From: ian field on

"Alan LeHun" <try(a)reply.to> wrote in message
news:MPG.269325986271a9e5989827(a)news.x-privat.org...
> In article <b7c08416-77da-428c-a6d6-
> ecf3dc39facb(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, nzrebel(a)verizon.net says...
>> Oh dear Ian, get your facts from war comics, do you? Or from reading
>> Rainer Karlsh? Next you'll be quoting from the Hitler Dairies.
>>
>> To have a dirty bomb you need material that has been passed through a
>> working nuclear reactor, something they didn't have.
>>
>
> Not true. A dirty bomb is simply a conventional explosive device
> designed in such a way as to spread radioactive contaminant when it
> detonates.

That would qualify, but I suspect most potential nuclear terrorists (and the
WW2 Nazis) would be aiming for some sort of chain reaction - it produces a
significant radiation burst and disperses much more radioactive fallout much
further than just conventional explosives under a pile of radioactive
medical waste.


From: Charlie on
On 29/06/2010 17:43, timbochov wrote:
> On Jun 28, 3:44 pm, "Beav"<beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote:
>> "timbochov"<tuatara...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> news:a086070f-04af-4140-907a-44dad5fa0491(a)b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com...
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>>
>>
>>> On Jun 27, 11:12 am, Lclawitcx<fosdf...(a)eml.cc> wrote:
>>>> Oh dear, we destroyed you English racists. Thousands of you started
>>>> off spouting your xenopobic chants about black people and the war
>>>> outside the stadium, then it finished with you crying.
>>>> This brings to an end the months of embarrassing English flag waving
>>>> nationalism that even made Americans cringe.
>>
>>>> A video summing up the English limeys world
>>>> cup.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kvpm_bTk4
>>
>>>> "The English are a nation of cowards"
>>
>>>> Quote from Frenchman William the conqueror, after he conquered the
>>>> English.
>>
>>> Bismark, Adolf Hitler, Hess, Himler, Nazis etc etc. 2 world wars -
>>> started and lost.
>>
>>> Ugly language - ugly people.
>>
>> Obviously you've never been there.
>>
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>
> Lived three years in Switzerland, many times to Germany. Highlights
> were beir unt bratwurst. Not much else. Thought Austria was better.

Sie lebten f�r drei Jahre in einem Land und erlernten nie die Sprache.

Was ist 'beir'. Ich verstehe nicht. M�glicherweise bedeuten Sie 'Bier'.
Was ist 'unt'. Ich verstehe Sie noch nicht. Vielleicht bedeuten Sie 'und'.

Dieses ist eine Englischsprechende Nachrichtengruppe, dummer Kerl.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> saying
something like:

>You think? Name another war where a conventional army won a genuine
>victory against a guerilla resistance?

It usually involves the 'conventional' army adopting guerilla
approaches.
Malaya.
FFL in Indo-China.
From: Hog on
ian field <gangprobing.alien(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "Alan LeHun" <try(a)reply.to> wrote in message
> news:MPG.269325986271a9e5989827(a)news.x-privat.org...
>> In article <b7c08416-77da-428c-a6d6-
>> ecf3dc39facb(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, nzrebel(a)verizon.net
>> says...
>>> Oh dear Ian, get your facts from war comics, do you? Or from reading
>>> Rainer Karlsh? Next you'll be quoting from the Hitler Dairies.
>>>
>>> To have a dirty bomb you need material that has been passed through
>>> a working nuclear reactor, something they didn't have.
>>>
>>
>> Not true. A dirty bomb is simply a conventional explosive device
>> designed in such a way as to spread radioactive contaminant when it
>> detonates.
>
> That would qualify, but I suspect most potential nuclear terrorists
> (and the WW2 Nazis) would be aiming for some sort of chain reaction -
> it produces a significant radiation burst and disperses much more
> radioactive fallout much further than just conventional explosives
> under a pile of radioactive medical waste.

Erm, thats wrong. Just producing a criticality doesn't produce more
radioactive material. OK you might neutron activate a few more atoms but
nothing on any real scale. Nor does a criticality disperse material where,
for instance, you have two cast slugs of uranium or plutonium.

An ideal dirty bomb would use Pu or Uranium in a 100+ mesh powder, probably
mixed with another bulk agent, wrapped around a high explosive core, in
itself a shaped charge depending on the intended deployment.

If you want to deny public access to a usefully wide area it will have to be
an air burst or detonation from the top edge of a very high building.

One might consider a fuel/air explosion at altitude as a very effective
dispersal weapon, if one was so inclined.

--
Hog


From: Two Dogs on
On Jun 29, 1:03 pm, "ian field" <gangprobing.al...(a)ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> "Two Dogs" <nzre...(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
>
> news:e8756de1-7599-4a6f-94fb-90388794eac4(a)y4g2000yqy.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 28, 5:21 pm, "ian field" <gangprobing.al...(a)ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > "Two Dogs" <nzre...(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
>
> >news:b7c08416-77da-428c-a6d6-ecf3dc39facb(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com....
> > On Jun 28, 1:05 pm, "ian field" <gangprobing.al...(a)ntlworld.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > "Alister" <alister.w...(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>
> > >news:xYNVn.30962$U%7.30457(a)hurricane...
>
> > > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:17:35 -0700, Lclawitcx wrote:
>
> > > >> On 27 June, 19:58, Tosspot <Frank.Le...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> On 27/06/10 19:12, Lclawitcx wrote:
>
> > > >>> > Oh dear, we destroyed you English racists. Thousands of you
> > > >>> > started
> > > >>> > off spouting your xenopobic chants about black people and the war
> > > >>> > outside the stadium, then it finished with you crying. This brings
> > > >>> > to
> > > >>> > an end the months of embarrassing English flag waving nationalism
> > > >>> > that even made Americans cringe.
>
> > > >>> > A video summing up the English limeys world cup.
> > > >>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kvpm_bTk4
>
> > > >>> > "The English are a nation of cowards"
>
> > > >>> Yeah, but we're still 2:0 on World Wars.
>
> > > >> The English contribution to WW2(which was laughably) consisted of
> > > >> running away like cowards and diving in to the sea at Dunkirk. Then
> > > >> waiting 4 years while the Americans and Russians won the actual war.
>
> > > > The Russians almost certainly won the war which would have been very
> > > > bad
> > > > for the USA if we had not Won the battle of Britain ( which was fought
> > > > before the USA even entered the war).
> > > > There would have been no staging post for the 'D' day landings which
> > > > would almost certainly handed the whole of Europe to the USSR.
>
> > > > So far from saving our bacon in truth we saved yours.
>
> > > >> 1 on 1 against Germany the English would have been annihilated.
>
> > > > Did you check the score line for the Battle or Britain? I though not.
>
> > > The Stuka was a shinning example of German efficiency - the only fighter
> > > in
> > > WW2 that needed a fighter escort and every time our lads shot one down
> > > they
> > > got 2 Nazis for the price of one.
>
> > > And if the Yanks start on about saving our bacon, remind them that
> > > Hitler
> > > had his boffins working on dirty nukes (the best they could do without
> > > all
> > > their Jewish scientists) and the means to drop them on the USA.
>
> > > There were several versions of the "Amerikabomber" on the drawing board
> > > along with plans for a long range booster stage for the V2 rocket.
>
> > > And the Yanks weren't doing us any favours, Hitler formally declared war
> > > on
> > > the US a few days after the Japs hit Pearl Harbour - from that point on
> > > we
> > > were basically running up a lend-lease debt to fight their war for them.
>
> > Oh dear Ian, get your facts from war comics, do you? Or from reading
> > Rainer Karlsh? Next you'll be quoting from the Hitler Dairies.
>
> > To have a dirty bomb you need material that has been passed through a
> > working nuclear reactor,
>
> > --------------------------
>
> > What a complete and utter load of bollox.
>
> > What they were striving for was radioactive material sufficiently refined
> > to bring together something approaching critical mass to produce some
> > degree
> > of chain reaction.
>
> Who are "they"? Work stopped in Germany on using any kind of nuclear
> source as a weapon by 1943. Feel free to quote reliable sources to
> prove otherwise.
>
>  And when you say "bringing together radioactive material sufficiently
> refined to bring about a chain reaction" what are you referring to?
> Medical waste FFS? Because they had no working reactor to produce any
> other kind of radioactive material, nor were they apparently in any
> hurry to make one. The only work in 1945 was, as I said, being done
> towards a Civil service power grid, not a weapon, and was nowhere near
> any kind of physical result. And the Military was showing little
> interest.
>
> -------------------------
>
> So why do you suppose they placed so much vital military importance on heavy
> water (deuterium oxide) production.
>
> Maybe their troops wanted something more substantial in their water canteens
> eh?

Work on a nuclear weapon stopped, as I said, in 1943 when the
Norwegian Heavy Water plant was fucked up by saboteurs and bombing.
End of story, game over, heavy water had nothing at all to do with
production of a dirty bomb in 1945.

Give it up.


Two Dogs