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travelingfool
Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Location: Parents' basement
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject: Korean-American charged in rocket technology plot |
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MIAMI � A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_re_us/us_rocket_plot_2
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Sleepy in Seoul

Joined: 15 May 2004 Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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MIAMI � A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology. |
What does 'indicted Wednesday' mean? |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Location: Robotting Around the World
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Where in the heck was this puny little man in a suit getting all these bombs and shit? I didn't know South Korea lacked advanced Russian technology. OH, wait, they're not supposed to have that as Russia backs the North Korea who probably has it so America put a stop to that one. This is all one big chess game with Russia, China, and America being the big boy players with the little guys like the 2 Korea's caught between a rock and a hard place. I'm not saying Korea is a bad guy, but wherever this hardware ends up, it'll eventually be used, becuase it exists and was designed for one purpose. To destroy the Earth over an international dispute that gets out of hand at some point.
Please, why in the world did we invent and plan for global thermal nuclear war? It's the dumbest idea ever thought up. Why? And one day, somethings going to go badly wrong when that hardware falls into the wrong hands. The hardware was designed last for many hundreds of years until the day it is to be used. America is not going to be around to forever to control this issue they manufactured off of a German's idea. That's a shame it has to be this way. I feel so bad that we can and will destroy the Earth. I remember when I was a little kid and saw this TV show about it and how terrified it made me feel and how I thought about it every day for years on end. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Robot_Teacher wrote: |
And one day, somethings going to go badly wrong when that hardware falls into the wrong hands. The hardware was designed last for many hundreds of years until the day it is to be used. |
No, it's not. They require maintenance. And the average life span of a nuclear weapon is 20-25 years. Scientists are trying to extend the life span of American stockpiled weapons to 75 years.. either way it's hardly "many hundreds of years" |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Location: Robotting Around the World
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Robot_Teacher wrote: |
And one day, somethings going to go badly wrong when that hardware falls into the wrong hands. The hardware was designed last for many hundreds of years until the day it is to be used. |
No, it's not. They require maintenance. And the average life span of a nuclear weapon is 20-25 years. Scientists are trying to extend the life span of American stockpiled weapons to 75 years.. either way it's hardly "many hundreds of years" |
It's the bomb part that lasts; not the rocket it's mounted on, but it can be fitted on new rockets. |
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roknroll

Joined: 29 Dec 2007
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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dirty bombs don't require the latest and greatest innovations, just the radioactive elements |
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