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NUCLEAR TRANSIT
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ON THE HIGHWAYS
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A PRIMER
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BY
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DATA LINE
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Nuclear material doesn't magically appear at plants that make missiles and
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bombs. It has to be transported by truck or train. The media has seen fit to
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portray a totally false picture of the security surrounding the operation.
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Getting enriched Uranium or Plutonium is seen as marginally difficult, just
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force a lone semi off the road and loot it. I hope to give the true picture of
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the task and of the equipment.
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This report has been compiled with the help (knowing and unknowing) of the US
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Department of Energy, the APCO Journal, and a source in FEMA.
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The Locations
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Oak Ridge,TN. Union Carbide runs a Uranium enrichment plant here. It has a
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sister complex in Paducah Ky that makes Uranium Hexafluoride,
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a deadly gas that is sometimes transported on the Interstates.
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Amarillo,TX. The most dangerous city on earth. A little known factory, the
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Pantex Company, takes the enriched fissionable materials and
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assembles them into warheads. The equipment is vintage 1950.
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Accidents are unheard of. They may happen, but the press
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sure never gets word of them.
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Albuquerque,
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NM. Sandia National Labs, under contract to the Depatment of Ener-
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gy, performs research on weapons and radioactive materials.
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Kirkland AFB, communications command center for the DOE is
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also located here.
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San Francisco,
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CA. Lawrence Livermore Lab also performs research on the more
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classified aspects of nuclear chemistry.
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Chicago, IL. Argonne Labs research "peaceful" applications of highly
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radioactive metals and gases. Sure thing...
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Joplin, MO. The largest contractor of freight-hauling for DOE is based
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in the Southwestern tip of MO. I'd like to take a tour of
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Tri-State Motor Transit (TSMT) sometime. I'd also like an
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unescorted day in the Pentagon. I have as much chance at
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getting either one.
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The Transit Process.
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a surprise in store. The actual drivers are heavily armed, excellently
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trained DOE Special Couriers. Th ride 2 to a spelly equipped sem 2 ormi's and 4
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to 5 support vehicles to a convoy. The support staff also consists of Couriers
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in a variety of vehicles. Most of the time they include a Motorhome, a Suburban
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(armored) and possibly a station wagon or two. If a cop tries to pull over a
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semi, the entire convoy pulls over. A courier in the offending vehicle uses the
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PA to announce the nature of the convoy, and will exit the truck if requested.
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The driver NEVER exits.
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Spotting a Convoy
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The actual semi's are usually unmarked (DOE-owned), or are turquoise with
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regular silver trailers that may bear the logo TSMT. In NO case will they bear
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a yellow & black "Radioactive" Placard. DOE vehicles bear a single license tag,
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blue on white, that starts with an "E". The semi's have what appears to be a
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luggage rack on the top. This is an antenna. They may stop at Weigh stations,
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but will be waved on through.
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The Weapons
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Couriers are trained in use of the standard issue M-16, the M-60, and the LAW
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rocket. They carry at least that amount of weapons with them, and possibly the
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new Viper Antitank weapon. Other items include gas (BZ, CS) and maybe a few
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goodies from the Farm... Their training in Colorado Springs, CO. takes about 3
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months and covers everything from evasive driving with a 130,000 pound armored
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tractor-trailer to recovery of fissionable material from adversaries to
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emergency field evacuation and containment. Their trucks are probably the best
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weapons. DOE-owned vehicles, used for the most az ardous materials (transit of
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old warheads for reconditioning) are totally covered by a classified thickness
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of nickel or aluminium armor (That's right, Aluminium in an alloy form with
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other metals). The trailers are rigged with nozzles that will envelop a
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terrorist who manages to open the doors with a mountain of fast-hardening urea
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(insulating) foam, suffocating him and hiding the warhead/Plutonium with a thick
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coat of the stuff.
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Forget it.
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The condition of each truck on the road is updated by couriers every 15
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minutes by Shortwave to the Command Post in NM. The transmissions are in
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encrypted digital bursts on 11.555, 7.700 and 3.335 MHz, USB. Rarely you
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can hear the base speak with a Courier. Intra-convoy communications are
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handled with low-power VHF radios on 164.375 and 164.225 MHz. They were
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duped by those shitheads at Motorola into buying Digital Voice protection,
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a scrambling system. Granted, you can't understand what they're saying
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(probably stuff like "Wanna eat at Denny's or go to the Truck Stop?").
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Basic SIGINT still tells you that prescence of ANY transmissions means a
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convoy is close. Listen for what sounds like a squelch burst and a tone
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at the end, that's the DVP.
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If a trouble signal is transmitted to the CP, a number of things happen.
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First, the dispatcher attempts to reach the convoy by SW to find the nature of
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the problem; accident, out of beer, or terrorist attack. The first re- sponse
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will bring out an EOD team from the nearest Army base and added Albuquerque.
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They contact the respective State Police agency for local coordination. In case
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of k, I can't really say what will hn be- cause I don't know. Speculating, Ieve
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the Army rponse will be much greater. Instead of MP's, combat troops will be
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airlifted along with the Decon. and Emergency Ordnance Disposal troops. State
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police will also flood the area and seal if off, with local units merely
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handling roadblocks at the perimeters. Any non-authorized (non-government)
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aircraft passing near the area will be either escorted out by the TAC, or be
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downed. This includes news media choppers. NEST (Nuclear Emergency Search
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Team) will be called at once to aid in locating possibly contaminated areas and
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assist in finding any missing fissionable material. If an intact warhead is
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found to be missing, a national state of emergency will be declared until the
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situation is re- solved. This means a callup of National Guard and the
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Reserves, as well as placing all active military personnel on full alert. It
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also means that various civil rights will be curtailed and curfews set. This is
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some serious shit. The National Emergency Command Alert Post (NECAP, a.k.a.
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The Flying White House) will become active, as well ALL U.S. Military Personnel
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throughout the world (This would, after all, be a good time for the Soviets to
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pull some tricks since we'd be rather busy at home).
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The terrorists wouldn't have a chance in hell. Detonating a bomb would
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probably wipe out the entire bunch of assholes and they wouldn't have gained
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anything. A good negotiator would stretch the ordeal out so that our marksmen
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would get in a shot. Or more likely, they would evacuate the area (There'd be
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way to simply drive off with the bomb as the Couriers' first job should be to
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eliminate all means of escape from the area). Per- sonally, I'd use poison gas
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or BZ. It's nonthreatening, safer than shooting and silent as well as highly
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effective and not a big dramatic finish to inspire another bunch of shitheads to
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be crucified for "the cause" in front of America. I doubt if the group would
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ever be identi- fied or their true demands known. A large number of both real
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terrorists (e.g. FALN, M-19, Animal rights and splinter anti-abortion factions)
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and Intelligence (CIA and DOE) created groups would claim responsibility so the
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organizations would see how unproductive pulling such a stunt would be in the
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future - no exclusive media attention means no gain.
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Note to any Federal agency who gets hold of this. I want to work for DOE
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intelligence. All of this is put together from unclassified sources. If it's
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good enough to get me in trouble, wouldn't you agree I'd be good to have working
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for your organization?? Think of this as a Resume.
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