Wednesday, December 20, 2017

ISIS just "left" Irak ! " Irak has been experimenting with radiological weapons.“At the end of 1987 the Al Muthanna State Establishment and the Nuclear Research Center at Al Tuwaitha began exploring the use of radiological “area denial”weapons to prevent enemy forces from entering certain territory. Iraq conducted field experiments of lead-shielded containers weighing 1,400 kilograms, loaded with about a kilogram of irradiated zirconium oxide. Three prototypes were tested in 1987, one in a ground-level static test and two dropped from aircraft. Iraq subsequently modified 100 bombs for use as radiological weapons. These bombs weighed only 400 kilograms so they could fit in bomb bays of aircraft. Iraq claims the tests were unsatisfactory and the program was abandoned in mid-1998. The fate of the 100 bomb casings specially constructed for use as radiological weapons is unknown” This was what the CIA had of Intel. And, as far as I understand, the "system" is trapped in hundreds of problems like this one!


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