More on the B-61 and US Nuclear Forces:
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/jf03nukenote.html
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/nukenotes/nukenote.html
http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/usnukes.html
The last has photos of various weapons.
Note on the photo of the operational B-61 in the hangar
http://www.hanscom.af.mil/ESC-FD/ws3_images/vltphoto.jpg
It is supported in a framework called a "vault," which is used to
store the bombs underground. You can see the top of the frame
is stepped to fit the top of the hole into which it is lowered.
Typically, the hangars for nuclear weapons delivery systems
are constructed of concrete and earth-covered bunkers.
The bunkers for weapons storage areas in the US and elsewhere
are characteristically enclosed in special double- or triple-security
fencing, with motion and acoustic sensors embedded in the fenceway.
We offer a collection of aerial photos and location maps of these
nuclear weapons storage areas in the US:
http://cryptome.org/nwsa-eyeball.htm
To be sure one of the greatest threats to the US, and elsewhere,
are dirty bombs, made of nuclear materials and explosives which
are not nuclear weapons but devices for spreading radiation
materials and thus panic among populations targeted.
The Environmental Protection Agency offers fact sheets on
radiaton materials, their effect on humans, their customary
uses and hazards. The fact sheets were prepared when such
materials were considered to be a public hazard long before
the threat of dirty bombs was publicized. That the radiation
materials can be found throughout the US, and not within
heavily protected weapons storage areas, is not highlighted
by EPA. Here are the fact sheets and a recent news story
about the growing black and gray markets in selling nuclear
materials:
http://cryptome.org/dirty-market.htm
In a related matter, the EPA is being charged with underplaying
the environmental hazard of Ground Zero from Day One -- allegedly
under direction from the White House.
This deception of the public approach fits nicely with the rapid
removal and destruction of evidence of the causes of the WTC tower
collapses, as well as diverting attention with the Libeskind/Silverstein
comedy away from investigating culpability of the Port Authority,
State of New York and New Jersey, the City of New York and the
US Government for failing to prevent 9/11.
Presumably the great bribes being offered to Silverstein and Libeskind,
and well as to early designers and contractors -- "responders" -- for
initial WTC work, will do the dirty bombing quite effectively.
We've recently filed freedom of information requests for documents
on the selection and contracting of Libeskind and of the public relations
services for the WTC "renewal" since the Day After.
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