I found this, dont know how accurate it is: http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/terrorism/terror-tactics/suitcase-nukes/ I didnt realize it until I started researching it but both the US and Russia moved away from large (high-yield) nukes long ago and instead have lots of little independently targetable nukes (MIRV, Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles) on top of each icbm. Apparently this is more effective than large nukes. The only declared nuclear party I could find with large nukes is China, 4 Megaton as I recall !
I just invented that yesterday because I couldn't figure out why sometimes indices respond with oil and sometimes opposite to it. So it has absolutely no merit. But it sounds good and makes a pretty chart.
You came up to something. When you have a great bull market in both markets, which is not the norm, what you end up with is, underpriced oil and overpriced markets.
Cable----------- UPI reported the story on the backpack radiological device---------- http://about.upi.com/ as did others. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...7/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-7222046-8631964 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...3/104-7222046-8631964?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...1/104-7222046-8631964?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...6/104-7222046-8631964?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance other stories from the AP------------- Report: Al Qaeda Has Nukes Sunday, March 21, 2004 SYDNEY, Australia â Usama bin Laden's (search) terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, the biographer of Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader was quoted as telling an Australian television station. In an interview scheduled to be televised on Monday, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said Ayman al-Zawahiri (search) claimed that "smart briefcase bombs" were available on the black market. It was not clear when the interview between Mir and al-Zawahiri took place. U.S. intelligence agencies have long believed that Al Qaeda (search) attempted to acquire a nuclear device on the black market, but say there is no evidence it was successful. In the interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. television, parts of which were released Sunday, Mir recalled telling al-Zawahiri it was difficult to believe that Al Qaeda had nuclear weapons when the terror network didn't have the equipment to maintain or use them. "Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri laughed and he said 'Mr. Mir, if you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and a lot of ... smart briefcase bombs are available,'" Mir said in the interview. "They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other central Asian states and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase bombs," Mir quoted al-Zawahiri as saying. Al-Qaeda has never hidden its interest in acquiring nuclear weapons. The U.S. federal indictment of bin Laden charges that as far back as 1992 he "and others known and unknown, made efforts to obtain the components of nuclear weapons." Bin Laden, in a November 2001 interview with a Pakistani journalist, boasted having hidden such components "as a deterrent." And in 1998, a Russian nuclear weapons design expert was investigated for allegedly working with bin Laden's Taliban allies. It was revealed last month that Pakistan's top nuclear scientist had sold sensitive equipment and nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, fueling fears the information could have also fallen into the hands of terrorists. Earlier, Mir told Australian media that al-Zawahiri also claimed to have visited Australia to recruit militants and collect funds. "In those days, in early 1996, he was on a mission to organize his network all over the world," Mir was quoted as saying. "He told me he stopped for a while in Darwin, he was ... looking for help and collecting funds." Australia's Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the government could not rule out the possibility that al-Zawahiri visited Australia in the 1990s under a different name. "Under his own name or any known alias he hasn't traveled to Australia," Ruddock told reporters Saturday. "That doesn't mean to say that he may not have come under some other false documentation, or some other alias that's not known to us." Mir describe al-Zawahiri as "the real brain behind Usama bin Laden." "He is the real strategist, Usama bin Laden is only a front man," Mir was quoted as saying during the interview. "I think he is more dangerous than bin Laden." Al-Zawahiri â an Egyptian surgeon â is believed to be hiding in the rugged region around the Pakistan-Afghan border where U.S. and Pakistani troops are conducting a major operation against Taliban and Al Qaeda forces. He is said to have played a leading role in orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Also, as of this week there is suppose to be the start of an immediate congressional investigation into the al-qaeda suitcase nukes already here in the U.S. issue--------------something has numerous DC politicians excited this week.
Yeah. I measure everything in oil and in gold. Even oil and gold. Sometimes is enlightening, sometimes not.
Well tommorow is indeed options expiration day and 4 Market moving reports as well will be coming in (Business Inventories, PPI, Industrial Production, and consumer Sentiment). Tommorow will be very volatile. The Naqdaq closed at a new year High, Dow closed at almost a 4 month high , S&P 500 passed 1225 to a 4 year high. Due to stocks trending down for options expiration and a pull back for profit taking and to re-consolidate in the Major Indicators, it should be a down day. If the reporting Indicators and the Earnings are still good a continuation of the general uptrend should continue early next week. Just my thought.
The first link does not have any stories about terrorism or nukes, and the rest of them go to books, not news articles. A search of various authentic news sites has produced no stories about 40 nukes already in the USA. Nothing on CNNs main page either. In their politics section, the news is not about a bunch of politicos getting ready to investigate this, rather it's about Rove and Rhenquist. Today is brought to you by the letter R. If this were the story, we sure wouldn't have to dig and dig for it. The entire planet would be talking about nothing else. The market sure wouldn't be smoking up to new highs. In other words, this story is a bunch of horse $&!%.
Alas, I fear that gold must fall further relative to the dollar. Almost time to buy more. Using dollars, of course. Now oil is a different matter. It is capped eventually at about $70. Most folks forget that at that price we can GROW oil. We are already recycling used motor oil into a diesel additive. And alcohols are easy to ferment from almost anything organic.