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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn ("In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."). --HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The stars hath turned in the heavens once more: Mighty Cthulhu stirs. His dreams reacheth forth, communing with those with ears to hear. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! His thoughts trample down along the pathways of thy mind; thou knowest His footprints, each of which is a wound...

Monday, October 25, 2004





A Little Perspective

Plenty is being made by other, better bloggers about the 380 tons of RDX, HMX, et cetera that ShrubCo™ "lost" a year and a half ago. But I thought I should share this with you:

OK City = 5,000 pounds/2,300 kg of ammonium-nitrate and nitromethane.
This mix has a TNT equivalent ranging from 3%-10%, i.e. the OK City bomb is the equivalent of 150 - 500 pounds of TNT.

AQQ = 380 tons of RDX, HMX and PETN. RDX and PETN have a TNT equivalent value of 170%. Converted into TNT, the AQQ stockpile equals 646 tons or 1,292,000 pounds of explosives.

Convert this back into my OK City metric, and this means that the lost material at AQQ equals betwen 2,584 - 8613 OK City-size bombs. That's one hell of a lot of material to be on the street -- enough to fuel a car-bomb and IED-based insurgency for years, if not decades.


Imagine that picture above repeated 2,584 - 8,613 times: A rough mean of 5,600 Murrah Federal Buildings destroyed.

It took less than a pound of this stuff to bring down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie. So the amount stolen right from under Dumbya's™ nose equals:

x 760,000

Hey Chimpy™, are you paying attention now?

Posted by: Great Cthulhu / <$BlogItemDateTime $>
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