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Originally posted by DarkspARCS
Originally posted by lilwolf
I am sure there are some whiz kids that have the knowledge that can look up the tora bora charts and check via satellite for radiation... and even low level LY warheads would be active...
so I ask the OP to provide that aspect of your diatribe... that would lend credence to what you alledge... but at tthis point...
EOD was my MOS and i did my job quite well... so if you got that aspect of the maps and charts (they are there)... then post em...
better yet, since you know about all of this, WHY DONT YOU?
It could prove me wrong - and that would make folks real happy I think. Then again, I don't really want to think today... maybe tomorrow
If convincing me isn't a priority, I can understand that since I'm just one random person on the Internet. But keep this in mind: I'm a hard person to convince, and if he comes up with enough to convince me that nuclear weapons were used then he will probably convince a lot of other people along the way.
Originally posted by mattifikation
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
The thing is, I'm not really trying to refute his case. I'm saying he hasn't made it yet. I posted quite awhile back what I think would refute his case. I'm not taking the role of "defense" for the U.S. and saying "that's not true because..."
I'm taking the role of "jury," saying, "I'm not convinced yet. What else have you got?"
If convincing me isn't a priority, I can understand that since I'm just one random person on the Internet. But keep this in mind: I'm a hard person to convince, and if he comes up with enough to convince me that nuclear weapons were used then he will probably convince a lot of other people along the way.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
What I can say is isolated incidents like that are most likely the result of directed energy weapons, either microwaves or high energy lasers. If the people reported being blinded, but no bright flash is involved and they heard a thundercrack, it was high energy laser. If they saw and heard nothing but spontaneously combusted it was microwaves.
Ayam Sharif, the head of the Department of Terror and Victims at the Ministry of Human Rights, said that 84 mass graves were discovered in the country last year,all of which held victims of the post-Saddam violence
that has rent the fabric of the country.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by DarkspARCS
My facts are right. Yours are distorted by your bias, compounded with a rather short temper. You cite an article plagiarized from Wikipedia to prove "Red Mercury" is real, even though you seem to have read the original Wikipedia entry that explains that it's not. You have a strange sense of research. You also don't seem to understand the difference between "nuclear" and "radiological." All materials on earth contain a certain percentage radioactive isotopes. These decay over time and create a certain amount of background radiation. By your "definition" of "nuclear, therefore, any slab of granite is "nuclear." It's shameful enough that the US armed forces make such a liberal use of depleted uranium, aware of its radiological side effects. There's no need to twist reality and foist fabrications to level the charge that they're also using "nuclear weapons." The whole point to nukes is that they are a terror weapon. When you use one, you want EVERYONE to know. Right? Otherwise, you'd just use high explosives. They're cheaper.
lol, WHAT FACTS? you haven't posted a single link to any of your claims, and once again, you post link you're a disifo agent here trying to do your best to bash me and my character.
Stick to the topic... and start posting facts via links to credible documentation or don't post at all.
Red Mercury connections
The main proponent of ballotechnics as a claimed fusion initiator is Samuel Cohen, a somewhat controversial figure in the nuclear arms field who claims that the almost certainly mythical "red mercury" is in fact a powerful ballotechnic material, and that the Soviets have perfected its use and used it to create a number of softball-sized "mini-nukes".
Most are highly sceptical of these claims due to the physics involved, as it is not clear how heat could be used to trigger the implosion required. It has been recorded that Edward Teller laughed the concept off entirely.
Further damaging the already-low credibility of this claim is that Cohen claimed that Saddam Hussein was in possession of about 50 of these devices and planned to use them against the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. To date none have been reported found.
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