ERROR: 'Nuclear Devices Were Used to Destroy the Twin Towers'
The idea that nuclear devices,
and in particular, 'mini-nukes',
were used to destroy the Twin Towers has been promoted
in a number of quarters, such as in the DVD
9/11 Eyewitness.
Promoters of the mini-nuke idea
have suggested that such weapons were needed to produce
the thorough pulverization of concrete observed at Ground Zero,
and other aspects of the destruction.
Dr. Steven E. Jones has refuted this idea repeatedly,
including in the following short essay.
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- Empirical Facts: All nuclear weapons (especially FUSION/Hydrogen bombs)
release copious high-energy neutrons which will activate steel and other
materials. This is called neutron activation and cannot be avoided,
and much of the induced radioactivity remains for decades.
- I have studied fusion for decades, and have made frequent measurements
of neutrons (as well as charged particles).
- Several months ago, I tested WTC dust samples and a solidified metal
sample for radioactivity using a Geiger counter: I found ZERO RADIOACTIVITY.
This experimental evidence goes strongly against the mini-nukes hypothesis
since neutron activation levels were zero.
- I also tested some sand gathered from a nuclear-bomb test site decades ago
for comparison – and the Geiger counter showed hundreds of counts per minute.
This also shows the long life of the radioactive residues due to nuclear bombs
– the sand still yields high Geiger-counter readings decades after the nuclear
bomb blast.
- Note that concrete pulverization is often achieved in controlled
demolitions with chemical explosives, e.g., the Seattle Kingdome demolition.
- Mini-nukes are not needed for pulverization nor for “top-down” demolition
as observed for the WTC Towers.
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Promoters of the mini-nukes idea have also supported their claim with
news stories of nuclear contamination in landfills near New York City,
ignoring the fact that the stories were about radium contamination
from industrial equipment.
A simple disproof of the idea that nuclear weapons were used to
destroy the Towers is that all such weapons generate
intense electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum.
Onlookers would have been blinded had any such devices been used.
Despite the scientific refutation of the mini-nukes idea by Jones
and others using simple scientific arguments,
James Fetzer continued to promote the idea on the
ScholarsFor911Truth.org
website -- a site that purports to represent the group of scholars
that includes co-founder Steven Jones.
Another debunking of the nuclear attack "theory" is provided
by a Finnish author:
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This page provides a 9-point refutation of the ideal [sic] that nuclear
devices were used to destroy the WTC buildings.
It includes an e-mail exchange between the critique's author
and Hannu Yli-Karjanmaa, who has posted the nukes "theory"
among a collection of articles attributed to an anonymous
Finnish "military expert" it.
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page last modified: 2010-04-08
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