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Mini-Neutron Bombs: A Major Piece Of The 9/11 Puzzle

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:40
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There are a half-dozen or more theories about how the Twin Towers were destroyed, where, as The Vancouver Hearingshave established, the “official account”–that the buildings collapsed, due to the intense heat of the jet-fuel based fires, which caused the steel to lose its strength and lead to a cascade of floors falling upon one another–is the least defensible and most effortlessly refuted of them all.  

Here I am going to summarize the evidence for each and explain why the most defensible and difficult to falsify are those that posit the use of sophisticated arrangements of micro and mini-nukes, which, of course, is not a technique that would have been available to Osama bin Laden and his hearty band of 19 Islamic fanatics, which the government has peddled to the public with a straight face and which has been supported by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).  The NIST, alas, has been carrying the burden for the Bush/Cheney administration, which, together with its friends in the Mossad, appear to have been the principals responsible for 9/11.  

The theories to be discussed include (h1) the collapse theory, (h2) the nanothermite theory, (h3) the DEW theory, and (h4), the nuke theory, which should be distinguished by its own subtheories, including (h4a) the 150kt subbasement theory (associated with Dimitri Khalezov) and the (h4b) mini and mico-nuke theory (associated with The Anonymous Physicist, Dr. William Deagle, Dr. Ed Ward, Jeff Prager and Don Fox, among others), which appears by far the most promising.

During The Vancouver Hearings, two sessions (with three speakers each) were devoted to the Twin Towers and how they were destroyed.  Chuck Boldwyn discussed (h1), the collapse theory, during “Why the Twin Towers could not have collapsed”, explaining how a collapse of either of those buildings, given their design, was not even physically possible.  This is especially so because the steel was tapered in thickness from 6″ thick in the subbasements to 5″, 4″, and so on up to the highest floors, where it was only 1/4″ thick.  Thus, the relative mass of the steel for the top 14 floors of the North Tower, for example, which were alleged to have been weakened by the intense fires and collapsed onto the 96 floors below, represented on 1.4% of the mass of the steel.  The very idea that that miniscule relative mass could overcome the lower 98.6%  is a physical absurdity.  Plus the fires burned neither long enough nor hot enough to cause the steel to weaken, much less melt.  And if, counterfactually, they had burned long enough and hot enough to cause the steel to weaken, since those fires were asymmetrically distributed, their effects would have been asymmetrical, with gradual sagging and tilting, not the complete, abrupt and total demolition sequence that occurred.  For these and other reasons, (h1) has to be rejected.

The nanothermite theory, (h2), was discussed by several speakers, but had previously been refuted by T. Mark Hightower, a chemical engineer, who discovered the law of material science, namely, that for an explosive to pulverize or to otherwise destroy a material, it must have a detonation velocity equal to or greater than the speed of sound in that material.  The speed of sound in concrete is 3,200 mps, while in steel, it is 6,100 mps; the highest detonation velocity attributed to nanothermite found in the scientific literature, however, is only 895 mps, which means you cannot get there (pulverized concrete and decimated steel) from here (Twin Towers plus nanothermite).  Not only does nanothermite only have an explosive force that is not even equal to 1/13 of TNT, but Niels Harrit, perhaps the most scientifically qualified of its supporters, advised Mark that, by his calculations,a minimum of 29,000 metric tons of nanothermite would have been required to have blown apart a Twin Tower. That would have been more than 100,000 tons of explosives.  Indeed, as Mark observes, even 29,000 tons would have been difficult to put in place without being detected.  And, more importantly, why would anyone want to use such a feeble explosive to perform feats that could more efficiently be accomplished using more powerful alternatives?  The case for (h2), accordingly, cannot be sustained.

 
During The Vancouver Hearings, Clare Kuehn, “Were DEWs used to decimate the Twin Towers?”, made heroic efforts to explain why hypothesis (h3), the use of DEWs (Directed Energy Weapons) might have been involved, as Judy Wood, Ph.D., the former professor of mechanical engineering from Clemson University, has proposed.  The principal problems with the this approach, however, are that, (1) while her book, Where did the Towers Go?, and her web site, http://drjudywood.com, do an admirable job in laying out the effects that need to be explained (technically known as “the explanandum”) by means of an adequate theory (its “explanans”), (2) Judy Wood herself claims that she does not have a theory, which means that she is likely to deny any specific position attributed to her, where (3) the strongest claim she makes is that the energy that was required to destroy the Twin Towers was significantly beyond that provided by conventional explosives–and was directed!  Among the kinds of fascinating evidence to which she and Clare invite our attention are oddities related to those who jumped from the towers, the lathering phenomena that preceded the destruction of both Twin Towers and WTC-7 as well, and the importance of “the bathtub”, a dike-like wall that kept Hudson River water from flooding beneath lower Manhattan and the subway and PATH train tunnels, the preservation of which appears to be the primary reason why the towers had to be destroyed by a novel form of demolition that would convert most of those 500,000 ton buildings into very fine dust rather than allow them to fall upon and damage the bathtub.  Dust particles, after all, remain suspended in the atmosphere and do not come down in mass.

The North Tower “bathtub” during the clean up

These reasons do not completely rule out (h3), but they make it rather difficult to take very seriously, when the principal claim that Judy Wood makes about the destruction of the Twin Towers–that the energy that was required to destroy them was significantly beyond that provided by conventional explosives–is also satisfied by (h4), the nuke hypothesis.  While she appears to be completely correct in making that claim, it is a condition that is satisfied by the use of nuclear weapons, which provide quantities of energy that are far beyond those provided by conventional sources of energy and can be directed!  I believe that the only hypotheses that are sufficiently precisely defined that can potentially explain the destruction of the Twin Towers–which were blown apart form the top down in about 9 seconds for the South Tower and 11 seconds for the North–are those that appeal to nuclear devices, where several different versions have been advanced, which I shall discuss here.

The first, (h4a), has been advanced by Dimitri Khalezov, who maintains that, during their construction, all three of the buildings–the Twin Towers and WTC-7–were constructed with 150kt nukes in their subbasements, where those nukes were directed upward.  But the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by completely different methods, where WTC-7 appears to have been a classic controlled demolition, where the demolition is set from the bottom up, all the floors are falling at the same time and there is a stack of pancakes equal to about 12% of the height of the original 47 floors or about 5 floors high.  In the case of the Twin Towers, by comparison, the buildings are blowing apart from the top down, where the floors are waiting their turn to be “blown to kingdom come”, in the memorable phrase of Morgan Reynolds, they are being converted into millions of cubic yards of very fine dust and, when it is over, there is nothing there:  no pancakes! Both buildings were destroyed below ground level.  So they cannot possibly have been destroyed by the same method, where Khalezov’s account may even have been intended to discredit the theory that nuclear devices were used. 

Read more here: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/29/mini-neutron-bombs-a-major-piece-of-the-911-puzzle/

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  • My opinion.

    Judy Wood is a certified loon and should not be connected to 9/11 in anyway. She is quite content making ludicrous amounts of money selling her books and not researching the truth.

    And mini-nukes (neutron bombs) have been discussed in-depth and have been shown not to coincide with the evidence that is available.

    Jim Fetzer, is a dis-info agent promoting the idea of the ‘no-planes theory’. Which is not a logical scenario and severely lacking in evidence, its laughable.

    Just my two cents.

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