Thursday, April 13, 2006

"Iran's nuclear announcement is pure PR move - Russian expert"

They said they would. Tom Gwynne, a former F-14 test pilot, VP of the "Cradle of Aviation Museum" on Long Island, NY says we sold Iran 80 F-14's (like Tom Cruise in "Top Gun") from the Grumman Corporation (like Tom Hanks in "Apollo 13") the other day in "Newsday" talking about the fiscal problems of the museum. I recall 4000 employees there in a compound before the Reagan Bible was in Khomeini's hands, according to a news photo. It would be a shame if this ended up painting the U.S. as a "belligerent". Many archaeology experiments often use radioactivity. I was an observer of one, where turquoise (originally "Turk stone") from ancient mines in the Southwest of the United States, were "neutron activated" from a nuclear pile at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (also on Long Island) and the trace elements recorded as "signatures" for further research of turquoise in Central America (no source there for it) and the authentication of artifacts. It has been expanded to other antiquities, i.e, the head of an emperor might be reconnected with a torso broken by an iconoclast. And that took about 20 years to get. Iran is extremely rich in archaeology sites, though I don't think Moses has been there though Abraham might have been. We wouldn't let the last pope visit the "Abraham" site in Iraq. Neutron Activation Archaeometry at the University of Missouri - Columbia

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