Terrorists can make an atom bomb from stuff at Home Depot (Or, the Dickhead of the Week)

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War on Terror -- Dickhead of the Week: One piece of why we're poorly led. Why would anyone follow this ninny?

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Sunday, 17 September 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

Well, shit. This is just the normal and usual obfuscation from our fearless leaders. No doubt he was speaking of some sort of crude "dirty" bomb that scatters radioactive material using some sort of explosive, but it served his purpose to be ambiguous enough that listeners assumed it would be a fission bomb. "Just add uranium!

Ironically, the USA uses vast quantities of spent-uranium armor-piercing shells, each of which is effectively a little "dirty" bomb, and we vociferously defend our right to do so.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Look at the fine print: "enriched uranium."

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait for the government to make me feel safer. I just keep feeling safer and safer!

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 17 September 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

If Bush can constantly say "nucular" and think he makes sense, then this dickhead probably thought his saying "enriched" uranium was merely a fine, scientific-sounding phrase that made him sound more impressive and quotable.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Most definitely quotable.

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

I have been to Los Alamos

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly, it reminds me of the VV cover story about post-9/11 war movies that seemed use the concepts of "nuke" and "dirty bomb" interchangably. Obviously it's scarier when someone in the House does it, but FFS J. Hoberman is "on our side."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 18 September 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

what's Squirrel_Police up to these days anyhows

― del griffith, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:06 (eight years ago)

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