Mushroom cloud over las vegas, 700 tonn explosive test scheduled for begining of june in nevada

Home | Community | Message Board

You are not signed in.
New Account

Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop:

Spores for European Microscopy

North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies

Jump to first unread post

Pages: 1

ZippoZ
Knomadic

Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 13,227
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea

Mushroom cloud over las vegas, 700 tonn explosive test scheduled for begining of june in nevada

#5458971 - 03/30/06 12:31 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

the u.s. is going to be testing a big ass bomb in the next few months in nevada.

-----------------------------------

US to test 700-tonne explosive
Mar 30 11:26 AM US/Eastern
Email this story

The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said.

"I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Tegnelia said the test was part of a US effort to develop weapons capable of destroying deeply buried bunkers housing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

"We have several very large penetrators we're developing," he told defense reporters.

"We also have -- are you ready for this - a 700-tonne explosively formed charge that we're going to be putting in a tunnel in Nevada," he said.

"And that represents to us the largest single explosive that we could imagine doing conventionally to solve that problem," he said.

The aim is to measure the effect of the blast on hard granite structures, he said.

"If you want to model these weapons, you want to know from a modeling point of view what is the ideal best condition you could ever set up in a conventional weapon -- what's the best you can do.

"And this gets at the best point you could get on a curve. So it allows us to predict how effective these kinds of weapons ... would be," he said.

He said the Russians have been notified of the test, which is scheduled for the first week of June at the Nevada test range.

"We're also making sure that Las Vegas understands," Tegnelia said.

--------------------
PEACE

zippoz

"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

Extras:

Similar Threads	Poster	Views	Replies	Last post
Snow in Las Vegas :updated-pics:	ToTheSummit	1,064	7	01/04/04 05:55 AM by m0rb
Hunter S. Thompson style "Green Las Vegas Visors"	ToTheSummit	3,466	5	01/05/03 04:58 AM by Penguin
Vegas, what hotel?	Thor	1,079	11	07/23/04 06:19 PM by mntlfngrs
Post deleted by Administrator	Effed	2,320	10	11/14/02 08:08 PM by DreaMaTrix
LA BrAiN	xBrAiNx	693	3	10/17/03 03:06 AM by alienated
Why have mushrooms been making me pass out? ( 1 2 all )	AllisonWonderland	4,860	27	04/07/19 04:09 AM by Lucis
Kansas Man Picks Giant Mushroom	Blastrid	1,748	2	05/03/03 02:26 PM by Adom
My dream: mushroom oreinted ranch/retreat	TheShroomHermit	1,465	6	07/20/03 06:22 AM by Baby_Hitler