Mushroom Cloud Blast in Nevada Delayed

[Rose Siding]

LAS VEGAS -- A non-nuclear explosion expected to generate a mushroom cloud over the Nevada desert will be postponed at least three weeks, while a federal court reviews plans for the blast, test officials said Tuesday.

"The planned Divine Strake experiment will not be conducted earlier than June 23," said Cheri Abdelnour, spokeswoman for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, Va. The blast was originally scheduled for June 2.
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In documents filed Monday with U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, federal Justice Department lawyers sought to push back from May 23 until early June a hearing on a lawsuit filed by the Winnemucca Indian Colony and several Nevada and Utah "downwinders" to block the blast. The judge did not issue an immediate ruling.

Nevada Division of Environmental Protection spokesman Dante Pistone also said Tuesday his agency was reviewing a revised environmental assessment that test planners filed Friday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901461.html

[tuvor]

1. The Apocalypse will be temporarily delayed.

[longship]

3. Devine Strake Test Picture

[jpak]

12. A clear case of "Divine Intervention"

:evilgrin:

That said, a delay until 23 June would only push PNAC's Big Wet Dream back a couple of weeks...

:nuke:

[Delphinus]

2. Oh I'm so happy about this!

There was just a blackness that descended upon my heart when I heard and read about this. I hope it never happens!

[journalist3072]

4. Randy Rhodes has really focused on this like a laser beam

If it wasn't for her, I would not have even known about this.

[journalist3072]

6. Just another thought I had...

Aren't the Bushies supposed to be scared of mushroom clouds?

Didn't Bushie's Wifey # 2 talk about mushroom clouds, almost ad nauseum, to justify war in Iraq?

What's the deal here?

[medeak]

5. bless the Indian colony

parents in LV didn't think they could do much...but look at them now!!!

[Kailassa]

7. I'm wondering how we'd know if it was a real nuke tested there.

The cloud and explosion intensity would be the same.
And the radioactivity could be explained away as just soil made radioactive
from previous tests being kicked up.

[SoCalDemGrrl]

8. So I can cancel my earthquake insurance??

JK - but I certainly was more than a little concerned that they were going to drop that load of crap near two tectonic plates.

Don't mess with Mother Nature in EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY!!

[Rainscents]

9. You know, I was afraid of that too!

People don't realize, this shit can create Earthquake!

[catmandu57]

10. The longer the better

Hopefully the time delay will allow for more dirt to come out, this may be stopped altogether, while bushco* tries to scratch a hundred flea bites as more eggs hatch.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

11. We need to organize a protest and all go out to this place,

hundreds of us, thousands if possible, and stand on this to keep them from blowing it up. Of course there is the risk of them actually doing it while we are on it, but if that were to happen then they would certainly be overthrown--we just need to make sure to get media attention

[Xithras]

13. That would be tough to pull off.

Bring up the test site on Google Earth and look how remote the testing area is. It's possible for people to swarm the fences and walk in, but you're talking about a 20+ mile hike across a searing desert (115 to 120 degrees in the summer) with no shade, no drinkable water, and more poisonous snakes and scorpions than you want to think about. The Nevada test site is NOT a place you can occupy without an established supply line.

If you look it up on Google Earth, you'll see that there are only two roads in and out of the test area. It would be fairly easy for the military to block those roads to prevent vehicle traffic from bringing in supplies.