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Saturday March 22, 2008
Kevin Barrett talks with Steve Alten, author of "The Shell Game", about their respective encounters with neoconmedia, including Steve's run-in with Jim Bohanon

(75 Minutes - 22 Meg)

* source = http://www.gcnlive.com

Thursday March 6, 2008
Steve Alten, author of "The Shell Game", delivers 9/11 Truth to Jim Bohanon's CBS National Radio audience (4 + million)

(40 Minutes - 11 Meg)

* source = http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_bill_dou_080306_9_2f11_truth_i...

Friday March 7, 2008
Alex Jones speaks with Steve Alten about his new book "The Shell Game" and takes questions from callers

(33 Minutes - 9.7 Meg)

* source = http://www.infowars.com

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Book
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The Shell Game
By Steve Alten

Product Description
The story opens in 2007 when two CIA spooks meet with an American Colonel in military intelligence. The war is going badly, and President Bush, who steadfastly refuses to back down, remains unchallenged at home as Democrats and Republicans continue to toss verbal grenades positioning themselves for the 2008 elections. Meanwhile, Iran s pursuit of nuclear energy will yield enriched uranium within five years, uranium that can be used to manufacture suitcase nukes. The United States military is too drained to invade Iran, and a preemptive strike is out of the question,unless a nuclear detonation were to occur in an American city, the enriched uranium traced back to Iran. A U.S. reprisal would strike a death-blow against radical Islam, quell the insurgent violence in Iraq,and yield more oil. Yes, the cost is unthinkable but if we sit back and do nothing then one day a dozen suitcase bombs could go off in a dozen American cities bringing with it anarchy and the collapse of Western civilization. December 2011: Ashley Ace Futrell is an oil expert working for PetroConsultants, married to Kelli Doyle, a former National Security Advisor and one of the CIA spooks from the opening scene. When Kelli threatens to expose the plot, Ace finds his existence hurtling down a rabbit s hole of deceit where the orchestrated lies of the powerful few could lead to the darkest days of human existence, and the death knell for billions.

There has been an effort in the blogosphere to generate the notion that any Joe could get a toxic dose of Polonium-210 together. However, this sort of skirts over the fact that Polonium-210 is a possible signifier of a nascent nuke program;

"Of concern is the discovery that (insert "rogue nation" here) has irradiated Bismuth metal samples. While the metal can be used as a carrier for U-235 or U-233 fuel in nuclear reactors, it can also, when irradiated, produce Polonium-210, which, together with Beryllium, can be used as an ‘initiator’ in nuclear weapons of an early design.* (generic "rogue nation") has claimed that these experiments are for civilian purposes. However, given that Polonium 210 has a half-life of 138 days, it would seem that any civilian applications would be severely limited. According to a declassified Los Alamos document, the occurrence of Polonium-210 is an indication of a nuclear weapons programme in its early stages."

http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Notes/BN040305.htm

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From: 'Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Indications and Observables', Los Alamos document OA-12430-MS at p. 14. Declassified and published in December 1992;

Section VI - NUCLEAR LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS

(Subsection) C. Development and Testing of Nuclear Initiators

Nuclear initiators may be of the (alpha,n) type or the particle accelerator type; implosions or gun-type weapons may employ either. An (alpha,n) initiator produces neutrons from the physical mixing of a radioactive alpha emitter (such as Polonium-210) with a light element (such as beryllium). Various nuclide materials can be used as alpha emitters...

A country that decides to develop (alpha,n) initiators must first produce or import the alpha-emitting material... Polonium-210 is made from high-purity bismuth. there must be considerable testing of design to insure the device turns on at the proper time and acheives the required intensity.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/la-12430-ms.pdf

(Prof. Jones, if you are passing by, did I translate the "alpha" symbol correctly?)

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From Epstein's article;

Polonium-210 is of great interest to the UN's nuclear proliferation watchdogs because it is a critical component in early-stage nuclear bombs. Both America and Russia used it as part of the trigger in their early bombs. So did most, if not all, countries with clandestine nuclear programs, including Israel, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and North Korea. To be sure, some of these nuclear powers shifted to more sophisticated triggers after they tested their weapons. Even so, as a declassified Los Alamos document notes, the detection of Polonium-210 remains "a key indication of a nuclear weapons program in its early stages." So when Polonium-210 was detected in Iraq in 1991, Iran in 2004, and North Korea in October 2006, the concern was that these countries might be trying to build a nuclear weapon.

When Polonium-210 was discovered in London in late November 2006 in Litvinenko's body, however, no such proliferation alarm bells went off. Instead, the police assumed that this component of early-stage nuclear bombs had been smuggled into London solely to commit a murder. It would be as if a suitcase nuclear bomb had been found next to an irradiated corpse in London, and everyone assumed the bomb had been smuggled into the country solely to murder that person. Michael Specter, in the New Yorker, for example, called it the "first known case of nuclear terrorism perpetrated against an individual." But why would anyone use a nuclear weapon to kill an individual, when a knife, bullet, or conventional poison would do the trick more quickly, efficiently, and certainly?

Certainly Polonium-210 is lethal once it gets into the blood stream. Before Litvinenko's death, six people died of exposure to Polonium-210 — two in a radiation lab in France, three in a nuclear facility in Israel, and one in a nuclear research lab in Russia. All resulted from accidental leakage of Polonium-210. Because it is unstable, turning into a gas at 55 degrees Celsius, it is extremely difficult to handle. It is also expensive.

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* Like, a really early design;

1. Neutron Initiator

Theoretically workable. Polonium is a well known alpha radiation emitter. Alpha radiation is He atoms stripped of electrons and accelerated towards c. When polonium crushed onto beryllium by explosion, reaction occurs between polonium alpha emissions and beryllium leading to Carbon-12 & 1 neutron. This, in practice, would lead to a predictable neutron flux, sufficient to set off device. Widely known that once critical mass is obtained, in order for bomb to explode, requires fission initiation by neutron generation; this will do the trick. Polonium 210 specifically well known alpha emitter. Gold/nickel foil layer around beryllium is sufficient to prevent pre-reaction prior to explosive compression due to low penetrability of alpha radiation (can’t pass through paper). This allows for long-term storage of initiator.

The Boron-10 shielding is to keep stray (eg cosmic ray generated) neutrons from pre-initiating the chain reaction.

The polonium in the initiator has a short, half-year halflife.

The inner layer of the Be sphere is etched with grooves, these will create Be jets when imploded (shaped charge effect) which mixes the Be and Po very quickly.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/First_atomic_bomb_diagram

While unimpressed by his credentials as the father of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts proves with every article he writes what a great asset to 9/11 Truth.

You've got to love his somewhat sarcastic tone in the following:

"It is a perfect read for Americans who need their dose of reality to be watered down with fiction and delivered as entertainment..."

It's so true and shows real wit!

Thanks for the link and thank you Mr. Paul Craig Roberts.

Paul Craig Roberts
...don't believe them!