posted 03-28-2002 06:42 PM            

On Thursday, March 21, WorldNetDaily posted an article from STRATFOR, a well-connected private intelligence firm. The title of the article was "Crisis looming between U.S., Russia." STRATFOR's article deals with CIA Director George Tenet's March 19 testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Tenet, Russia is hardly a reliable partner in the "war against terror." Instead, Russia is "the first choice of proliferant states seeking the most advanced technology and training," said Tenet.What the CIA director could not say, and perhaps what makes President George W. Bush so desperately eager to wipe out the regime of Saddam Hussein, is that Russia may have given red mercury fusion technology to Saddam. According to one of my sources, Iraq possesses "s-megaton" micro-nuclear warheads. These are softball-sized two-megaton fusion bombs triggered by an irradiated and compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide. This device doubles the nuclear yield with a hundredfold reduction of weight. Using heavy hydrogen instead of uranium or plutonium to fuel its explosive reaction, this hand-held nuclear weapon cannot be detected by U.S. sensors.It should be acknowledged that CIA Director Tenet singled out Russia for a reason. Only Russia has compression technology in advance of America's. Only Russia has worked long and hard to develop a perfect fusion bomb (the U.S. having abandoned its own effort decades ago). And now American intelligence has evidence of something dire, something they don't want to tell us. According to STRATFOR, "A severe crisis between the two sides [America and Russia] may now be forming." As STRATFOR further points out, "Now the director of the CIA has named Russia as the key source of WMD proliferation."Perhaps we are now in a position to understand what Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, meant when he said last fall that America would soon be destroyed. He did not say America would be crippled, or that America would be defeated. He said America would disappear. When a suspect in the Danny Pearl kidnapping and murder case was being escorted by guards in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago, he reportedly shouted to the press, "Sell your dollars! Soon America will be gone."What does Al Qaeda know that we don't?
more... http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/analysis.htm

posted 03-29-2002 11:15 AM            

Time to stop and count your blessings and enjoy them while you can. I know God's still in control, but I think He may be just a little ticked off about what we've done with all the knowledge He gave us. We might be about to reap what we've sown. I think prayer may be the only way to stop this madness.

posted 03-29-2002 08:16 PM            

But what you might not notice is that Nyquist stops quoting STRATFOR and goes off on his own at the point where he says, "What the CIA director could not say...." So all the stuff from that point on (as far as I can see), is merely Nyquist's assertions with nothing that I know of to back them up.

Most of his stuff about "irradiated and compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide" doesn't make sense. Irradiated or not, Hg compounds don't fission, and they're waaaaay too atomically complex to fuse!

The only way I know of to set off a fusion explosion is to use a WHOLE lot of energy to fuse H into He, and the only way I know of to create that whole lot of energy is to set off a nuclear fission explosion.

And since you have to have a critical mass of U235 to pop the fission off, and the critical mass is on the close order of 50 kg, I can't see how you can get a softball - or even a basketball - size nuclear fission device, to say nothing of a fusion bomb. Back of a Ford Econoline van? Quite possibly.

And what's the bit about America abandoning its effort to create a fusion bomb? We created the first one in 1949. That's what a hydrogen bomb is -- a fusion bomb.

I'm not saying that the Bad Guys don't have dangerous tools and sick minds. But if they use any 'nuclear' technology, it'd probably be what's called a "dirty bomb" -- conventional explosive surrounded by a shell of plutonium. When the explosive goes off, it spreads the plutonium -- which is both extremely toxic and radioactive -- around a large area, sickining and killing a bunch of people.

posted 03-31-2002 07:14 PM            

Designed for grades 6-12, it shold be easily understandable by most. It is somewhat dull (facts usually are seen that way) and there is nothing about any magic compounds, but it will give any of you who are interested in how such stuff actually works some valuable insights.

posted 04-01-2002 11:40 PM            

A paragraph from that report reads as follows:

Reports of the trafficking of Red Mercury (claimed to have the composition Hg2Sb207) have been circulating for many years. Red Mercury was touted as a mediator in nuclear weapons design, particularly as an essential ingredient in pure-fusion weapons, a view expressed most recently in International Defence Review (6/94) by Dr. F. Barnaby, a former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. What is known about Red Mercury is that it was the Russian code name for the production of Li6D — a legitimate component of thermonuclear weapons, but not some mystical or magical ingredient for other purposes. In recent years Red Mercury has been widely discredited, and the "market" for it appears to be diminishing.

This is not to diminish the very real danger of nuclear material (maybe even nuclear bombs) being stolen from old USSR stockpiles and sold to other parties. The point, though, is that the thought of "red mercury" being anything but a scam to fool greedy third-world weapons black marketeers -- or naive individuals unfamiliar with basic chemistry -- should be dismissed out of hand.