy to transport and deploy > - -- and which would be easily flushed out of people's systems long > before any galloping cancer, etc., showed up... > > And how paranoiac can that thought be, given these disclosures..? > [Too bad some people won't get this email ;P ] > > > - -- grok.
Not everyone has given up on you. This is actually an interesting premise. Hope it gets discussed more thoroughly here. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
