[ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah

[Roger Helbig]

Tim King is a Neo Nazi sympathesizer who is a disciple of Bob Nichols, the
mouthpiece for Leuren Moret and Doug Rokke.  His pseudo news website has
long spouted false information about depleted uranium and birth defects
including the Nichols claim that DU has cause Israeli sperm production to
drastically decrease.  Some of King's claimed past journalist connections
have checked out, but more recent connection claims have not.

Roger Helbig
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brennan, Mike (DOH) <
Mike.Brennan at doh.wa.gov> wrote:

> It is sad that people who promote this kind of thing don't bother to
> google what they are talking about.  A "neutron bomb" isn't some magic
> people-killing-building-leaving device; it is a low yield nuclear
> weapon, optimized for neutron production.  If one had been set off in
> Fallujah, everyone who was interested would have known about it, and the
> evidence would be incontrovertible.
>
> The first clues would have been pretty distinctive: the mushroom cloud,
> really, REALLY loud explosion and flash (even compared to the other
> explosions and flashes) and an electro-magnetic pulse that would have
> fried most electronics for miles around.  Given that almost every
> American in the area was carrying some personal electronics such as cell
> phones, computers, GPS units, etc., if there had been an EMP, it would
> have been noticed.  Someone would have talked.  In addition to the US, I
> would guess there are at least four countries with satellites that could
> detect and identify the EMP from a nuke, and probably as many
> corporations (and it may be as high as 10 countries).  There would also
> be a fairly distinctive blast damage pattern at ground zero.
>
> Second, given the fairly short range of a neutron dose high enough to be
> fatal in the short term (and if you are in the middle of a battle you
> don't use thing with latency periods in years or decades, as you want to
> kill your targets now, to make them stop shooting at you), the weapon
> would have to be detonated fairly close to the ground.  This means LOTS
> of fallout.  Easily detectable levels of short lived isotopes would have
> been seen probably a couple thousand miles downwind.  No matter which
> way the wind was blowing, there are countries that would be willing to
> blow the whistle on the event.
>
> Third, one of the things about neutron bombs is high neutron flux in the
> target area (that is the whole point, after all).  High neutron flux
> means lots of activation of material in that area, with characteristic
> isotopes.  A lot of them are short lived, but there would be enough to
> increase the gamma background, and detectable with a hand held gamma
> spec device for quite some time after.
>
> No, the best explanation for finding U235 in samples is that it is
> naturally occurring.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Terry
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:20 PM
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> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Neutron Bomb used on Fallujah
>
> Interesting.
>
> http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november042011/nuke-weapons-bn.php
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