Did A Tactical Nuke Go Off In Iraq?

Could have been a very large chemical explosion, as happened in Suffield, Alberta in 1962:<br />
<a href="http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0619787">http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0619787</a><p>---<br>"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

Did you look at the video? It shows a definite mushroom cloud after the blast.

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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)

Ya I saw the mushroom cloud but why would there be continuing small explosions in the same location afterward? Sure looks suspicious anyway. Guess I'll go read some middle eastern news now.

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Everybody got to deviate from the norm

Just because there is a "mushroom cloud" does not provide evidence of a nuclear explosion. When the French munitions ship blew up in Halifax Harbour during World War I it created a huge mushroom cloud only surpassed by the nuclear explosions in Japan decades later.

The resistance managed to lob a mortar round into an ammo dump last week. That's what you are seeing. If that was a nuke the person taking the video footage would be well toasted right now.

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

Thanks Innes , I was going to bring that up as well because i wasnt certain nukes = shroom clouds

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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."

Any large chemical or ammunition explosion will produce both a very bright flash and a "mushroom cloud" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_cloud">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_cloud</a><br />
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If the explosion had been nuclear, even a low-yield one, the TV camera's videcon tube would've been burned out unless properly protected. Also, we'd've heard about massive destruction over several blocks radius from the hypocentre from both the blast and thermal pulse. Electronics in the area, unless properly shielded and hardened, would've been damaged by a significant electromagnetic pulse.<br />
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This looks like a large warhead cooking off in a fire. I doubt even the Yanks are so stupid as to store nukes in Iraq.<br />
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So does a large enough chemical explosion. That is what they found out at Suffield. I am kind of thinking that a nuclear explosion would tend to snuff out any more fireworks.........

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"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

<blockquote> I doubt even the Yanks are so stupid </blockquote> Perhaps the military might ot be, but their bosses have demonstrated sheer stupidity time and time again.........<p>---<br>"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

That's no nuke. Just a big explosion.

If it were a tac nuke the emp would have toasted the hydro grid and plunged that portion of the city into darkness, not to mention the shockwave would have demolished the surrounding buildings.

also, if it were a nuke the flash would have been as bright as the midday sun from the distance the camera was.


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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

I don't share your optimism for intelligence, but I do not think it is possible to detonate a nuke with fire. You need to slam the uranium together really hard, or cause the detonator that fires the uranium together, to go off. Which I don't think you can with fire.

Anyways, I will share that I witnessed a 'nuclear weapon simulator' device in Wainright, Alberta in the late 80's, which the Canadian army cooked up. The device simulated the effects of a tactical nuclear weapon for exercise purposes. It was just a big explosion with lots of smoke to make the mushroom cloud.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

I don't share your optimism for intelligence, but I do not think it is possible to detonate a nuke with fire. You need to slam the uranium together really hard, or cause the detonator that fires the uranium together, to go off. Which I don't think you can with fire.

Anyways, I will share that I witnessed a 'nuclear weapon simulator' device in Wainright, Alberta in the late 80's, which the Canadian army cooked up. The device simulated the effects of a tactical nuclear weapon for exercise purposes. It was just a big explosion with lots of smoke to make the mushroom cloud.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

U.S. reports that they've found radioactivity.

Depleted Uranium.....?

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"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."