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Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by JohnJasper
It begs the question: Why spend weeks running det-lead through the building when you can just place a suitcase nuke on as many floors as is necessary to get the job done?
So explain if someone set off nuclear weapons in not one, but 2 buildings why there were survivors in the North Tower - 14 in stairway, 2 in concourse underneath, 2 more who were in stairway and thrown clear onto debris pile and 2 Port Authority PD trapped in elevator shaft.
Explain how they survived and had not trace os radiation poisoning
Explain why not traces of radiation found - you just went into large discourse on Plutonium, Why no residues
from nuclear blast, would be plenty of fallout as blast in contact with ground .
The other problem is that I don't know the actual placement or order of detonation of whatever devices were used. It's fortunate for all parties involved that explosives of some kind were used. If it had actually been a pancake, they would have been buried under millions of tons of concrete, steel, furniture, bodies, etc and even though saved by this pocket of safety, they probably wouldn't have survived being dug out. It was only the mass pulverization of concrete and steel that saved them.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by JohnJasper
Two Port Authority workers, Pasquale Buzzelli, Genell Guzman were in the stairway and were thrown clear
landing in the debris pile. Buzzelii landed on top of the pile suffering broken foot, Guzman was pinned in the rubble and rescued 27 hours later
They were also number of others in stairway who didn't survive - Lt Michael Warchola, Batt Chief Richard Prunty
were above and below the survivors in the stairway. Both radioed in were trapped by debris - both died of their
injuries before rescuerers could reach them
The building did pancake - Capt Jonas described hearing the Boom-Boom - Boom as the floors collapsed above them gettingf closer and closer.
The reason those in stairway survived was that 7th floor was mechanical floor packed with machinery, mechanical floors were thicker with 5in of concrete vs 4 for normal floors. Acted as shield to deflect debris around them
Despite all this have not ansered question - how did all these people survive not one but 2 nuclear blasts without any radiation exposure?
Also explain why collapse started at the aircraft impact points some 80-90 floors above street? You said it was underground blast - so why does uilding collapse from top down.....
The world's first underground nuclear test had been fired in the previous NTS series (Plumbbob Ranier), and this series introduced underground testing as a routine procedure. The intention was to reduce the fallout effects of the testing, which were raising great concern, but the "underground" testing procedures were still relatively primitive. Many of these shots were conducted in "unstemmed" holes, that is, holes not back-filled and sealed prior to testing. These shots were called "roman candles" since the incandescent gas from the fireball was ejected as a jet from the mouth of the shaft. Obviously fallout containment was much less than perfect, but most of the fission product was nonetheless deposited in the shaft instead of escaping, and the radiation that did escape was not lofted so that it could travel far downwind. Hardtack Phase II still released some 3,140 kilocuries of radioiodine (I-131) into the atmosphere (about equal to the Trinity test), only ~5% as much as the previous test series (Plumbbob). This radiation also did not nearly spread as far, only about one-millionth as much radiation exposure occurred to civilians. The total civilian radiation exposures was a mere 160 person-rads of thyroid tissue exposure. The odds are about 20-1 against this producing even one additional cancer case. Chart of fallout exposures from "Hardtack Phase II" (51 K, 539x577). From National Cancer Institute Study Estimating Thyroid Doses of I-131 Received by Americans From Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Test, 1997. To go to the National Cancer Institute and get the full report, click here.
nuclearweaponarchive.org...
The years rolled by and top-secret projects were initiated in America and Israel to replace the old SADM with its overly heavy weight and excess radioactivity, culminating in the successful development and testing at Dimona during 1981 of the “new” micro nuclear device. Using advanced nuclear physics, the scientists found a way of detonating the new “suitcase” bomb without the use of a Uranium 238 reflector, and further refined the Plutonium 239 in its core to 99.78%. These measures resulted in a weapon considerably smaller and lighter than SADM, which also had another enormous advantage. The new Dimona micro nuke was the very first critical weapon that could be used in “stealth” mode. Gone was the dirty Uranium 238 reflector, and up went the purity of the smaller Plutonium 239 core. You see, Plutonium emits only alpha radiation, which for all practical purposes is “invisible” to a standard Geiger counter. If you do not believe me then ask the American Environmental Protection Agency, whose staff will confirm this. In direct contrast with its more deadly cousins beta and gamma, alpha can travel only a few feet and is incapable of penetrating human skin. If you can afford an incredibly expensive and highly specialized Muller tube or similar, you may be able to detect tiny amounts of alpha directly outside the Sari Club, though you will more than likely be defeated in this quest by the Bali environment. Remember that this micro nuke was a tiny weapon in terms of critical mass, with its limited number of particles distributed over a very wide area. You will have to be within five feet to detect a single particle, and most may have already washed away. Bali lies in the Monsoon Belt with frequent heavy showers, and the Sari Club is located less than 200 yards away from the surf at Kuta Beach, which is where the monsoon drains in Kuta main street flow into the ocean. One week on from the blast, detection may already be too late. Though the alpha particles cannot penetrate the skin, such radiation is extremely hazardous if inhaled or ingested, because Plutonium is the most toxic substance known to man. If you breathed in a mouthful immediately after the blast you would be dead in less than an hour, perhaps within minutes. If instead you breathed in a single microgram, you might last for as few months. Anything in-between is on a sliding scale.
Use of clean micro nuke. Leaves no trace of radiation detectable with old model geiger counters as it only produces alpha particles, which can be washed away with water.
You will have to be within five feet to detect a single particle...
Though the alpha particles cannot penetrate the skin, such radiation is extremely hazardous if inhaled or ingested, because Plutonium is the most toxic substance known to man. If you breathed in a mouthful immediately after the blast you would be dead in less than an hour, perhaps within minutes. If instead you breathed in a single microgram, you might last for a few months. Anything in-between is on a sliding scale.
Every bomb expert in the world knows that conventional explosives lack the heat and velocity to “vanish” complete bodies in this manner, except perhaps when crushed into total oblivion by a million tons of masonry as happened at the World Trade Center.
Believe me people, believe me, conventional explosive cannot “vanish” citizens without trace, and Bali simply did not have a million tons of masonry available to fall on their heads. Only a critical nuclear weapon has the heat needed for instant cremation, combined with the incredibly fast shock wave needed to completely remove the resulting cremated particles from the local area.
As a measure of the force of the blast, the sound from the explosion was heard up to 15km/9.32056 mi away.
Originally posted by Three_moons
reply to post by slugger9787
Alright, you have me confused.
Earlier you were saying that several types of cancer were evidence of an advanced bomb with undetectable radiation. Your current information seems to support untraceable radiation with an old model geiger counter and a small area of radiation that easily washes away. But this is where I'm confused. From your quote it states the following.
You will have to be within five feet to detect a single particle...
Though the alpha particles cannot penetrate the skin, such radiation is extremely hazardous if inhaled or ingested, because Plutonium is the most toxic substance known to man. If you breathed in a mouthful immediately after the blast you would be dead in less than an hour, perhaps within minutes. If instead you breathed in a single microgram, you might last for a few months. Anything in-between is on a sliding scale.
How does this support your earlier post about all the cancers? It clearly states that people that were close enough to receive any radiation would have already died, doesn't it?.
Am I misinterpreting something?
Your source doesn't seem to suspect such a device being used at the WTC either.
Every bomb expert in the world knows that conventional explosives lack the heat and velocity to “vanish” complete bodies in this manner, except perhaps when crushed into total oblivion by a million tons of masonry as happened at the World Trade Center.
Believe me people, believe me, conventional explosive cannot “vanish” citizens without trace, and Bali simply did not have a million tons of masonry available to fall on their heads. Only a critical nuclear weapon has the heat needed for instant cremation, combined with the incredibly fast shock wave needed to completely remove the resulting cremated particles from the local area.
I don't think you mentioned a size comparison between the two which I presume would change this but I don't recall hearing anything similar to this from the WTC collapse.
As a measure of the force of the blast, the sound from the explosion was heard up to 15km/9.32056 mi away.
Although virtually all of the structural steel from the Twin Towers and Building 7 was removed and destroyed, preventing forensic analysis, FEMA's volunteer investigators did manage to perform "limited metallurgical examination" of some of the steel before it was recycled. Their observations, including numerous micrographs, are recorded in Appendix C of the WTC Building Performance Study. Prior to the release of FEMA's report, a fire protection engineer and two science professors published a brief report in JOM disclosing some of this evidence. 1 The results of the examination are striking. They reveal a phenomenon never before observed in building fires: eutectic reactions, which caused "intergranular melting capable of turning a solid steel girder into Swiss cheese." The New York Times described this as "perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation." 2 WPI provides a graphic summary of the phenomenon. A one-inch column has been reduced to half-inch thickness. Its edges--which are curled like a paper scroll--have been thinned to almost razor sharpness. Gaping holes--some larger than a silver dollar--let light shine through a formerly solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of the fire-wise professors, who expected to see distortion and bending--but not holes.