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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 12:24 AM
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Nevada Test "Divine Strike", Tactical Nuke?
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Edited on Mon Apr-10-06 12:26 AM by originalpckelly
You remember that big bomb called "Divine Strike":
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4041740

I wonder if that is really a tactical nuke? I mean who owns a geiger counter? How would anyone ever know if it was conventional or not? Isn't it ironic how we hear tactical nukes might be used against Iran and there is a test in June of some massive explosive? I mean this is highly speculative, but they could always blame the radiation on some left-over contaminated soil from the early nuke tests. Listen to the description of "Divine Strike" and it sounds exactly like a tactical nuke. How could something like that ever be developed into a conventional weapon? The thing is 700 tons, a C-5 (the biggest and best cargo plane we have) can only carry 135 tons. No plane can carry it. What are they supposed to do, build rail tracks out to the target? Something smells fishy with this. I don't know, like I said it is highly speculative, but when you hear someone talking about nukes, who thinks God talks to him, and the bomb test is called "Divine Strike", I start worrying don't you?

Here is the article about the C-5:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-5_Galaxy

Look at how much it can carry, it can carry 270,000 pounds and that divided by 2000 pounds (1 Short Ton) is 135.
Here is the ton article too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton
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