Russia nuclear policy takes Cold War turn

 Calgary Herald (Alberta, Canada)

January 15, 2000, Saturday, FINAL

Russia nuclear policy takes Cold War turn

BYLINE: The Telegraph

SECTION: News; A9

LENGTH: 480 words

DATELINE: LONDON

Russia published a national security rule Friday, lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, in the first important decree signed by acting president Vladimir Putin.

Analysts saw the document as a pre-election ploy by Putin, who took over on Dec 31 and will be campaigning for the presidency in March on restoring Russia's weight in the world. But it still sends an uncomfortable signal to the West.

Although the document is hardly new -- versions of it have been circulating for months -- it has now been formally approved by Putin, something Boris Yeltsin never decided to do.

By making this, rather than a statement on economic reform, his first major policy pronouncement, Putin seems to be invoking the ghost of the Cold War, when Russia was a superpower.

The message was subtly reinforced Friday as Putin's defence minister, Igor Sergeyev, met a top Iranian security official and vowed to maintain close military and scientific relationships. Russia is also helping Iran build a nuclear reactor.

America fears this will help Iran acquire a nuclear bomb.

The security document envisages using Russian's vast nuclear arsenal to ''repel armed aggression'', rather than, as the previous one had it, ''in the case of a threat to the very existence'' of Russia as a sovereign state.

It says Moscow's main security task is to deter attacks, nuclear or conventional, on Russia and its allies.

The document says: ''The Russian Federation considers it possible to use military force to guarantee its national security according to the following principles:

''The use of all forces and equipment at its disposal, including nuclear weapons, if it has to repel armed aggression if all other means ... have been exhausted.''

The other principle stated under the new concept was the use of force to quell internal unrest. But this is already under way in Chechnya.

The document says Russia remains important, but ''a number of states'' are trying to marginalize it.

''The level and scale of threats in the military sphere is growing,'' the document says. Though it does not identify these, the implication is clear that it refers to the West, along with Chechnya's rebels.

Elsewhere, the document is markedly more hawkish toward the West, noting that there are today two ''tendencies'' in the world: one, favoured by Russia, for a multi-polar world in which Russia, India, China and the West should all play their part, and another in which America aims to dominate a uni-polar world through military and economic might.

The previous doctrine, formulated in 1997, sees the West as Russia's strategic partner. But since then Russia's economy has collapsed and the West has become much more cautious about bailing it out; Nato has taken in three former Warsaw Pact countries; and it has fought Yugoslavia in the teeth of Russian opposition.

22 FEBRUARY 2000 CIA CLINTON PUTS A PRICE ON PUTIN'S HEAD

The Moscow Times

February 22, 2000

Acts of Terror Predicted for Wednesday

BYLINE: By Simon Saradzhyan

SECTION: No. 1902

LENGTH: 1063 words

Staff Writer

As Chechen rebels have a $ 2.5 million bounty out on acting President Vladimir Putin's head, security services say they have reason to fear Chechens may stage terrorist acts in Russian cities Wednesday. Wednesday is the 56th anniversary of Stalin's mass deportations of Chechens during World War II. It also is celebrated in Russia as Defender of the Fatherland Day, formerly called Red Army Day, a holiday honoring veterans and men in uniform.

Saying he feared Chechens fighting for independence would choose this day to strike, Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo announced over the weekend his forces were tightening security around the country. An officer with the Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Monday his office was taking the threat seriously and was worried about possible hijackings.

Although earlier this year Chechen commander Khattab threatened to have his fighters "hit Russian cities," the Chechens have not specifically warned of attacks Wednesday.

Their most direct threat is aimed at Putin. On a new rebel web site, jikhad.org, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev says he has issued a fatwa promising $ 2.5 million to anyone who can kill the acting president. "The one who fulfills this sentence will win the mercy of Allah. The blood of the Chechen people will be paid for by Putin's blood," says the fatwa,a commandment usually issued by a Moslem cleric, which is dated Jan. 16.

There is an e-mail address and fax number in Britain that would-be assassins are told to contact for more details of the contract on Putin. Inquiries sent both to the fax number and e-mail address went unanswered Monday.

Russian television reported late last year that a group of Islamic extremists based in London has been raising funds and recruiting volunteers to help the Chechen rebels. A Russian crew for NTV television was beaten up while covering the fund-raising campaign, but the assailants were never found. The report was rebroadcast Sunday.

An officer at the Federal Guard Service, which is responsible for protecting Putin and other top officials, said the service is aware of the fatwa, but refused to comment on whether additional measures have been taken to ensure Putin's personal security.

An Interior Ministry official, who spoke Monday on condition he not be identified, said there was reason to believe Chechen-trained terrorists were planning bomb attacks to mark the anniversary of the deportation of Chechens carried out in 1944 on the orders of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

Russian authorities say they believe the apartment building blasts that rocked Moscow and two other cities in September, killing about 300 people, were terrorist acts staged by Chechen-trained rebels. The FSB, which is leading the investigations, has made no arrests but claims to have identified most of those suspected of being behind them.

The FSB has reported the discoveries of stores of explosives and terrorist training camps in Chechnya. An FSB officer said Monday his service has inspected the remnants of another terrorist training camp and found bombs disguised as canned baby food.

The discoveries of explosives and the fact that no one has been caught in connection with last fall's bombings indicates the terrorists are capable of staging more attacks, the FSB officer said, speaking on customary anonymity. He said Russians should report any suspicious activities.

"There is a war against terrorists going on," the FSB officer said by telephone. "It is very serious and we want our citizens to remain vigilant to stay alive. No one should be ashamed to report to us anything suspicious, even the spotting of a man with a waste bucket in your podezd can save hundreds of lives." Police in Moscow and in many other cities and regions across the county have been put on heightened alert and ordered to work 12-hour shifts Wednesday, the Interior Ministry official said in a telephone interview.

Municipal authorities in Vladivostok have asked residents of the Far East city to be vigilant, saying they have information about terrorist acts planned by Chechen-trained rebels.

Across the sea, the Japanese Foreign Ministry also has asked its citizens traveling in Russia to be aware of possible terrorist acts, Itar-Tass reported. Some 650,0000 Chechens and Ingush were forcibly deported by secret police and army units from their homes to Central Asia and Siberia in a massive operation that began Feb. 23, 1944. Many of them died.

Feb. 23 is also the day units of the newly established Red Army fought their first major battle against German troops in 1918. Stalin's regime maintained that deporting the Chechens and Ingush was necessary to prevent them from assisting invading Nazi troops. Up to 18,000 Chechens participated in an anti-Soviet rebellion as Nazi troops advanced within 60 kilometers of Grozny in 1942.

In addition to bomb attacks, the Chechen rebels may be planning to hijack planes to fly to Afghanistan, the FSB officer said.

He said informants have tipped off the FSB that Chechen leaders Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and Movladi Udugov may try to hijack a plane from the Sleptsovskaya airport in neighboring Ingushetia to fly their supporters and relatives out to Afghanistan.

The Taliban, who control most of Afghanistan, have recently recognized Chechnya's independence and called on the Moslem world to start a jihad against Russia because of its military campaign. Aeroflot said it has boosted security, and Russian wire services reported that Shermetyevo Airport in Moscow has been combed for explosives.

On the rebel web site kavkaz.org, Udugov says neither he nor Yandarbiyev is planning a hijacking, and accuses Russia's security services of spreading false allegations for their own purposes. Also on the web site is the number of a bank account in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where those who want to help the Chechens can deposit contributions.

Yandarbiyev, who served as Chechen president in 1996, has been in Pakistan trying to raise support and financial backing for Chechnya's independence bid. One of his aides said Monday that Pakistan has ordered Yandarbiyev to "pack up and leave," Reuters reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.

Russia's Foreign Ministry has officially protested Pakistan's tolerance of the Chechen delegation.

The Times (London)

February 23, 2000, Wednesday

Russian alert for Chechen terrorists

BYLINE: Alice Lagnado in Moscow

SECTION: Overseas news

LENGTH: 236 words

Russian police and intelligence services went on alert yesterday fearing hijacks or bombings by Chechen rebels today, the fifty-sixth anniversary of Stalin's mass deportation of their countrymen.

Vladimir Rushailo, the Interior Minister, put police and special forces on guard and sent extra men to busy public places. Chechen leaders denied that they were planning to disrupt Russia. Stalin packed 650,000 Chechens and Ingush on to trains to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944, declaring that they had collaborated with the Nazis. Two years earlier 18,000 Chechens had rebelled against the Soviet regime as Hitler's troops approached Grozny. The horror of the deportations is still fresh in Chechen minds.

Today is also Defender of the Fatherland Day, previously Red Army Day. Vladimir Putin laid a wreath yesterday at a war memorial in the southern town of Volgograd and said that he was considering raising soldiers' allowances. The acting President said: "All talk of the collapse of the army is an open lie. This is unfair and disrespectful to our soldiers, especially those fighting in Chechnya."

Human Rights Watch said yesterday that it had interviewed six witnesses to a massacre of 62 people in Grozny, the Chechen capital, on February 5. Survivors said that about 100 Russian contract soldiers had rampaged through the streets, killing elderly men and women and burning down homes.

COMMENTARY:

The Russians had been claiming that the US was sponsoring the Chechen terrorists. The Chechen terrorists are US proxies. The Chechens are a cutout for covert American operators. So, when the Chechens put a price on Putin's head it was really the Americans putting a price on his head. We covered the history of Russian allegations of Chechen terrorist sponsorship in the link below. 

https://thearea51blog.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-history-of-russian-allegations-of.html

THE THREAT MADE ON "ANGEL" AIR FORCE ONE

 (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Receives Phone Call in Which Caller Threatens Air Force OneEdit event  

Eric Edelman.

Eric Edelman. [Source: US Department of Defense]

An anonymous phone call is received at the White House in which the caller says Air Force One, the president’s plane, will be the next terrorist target and uses code words indicating they have inside information about government procedures. [CHENEY, 9/11/2001; NEW YORK TIMES, 9/13/2001; WOODWARD, 2002, PP. 18] Air Force One is currently flying toward Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, with President Bush on board (see (10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 325] The White House receives a call from an anonymous individual, warning that the next target of the terrorist attacks will be Air Force One. The caller refers to the plane as “Angel.” [SAMMON, 2002, PP. 106-107; WOODWARD, 2002, PP. 18; 9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 554; DARLING, 2010, PP. 60-61] “Angel” is the Secret Service’s code name for Air Force One. [WILLIAMS, 2004, PP. 81; CBS NEWS, 11/25/2009] An unnamed “high White House official” will later say the use of “American code words” shows the caller has “knowledge of procedures that made the threat credible.” [NEW YORK TIMES, 9/13/2001]

Government Officials Told about Threat - News of the threatening call is promptly passed on to government officials in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC)—a bunker below the White House—and reported on the Pentagon’s air threat conference call. [US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 9/11/2001 pdf file; NEWSWEEK, 12/30/2001; 9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 554; DARLING, 2010, PP. 60-61] Vice President Dick Cheney, who is in the PEOC, will comment that the news “reinforced the notion here… that the government has been targeted and that we need to be extra careful about making certain we protected the continuity of government, secured the president, secured the presidency.” [WHITE HOUSE, 11/19/2001] According to Major Robert Darling of the White House Military Office, who is also in the PEOC, “The talk among the principals in the room quickly determined that the use of a code word implied that the threat to Air Force One and the president could well be from someone with access to [the president’s] inner circle—possibly someone who was near the president at that very moment.” [DARLING, 2010, PP. 61]

Accounts Conflict over Who Receives Call - It is unclear who at the White House answers the call in which the threat against Air Force One is made. The call is received by the White House switchboard, according to some accounts. [SAMMON, 2002, PP. 106; FLEISCHER, 2005, PP. 141-142] Other accounts will indicate it is received by the White House Situation Room. [9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 554; DARLING, 2010, PP. 60-61] Eric Edelman, a member of Cheney’s staff who is in the PEOC, will say the call is received by the Secret Service. [WHITE HOUSE, 10/25/2001] But two Secret Service agents who are on duty today will deny “that their agency played any role in receiving or passing on a threat to the presidential jet,” according to the Wall Street Journal. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/22/2004 pdf file] However, a Secret Service pager message will be sent at 10:32 a.m., which states that the “JOC”—the Secret Service Joint Operations Center at the White House—has received an “anonymous call” reporting that “Angel is [a] target.” [CBS NEWS, 11/25/2009]

Military Officer Passes on Details of Threat - Officials in the PEOC reportedly learn about the threat to Air Force One from a military officer working in the center. Although Cheney will say the threat “came through the Secret Service,” he will say later this year that he is unsure who passed the details of it to those in the PEOC. [MEET THE PRESS, 9/16/2001; WHITE HOUSE, 11/19/2001] An official in Cheney’s office will say in 2004 that Cheney was informed of the threat by “a uniformed military person” manning the PEOC, although Cheney and his staff are unaware who that individual was. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/22/2004 pdf file] National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will say that those in the PEOC are told about the threat by a “communicator,” meaning one of the military officers who works in the PEOC, and is responsible for “establishing phone lines and video lines, and staying in touch with the National Military Command Center” at the Pentagon. [WHITE HOUSE, 11/1/2001] The military officer Rice is referring to may be Darling. Darling will recall that he answers a call from the White House Situation Room about the threat to Air Force One and then passes on the information he receives to Rice, telling her, “Ma’am, the [Situation Room] reports that they have a credible source in the Sarasota, Florida, area that claims Angel is the next target.” Rice immediately passes on the news to Cheney, according to Darling. [DARLING, 2010, PP. 60-61] Cheney will subsequently call Bush and tell him about the threat (see (10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [SAMMON, 2002, PP. 106-107; CBS NEWS, 9/11/2002]

Reason for 'Bogus' Threat Unclear - The threat will be determined to be “almost surely bogus,” according to Newsweek. [NEWSWEEK, 12/30/2001] The Secret Service’s intelligence division tracked down the origin of this threat,” the 9/11 Commission Report will state, “and, during the day, determined that it had originated in a misunderstanding by a watch officer in the White House Situation Room.” Although the 9/11 Commission will say it found the intelligence division’s “witnesses on this point to be credible,” Deborah Loewer, the director of the White House Situation Room, will dispute this account. [9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 554] By the end of 2001, White House officials will say they still do not know where the threat came from. [NEWSWEEK, 12/30/2001] Darling will write in 2010, “To this day, it has never been determined why either the ‘credible source’ or Situation Room personnel used that code word [i.e. ‘Angel’] in their report to the PEOC.” [DARLING, 2010, PP. 62] “The best we can tell,” Rice will say, is that “there was a call that talked about events—something happening to the president on the ground in Florida. And that somehow got interpreted as Air Force One.” She will say that the fact the caller knew the code name for Air Force One is “why we still continue to suspect it wasn’t a crank call.” [WHITE HOUSE, 11/1/2001] However, former Secret Service officials will say the code name wasn’t an official secret, but instead “a radio shorthand designation that had been made public well before 2001.” [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/22/2004 pdf file]

Entity Tags: Eric Edelman, Condoleezza Rice, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, Deborah Loewer, US Secret Service, Robert J. Darling, White House

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline

Holloway's Commentary

Air Force One was threatened and electronically attacked on 911. 

Air Force One Communications Jammed

 (9:54 a.m.-2:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Has Problems Communicating with Washington while He Is on Air Force OneEdit event  

President Bush on the phone during the flight from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base.

President Bush on the phone during the flight from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base. [Source: White House]

President Bush and his staff have difficulty communicating with colleagues in Washington, DC, while they are traveling on Air Force One, after the plane takes off from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (see 9:54 a.m. September 11, 2001). [NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006; POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016] Bush had problems calling his colleagues at the White House while he was being driven to the airport, after leaving the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, at around 9:35 a.m. (see (9:34 a.m.-9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 COMMISSION, 6/17/2004; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006]

Air Force One Should Have 'Outstanding Communications' - He ought to have more success after he boards Air Force One, at around 9:45 a.m. (see (9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001), since the plane has state-of-the-art communications systems. [INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, 9/1998; HARDESTY, 2003, PP. 167] Its capabilities are “just as good as the communications from the Oval Office in terms of [the president] being able to call, in a secure way, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, the generals that might have to fight a war, or the vice president or… the national security adviser,” White House chief of staff Andrew Card will later comment. The plane has the “capacity to have… outstanding communications,” he will say. [WHITE HOUSE, 8/12/2002]

Communications Systems Are 'All Jammed' - However, Bush and his staff have great difficulty sending and receiving information about the day’s events while they are on Air Force One. [NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002] The “multiple [communications] systems—commercial and terrestrial systems” on the plane are “all jammed,” according to Master Sergeant Dana Lark, superintendent of communications. Lark actually wonders, “Did someone sabotage our comms?” [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016]

Bush Has Problems Communicating with Vice President Cheney - Bush finds that his calls are successful only intermittently. [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006] Attempts are made to establish an open line with Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who are at the White House, but the line keeps dropping. [BUSH, 2010, PP. 131] “It was absolutely stunning, standing next to the president as he was talking to the vice president, then holding the phone off his ear because it cut off,” White House press secretary Ari Fleischer will comment. [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016] At one point, Bush pounds his desk in frustration and shouts: “This is inexcusable. Get me the vice president.” [CBS NEWS, 9/11/2002] He also has difficulty reaching his wife, Laura, since the line keeps dropping when he tries to call her. He eventually talks to her shortly before 11:45 a.m., when Air Force One is approaching Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana (see (Shortly Before 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [BUSH, 2010, PP. 132]

Officials in Washington Are Unable to Call the Plane - Some key individuals in Washington are unsuccessful when they try calling Air Force One. Scott Heyer, a communications officer in the White House Situation Room, is unable to contact the plane while it is flying from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base, even when he tries calling its satellite phone (see 9:54 a.m.-11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 COMMISSION, 3/16/2004] And White House counselor Karen Hughes is unable to reach the president when she tries calling him while he is airborne (see (Between 10:31 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [WASHINGTON POST, 1/27/2002; NBC, 4/4/2004]

Bush Has His First Teleconference Hours after Leaving Sarasota - As a result of his problems communicating from the plane, Bush will hold his first teleconference with his principal advisers at around 3:15 p.m. (see (3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001)—more than five hours after he takes off from Sarasota—after he arrives at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, where there is sophisticated communications equipment (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001). [NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002; BUSINESS WEEK, 11/4/2002; 9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 326] By that time, the communication problems will apparently have started to ease. Lark will recall that as Air Force One is flying to Offutt, “some of the commercial systems finally began to become available” and she actually receives a call from her chief. [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016]

Good Communications Are 'Critical' for the President - Bush’s communication problems may have a significant impact on the government’s ability to respond to the terrorist attacks. Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, will explain why the president’s ability to communicate during a crisis is so important, saying, “In the case of any kind of attack in the United States, what you’re supposed to do is get the president off the ground and Air Force One then becomes the command center.” Once he is airborne, the president is “commanding the forces of the United States from the air,” Kean will say. [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006] “The president literally can’t function in his constitutional role unless he can communicate, so [good communications are] absolutely critical,” Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Herman, a senior presidential communications officer, will similarly comment. [MARIST MAGAZINE, 10/2002] The president “is the only one who can give certain orders that need to be given,” Kean will note. [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006] However, Mark Rosenker, director of the White House Military Office, will claim that the communication problems have only a limited impact. “[F]or the most part I believe the president had the ability to do what was necessary to be in control and have command of his forces, and talk with his national security structure,” he will say. [WHITE HOUSE, 8/29/2002]

Communications Systems Are Supposedly 'Saturated' - Lark will learn at a later date that the communication problems occur because, she will say, “the commercial systems were all just saturated.” [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016] Rosenker will similarly suggest that the problems may be partly due to the fact that communications from Air Force One “have to get through a regular telephone network,” and when there is a crisis, the increased volume of communications “jam and overuse the structure.” [WHITE HOUSE, 8/29/2002] On top of their problems making and receiving calls, Bush and his staffers have difficulty monitoring the television coverage of the attacks while they are airborne, because the reception on the plane is poor and intermittent (see (9:54 a.m.-6:54 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [CBS NEWS, 9/11/2002; NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002; POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016]

Entity Tags: Thomas Kean, Condoleezza Rice, Ari Fleischer, Thomas Herman, Scott Heyer, Andrew Card, Mark Rosenker, Dana Lark, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Karen Hughes

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline

UFO SIGHTINGS INCREASED WITH ANP GOALS

1952
A modified direct nuclear powered Canberra was responsible for the 1501 UFO sightings. 

1957

The indirect nuclear powered U2 is responsible for 1006 UFO sightings. 

1966

The nuclear powered ramjet engined SR-71 is responsible for 1112 UFO sightings. 

NOTES:

The U-2 made its first flight in August 1955, with famed Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier, at the controls, and began operational service in 1956.

Members of a unit innocuously designated 2nd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Provisional), began to arrive at Adana Air Base in Turkey in August 1956.

https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/u-2.htm#:~:text=The%20U%2D2%20made%20its,in%20Turkey%20in%20August%201956.

The SR-71’s first flight took place on Dec. 22, 1964, and the first operational aircraft entered service with the 4200th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base, California, in January 1966.

A total of 32 aircraft were built.

https://airman.dodlive.mil/2017/07/10/airframe-the-sr-71-blackbird/#:~:text=The%20SR%2D71's%20first%20flight,of%2032%20aircraft%20were%20built.

911 THE DAY AMERICA'S DOOMSDAY PLAN THWARTED

The whole point of electronically hijacking the airliners on 911 was too force Bush to order the grounding of all domestic airliners making it easier for Putin to target Air Force One.

America's Doomsday Plan is to fight a nuclear war from the air. It moved it's command and control to the air knowing that shaped nuclear charges can takeout any bunker. The weak point of this strategy is communications. Communications can give away Air Force One's position. The Russian Woodpecker or similar array can track it and triangulate the position of the President by intercepting Air Force One's radio transmissions. Or it can directly image it using because the Woodpecker is a over the horizon radar. Jamming the communications forces Air Force One to up the wattage of their radio transmissions or to frequency jump. Both of which increase the chances of giving away Air Force One's position during a nuclear war.   

The weight of this shaped nuclear charge is probably off by an order of magnitude. Which would make the weight of the bomb 31 pounds. Ted Taylor revealed that he had designed bombs weighing 20 pounds in the late 1960's - early 1970's (McPhee 109).   A shaped 1 kiloton nuclear charge will create a 10ft diameter hole 1000 feet long in solid rock (McPhee 159). The Twin Towers were 1,368 feet tall and they were not solid. A single shaped nuclear charge would have been more than enough to take down a tower. Three bombs with a total weight of 60 to 90 pounds have the power to level the whole WTC complex.  

Bibliography: 

McPhee, John A. The Curve Of Binding Energy. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1973.

On 911 all domestic airliners were grounded. They were forced to land because of the "hijackings." The "hijackings" are a great first move in a nuclear war scenario. Electronic hijacking will most likely be seen again in the opening moves of a nuclear war. 

With all of the civilian airliners grounded imaging Air Force One and the E4-B's became a lot easier. Because it reduced the number of possible targets to a bare minimum. 

The next time airliners are electronically hijacked and turned into weapons war planners will have to decide on whether to keep the planes in the air, using America's civilian airliners as human shields or see all the airliners turned into weapons.

With only four airliners electronically hijacked 911 was an easy case to cover up with brainwashing and save the aviation industry. That won't be case when it is 40, 400, or 4000 planes. This is a good reason to upgrade America's train infrastructure to a high speed rail system. You cannot hijack a train and crash it into the White House.   

BIN LADEN IN BOSNIA

 "The most wanted terrorist in the world, [Osama] Bin Laden, was issued a Bosnia-Hercegovina passport, Sarajevo weekly `Dani'says in the issue which hit the news stands on Thursday [24th September]. Laden was issued a Bosnian passport by the Bosnian embassy in Vienna in 1993, the source maintains.According to `Dani', the Bosnian Foreign Ministry was seized by panic when Mehrez Aodouni, another Bosnian passport bearer, was arrested in Istanbul on 9th September. What ensued was the destruction of all documents which might connect Bosnian Muslim authorities with the outlawed Saudi millionaire.Bin Laden allegedly obtained the Bosnian passport when the Bosnian Muslim side was making desperate attempts to collect financial assistance from Western and Arabic countries for the defence of the country. During the Bosnian war, Vienna was considered the most important Western destination where to obtain logistic support necessary for the defence of the country."

The most wanted terrorist in the world, Osama Bin Laden, was issued a Bosnia-Hercegovina passport

HINA News Agency, Croatia, 24 September 1999