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talk show, when he pointed out: few thousand office workers would be gladly sacrificed in order to "The model of a miniature nuclear bomb that I have, which is 2- avoid short-term chaos. 3/4 inches in length, was made from 94 per cent-pure Pu-239 [pluto- During early May 1993, the ITN World News from London car- nium]... This is actually a lot bigger than the Israeli briefcase _ ried an interesting feature in which it was explained that due to bombs.” ; thefts of highly radioactive uranium-235, terrorists would now be Until now, few members of the public have been aware how small _ able to contaminate conventional bombs with 500 grams of uranium, micronised nuclear devices really are, or the way in which their thereby forcing the police to stay away from the area for days. explosive yield is tightly controlled. One device that has been Exactly why experienced terrorists would risk detection and death around since the seventies is the American SADM (Special Atomic _ by transporting deadly, unshielded uranium around in their pockets Demolition Munition) which is carried by a single soldier and used _ was not explained. to create behind-the-lines mayhem for the enemy. SADM is tiny There is no credible reason for keeping the police and other and lethally efficient: when triggered, it generates the same explo- authorities away from a bomb-site after massive damage has been sive blast as ten tons of TNT, from a package small enough to send inflicted. However, the rumour could form the basis of a govern- by courier. Unfortunately for the public at large, SADM also pro- _ment defence in cases where American or British citizens located duces significant quantities of strong sources of radiation—near extremely dangerous radiation. the World Trade Center or in the This can be detected by reading city of London, for example. the ultraviolet spectrum in the The question of exactly ‘who’ is vicinity of the blast, but few work- bombing some of the largest ers in London or New York have financial centres in the world cur- access to the correct equipment. -| rently remains unanswered, but While the British government the power of the bombs limits the was busy convincing its citizens candidates. Though much has “the IRA did it", London TV cam- been said in America about the eras were accidentally filming a possible involvement of the Israeli team of experts entering the blast intelligence service, Mossad, the area wearing full nuclear protec- only evidence pointing in its tive clothing—extraordinary direction is both London bombs behaviour from experts simply exploding on a Saturday, the walking into the area to take a Jewish Sabbath. While this would quick peek at the remains of an certainly have limited the number old-fashioned IRA car bomb. of possible deaths among Jewish Almost exactly a year later, the financial workers in the city of second London megabomb London, the timings were proba- DETONATOR TIMING cinculr GAS CAPSULE NEUTRON nally PLUTONIUM BULLET HIGH EXPLOSIVE CHARGE DETONATOR GUN TUBE exploded in the same part of the Bomb in a briefcase: A simplified sketch of a portable nuclear bly coincidental. financial centre. Like the first device, minus plutonium, made by Greenpeace. Most likely the question of bomb, damage was awesome with 'who' will never be answered. The repair estimates running as high as one billion dollars. Once again self-appointed 'New World Order’ has imposed its draconian will on the obvious was completely overlooked: repair bills from huge IRA a large number of resentful countries in a very short period of bombs detonated in the centre of Belfast generally range from ten to time—clearly wishing to change the world into a great, peaceful, twenty million dollars. Viewed in dollar-damage terms alone, each American-led democratic environment, perhaps similar to that exist- megabomb in London was therefore at least fifty times more power- =, + * : ful than its crude IRA cousins across in Northern Ireland. Put blunt- jaa Ee Dirigo SI CR et: Reeny amy emma Sone heme ly, the IRA does not have the technology for these bombs. ie fad diff ies with d —n The April 1993 bomb was supposedly detonated in a parked ‘New World Order’ could seahintee— he he ye oF tad Oe tacgeadiy Gti ee nn eae aged to buy or manufacture micronised nuclear weapons. Most 4 : P ; | frightening of all is the reality that America and Britain are utterly pmeapt ste po om salle peepee: — powerless to resist attacks of this kind. Though their intelligence upwards to aeiteaebnas. ‘Theietats advised that Qe oracer could Services have computers full of Islamic and IRA suspects’ names, only have appeared if he bad was dco a those names are worthless if the attacks are being launched by wa ed aan war made ah eran: ANOLE ih pol cn Females pe lh Solna ebm agate et hope to detect a complete stranger with a briefcase bomb among ne meas Ey ee acer INO ee tens of thousands of other citizens with briefcases, in two of the mute proof that the awesome bomb could not have originated in & Norther Ireland. most densely populated western cities on earth. The most com- Radiation left behind by nuclear devices—even micronised — cae ‘he! ho ay he eg a S leue> ar toma nuclear devices—can be extremely dangerous for those forced to Circus during the rush hour. American nuclear physicist Galen phy’ work in the area after the bomb has exploded—probably a very . A + —, good reason for the American and British governments to blame woe vend meee me in ig Wink Tete Conroe as lee Islamic militants and the IRA respectively. For as long as the gener- ; = al public remain unaware of the risk, they will continue to commute "They intended to topple one tower of the World Trade to work and happily beaver away at their desks. Center into the other tower and take out [kill] more than If either government ‘went public’ with the news that nuclear fifty thousand people." devices were used, there might be widespread panic in two of the On the available evidence it seems the aspirations of a small, arro- most important financial centres in the world, leading to a complete _gant bunch of men who decided to impose a 'New World Order’ on a refusal to return to work, and thus complete paralysis in the major host of very unwilling small sovereign nations, did not think the financial markets. Perhaps worse would be the ‘run on' effect when —_ exercise through to its perhaps inevitable conclusion. Those same smaller conventional bombs exploded at a later date. To a nervous arrogent men have placed tens of millions of citizens at risk because and jittery public, every explosion would be a potential nuclear _ of their own gross incompetence and thirst for absolute power. The device with the high attendant risks of radiation poisoning. In the ‘New World Order’ now seems set to face the unbridled wrath of harsh ‘New World Order’ it seems likely the health and lives of a _ large numbers of citizens in the near future. oo Bomb in a briefcase: A simplified sketch of a portable nuclear device, minus plutonium, made by Greenpeace. NEXUS¢39 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993