Explosives Stolen from U.S. Lab

[drfresh]

Federal Investigators Probe High-Tech Explosives Theft
About 400 Pounds of Explosive Material Missing

Dec. 19, 2005 — About 400 pounds of explosive material was stolen from a research facility in New Mexico, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed today.

The theft was discovered Sunday night by local authorities.

ATF agents are investigating the large theft from Cherry Enginering, a company owned by Chris Cherry, for decades the senior explosives scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.

Also, 2,500 detonators were missing from a storage explosive container, or magazine, in the name of Cherry Engineering.

The theft is one of the largest reported cases from a facility in the United States in the last decade ending 2004. During that time, a total of about 1,000 pounds was reported stolen from government facilities in 14 reported incidents. It is unknown whether there is any connection to terrorism.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1421579

[StrafingMoose]

Why would Syria/Iran/NK support terrorists...

if they can find all they need within the very country they choose to attack? :evilgrin:

[Ezlivin]

1. What? The wiretaps didn't stop that? WTF?

Hey, I though we were safe and all with NSA poring over all the conversations and stuff.

I guess we got ourselves a little insurgency right here, eh?

[anotherdrew]

6. they've got no time to put up cameras at explosive storage facilities...

that would be TOO EXPENSIVE and troublesome, so they'll just clamp down on freedom and liberty instead and spy on their political opposition.

[Tesha]

29. They aren't wiretapping "those" white people! (NT)

[DemInDistress]

2. 600 lbs, of plutonium came up missing from Los Alamos

a couple of weeks ago. Could there be a connection? Will a few cities in the USA get hit again??
I hate these mothers fockers. I predict a nuke attack before the next election..

[TheWraith]

7. Link? The only reasonable way you can lose 600 pounds of plutonium

is via a clerical error. Trying to steal that much plutonium, keep it, and move it, would probably result in some extremely dead thieves. It's not like stealing gold, or even explosives.

[benburch]

8. Pu is an alpha emitter.

Very safe to handle in its storage container.

[TheWraith]

17. You're right, but I was thinking about the neutron contamination.

Neuton radiation can result in secondary neutron activation, causing the environment around them to become "hot." Unless they're lining their storage containers with hafnium, that could become a problem in improvised storage.

[benburch]

21. One would assume that any thieves would already know the rules.

Storage, at least, is not that hard.

Nor, really, is smuggling it out of the country. We don't inspect every sailboat that leaves our shores... Or ANY of them.

[DemInDistress]

14. here ya go..

LOS ALAMOS / Plutonium could be missing from lab / 600-plus pounds ...
LOS ALAMOS <BR> Plutonium could be missing from lab <BR> 600-plus pounds unaccounted
for, activist group says.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/ c/a/2005/11/30/BAGGQFVT7J1.DTL

[TheWraith]

18. Big difference

An activist group saying 600 pounds is unaccounted for is a lot different from 600 pounds suddenly and officially going missing.

[drm604]

15. Do you have a reliable source for this?

This is the first I've heard of it.

[DemInDistress]

16. try this..

Los Alamos Missing Plutonium for 150 Nuclear Bombs
The beleaguered Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is unable to account for
765 kilograms of plutonium -- enough to make 150 nuclear weapons -- according ...
usgovinfo.about.com/od/ consumerawareness/a/missingpluto.htm

United Press International - NewsTrack - Plutonium missing from ...
Plutonium missing from Los Alamos. LOS ALAMOS, NM, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Some 661
pounds of plutonium is unaccounted for and may be missing from the Los Alamos ...
www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view. php?StoryID=20051130-102515-2245r

[Julius Civitatus]

3. Maybe they should ask the "anthrax mailer" if he knows about this

What?

They still didn't catch the anthrax mailer, after four years?

Not even a trace?

You don't say...

:eyes:

[Ezlivin]

4. Yeah, and Bush is good at saying we didn't have another terrorist attack

He seems to completely forget about the black-op....whoops, the Anthrax attack.

[fed-up]

5. more diversion tactics- I bet the CIA was involved- gotta keep terra up nt

[lonestarnot]

9. Holy crap! I really look for something to happen in the next few days or

weeks. The impeachment talk is coming fast an furiously, and he really needs an escape scare tactic to well you know the routine.

[BeHereNow]

22. Funny you should say that...

I had a "flash" about that very thing today-
It came out of the blue like an intuitive premonition.
Nothing and I mean NOTHING would surprise me
these days.
I think we should all prepare for the unpreparable
for the rest of out lives at this point.
BHN

[lonestarnot]

23. Unpreparable... how does one prepare for that?

[blackhorse]

25. I had an odd dream

about a month ago. Your "flash" made me recall it

. . . the dream started as a field of black, as if I was looking into a very dark night. And then there was a sudden, blinding flash with a circular form. As I awoke, I had a dreadful feeling that I had witnessed a nuclear detonation.

Just an angst dream . . . I hope.

Cheers

BH

[DemonFighterLives]

31. Great line there!

:rofl:
That logic will get you places in the current climate.

[orwell]

10. Did anyone...

...check Cheney's pockets?

[UpInArms]

11. I feel so much safer now that *Co is spying on citizens.

:sarcasm:

[oneighty]

12. Sandia Corporation

Nuclear? High tech explosives? High tech detonators too I wonder?

Curious

180

[cyberpj]

13. Watch out for the next US terror attack if Dems hold back Patriot act

that's all I can think of. We all know bush admin will stop at nothing to terrorize it's citizens into giving more more more to war war war.

[lonestarnot]

24. agree!

[Olney Blue]

19. Are we safe yet?

:banghead:

[951-Riverside]

20. ...Why would a 'terrarist' need to blow their operation by stealing it...

...when they can make the explosives themselves like they do in iraq, israel or like did in Oklahoma... Oh wait those were white guys I'm forbidden from using Terrorism and Oklahoma City :sarcasm: *sigh*

[HuffleClaw]

26. HAHAAHAAHAaa

oh puh-leeeeze. bush lays an egg at his press conference and yup, right on cue come the little 'terra tales'. we've seen this before.

[Kralizec]

27. Nice.

Just around the corner.

[tanyev]

28. But thank God we're all practically strip-searched before we get

on an airplane. That will keep us safe.



:sarcasm:

[Supersedeas]

30. Did the Boy King warn us that we would be attacked if the Patriot Act

is not renewed?

[DemonFighterLives]

32. Another victory for Chaos!

Maybe they ought to quit making and storing this crap is no one is going to guard it.
:nuke: