ATS Members 10 Billion Dollar Weapon Systems Challenge

Many countries are in the midst of acquisition or upgrade programmes to replace or refurbish large fleets of armoured vehicles. However, reduced defence budgets were announced by many countries in 2010 which have had an impact on some armoured vehicle programmes, although there are other nations that are actually set to increase defence spending.

The Armoured Vehicles Market 2011-2021' report assesses that the global armoured vehicle spending was worth over $10.4bn in 2010 and demand will pick up over the next few years.

Countries like India and South Korea, on the other hand, are actually increasing defence spending and likewise expected to be key markets. Other notable markets include Saudi Arabia, Australia, Turkey and Brazil. 'The Armoured Vehicles Market 2011-2021' report provides forecasts for the period 2011-2021 in terms of value (US$) for the global market. source

Greetings:

OK, now how about some fun?.

This looks like it could be an interesting and fun-to-be-a-part-of "Easter Egg" hunt.

Fellow ATS'ers, you have a bank account with a balance of $10,000,000,000 US.

Your mission:

To acquire the most exotic, technologically-advanced weapons system that you can find from any source (after all, arms dealers sell to both sides) and provide photos, evidence of availability and pricing ASAP.

Who knows, it may just become a shopping list...?

If we can't buy it with the aforementioned 10 billion, we'll send in the CIA to steal it.

Or Clint Eastwood. ("How to Shop for a New МиГ-31")





Let's do it!

Thank you for your time and consideration.

These challenges to life and sanity on this planet must be met with clear minds and sound hearts, so may your 2011 see you embracing its highest potential and onward through the fog!

In Peace & Light

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Greetings:

'Air Laser' Could Find Bombs at a Distance

U.S. scientists say a new "air laser" will allow soldiers to detect hidden explosives from a distance and help scientists measure airborne pollutants.
(...)
Unlike previous remote laser-sensing methods, in which the returning beam of light is just a reflection of the outgoing beam, the "air laser" creates an entirely new laser beam generated by oxygen atoms whose electrons have been "excited" to high energy levels.

Using an ultraviolet laser pulse focused on a tiny patch of air, similar to the way a magnifying glass focuses sunlight into a hot spot, oxygen atoms in the hot spot become excited as their electrons get pumped up to high energy levels, eventually creating a coherent laser beam aimed straight back at the original laser, researchers say.
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Somehow, this description reminds me of something that was buried deeply inside a patent document I was perusing just the other day.

I would be willing to bet that many intuitive ATS members may recognize this also. Stay tuned...

In Peace & Light
tfw

Death Star

OK so a little over budget but since the Fed's printing presses are already working overtime it shouldn't take long to come up with the rest.

(Sorry for the joke - couldn't help it)

Buy a politician and have the budget increased to one $gauzillion$ dollars, payed by the tax payers to me on a never ending schedule, buy whatever I want including more politicians, influence, msm control..........rinse and repeat.

Hi ill do this for shiz & giggles . . .

1. 030 x AH - 64 Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters - Cost - $ 1.290 billion
2. 005 x Type 800 Dolphin class submarines - Cost - $ 1.600 billion
3. 002 x Vikrant -class aircraft carrier - Cost - $ 1.524 billion
4. 004 x Amphibious assault ship - Cost - $ 1.498.6 billion
5. 010 x Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - Cost - $ 1.500 billion
6. 100 x Leopard 2A6 Main Battle Tanks - Cost $0.575 billion
7. 300 x M1126 Stryker ICV - armoured fighting vehicle - Cost $ 0.426 billion
8. 050 x General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper ( originally predator 2 ) unmanned air combat vehicle - Cost 0.525 billion
9. 001 x Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit aka stealth bomber - Cost $ 1.010 billion
10. 022 x M270 A1 Multiple rocket launch system - Cost $ 0.050.6 billion

That would leave me with $800000 in change to go and buy some sweets a newspaper and pay for my xbox live subscription.

Whew that took "Forever" to find and do all the math - especially when converting from £ into $ - i used a ratio of £1 = $1.6

Here are my sources ( sorry lots of wiki )

1. www.globalsecurity.org...
2. www.globalsecurity.org...
3. en.wikipedia.org...
4. en.wikipedia.org...
5. en.wikipedia.org...
6. en.wikipedia.org...
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Also like to add . . .

Found this link while looking around - some very interesting facts - 50 fact about us nuclear weapons
www.brookings.edu...

Edit - there was sooooo much to choose from ...

Greetings:

The Army’s reliance on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has steadily increased in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an upcoming exercise will showcase the next step of integration between unmanned systems, manned aircraft and soldiers and sensors on the ground.

Last year, the Army started using the Federated Universal Synchronization Engine (FUSE) that takes advantage of commercial technology, such as Google Earth, where sensors map targets and report information back for intelligence and targeting use, Owings said.

FUSE “dramatically increases the effectiveness of unmanned aircraft systems through more effective queuing, sharing information and multiplying the capability of the systems,” he said. The information can be “pushed across the battlefield or in the air” to remote terminals or even smart phones or other handheld devices.

The Army has also expanded its UAS nest with the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, and the rotary-winged A-160 Hummingbird is expected to be added soon.

The A160 Hummingbird Unmanned Aerial Vehicle looks like a helicopter but is unlike any other helicopter on the market today. It can reach higher altitudes, hover for longer periods of time, go greater distances and operate much more quietly than current helicopters. And it features a unique optimum speed rotor technology that enables the Hummingbird to adjust the RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) of the rotor blades at different altitudes and cruise speeds.





The A160 joined Boeing's line of UAVs in May 2004 with the acquisition of Frontier Systems Inc., at Irvine, Calif. The aircraft's unique characteristics address current and emerging requirements of the U.S. armed forces, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and international military and security organizations.

A Boeing Phantom Works team called Advanced Unmanned Systems-Concept Exploration is developing the A160 under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Hummingbird is designed to fly 2,500 nautical miles with endurance in excess of 24 hours and a payload of more than 300 pounds.



The autonomously-flown A160 is 35 feet long with a 36-foot rotor diameter. It will fly at an estimated top speed of 140 knots at ceilings up to 30,000 feet, which is about 10,000 feet higher than conventional helicopters can fly today. Future missions for the A160 include reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, communications relay and precision re-supply.




The A160 flew for the first time in January 2002 at a former U.S. Air Force base at Victorville, Calif., where flight-testing of the Hummingbird continues. The A160's ability to stay aloft a long time at high altitudes is drawing considerable interest from the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Special Operations Forces.

Potential customers are also paying a lot of attention to the Hummingbird's unique optimal speed rotor system. During flight, an operator can vary the RPM of the A160's rotors (speed them up or slow them down) at different altitudes to improve overall efficiency and save fuel. This is quite a departure from conventional rotor systems, which tend to have a fixed rotor RPM regardless of altitude.

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Originally posted by johngtr

1. 030 x AH - 64 Apache Longbow Attack Helicopters - Cost - $ 1.290 billion
2. 005 x Type 800 Dolphin class submarines - Cost - $ 1.600 billion
3. 002 x Vikrant -class aircraft carrier - Cost - $ 1.524 billion
4. 004 x Amphibious assault ship - Cost - $ 1.498.6 billion
5. 010 x Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - Cost - $ 1.500 billion
6. 100 x Leopard 2A6 Main Battle Tanks - Cost $0.575 billion
7. 300 x M1126 Stryker ICV - armoured fighting vehicle - Cost $ 0.426 billion
8. 050 x General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper ( originally predator 2 ) unmanned air combat vehicle - Cost 0.525 billion
9. 001 x Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit aka stealth bomber - Cost $ 1.010 billion
10. 022 x M270 A1 Multiple rocket launch system - Cost $ 0.050.6 billion

Hell with that you could probably wipe out 90% of the armies on earth.

And what is scary is that many corporations have enough money to buy this a few times over... GE, big banks, big arms sellers...

Bill Gates could start his own army and conquer a few countries, merge them and call them Microsoftistan!

Originally posted by fenceSitter
Death Star

OK so a little over budget but since the Fed's printing presses are already working overtime it shouldn't take long to come up with the rest.

(Sorry for the joke - couldn't help it)

Greetings:

Great find! So good, in fact, we took the liberty of posting your link here in all its beauty. After all, how many folks have actually seen such a thing?

Death Star Costs $15.6 Septillion, 1.4 Trillion Times the US Debt





If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?

A guy called Ryszard Gold—who probably is an alien villain from the Outer Rim planets and got a 49-point score in our Geek Social Aptitude Test—made the calculation of the most basic Death Star's price with current materials and space transport costs here on Earth.

Here's a quick summary:

• First, assume that 1/10 of the 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters of the Death Star is something other than empty space and 6/10 of the total volume is pressurized space.


• That will require 1.71 quadrillion cubic meters of steel, about 134 quadrillion tonnes. That's $12.95 quintillion in current 2008 prices, and that's without counting strange alloys and elements.


• Shipping that to space will cost $95 million per tonne: So add $12.79 septillion in transport.


• Now you need to add air, which will require 8.23 quintillion cubic meters of Nitrogen, and 1.65 quintillion cubic meters of oxygen, for a total delivery cost of $2.81 septillions and $212.46 quintillion.

The total: $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94.

Yes, that's a whooping 1.4 trillion times the current US Debt. Or a sightly more meaningful number: 124 trillion years of war in Iraq.

That will only get you the very basic model of Death Star, no options, no GPS, no radio, no leather heated seats, no mega-laser to obliterate planets, no turbolaser towers, no computer systems, no miscellaneous life support systems, no crew quarters, no turbo-elevators, no energy generators, no showers, no air conditioning, no Darth Vader's jacuzzi, no Emperor's home theater system, and no bloody canteen.

And don't get me started on the cost of all the lunch trays and the constant supply of penne all'arrabbiata and peas needed for all the Death Star personell*.

That will probably double the final bill, coupled with the construction costs, for a total of more than $31 septillions.

As for the answer to the first question, there's no doubt about it. But then again, I always liked the Emperor's robe. He goes naked everywhere and nobody notices. source

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Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad

In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it.

He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device. source

Has anyone heard of this incident? We don't recall seeing this on the telly.

Anyone got photos of this weapon?

And, when researching this incident for a photo, we found this account of an interesting conspiracy - something we were not aware of.

Is anyone else on ATS aware of this and has it been covered?

Based on what he saw during his travels, Dillon told me he's convinced the war and its sweeping devastation of the Iraqi nation is in reality a mind boggling charade. [color=limegreen]Rather than liberating Iraq, its actual purpose is to corral Iraq's huge oil reserves and to serve as a pretext for channeling tens of billions in largesse to favored American corporations like Haliburton and Bechtel. As an example, Dillon pointed to how US air strikes systematically obliterated every last Iraqi telecommunications facility from one end of the country to the other, a measure he maintains vastly exceeded all practical military necessity. Then, [color=limegreen]without even the pretense of a competitive bid, Washington gifted WorldCom, the near bankrupt US telecom giant responsible for the greatest fraud in financial history, with a huge multi-billion dollar contract to build Iraq a new nationwide state-of-the-art telephone system. source

And now, for something completely different.

U.S. Army's New Secret Weapon: The Silent Guardian

Its makers claim this infernal machine is the modern face of warfare. It has a nice, friendly sounding name, Silent Guardian.

I am told not to call it a ray-gun, though that is precisely what it is (the term "pain gun" is maybe better, but I suppose they would like that even less). And, to be fair, the machine is not designed to vaporise, shred, atomise, dismember or otherwise cause permanent harm.

But it is a horrible device nonetheless, and you are forced to wonder what the world has come to when human ingenuity is pressed into service to make a thing like this.

This machine has the ability to inflict limitless, unbearable pain.




Silent Guardian is making waves in defence circles. Built by the U.S. firm Raytheon, it is part of its "Directed Energy Solutions" programme.

These include not only microwave ray-guns, but the terrifying Pulsed Energy Projectile weapon. This uses a powerful laser which, when it hits someone up to 1-1/2 miles away, produces a "plasma" - a bubble of superhot gas - on the skin.

The agony the Raytheon gun inflicts is probably equal to anything in a torture chamber - these waves are tuned to a frequency exactly designed to stimulate the pain nerves.

"It is ethically dubious to say they are useful for crowd control when they will obviously be used by unscrupulous people for torture."

www.dailymail.co.uk...

In Peace & Light

tfw

Originally posted by johngtr
Hi ill do this for shiz & giggles . . .
(...)
Also like to add . . .
Found this link while looking around - some very interesting facts - 50 fact about us nuclear weapons
www.brookings.edu...
Edit - there was sooooo much to choose from ...

Greetings:

Great find!

After going to the Brookings Institute link, we thought that it might be timely to identify those 50 items here in plain sight, as it were.

We think this makes for very interesting reading when its all lumped together like this.

50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons

The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical.

New research on arms control and nuclear weapons is being conducted by the Brookings Arms Control Initiative.

- Except where noted all figures are in constant 1996 dollars -


1. Cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945): $20,000,000,000

2. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500

3. Estimated construction costs for more than 1,000 ICBM launch pads and silos, and support facilities, from 1957-1964: nearly $14,000,000,000

4. Total number of nuclear bombers built, 1945-present: 4,680

5. Peak number of nuclear warheads and bombs in the stockpile/year: 32,193/1966

6. Total number and types of nuclear warheads and bombs built, 1945-1990: more than 70,000/65 types

7. Number currently in the stockpile (2002): 10,600 (7,982 deployed, 2,700 hedge/contingency stockpile)

8. Number of nuclear warheads requested by the Army in 1956 and 1957: 151,000

9. Projected operational U.S. strategic nuclear warheads and bombs after full enactment of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty in 2012: 1,700-2,200

10. Additional strategic and non-strategic warheads not limited by the treaty that the U.S. military wants to retain as a "hedge" against unforeseen future threats: 4,900

11. Largest and smallest nuclear bombs ever deployed: B17/B24 (~42,000 lbs., 10-15 megatons); W54 (51 lbs., .01 kilotons, .02 kilotons-1 kiloton)

12. Peak number of operating domestic uranium mines (1955): 925

13. Fissile material produced: 104 metric tons of plutonium and 994 metric tons of highly-enriched uranium

14. Amount of plutonium still in weapons: 43 metric tons

15. Number of thermometers which could be filled with mercury used to produce lithium-6 at the Oak Ridge Reservation: 11 billion

16. Number of dismantled plutonium "pits" stored at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas: 12,067 (as of May 6, 1999)

17. States with the largest number of nuclear weapons (in 1999): New Mexico (2,450), Georgia (2,000), Washington (1,685), Nevada (1,350), and North Dakota (1,140)

18. Total known land area occupied by U.S. nuclear weapons bases and facilities: 15,654 square miles

19. Total land area of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey: 15,357 square miles

20. Legal fees paid by the Department of Energy to fight lawsuits from workers and private citizens concerning nuclear weapons production and testing activities, from October 1990 through March 1995: $97,000,000

21. Money paid by the State Department to Japan following fallout from the 1954 "Bravo" test: $15,300,000

22. Money and non-monetary compensation paid by the the United States to Marshallese Islanders since 1956 to redress damages from nuclear testing: at least $759,000,000

23. Money paid to U.S. citizens under the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act of 1990, as of January 13, 1998: approximately $225,000,000 (6,336 claims approved; 3,156 denied)

24. Total cost of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program, 1946-1961: $7,000,000,000

25. Total number of nuclear-powered aircraft and airplane hangars built: 0 and 1

Ibid; "American Portrait: ANP," WFAA-TV (Dallas), 1993. Between July 1955 and March 1957, a specially modified B-36 bomber made 47 flights with a three megawatt air-cooled operational test reactor (the reactor, however, did not power the plane).

26. Number of secret Presidential Emergency Facilities built for use during and after a nuclear war: more than 75

27. Currency stored until 1988 by the Federal Reserve at its Mount Pony facility for use after a nuclear war: more than $2,000,000,000

28. Amount of silver in tons once used at the Oak Ridge, TN, Y-12 Plant for electrical magnet coils: 14,700

29. Total number of U.S. nuclear weapons tests, 1945-1992: 1,030 (1,125 nuclear devices detonated; 24 additional joint tests with Great Britain)

30. First and last test: July 16, 1945 ("Trinity") and September 23, 1992 ("Divider")

31. Estimated amount spent between October 1, 1992 and October 1, 1995 on nuclear testing activities: $1,200,000,000 (0 tests)

32. Cost of 1946 Operation Crossroads weapons tests ("Able" and "Baker") at Bikini Atoll: $1,300,000,000

33. Largest U.S. explosion/date: 15 Megatons/March 1, 1954 ("Bravo")

34. Number of islands in Enewetak atoll vaporized by the November 1, 1952 "Mike" H-bomb test: 1

35. Number of nuclear tests in the Pacific: 106

36. Number of U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada: 911

37. Number of nuclear weapons tests in Alaska [1, 2, and 3], Colorado [1 and 2], Mississippi and New Mexico [1, 2 and 3]: 10

38. Operational naval nuclear propulsion reactors vs. operational commercial power reactors (in 1999): 129 vs. 108

39. Number of attack (SSN) and ballistic missile (SSBN) submarines (2002): 53 SSNs and 18 SSBNs

40. Number of high level radioactive waste tanks in Washington, Idaho and South Carolina: 239

41. Volume in cubic meters of radioactive waste resulting from weapons activities: 104,000,000

42. Number of designated targets for U.S. weapons in the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) in 1976, 1986, and 1995: 25,000 (1976), 16,000 (1986) and 2,500 (1995)

43. Cost of January 17, 1966 nuclear weapons accident over Palomares, Spain (including two lost planes, an extended search and recovery effort, waste disposal in the U.S. and settlement claims): $182,000,000

44. Number of U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11

45. Number of Department of Energy federal employees (in 1996): 18,608

46. Number of Department of Energy contractor employees (in 1996): 109,242

47. Minimum number of classified pages estimated to be in the Department of Energy's possession (1995): 280 million

48. Ballistic missile defense spending in 1965 vs. 1995: $2,200,000,000 vs. $2,600,000,000

49. Average cost per warhead to the U.S. to help Kazakhstan dismantle 104 SS-18 ICBMs carrying more than 1,000 warheads: $70,000 (That's $70,000,000 + for the help.

50. Estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs: $35,100,000,000

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project

Copyright © 1998 The Brookings Institution

Yeah.
Because that's what we need, MORE and BETTER ways of killing people...

Here's an idea:
with that money buy
-portable generators
-water purificators/desalinisators (sp?)
-Food
-Medicine
-Books

and drop them with your supadupa black helicopters all around the world in the poorest regions.

That will achieve more for peace and "national security" than any coward-machoman-missile that you could afford...


PS: Don't you people SEE? Don't you realize that the fact that you accept a warlike culture as normal is a sign of YOUR OWN DEFEAT? and that that is exactly what the system needs to keep running? Have you never reflected on why you are all so fond of guns, missiles and whatnot?...
Just my two cents.

Be good.

Drakus

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Greetings:

We agree.

One of the reasons for starting this thread was to illustrate the absurdity and stupidity of squandering all this money for naught.

We, the people, do not want war.

Thank you for the reply.

In Peace & Light
tfw

For 10billion per country i will send the military and government to a peaceful place. I would offer a bounty of 1 million dollars for the head of every politico and general, every corporate executive and banker. Up to a limit of 9.9 billion.

I would offer the same deal for top of the line warplanes, tanks, aircraft carriers


If you remove the people who start the wars, leads the armies, provide financing and build the armaments, and return the money that is wasted killing the little people to those little people, then you have done the right thing.

Fellow ATS'ers, you have a bank account with a balance of $10,000,000,000 US.

Your mission:

To acquire the most exotic, technologically-advanced weapons system that you can find from any source (after all, arms dealers sell to both sides) and provide photos, evidence of availability and pricing ASAP.

Support NSF and other basic science research and especially beyond-basic-research-but-before-commercial-application development.

The most powerful weapon system---in the sense of improving the total strategic position of a nation---is a successful industrial economy.

Greetings:

Meanwhile, back to the Fukushima World-Killer Nuke Meltdowns and the [color=limegreen]continuing radiation poising of our land, food and children - 24/7/365.

zorgon, what is your take on this?

Well, I spent three weeks following that Fukushima story doggedly... then in the end I found out three things...

1) Except for a handful of people and those that live in the area... NO ONE CARES...

2) We are still here... 1000's of nuke tests (especially near my home town) medical radiation, space radiation, CME's, cell tower radiation, microwave radiation... etc etc.. and we are STILL HERE.. and world population is increasing exponentially

3) Radiation is good for you

Greetings:

Thank you for your insightful and timely response.

1) We have been attempting to sound the alarm in the many nuke-related threads in our signature, and have come to the same conclusion: NO ONE CARES...

However, having spent the last six weeks on the road in the Hurricane Irene-ravaged areas of North Carolina, we were amazed - no, dumfounded - that [color=limegreen]NOT ONE PERSON we spoke with (including fellow First Responder Volunteer Firepersons) had any clue about Fukushima 24/7/365.

The Captain of the local department said that "there is no problem, or the USGOV/EPA would alert us, and it would be on television, right? (!???!)

Revised Conclusion: The people have been denied the basic information to make informed decisions as to how best "handle" the radiation poisoning nightmare.

2) Never thought that you would not be (there) "here" - after all, who would want to leave that pool? And whatever happens in "here" (there) stays in "here," (there), right mate?

3) You and Ann Coulter make such a great pair...

Glad to be back.

As we have been attempting to bring to light for over six months (!), there exists a world-wide conspiracy in the MSM to deprive the public of the facts regarding the dire consequences of the melt-throughs of the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi.

Please listen up, people.

Your life and the lives of your loved ones may very well depend on your access to and use thereof of potentially life-saving information being kept from you by the EPA/USGOV.

The total number of days between Friday, March 11th, 2011 and Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 is 214 days.

The radiation poisoning of our people, food and land has continued unabated - 24/7/365 - for exactly 7 months.

For your edification and enjoyment (bewilderment), a few 'notable' stories that seemed to miss mass circulation and perhaps a peek at what might have been missed on the 6:00 o'clock news...:

Three days into the disaster, this FOR EYES ONLY memo circulated at the NRC.

14 March 2011
NRC ONLY Update – All 3 Reactor Cores Likely Damaged

15 March 2011
Fukushima Daiichi Units Degrading – Zirconium Fire at Reactor 4 SFP – Reactor 2 Possible Reactor Vessel Breach & Ex-Vessel Core Reaction

My goodness gracious! And we thought they (TEPCO/JAPGOV) said they had this "stabilized..." and presumably under control...

At least, that is what they (and the EPA/USGOV) would have you believe.

Fast-forward about six months to more headlines you may have missed in your local media:

21 August 2011
Fukushima Officials Worry New Discovery of Radioactive Beef Will Harm Reputation More After Farmer Confirms Cattle Not Fed Contaminated Rice Straw

21 August 2011
4,000 Potentially Radioactive Cows Without Radioactive Rice Hay May Have Been Shipped from One Farm in Namie-Machi, Fukushima

29 August 2011
Why the Fukushima Disaster Is Worse Than Chernobyl

31 August 2011
France Releases Map of Cesium-137 Deposition Across the Pacific – Shows the US More Contaminated Than Western Japan



[color=limegreen]Will this insanity ever end?

tfw

Fellow ATS'ers, you have a bank account with a balance of $10,000,000,000 US.

Your mission:

To acquire the most exotic, technologically-advanced weapons system that you can find from any source (after all, arms dealers sell to both sides) and provide photos, evidence of availability and pricing ASAP.

www.imf.org...

But it's much more expensive.

If i had 10 billion dollars, the last thing i would spend it on is a weapon system.

Creating an elite unit consisting of Spartan-like-Spys would be an ideal choice me thinks. Or investing it in the discovery and teachings of achieving Dragon Ball Z powers.