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I know I am not alone. Michael Crawford is one such person I communicated with over the Internet like you are. He informed me of the Thought Police that where after him and I know they were after me as well. But he wrote Living with Schizoaffective Disorder that helped me out. He warns us of atomic bombs in the nuclear global war that is coming up in the future.

I wrote the AI web bot Warbot 1Alpha based on my holy grail project of 1995, the only thing that comes close to it is Trane's subbot but my bot is written in C and Python and Trane's uses Ruby. Still neither one can pass the Turning test. But some people confuse it for a real person anyway. I tested it out on the IWETHEY forums from EzBoard and Zope way long ago, and people there accused it of being me as it came from the same IP address. It can parse out HTML and XML code and piece together words into posts to ape human conversations and try to pass as a real human, I also tested it out on Slashdot in 2004 and only recently reactivate it after rewriting parts of it due to corruption. It can create new accounts if there is no image verification, and it went wild on IWETHEY, and I got accused of creating those accounts, etc. But anyway, I am thinking of phasing it out as all it does is create confusion and hardly anyone understands how it works except for me and a few other people.

I read a Scientific American article (sorry, I don't have a reference) about what weapons inspectors had uncovered, including copies of the declassified patent for an improvement to the Calutron.

Calutrons are large mass spectrometers used to refine Uranium. They are very simple in principle, but in practice they work very poorly. At first the Manhattan project tried to improve them - resulting in this patent - but after the war they abandoned it for the far more efficient Uranium Hexafluoride gas centrifuge.

I guess the Calutron was considered so obsolete that no harm was forseen in declassifying its patents.

Calutrons require massive amounts of electricity. To avoid suspicion, Hussein ran power cables hundreds of miles underground to the Calutron facilities.

If you don't believe me, I have a photo of one of Hussein's Calutrons (courtesy of the IAEA) at the end of this section of my essay Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye! The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly.

(And yes, I was surprised myself to find that domain available.)

I read a Scientific American article (sorry, I don't have a reference) about what weapons inspectors had uncovered, including copies of the declassified patent for an improvement to the Calutron.

Calutrons are large mass spectrometers used to refine Uranium. They are very simple in principle, but in practice they work very poorly. At first the Manhattan project tried to improve them - resulting in this patent - but after the war they abandoned it for the far more efficient Uranium Hexafluoride gas centrifuge.

I guess the Calutron was considered so obsolete that no harm was forseen in declassifying its patents.

Calutrons require massive amounts of electricity. To avoid suspicion, Hussein ran power cables hundreds of miles underground to the Calutron facilities.

If you don't believe me, I have a photo of one of Hussein's Calutrons (courtesy of the IAEA) at the end of this section of my essay Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye! The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly.

(And yes, I was surprised myself to find that domain available.)

Are you still "as certain as you can be" that "Judgement Day" will come before the end of 2006? [1] [2]

One can fuel a reactor with unrefined uranium if one uses heavy water as a moderator, but they were unable to get enough heavy water because some commandos blew up the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant in Norway, then when they were trying to ship their existing inventory to Germany, the commandos sunk the ship it was on. Their heroics were portrayed in the movie The Heroes of Telemark.

After the war, the Allies found a sub-critical heavy water reactor in Germany.

Saddam Hussein really was trying to build a bomb before the first Gulf War - arms inspectors found calutrons, as well as buried power cables going from power plants to the calutrons (they require prodigous amounts of electricity to power their electromagnets).

The arms inspectors also found copies of World War II-era US patents on improvements to Calutron technology. They had been declassified, you see.

I discuss these and other fun facts in my essay Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye, The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly.

• Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye! The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly.
• Doomsday - while just a rough draft, what's there will give you nightmares. I had to stop working on it because it made me paranoid.
• Constitutional Crisis In A Nuclear State. Happily the crisis was resolved amicably, but potential trouble is still brewing

I plan to add some stuff about the Cuban Missile Crisis sometime soon, such as a wild bear wandering onto a US Air Force Base with the result that a fighter squadron armed with - ready for it? - nuclear air-to-air missiles was scrambled, and would have taken off had not the base commander blocked the runway with his own car.

The idea behind what one pilot described as "the dumbest weapon ever invented" was to fire a rocket armed with a nuclear bomb into the general vicinity of a soviet bomber. The blast would be big enough that the bomber would be destroyed even if the rocket didn't get very close. It's not quite clear what would become of the American or Canadian citizens on the ground beneath the detonation.

There's lots more, but I have to do it in little pieces or the I start wanting to crawl out of my own skin.

• Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye! The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly.
• Doomsday - while just a rough draft, what's there will give you nightmares. I had to stop working on it because it made me paranoid.
• Constitutional Crisis In A Nuclear State. Happily the crisis was resolved amicably, but potential trouble is still brewing

I plan to add some stuff about the Cuban Missile Crisis sometime soon, such as a wild bear wandering onto a US Air Force Base with the result that a fighter squadron armed with - ready for it? - nuclear air-to-air missiles was scrambled, and would have taken off had not the base commander blocked the runway with his own car.

The idea behind what one pilot described as "the dumbest weapon ever invented" was to fire a rocket armed with a nuclear bomb into the general vicinity of a soviet bomber. The blast would be big enough that the bomber would be destroyed even if the rocket didn't get very close. It's not quite clear what would become of the American or Canadian citizens on the ground beneath the detonation.

There's lots more, but I have to do it in little pieces or the I start wanting to crawl out of my own skin.

• Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye! The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly.
• Doomsday - while just a rough draft, what's there will give you nightmares. I had to stop working on it because it made me paranoid.
• Constitutional Crisis In A Nuclear State. Happily the crisis was resolved amicably, but potential trouble is still brewing

I plan to add some stuff about the Cuban Missile Crisis sometime soon, such as a wild bear wandering onto a US Air Force Base with the result that a fighter squadron armed with - ready for it? - nuclear air-to-air missiles was scrambled, and would have taken off had not the base commander blocked the runway with his own car.

The idea behind what one pilot described as "the dumbest weapon ever invented" was to fire a rocket armed with a nuclear bomb into the general vicinity of a soviet bomber. The blast would be big enough that the bomber would be destroyed even if the rocket didn't get very close. It's not quite clear what would become of the American or Canadian citizens on the ground beneath the detonation.

There's lots more, but I have to do it in little pieces or the I start wanting to crawl out of my own skin.