[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Why We Should Not Worry About The Latest "WMDs in Iraq" Stories

[Gerry Gras]

Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hi, Gerry et al.:
>
>
>
>        One was marked 766 cpm (counts per minute), which per my
> computations corresponds to roughly 30 micrograms, which is advertised
> at $40 or very roughly $1 per microgram = $1 million per gram = $1
> billion per kilogram.
>
>
>        "As little as 15 lb (7 kg) of uranium-235 can be used to make an
> atomic bomb" (Wikipedia, Uranium).  Natural uranium ore is 0.71 percent
> U-235.  Thus, you'd need 140 pounds of natural uranium ore to get one
> pound of U-235 or roughly a ton of ore to get 15 pounds of U-235.  If
> you bought it from Amazon, you'd need $1 trillion.  You can probably get
> it much cheaper elsewhere.
>

Ok.

>
>        As I said before, however, the bigger problem is biological
> toxicity.  Wikipedia says that inhalation is a better problem than
> eating it.  There are trace amounts of all kinds of toxic things in the
> food we eat.  This probably includes uranium.  Fortunately, the amounts
> are usually so small, the health effects are usually negligible.  I
> doubt if 30 micrograms is enough to do you much harm, but I'm not going
> to perform that experiment.

Ok, so if a family with small children were to have this
uranium ore, their biggest fear should that a child might
eat it.

But for national policies, the fears tend to be about WMDs,
and these Amazon products should not be of concern in terms
of WMDs.

Gerry


>
>
>        Spencer
>
>
> On 7/10/2014 11:51 AM, Gerry Gras wrote:
>>
>> What about this?
>> http://www.amazon.com/naturally-contains-Uraninite-radiation-detector/dp/B00CQ9LLR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405017912&sr=8-1&keywords=uranium
>>
>> or
>> http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=pd_sbs_indust_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0Z7KS0ES6P9Z995EEZGE
>>  .
>>
>> But I don't consider these to be very dangerous.  You would
>> need a lot of these and some expensive equipment and some
>> months to get weapons grade uranium.
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>
>> John Thielking wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: *John Thielking* <peacemovies at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:peacemovies at gmail.com>>
>>> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:37 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Why We Should Not Worry About The Latest "WMDs
>>> in Iraq" Stories
>>> To: eden <edenw at gal3.com <mailto:edenw at gal3.com>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you please repost this to the entire list? My computer is messing
>>> up and won't let me reply all. Anyway, I double checked my Facebook wall
>>> where I know I had saved the link to the Uranium available on Amazon.com
>>> (and the whole rabbit too) but now the entire posting has gone missing.
>>> Oh well. Uranium ore USED TO BE available on Amazon.com.
>>>
>>> John Thielking
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:20 AM, eden <edenw at gal3.com
>>> <mailto:edenw at gal3.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 14-07-10 08:18, John Thielking wrote:
>>>>     The following text would not post to the article on rt.com
>>>>     <http://rt.com> that talked about the uranium being stolen in Iraq
>>>>     because the software thought it contained "offensive language". So
>>>>     here it is uncensored:
>>>>
>>>>     Considering that you can buy research grade uranium ore on
>>>>     Amazon.com, I wouldn't worry about this story. Since when did RT
>>>>     start jumping on the "there are WMDs in Iraq" bandwagon? I thought
>>>>     that path was proven to be bogus in 2003. The chemical weapons in
>>>>     Iraq story is also sourced from Reuters, probably USA planted
>>>>     propaganda used to justify bombing Iraq yet again. Fool me once,
>>>>     ok, but fool me twice? Come on RT, get it together.
>>>
>>>          I agree with your conclusion, but i tried to find uranium on
>>>     Amazon and failed. Are you referring to something that i'm not
>>> aware of?
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     eden
>>>
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