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itsmesgd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-27-07 02:29 PM
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Great News: WSDP: Feds Cancel Divine Strake Explosion
Hoka Hey,
This news broke on feb 22, but I was incommunicado this past weekend. If this is old news, please forgive me. I just got the email from WSDP.org
There will be no test explosion- Good news. The bad news is that they will nuke Iran based on a guestimate of the tonage needed to hit the underground bunkers.

http://www.wsdp.org/us_defies_un_decision_040406.htm#excellent022207

AP: WASHINGTON - The government said Thursday it is canceling Divine Strake, a controversial non-nuclear explosion in the Nevada desert.

"I have become convinced that it's time to look at alternative methods that obviate the need for this type of large-scale test," Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director James Tegnelia said in a statement.

Divine Strake was planned as a 700-ton test of the nation's ability to defeat underground facilities that produce and store weapons of mass destruction.

But it prompted a lawsuit and widespread opposition in Utah and Nevada, where critics feared it would kick up radioactive material from decades-old experiments.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-27-07 02:38 PM
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1. Wanna know why?
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itsmesgd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-27-07 02:43 PM
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2. frightening
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Bobbieo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-27-07 03:21 PM
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3. I have been covering that story for months now
Edited on Tue Feb-27-07 03:23 PM by Bobbieo
on my Native Unity blog - http://nativeunity.blogspot.com
and I hope they stand by their word.

Somehow, I would not be surprised to see the Feds change the name to say - Big Bomb - fill uo that huge hole with 700 tons of ammonium and nitrate and blast away.
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