Mike Hord wrote:
>=20
> > Consider this:
> >
> > http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1997/nd97/nd97albright.html
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> That's hardly a reassuring article.  I was laboring under the belief
> that nuclear
> tests, anywhere on Earth, are fairly easy to pick out due to released f=
ission
> products, radiation, and seismographic readings.  Apparently not so.

yeah, it alarmed me as well that we aren't actually more able to
decisively monitor these things, at least not officially.  i really hope
we really can tell exactly what's going on.

> That claim doesn't hold much water IMHO.  What goes up must come down,
> and I find it hard to believe any responsible engineer anywhere in the =
world
> would sign of on a single tremendous explosion for the purpose of movin=
g an
> entire mountain.
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err, i don't know, remember chernobyl?  that wasn't an accident.  they
wanted to see what would happen if they bypassed the safeties and
stopped the coolant water.  well, they found out what any engineer from
any practice, much less someone who supposedly knows about nuke stuff,
should have been able to tell them.  and people call me a mad scientist ;=
)

--=20
Philip Stortz--"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.=20
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
Jew.=20
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist.=20
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.=20
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- Martin Niem=F6ller, 1892-1984 (German Lutheran Pastor), on the Nazi
Holocaust, Congressional Record 14th October 1968 p31636.

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