BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish

Subject: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: Mickey191
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 04:28 PM

Tiraspol factory manufactures small arms for sale abroad.
 By Joby Warrick
THE WASHINGTON POST - IRASPOL, Moldova, Dec. 7 —  

In the ethnic conflicts that surrounded the collapse of the Soviet Union, fighters in several countries seized upon an unlikely new weapon: a small, thin rocket known as the Alazan. Originally built for weather experiments, the Alazan was transformed into a terror weapon, packed with explosives and lobbed into cities. Military records show that at least 38 Alazan warheads were modified to carry radioactive material, effectively creating the world's first surface-to-surface dirty bomb. The warheads are not known to have been used. But now, according to experts and officials, they have disappeared.
 
Bet they're for sale to the highest bidder.

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: open mike
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 05:05 PM

on e-bay?

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 05:12 PM

Hey, I don't even know where Moldova is an' I got lots of folks willin' to testify to that...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 07:17 PM

"To split the simple atom
All mankind was intent.
Now any day, the atom may
Return the compliment."

You simple CANNOT make things you can't endure if idiots get ahold of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: Peace
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 07:27 PM

True, Bill D. That's the same problem kids face with snowballs. Other than decorate the snowman, there just isn't a whole bunch of other stuff a kid can do with them. Good poem.

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 12:37 AM

Wonder if this is the stuff being set up by yon Iraqi "officer" being set up to be "discovered " in Iraq??

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 11:35 AM

Of course one of the things about this type of dirty bomb, is that because it is well below critical mass and contains reasonably low-grade radiactive material, it doesn't actually split the atom anyway. A small conventional explosive charge is just used to distribute radioactive debris over a wide area.

Subject: RE: BS: Dirty Bomb Rockets Vanish
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 11:50 AM

Isn't radioactivity just a 'slow', natural splitting of atoms? (as opposed to *BOOMS* where we convince a bunch of them to do it all at once?)

I got a 'C' in physics...