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...say, don't those smoke detector alarm thingies have a radioactive component ? I know the one I dragged to recycling had ample warnings on the subject. Wonder where they store used ones ? I've heard a legend some clever guy in the US managed to buy a bunch of those for pennies and make a very small but primitive reactor out of the stuff (and exposed himself to some interesting amounts of rads on the side)...
That would be the ultimate irony as the radioactive element used is Americinum (however it's spelled).
Watchman, it was a child genius, it was on the news a couple of years ago. I believe he did recieve a fairly fatal dosing. Not sure if it was worth first prize in the science fair. (He was American.)
My take: So far we have seen nothing on the order of 9/11. I think that Bin Laden and co weren't banking on the timid US going nutzo and destroying their power base.
Theory: Threat of a nuclear bomb is worth more to these people than setting one off.
By far cheaper, and if the precedent is to judge by will be quite enough to make Washington do something stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
Probably was selling it to that unlucky Armenian who threw a dud grenade at Bush in Tbilsi. Hopefully, this stuff isn't defective!
That sounds very familiarQuote:
If they were real terrorists, they could have paralysed the west with fear by now through lots of small scale fertiliser bombs against soft targets like transport and random sniper shootings. It's easy to inflitrate a country with a sniper group, much less so with a working nuke.
The French president said something along the lines that they'd nuke anyone who did something on the scale of the September 11th attacks to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Watchman
Well that's the only real recourse they have.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDC