HIGH TECH-TERROR
SAM CROMARTIE
Ukraine
Some Americans are suggesting that we should stop supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight the Russian invasion. They say that Kiev is far away and not our concern—that American money would better be spent on Americans. This was the attitude that Chamberlain and other Western leaders took in 1938. They acquiesced to a madman for…
Nuclear Reactors in the United States
There are 440 commercial nuclear reactors in the world with 92 of these in the United States. They utilize nuclear fission to create heat that causes steam to turn turbines that produce electricity. They use uranium for fuel. It is sealed into metal tubes named fuel rods that are bunched together into fuel assemblies. Hundreds…
Anthrax as a biological weapon
Anthrax makes an effective biological weapon because Bacillus anthracis forms spores that can survive for decades and which are highly resistant to antibiotics, certain forms of radiation, and extremes of temperature. These spores can be delivered in an aerosol and thus lodge in the alveoli of the lungs.Inhalational anthrax begins with flu-like symptoms one to…
Gain-Of-Function Experiments in Wuhan Institute of Virology
President Richard Nixon in November 1969 announced that the United States was destroying its stockpile of biological weapons and discontinuing all research regarding them other than defensive requirements such as immunization and protection against them. He justified this decision by stating that such weapons have the potential for uncontrollable consequences including global epidemics. Subsequently, in…
The Nuclear Powers
Nine countries currently have nuclear weapons: The United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea. Of these powers, North Korea presents the most imminent threat due to the hostility of its leaders. In the event of war, Japan and South Korea lie within range of its missiles and could face…
Hiroshima Anniversary
August 6, 2016 Today is the seventy-first anniversary of the atomic explosion that led to the end of WWII. The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, released the Uranium-235 bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It detonated at 2,000 feet above the ground, destroying most of the city and leading to…
The Trinity Nuclear Test
Nine days ago, the world celebrated the seventy-first anniversary of the first explosion of an atomic bomb. This plutonium device was the product of years of research by the scientists recruited into the Manhattan Project. They gave the test the code name Trinity. Detonation took place on July 16, 1945 at the top of a…
CDC Report on West Africa Ebola Outbreak
The CDC reports 1975 cases of Ebola with 1069 suspected deaths in the West Africa outbreak as of August 13. Guinea accounted for 510 of the patients with 670 in Liberia, 783 in Sierra Leone, and 12 in Nigeria. Although this is the world’s largest Ebola outbreak, the CDC predicts no significant risk to the…
ZMapp treatment for Ebola
The Ebola Virus epidemic that began in March in West Africa now involves patients in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria. Of the 1,603 cases, there have been 887 deaths, giving a mortality rate of 55 percent. The two Americans who acquired the infection in Liberia are showing remarkable response to ZMapp, a new experimental…
EMP Effects of a Nuclear Weapon
According to the executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, North Korea has the capacity at this time to deliver a nuclear weapon via ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) to the United States. Obviously the U.S. could respond with thousands of weapons that would obliterate that country, but that would not undo…