Tom Clancy had the same idea about thirty years ago. "The Sum of All Fears" pretty much detailed such an operation, but with plot twists and turns that are hard to follow and utterly unpredictable. Either Clancy was a literary genius or he was actually an operative for the CIA. Probably both. The movie versions were a pale, sterile (i.e., removed the islamic terroristic characters) and pretty hackneyed imitations (i.e., substituted "neo-Nazis" for islamic terrorists as I recall). But igniting a nuke successfully, whether in a truck, shipping container or missile warhead is a very tricky affair, so there's that.
Gain the higher vantage where God exists…where things are not what they seem from ground level.
The miraculous 2016 election of Trump has but one analog in history…the Battle of Midway which witnessed all the right assets and all the right people in exactly the right place at exactly the right time for the same reason; to purchase Americans time to rise and confront fascism.
You might ask why God would allow Marxianity to steal the 2020 election but there is an answer; “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love
According to the Convergence Matrix there were but 440 days as of Easter 2025 until the end of human history as it is understood with Yeshua as Moshiach in 2026 Jerusalem. Between now and then Americans will have to come to accept the final confrontation between good and evil has begun…pitting those who adhere to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” against those who do not; the false religion of human intellectual arrogance, Marxianity, posing as a political ideology in an utterly incongruous alliance with a political ideology, Islam posing as a religion…with both seeking to destroy the United States so as to destroy Israel.
It really is that simple.
Trump, like Netanyahu, has been chosen to lead during the final confrontation hence the reason why God allowed for the 2020 steal…positioning Trump for the final conflict.
There is a high probability the God of Abraham/Sinai, Yeshua and 1776 will make His presence known in no uncertain terms between June 25th and July 4th.
I'm giving your reply a 'like', mainly because I'm of the opinion that doubting or limiting God's Omnipotence (with a upper case O) is just too arrogant for my taste.
I also find it amusing that there is even a suggestion by the TDS crowd that candidate Donald Trump was not really shot in Butler, PA on July 13, 2024. Their arrogance is limitless.
Dang Glenn. You're full of surprises. I like this employment history surprise a lot better than your last one.
Detection of Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Science, Technologies, Observations (excerpt):
"Detection of nuclear weapons and special nuclear material (SNM, plutonium, and certain types of uranium) is crucial to thwarting nuclear proliferation and terrorism and to securing weapons and materials worldwide. Congress has funded a portfolio of detection R&D and acquisition
programs, and has mandated inspection at foreign ports of all U.S.-bound cargo containers using
two types of detection equipment.
Nuclear weapons contain SNM, which produces suspect signatures that can be detected. It emits
radiation, notably gamma rays (high-energy photons) and neutrons. SNM is dense, so it produces
a bright image on a radiograph (a picture like a medical x-ray) when x-rays or gamma rays are
beamed through a container in which it is hidden. Using lead or other shielding to attenuate
gamma rays would make that image larger. Nuclear weapons produce detectable signatures, such
as radiation or a noticeable image on a radiograph. Other detection techniques are also available.
Nine technologies illustrate the detection portfolio: (1) A new scintillator material to improve
detector performance and lower cost. This project was terminated in January 2010. (2) ADRAS,
an application using multiple algorithms to determine the materials in a container by analyzing
gamma-ray spectra. If materials are the “eyes and ears” of detectors, algorithms are the “brains.”
A project to simulate large numbers of experiments to improve detection system performance.
(4, 5) Two Cargo Advanced Automated Radiography Systems (CAARS) to detect high-density
material based on the principle that it becomes less transparent to photons of higher energy,
unlike other material. (6) A third CAARS to detect material with high atomic number (Z, number
of protons in an atom’s nucleus) based on the principle that Z affects how material scatters
photons. This project was terminated in March 2009. (7) A system to generate a 3-D image of the
contents of a container based on the principle that Z and density strongly affect the degree to
which muons (a subatomic particle) scatter. (8) Nuclear resonance fluorescence imaging to
identify materials based on the spectrum of gamma rays a nucleus emits when struck by photons
of a specific energy. (9) The Photonuclear Inspection and Threat Assessment System to detect
SNM up to 1 km away, unlike other systems that operate at very close range. It would beam high-energy photons at distant targets to stimulate fission in SNM, producing characteristic signatures that may be detected. These technologies are selected not because they are necessarily the “best” in their categories, but rather to show a variety of approaches, in differing stages of maturity, performed by different types of organizations, relying on different physical principles, and covering building blocks (materials, algorithms, models) as well as systems, so as to convey
many points on the spectrum of detection technology development."
Yes, but if they have been staged for a later detonation, I'm thinking that the Israelis have an inventory of detection equipment that they continually use throughout vulnerable cities as a precaution for scenarios like you described.
But for these kind of detection systems to work, (1) you have to be right next to the bomb because otherwise the radiation it emits is lost in the background radiation, and (2) the bomb can't be radiation shielded (such as by a simple lead case).
There's no system to detect a nuclear bomb that has been hidden in a city by simply driving around with a detector in a truck.
Philip: I was also of the opinion that any nuke would/could be spotted from the air or ground with a suitable radiation detector(?) I hope that is correct! Your explanation is a lot better than my potential misunderstanding on this matter.
But an undetonated nuke cannot be spotted from the air. From the ground, one would have to be right next to it. The radiation that an undetonated nuke emits is lost in the background radiation once you're not right next to it.
Think about it -- that would have to be true. If the undetonated nuke were emitting enough radiation to be detectable from a distance, then it would be lethal to anyone close by.
Radiation disperses in proportion to the square of distance. If the radiation is not unsafe at, say, 1' away, then it's only 1/4 that at 2 feet, 1/16 that at 4 feet and so on. At 10 feet, the radiation intensity would be only 1/100 of the safe level at 1' At 100' the radiation would be only 1/10,000 the level at 1' which is already a safe level. That level of radiation -- even if detectable -- would be lost in the background radiation.
If you also account for intention shields like lead casing, and accidental partial shielding like buildings, the likelihood of a roaming detector finding a hidden bomb in a city, is extremely close to zero.
Ran across this in a physics journal--maybe too new yet:
Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low levels of α radiation from a polonium-210 source sitting 10 m away from the laser source. For this proof-of-principle work, Milchberg’s team was limited by the length of the laser lab they were working in but they expect the method to be scalable to distances greater than 100 m.
Remember it well. My first "Duck and Cover" drill was in the 5th grade, 1969, at the Fort Buckner Elementary School. It became somewhat routine, like a fire drill, and of course, we became complacent and laughed about it.
Making nukes is hard business. And they need to be tested to see if they work - which is how we came to know N. Korea had accomplished that stage. Then making nukes small enough to put in a delivery vehicle (a missile, or a truck) is even harder business. And then that has to be tested, because a lot can go wrong in the milliseconds it takes to get the fuel to go critical mass. The slightest miscalculation and all you have is a "dirty bomb". Which is also why "dirty bomb" is the go-to for terrorists - conventional explosives wrapped up in radioactive isotopes. But there are ways to know about these things - like, say, having one of your own sitting at the highest level of the enemy's military planning table.
As I recall, during the Cold War, the USA and USSR signed a treaty at one time granting inspectors the authority to pull over any truck inside the others country to look for "unaccounted for nukes".
I never heard of this actually happening.
The treaty limited the number of warheads to a specific number. This provision was to look for any warheads being hidden.
Btw, a dirty nuke uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive fallout over an area.
Also, a ground nuke would send an EMP pulse over the area knocking out most electric and electronic devices.
If not an actual nuclear weapon how about what's commonly known as a "dirty bomb" where the explosion sends radioactive material over a wide area and still kills many.
Ukraine conducts a stealth drone raid, then Israel. How many connex's of armed CRP drones are sitting everywhere in this country, waiting?
Excellent but scary analysis.
Tom Clancy had the same idea about thirty years ago. "The Sum of All Fears" pretty much detailed such an operation, but with plot twists and turns that are hard to follow and utterly unpredictable. Either Clancy was a literary genius or he was actually an operative for the CIA. Probably both. The movie versions were a pale, sterile (i.e., removed the islamic terroristic characters) and pretty hackneyed imitations (i.e., substituted "neo-Nazis" for islamic terrorists as I recall). But igniting a nuke successfully, whether in a truck, shipping container or missile warhead is a very tricky affair, so there's that.
Watch out for vending machines!
Gain the higher vantage where God exists…where things are not what they seem from ground level.
The miraculous 2016 election of Trump has but one analog in history…the Battle of Midway which witnessed all the right assets and all the right people in exactly the right place at exactly the right time for the same reason; to purchase Americans time to rise and confront fascism.
You might ask why God would allow Marxianity to steal the 2020 election but there is an answer; “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love
According to the Convergence Matrix there were but 440 days as of Easter 2025 until the end of human history as it is understood with Yeshua as Moshiach in 2026 Jerusalem. Between now and then Americans will have to come to accept the final confrontation between good and evil has begun…pitting those who adhere to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” against those who do not; the false religion of human intellectual arrogance, Marxianity, posing as a political ideology in an utterly incongruous alliance with a political ideology, Islam posing as a religion…with both seeking to destroy the United States so as to destroy Israel.
It really is that simple.
Trump, like Netanyahu, has been chosen to lead during the final confrontation hence the reason why God allowed for the 2020 steal…positioning Trump for the final conflict.
There is a high probability the God of Abraham/Sinai, Yeshua and 1776 will make His presence known in no uncertain terms between June 25th and July 4th.
I'll make sure to wear clean underwear.
I'm giving your reply a 'like', mainly because I'm of the opinion that doubting or limiting God's Omnipotence (with a upper case O) is just too arrogant for my taste.
I also find it amusing that there is even a suggestion by the TDS crowd that candidate Donald Trump was not really shot in Butler, PA on July 13, 2024. Their arrogance is limitless.
Dang Glenn. You're full of surprises. I like this employment history surprise a lot better than your last one.
Detection of Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Science, Technologies, Observations (excerpt):
"Detection of nuclear weapons and special nuclear material (SNM, plutonium, and certain types of uranium) is crucial to thwarting nuclear proliferation and terrorism and to securing weapons and materials worldwide. Congress has funded a portfolio of detection R&D and acquisition
programs, and has mandated inspection at foreign ports of all U.S.-bound cargo containers using
two types of detection equipment.
Nuclear weapons contain SNM, which produces suspect signatures that can be detected. It emits
radiation, notably gamma rays (high-energy photons) and neutrons. SNM is dense, so it produces
a bright image on a radiograph (a picture like a medical x-ray) when x-rays or gamma rays are
beamed through a container in which it is hidden. Using lead or other shielding to attenuate
gamma rays would make that image larger. Nuclear weapons produce detectable signatures, such
as radiation or a noticeable image on a radiograph. Other detection techniques are also available.
Nine technologies illustrate the detection portfolio: (1) A new scintillator material to improve
detector performance and lower cost. This project was terminated in January 2010. (2) ADRAS,
an application using multiple algorithms to determine the materials in a container by analyzing
gamma-ray spectra. If materials are the “eyes and ears” of detectors, algorithms are the “brains.”
A project to simulate large numbers of experiments to improve detection system performance.
(4, 5) Two Cargo Advanced Automated Radiography Systems (CAARS) to detect high-density
material based on the principle that it becomes less transparent to photons of higher energy,
unlike other material. (6) A third CAARS to detect material with high atomic number (Z, number
of protons in an atom’s nucleus) based on the principle that Z affects how material scatters
photons. This project was terminated in March 2009. (7) A system to generate a 3-D image of the
contents of a container based on the principle that Z and density strongly affect the degree to
which muons (a subatomic particle) scatter. (8) Nuclear resonance fluorescence imaging to
identify materials based on the spectrum of gamma rays a nucleus emits when struck by photons
of a specific energy. (9) The Photonuclear Inspection and Threat Assessment System to detect
SNM up to 1 km away, unlike other systems that operate at very close range. It would beam high-energy photons at distant targets to stimulate fission in SNM, producing characteristic signatures that may be detected. These technologies are selected not because they are necessarily the “best” in their categories, but rather to show a variety of approaches, in differing stages of maturity, performed by different types of organizations, relying on different physical principles, and covering building blocks (materials, algorithms, models) as well as systems, so as to convey
many points on the spectrum of detection technology development."
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+does+the+military+detect+the+presence+of+nuclear+bombs%3F&oq=how+does+the+military+detect+the+presence+of+nuclear+bombs%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRirAjIHCAUQIRifBTIHCAYQIRifBTIHCAcQIRifBTIHCAgQIRifBTIHCAkQIRifBdIBCjMyMDMxajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBTTop3edJWKu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
(I especially like #9)
That's all great, so long as the nukes come through regular transportation channels.
Yes, but if they have been staged for a later detonation, I'm thinking that the Israelis have an inventory of detection equipment that they continually use throughout vulnerable cities as a precaution for scenarios like you described.
But for these kind of detection systems to work, (1) you have to be right next to the bomb because otherwise the radiation it emits is lost in the background radiation, and (2) the bomb can't be radiation shielded (such as by a simple lead case).
There's no system to detect a nuclear bomb that has been hidden in a city by simply driving around with a detector in a truck.
Philip: I was also of the opinion that any nuke would/could be spotted from the air or ground with a suitable radiation detector(?) I hope that is correct! Your explanation is a lot better than my potential misunderstanding on this matter.
That's true -- once it's detonated.
But an undetonated nuke cannot be spotted from the air. From the ground, one would have to be right next to it. The radiation that an undetonated nuke emits is lost in the background radiation once you're not right next to it.
Think about it -- that would have to be true. If the undetonated nuke were emitting enough radiation to be detectable from a distance, then it would be lethal to anyone close by.
Radiation disperses in proportion to the square of distance. If the radiation is not unsafe at, say, 1' away, then it's only 1/4 that at 2 feet, 1/16 that at 4 feet and so on. At 10 feet, the radiation intensity would be only 1/100 of the safe level at 1' At 100' the radiation would be only 1/10,000 the level at 1' which is already a safe level. That level of radiation -- even if detectable -- would be lost in the background radiation.
If you also account for intention shields like lead casing, and accidental partial shielding like buildings, the likelihood of a roaming detector finding a hidden bomb in a city, is extremely close to zero.
Ran across this in a physics journal--maybe too new yet:
Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low levels of α radiation from a polonium-210 source sitting 10 m away from the laser source. For this proof-of-principle work, Milchberg’s team was limited by the length of the laser lab they were working in but they expect the method to be scalable to distances greater than 100 m.
328 feet...might work(?)
Now we know why our DNI put out the video of the consequences of nuclear war.
"Duck - and Cover!" (In a British accent of course)
Remember it well. My first "Duck and Cover" drill was in the 5th grade, 1969, at the Fort Buckner Elementary School. It became somewhat routine, like a fire drill, and of course, we became complacent and laughed about it.
I was in kindergarten in Hialeah, FL nine years earlier.
👍
Well, Iran did launch 100 drones. Haven't heard if they've been effective.
Making nukes is hard business. And they need to be tested to see if they work - which is how we came to know N. Korea had accomplished that stage. Then making nukes small enough to put in a delivery vehicle (a missile, or a truck) is even harder business. And then that has to be tested, because a lot can go wrong in the milliseconds it takes to get the fuel to go critical mass. The slightest miscalculation and all you have is a "dirty bomb". Which is also why "dirty bomb" is the go-to for terrorists - conventional explosives wrapped up in radioactive isotopes. But there are ways to know about these things - like, say, having one of your own sitting at the highest level of the enemy's military planning table.
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1933524649872404815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1933524649872404815%7Ctwgr%5Ed3b83d80d1bee5c1a5656e45acbba2444542f44d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frantingly.com%2F
As I recall, during the Cold War, the USA and USSR signed a treaty at one time granting inspectors the authority to pull over any truck inside the others country to look for "unaccounted for nukes".
I never heard of this actually happening.
The treaty limited the number of warheads to a specific number. This provision was to look for any warheads being hidden.
Btw, a dirty nuke uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive fallout over an area.
Also, a ground nuke would send an EMP pulse over the area knocking out most electric and electronic devices.
If not an actual nuclear weapon how about what's commonly known as a "dirty bomb" where the explosion sends radioactive material over a wide area and still kills many.