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originally posted by: MKMoniker
Anyone following this discussion, knows that I continue to research the "3 stolen nukes" incident from last Fall.
originally posted by: MKMoniker
But Fortescue only caught my attention by ordering "floating barges" in December 2013. And the next month, January 2014, the fringe sites were talking like another Nuke/EMP event was being planned:
I did a Search of fbo.gov, for bids for "floating barges or docks." And I found one from Army Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia for today (Oct. 1, 2014). Langley, Virginia, is also headquarters for the CIA. (Looks a little too obvious, based on what I've been posting for hours. But ... who knows.):
originally posted by: MKMoniker
Sounds reasonable. But even if you remove Coast Guard "barges" from the equation, Google's couple 4-story barges stationed on both coasts last year (San Francisco and Maine) remain shrouded in mystery. Were they "testing" the stability of a nuke-loaded barge? Or were they really set up to "save" the Internet, should those "3 stolen nukes" have been detonated on American soil, and created an EMP wave that could have fried our electronic infrastructure?
originally posted by: MKMoniker
Thanks for your reply. My speculation about the 4-story Google barges possibly testing the viability of a nuke-on-a-barge, was mainly for the weight.
Also, the atomic bombs we used on Japan to end WWII were set to detonate a few feet above ground level, to avoid or seriously reduce the radiation. Or an air burst, as you call it.
The Fat Man was dropped, and following a 43-second duration free fall, exploded at 11:02 local time, at an altitude of about 1,650 feet... Source
(Little Boy)The detonation happened at an altitude of 1,968 ± 50 feet (600 ± 15 m). Source
So I was wondering if the 4-story Google barge might have also been testing the idea of both all that weight, AND if a nuke mounted on a barge-with-platform wouldn't sink or tip over before above-ground detonation.