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Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls
Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that a program to detect plutonium or uranium in shipping containers has stalled because the United States has run out of helium 3, a crucial raw material needed to build the 1,300 to 1,400 machines to be deployed in ports around the world to thwart terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stashing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States every year. Helium 3 is an unusual form of the element that is formed when tritium, an ingredient of hydrogen bombs, decays — but the government mostly stopped making tritium in 1989 after accumulating a substantial stockpile of Helium 3 as a byproduct of maintaining nuclear weapons. 'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,' says Representative Brad Miller, chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem. Helium 3 is not hazardous or even chemically reactive, and it is not the only material that can be used for neutron detection. The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity, but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation like cat litter, ceramic tiles and bananas — and sounds false alarms more often. In a letter to President Obama, Miller called the shortage 'a national crisis' and said the price had jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years. With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States, Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas."
That's why you guys need to act quickly and outlaw Islam before it gets out of hand.
Sure, you'll have an initial clusterfuck of riots and deportation, but there is only one thing that Islamic savages understand -- the fist. The Knights Templar^W^W American military will gladly help you with that.
Once the Islamic question is dealt with, you won't have to worry about bombings and 9/11-type stuff (that is, there'll be no excuse for corrupt goverment operatives to fly planes into your own buildings). There will be mass-denouncements of Islam as millions of women throw off their chains and veils and run free throughout the streets in orgies of elation and self-expression. The female-male ratio will become 30:1 as the men will refuse to renounce Islam and will be subsequently deported.
The macho Muslim men won't like that, of course, but they can go back to Algeria and Pakistan and be pissed off over there. It's not like those regions will ever become civilized. America grabbed two big bags of shit with Afghanistan and Iraq and now America is trying to neatly dispose of the bags of shit while staining itself with shit in the process.