"Those aren’t missiles; they’re cobalt jackets." COBALT

http://www.nypress.com/16/37/news&columns/zen.cfm

The Heavy Stuff
Cobalt casings and more, below the decks.

My source–I’ll call him "Ethan"–is dead, and now, having kept our agreement, I’m finally free to write about this horror story.

-snip-

Ethan suited up and walked into a triple- door sally-port, where he progressed through each airlock via ten-inch-thick lead-lined doors. Past the last door, he stepped into a massive room/warehouse, about 60 feet wide by 100 feet in length, with a 20-foot ceiling–huge for battleship storage-room standards. From the floor to the ceiling, thousands upon thousands of what looked like missiles were stored. It was weird, because he’d never seen missiles stored in such a way where they were on top of one another.

The officer came around a row of missiles, and Ethan asked him the question he had for him about his TAD request, and then asked him, "What the hell kind of missiles are these?"

"Those aren’t missiles; they’re cobalt jackets."

"What are they for?"

"Well, this is ‘need to know,’ so keep your mouth shut, but they are designed to slide on over most of our conventional ordinance. They’re made out of radioactive cobalt, and when the bomb they’re wrapped around detonates, they contaminate everything in the blast zone and quite a bit beyond."

-snip-

"Well, what? Does the radiation kill people?"

"Not immediately. Cobalt jackets will not likely ever be used. They’re for a situation where the U.S. government is crumbling during a time of war, and foreign takeover is imminent. We won’t capitulate. We basically have a scorched earth policy. If we are going to lose, we arm everything with cobalt–and I mean everything; we have jackets at nearly every missile magazine in the world, on land or at sea–and contaminate the world. If we can’t have it, nobody can.

"Just another example," Ethan told me, "of what treacherous creatures our leadership is made of."

-snip-

"Thus there are now whole regions that are heavily radioactive. Reports are pouring in from all three countries about soaring cancer rates, infant death rates and more. The mysterious ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ may have been caused by radiation exposure suffered by U.S. troops. So, though ‘off the books,’ the last three major U.S. attacks have in fact been nuclear in nature."
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well the bloody hands bushgang has told us all along that they were using little nukey type things. nothing to worry about. just special little nukey things. nothing to worry about.
SOMEBODY STOP THEM

"The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." -- Michael Parenti

sigh