.+.+.+.+.

Nuclear Neutron Bombs
Mini Nukes the Size of a Grapefruit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hand-held Neutron Bombs: The inventor says we're helpless against them!
Written and published by David M. Bresnahan
Box 1168 W. Jordan, UT
84084-7168 (801)562-5362

Live Real Audio Web Site:
http://talkusa.com
E-mail: david@talkusa.com

The inventor of the neutron bomb, and the so-called mini-neutron bomb believes
the United States is in eminent danger of a terrorist nuclear attack.
When I first interviewed him on my national radio talk show last April he was
given little attention by the press.
Now that top Russian military are confirming Sam Cohen's claims, maybe
now people will listen to what he has to say.

After a 40-year career in nuclear weapons development, Sam Cohen is now retired.
During World War II he was assigned to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
After the war Cohen went to work for the Rand Corporation as a nuclear weapons analyst.
In 1958 he developed the technical and military concept of the neutron bomb.
He has continued to serve as a consultant to the Los Alamos and Livermore,
the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Cohen had long been an advocate of discriminate use of mini-nuke battlefield weapons.
He proposed their use time and time again, but politicians refused to back his suggestions.

Cohen to this day makes a strong argument for rapid victory in Korea and Vietnam
through the use of grapefruit sized neutron bombs.
If we had a sizable stockpile of discriminate mini-nukes, the war would have ended
very quickly in our favor," Cohen says of the controversial military conflicts.
His proposal to the Johnson administration was turned down very firmly.

When the U.S. began preparations for the Persian Gulf War, Cohen presented
his proposal again.
This time it was the Bush administration that turned a deaf ear.
Cohen even published an article about his proposal for use of mini-nukes in the
Los Angeles Times.
"It was clear to me that we should stop the massive buildup of conventional weapons and
instead use mini-nukes," explained Cohen.

He claims his article won the support of a handful of congressmen who spoke in
support of his proposal.
However, the Bush administration strengthened itAEs determination to accomplish
the task with conventional weapons alone.

"Nuclear weapons, no matter how low-yield and discriminate they may be,
have been politically ruled out for use on the battlefield.
Better that we might suffer hundreds of thousands of casualties in a
conventional war, and maybe even fail in our objectives, than to
use mini-nukes to win in short order. This may be politically correct,
but morally something seems to be sadly lacking," Cohen concluded.

He pointed out that Congress passed legislation during the Bush administration,
with continued endorsement by the Clinton administration, that forbids
the testing, development, or stockpiling of mini-nukes. He also insists
that Congress and the President are well aware that other countries as well
as anti-American terrorists have an ample supply.

Cohen says he has numerous contacts in the intelligence community who are
as concerned as he is.
He claims they have confirmed to him that the spread of nuclear capabilities
in potential enemy areas of the world is growing rapidly.
His greatest concern is a new class of very small, very cheap, extremely effective
warheads, based solely on nuclear fusion
(thereby circumventing the monitoring terms of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty).
These weapons are in effect mini-neutron bombs whose use would render our high-tech
conventional forces useless.

"These warheads were developed during the Soviet era but work has continued under
the Russian regime.
There is an abundance of evidence that the underlying technology and ingredients
for these devices have been smuggled out of Russia and sold to a number of nations,
including terrorist ones," claims Cohen, who is upset that the U.S. is ignoring
this intelligence data.
Over 100 missing mini-nukes were recently reported on 60-minutes, and Cohen claims
this has happened with the complicity of the Russian government, including Boris Yeltsin,
and the assistance of the Russian mafia.

A terrorist could easily hand carry one of these mini-nukes in a suit case or even a paper bag.
According to Cohen, it could be placed in the park across the street from the White House,
or other strategic target, and detonated by timer or remote control.
This type of neutron bomb would destroy every living thing for a radius of 500 yards,
yet physical objects and buildings would be undisturbed.
Nuclear radiation would also be quickly rendered harmless.

Because there is no mushroom cloud, or even an explosion, Cohen claims testing of
such weapons cannot be detected in other countries.
"So in effect we have legally denied ourselves the ability to develop and stockpile
these weapons while giving an open hunting license to the rest of the world to
acquire them if they so wish, with little if any fear that they will be discovered,
even for countries that are party to the non-proliferation and test ban tactics,"
said an obviously worried Cohen.

Have we then deliberately given our enemies and potential enemies the capability
to defeat our conventional ground forces?
Have we enabled terrorists and anti-American radicals the ideal weapon to bring
us to our knees? Cohen says very emphatically, "yes!"

Cohen warns that the age of nuclear weapons has not come to an end.
Despite our arms control efforts, he believes mini-nuke battlefield weapons
already exist and will continue to proliferate around the world.
Cohen is warning that unless the U.S. takes immediate action, the next
major conflict will be decided by the army that is first to use a mini-nuke
on the battlefield.
He also warns that evidence is very strong that such weapons are already in the hands
of terrorists who are plotting an attack in a major U.S. city or cities.

.+.+.+.+.

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 MARCH 2007

Agents Successfully Sneak Weapons Through 90 Percent Of The Time

Security screeners at Denver International Airport have some explaining to do.
Last month, Transportation Security Administration screeners failed to find
simulated weapons and explosive materials carried through by undercover agents
roughly nine times out of 10.

And they can't blame the equipment.
According to Denver's KUSA-9, alarms sounded on screening machines when they
encountered suspect devices, just as they're supposed to -- but screeners failed
to then follow standard procedures, such as hand-searching luggage and conducting
closer inspections of suspect passengers.

"The good news is we have our own people probing and looking and examining the system,"
said Colorado congressman Ed Perlmutter, a member of the House homeland security and transportation committees.
"The bad news is they're finding weaknesses."

Items used in the tests included liquid explosives and weapons inside carry-on luggage.
In one case, an agent even taped an improvised explosive device to her leg...
and convinced the screener it was a bandage from surgery, despite the alarms wailing in the background.

KUSA cites sources who state the TSA's Red Team --
a group originally formed by the FAA following the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, to test security procedures at the nation's airports --
was able to sneak approximately 90 percent of its simulated weapons past screeners at DEN.

TSA Security Director Ed Morris said the poor test results show the Red Team is doing its job -- crafting difficult tests, to keep screeners on their toes.

"We could put these tests together so that we have a 100 percent success rate every single time," Morris said.
"Then, they wouldn't be challenging, they wouldn't be realistic and they really wouldn't be stretching the limits and the imagination of the
Transportation Security officer."

Morris added other agents not connected to the Red Team also conduct security checks... and the agency's screeners pass most of those tests.

"If they miss something that's obvious, ... we will pull them off the line and retrain them," Morris said.

Morris' explanation doesn't quite match up with a study bythe Department of
Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General and the US Government
Accountability Office, though, which in 2006 discovered widespread failures
very similar to those uncovered by the Red Team at DEN.

In those tests, screeners at 15 airports missed 90 percent of the guns and explosives agents tried to sneak past TSA screeners.

"We understand that security is not perfect in every aspect, but we understand that we go about trying to be perfect every single day," Morris said.

And as we all know, perfection is hard to find...
especially when smuggled through by an undercover agent...

FMI: www.tsa.gov

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||