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Don’t you just hate it when Stephen King novels come true?

Randy Flagg to the white courtesy phone please… Hat-tip to Dependable Renegade for this:

Posted 03/30/06 11:32

U.S. To Test 700-Ton Explosive

By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

The U.S. military plans to detonate a 700 ton explosive charge in a test called ?Divine Strake? that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said March 30.

?I don?t want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you?ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons,? said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Tegnelia said the test was part of a U.S. effort to develop weapons capable of destroying deeply-buried bunkers housing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

?We have several very large penetrators we?re developing,? he told defense reporters.

?We also have ? are you ready for this ? a 700-ton explosively formed charge that we?re going to be putting in a tunnel in Nevada,? he said.

Jeez, you can almost hear the guy creaming his pants.

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UPDATE:

I only just noticed that this is due to take place on June 6 – ie 6/6/06.

666, geddit? S-s-spooky.

Given the Dominionist and Revelationist proclivities of the current administration and some members of the of high-ranking military, this has to have been planned. You can pretty much guarantee the significance of the date has been noted approvingly by the fundy base.

Published by Palau

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.