Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Boom
The U.S. military plans to detonate a 700 ton explosive charge in a test called “Divine Strake” that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said March 30.

”I don’t want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you’ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons,” said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Tegnelia said the test was part of a U.S. effort to develop weapons capable of destroying deeply-buried bunkers housing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
But remember, this is not a nuculur weapon or a weapon of mass destruction. It's only, you know, a conventional bomb that's really really big.

Hope the Las Vegas casinos warn those sitting on stools before the blast.
Written at 9:29 AM by Greyhair.
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