Military Reloads with NanotechContinued from page 1
"Getting the government to change the way they kill people is difficult," Carpenter says. Because nanometal provides a higher concentration of energy while requiring fewer raw materials, the overall cost of these weapons would drop, according to Kevin Walter, vice president of technical business development at nanometals manufacturer Nanoscale Technologies. "You get a little better bang for your buck," Walter says. The nanometals can be produced in particles as small as eight nanometers, Walter says, and then combined with other chemicals to create the explosive materials, which can also be used for non-military applications including pyrotechnics and explosives for mining. Nanotechnology "could completely change the face of weaponry," according to Andy Oppenheimer, a weapons expert with analyst firm and publisher Jane's Information Group. Oppenheimer says nations including the United States, Germany, and Russia are developing "mini-nuke" devices that use nanotechnology to create much smaller nuclear detonators. Oppenheimer says the devices could fit inside a briefcase and would be powerful enough to destroy a building. Although the devices require nuclear materials, because of their small size "they blur the line with conventional weapons," Oppenheimer says. The mini-nuke weapons are still in the research phase and may be surreptitiously funded since any form of nuclear proliferation is "politically contentious" because of the possibility that they could fall into the hands of terrorists, Oppenheimer says. The creation of much smaller nuclear bombs adds new challenges to the effort to limit weapons of mass destruction, according to Oppenheimer. "(The bombs) could blow open everything that is in place for arms control," Oppenheimer says. "Everything gets more dangerous." |
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Comments
cloaking yourselves in anti-science,
without dignity,
prostituting the human intellect,
inflated with pride at your 'brilliance' in directly serving as mind slave to the incompetent, filthy, lying elites.
Get some backbone.
Expose 9/11 -- end the war, and ALL war.
www.carolforcongress.org
[Trump Stanford too..]
03/02/2006
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05/09/2006
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05/19/2006
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LIARS AND KILLERS
Editors, Daily Planet:
The only “flu” that will plague us and the rest of the world, is the one created by the public and private biology laboratories right here in Berkeley, and at Stanford and the rest of the UC system. And yes, it has been deliberately designed to terrorize and murder.
One of the “academics” at the sham 9/11 forum where I was arrested for speaking the truth is the director of the university’s very own Homeland Security Project, which just happens to provide “accelerated vaccine development.” He’s not alone, unfortunately. You can listen to any high-level Republican politician drool over the “possibly” approaching pandemic flu lockdown—just turn on the TV.
Given that the supposed “Avian flu” does not “yet” spread between humans, how can there already be vaccines waiting to be injected into us? “Well, you just never can tell with that Hostile Mother Nature. She’s always getting ready to kill us off with mutations,” the anti-scientists so idiotically and psychopathically claim.
For those who still cannot believe that such calculated and malicious liars and killers are here amongst us (the human species), I would recommend they read Robert Jay Lifton’s “Nazi Doctors” and compare the current bio-medical establishment with Germany in the early 1940s.
And for everyone else, who can think on their own, and speaks about the subject in public, well, they’ll just be discredited as “raving” or throwing a “tantrum” or “mentally unstable.” The only way to “prove” atrocious lies such as 9/11 and Bird Flu, is to attack and discredit the person who dares expose or even question their legitimacy or motive.
And thanks to the recent expansion in “mental health” services—you can be sure they’ll make the slander stick, one way or the other. It indeed is depressing to get forced into designing ways to kill people under threat of failure, character assassination, and worse.
Christian Pecaut
ChristianPec...
04/18/2007
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"Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land...Killing for religion is something I don't understand...Fools like me cross the sea and come to foreign lands....ask the sheep for their beliefs do you kill on God's command?" from Holy Wars by Megadeth.
sanctuary
12/13/2007
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