Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tried to sell nukes to FBI
The Associated Press reports that Los Alamos scientist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni conspired with undercover FBI agents to sell 40 nuclear weapons to Venezuela which could then use the weapons on New York City;
“I’m going to be the boss with money and power,” the naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina is heard saying. “I’m not an American anymore. This is it.”
Mascheroni said his New York bomb wouldn’t kill anyone but would disable the city’s electrical system and help Venezuela become a nuclear superpower. It was not known how realistic his New York bombing idea was.
But he suggested that once Venezuela obtained a bomb, the country should explode it “to let the world know what we’ve got,” according to the recordings.
The recordings were played Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque before a federal judge sentenced Mascheroni, 79, to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement.
I guess we’re lucky that most of these are cranks and the FBI gets to them before someone with real connections find them. The Venezuelan government says that they never had contact with Mascheroni. But I’m sure they’ll be looking for him when he gets out of jail in five years.
Category: Terror War
5 years!?!?!? Al he got was 5 fucking years!?!?!? He’s a nuke scientist!!! He wanted to sell nukes to a foreign country!!! 5 fucking years!?!?
I quit. Give me back my ball, I wanna go home.
Had the same thought Old Trooper. He should definitely die in prison.
Just talked with a co-worker that worked at Los Alamos (PhD type) and he was there when this dude was busted. I asked him how in the hell he got 5 years. He told me “he rolled on someone you won’t ever hear about”, that’s how.
This is what worries me. There is someone with bigger ambitions involved that “they” do not want us knowing about.
No shit. It amazes me, the people they’ll give a Q-clearance to these days.
I wonder if “that person ” will suddenly and unexpectedly either drop dead from a heart attack or die in a car wreck?
Yep. A freakin plea agreement? WTF?
It wouldn’t kill anybody? Bullshit. Even if it’s just designed to function in way that sends out an EM Pulse that would kill anyone who depends on electrical devices to survive, like people on life support, and possibly those with pacemakers. Fuck this clown. I hope Old Trooper’s buddy is right and that this guy rolled on someone worse, because if he didn’t then wtf?
Yeah I’m not buying that EMP bullshit. An EMP can be made with conventional HE. A nuke is a nuke.
wait a minute.
Initial EMP is created by the Compton Effect. When a nuke detonates above the atmosphere there is an initial burst of X-Ray. When that X-Ray hits the oxygen and nitrogen atoms at the top of the atmosphere it knocks their electrons ass over teakettle and the top of the atmosphere becomes very positive – atomic nuclei without electrons. The earth supplies electrons with very large “lightning bolts” from the earth to the sky and that is initial EMP.
There are longer term EMP effects caused by distortions to the planetary magnetic field. That is a second form of EMP and the one responsible for damaging power distribution systems.
As I understand it, the Compton Effect is unique to nuclear weapons and, nuclear weapons aside, there is no way to create the planetary magnetic field damage.
Companies selling radios etc to the government and military simulate EMP on a very small scale in order to test their equipment. The simulations are still problematic because initial EMP has an extremely short rise time — just a few nanoseconds. As I understand it, it is hard to create an electric wave like that on a scale suitable for device testing.
If this is old wrong information, please point me to the new stuff.
http://www.superconductors.org/emp-bomb.htm
Read in particular the section citing Popular Mechanics. Total cost appx. $400.
If pendejo thought he was dealing with agents of Venezuela and that they were going to build a nuke and detonate it above the atmosphere of NYC then he should be deported… for being a brainless idiot.
Nope, Compton Scattering is not unique to nuclear weapons.
Indeed. Compton and Woo discovered it in the 1920s.
I’m sure his age had something to do with it. We’re really nice people here in the U.S. What I really don’t get is why they didn’t revoke his citizenship and deport him upon completing that sentence. “Supervised release”? Let some other country supervise him and pay for his medical bills. Bet he keeps his Social Security, too.
He talked to the wrong people. Vlad is bulding a newer and bigger – suborbital, in fact – rocket for his nuclear arsenal.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-plans-to-test-nuclear-missile-bigger-than-satan/ar-AA8KKaH
Do we still have our MRVS?
3 years supervised release after prison? BS. He’s a naturalized citizen and renounced his US citizenship – “I’m not an American anymore.”
That’s good enough in the eyes of the law to revoke his US citizenship and deport him back to Argentina.
“The Venezuelan government says that they never had contact with Mascheroni.”
Yeah, because Venezuela right now is busy dealing with scientists that claim to know how to make toilet paper. Once they master the production of toilet paper, watch out New York.
Wall. Gunfire. Problem solved.
A book that everyone should read is ‘One Second After,’ by William R. Forstchen. It’s about the effects of a atmospheric EMP.
Pretty sure the scenario there is EMP resulting from an exoatmospheric nuclear detonation, Pinto Nag.
Atmospheric and surface nuclear detonations do generate EMP, but in general they’re of very limited geographical scope (EMP is a line-of-sight phenomenon). Wide area coverage requires a burst at orbital altitudes.
1. Rope.
2. Tree (or Gallows).
3. Traitor.
Some assembly required.
Fuck that.
Give him a South African necklace in the White House Lawn and put it on Pay-per-view.
Do Berghdal Second and then see what everyone thinks about us.
Fuck ISIS and their beheadings.
Now, now. The proprieties MUST be observed. This gentleman is a native of Argentina and he was trying to sell nukes to Venezuela. Both South American countries, right? I think it would be more apropos to get him fitted for a necktie….a Colombian necktie!
Hope he has an accident and falls down the stairs thirty or forty times.
Q: How many cops does it take to throw a suspect down the stairs?
A: None, he slipped.
What a turd, maybe the plan is 5 years followed by burial as he has an accident near his release date…
He slipped on a bar of soap and split that ugly face in two. Sounds plausible to me, hope it works!
How in the hell did he only get 5 years for that? Must’ve sold those nukes for a good lawyer.
5 years for mass murder and attempting to attack the nation. Amazing.
Thanks Obama.
I think he may be, shall we say, a bit off in cognitive powers? It sounds crazy. He is 79. His gyro is missing a bearing or three.
5 in jail at 79 is probably near enough to “life”.
Nukes don’t explode, they initiate. Dude deserved to go down in flames. Silly Argie still butthurt about the Falklands.
yeah. “Explode” is not quite enough word for a modern full-up city-buster.
megaboom?
Gigabang?