As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The reason for the Lame Cherry asking this question as cartel drives the United States into another global war over the misdirection of Ukraine, is the nuclear triad which America is supposed to depend upon, capable of a retaliation strike.
Most of you reading this have no idea what a nuclear missile is. Some are familiar with the missiles and components, but fewer still have a working knowledge of what a nuclear missile is, and that there are 450 of them in silos from Wyoming, Montana and North & South Dakota.
The Lame Cherry is going to educate you on a certain aspect of the Minuteman Missile, because it is something which is a cause to ponder. These missiles are old, old as Richard Nixon being President. They are serviced, are going to be switched out, but the fact remains, all of the people involved in these systems are retired or dead. As people have a shelf life, so do missiles, their fuel and their components.
What I'mg going to focus on is something called Thiokol.
Meet you on the other side.
LGM-30 Minuteman III missile guidance and navigation
A programme is being undertaken to keep the missiles safe and secure for years to come, as part of an prolonged life extension. The programme includes replacement of the ageing guidance system, reproduction of the solid-propellant rocket motors, replacement of back-up power systems and repair of launch facilities.
Propulsion for LGM-30 Minuteman III missile
The propulsion is provided by three solid-propellant rocket motors developing a thrust of 200,000lb, 60,600lb and 34,000lb respectively. Thiokol supplied the first stage rocket motor while the engines for the second and third were provided by Aerojet-General and United Technologies Chemical Systems Division respectively.
Yes I know there was not any Thiokol in the above, except a company, and that is where this begins, because it was Morton Thiokol merging which are the basis of this rather interesting goo which no one had a use for, until rocket fuel came into being.
Thiokol came about when two chemists, Joseph C Patrick and Nathan Mnookin, were trying to invent an inexpensive antifreeze back in 1926. What they ended up creating was a gum of which its substance caused a significant clog in the laboratory sink, and also had the characteristic of having an awful odor. None of the industrial strength solvents they used would clear the clog in the sink.
The two frustrated chemists came to the conclusion that the resistance of the material, Thiokol, possessed a useful property. What they came to realize is that they created a synthetic rubber, which would later be used in the manufacture of a solid fuel rocket booster. "Thiokol" comes from the Greek words sulphur and glue.
In 1945 a gentleman by the name of Charles Bartley, who was working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discovered that the properties of thiokol can be used as a stabilizer in solid fueled rockets. In 1958 Thiokol was awarded the contract to build the first stage solid rocket booster for the Minuteman I missile.
The solid propellant fuel that is used in the first three stages of both the Minuteman II and III missiles, (including the Peacekeeper) relies on acrylic acid/aluminum powder for fuel, combined with ammonium perchlorate as the oxidizer, and polybutadiene as the binder. Once the booster is ignited, the solid propellant cannot be extinguished; it burns until it is depleted.
As you can see rocket fuel is not something you will be eating on your Cheerios in the morning. It is like a paste. It will crackle and pop in the air and as you have read, this stuff is the ultimate arson starter as it burns like thermite, another metal fuel.
Where I'm going to take you now, is to the non sexy stuff of rockets. As this is something you will find sexy. My first question is, "If you have old tires on your car, will they crack and deteriorate?"
If you are so stupid you can't answer that question, stop reading now as you are nuclear fodder and already dead. For the rest of you, you know that rubber gets old or products like O rings get old and deteriorate.
Do you remember that space shuttle which was blown up by it's solid fuel rockets back in Reagan's day? If you do not, then there was a shuttle that launched on a very cold Florida day and the O rings in the boosters failed, ruptured and tore the space shuttle to bits and exploded the fuel tank. This part is fascinating as it was Morton Thiokol out of Utah which was building the solid rockets and designed a dual O ring to keep that from happening. Here you must understand that the civilian version of the design had two O rings. The military had one in the Titan series. The Titan series of one use rockets was very safe without problems. The dual O ring though was having problems from the start. Morton Thiokol kept finding soot and burn throughs in various systems. Some lasted a fraction of a second until the motors were up to full pressure, others like the fuel tanks appeared and disappeared, due to the temperature. Anything below 60 degrees and these O rings started manifesting problems The shuttle that was destroyed was launched in below freezing weather. The crew had no idea of the problems of the O rings. NASA did not brief them and in the complexity of this complex shuttle program, Morton Thiokol thought people were being informed as they were briefing on the problems, but there was a major disconnect.
So with that known history of O ring problems and temperature, we return to the the horrid climate of the Great Plains. The missile silos are listed as temperature and humidity controlled. My problem is, every photo I have seen, but one, has people in coats, which is not exactly warm, meaning what kind of affect has that had on deteriorating those old tires on these nuclear missiles?
One simply can not pull a missile apart and look at the O rings. The fuel is like paste. A technician dropped a wrench on a missile in Arkansas, cut a hole in a fuel tank, it leaked and hours later it blew the lid off the missile silo.
The fact is the United States has old systems which are being upgraded, but this is not an old Ford that you can leave sit in the trees for 50 years, go out and put a battery in it, and it fires up. These systems are complex and one failure of these systems, and you have something worse than a dud missile. You have an ICBM that is a few hundred feet to 20 miles up, with O rings giving way, fuel exploding and that lovely nuclear bomb cargo is sitting on top of that where it may go off or it may just burn up in a fireball to be a not so welcome dirty bomb.
None of this is so important, when you have someone like Donald Trump not starting a nuclear war in Ukraine. This takes on more severity though when there is this Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden cabal for the cartel, trying to start a nuclear exchange with Russia. The leading pundits like Joel Skousen always assume that weapons will work. If one studies the missile systems of the Vietnam War, you discover they failed miserably. Advances have been made, but the United States under Donald Trump lobbed Tomahawk missiles at Syria because they were old inventory. Numbers of them failed to perform.
The Lame Cherry has always hoped and prayed that Russian and Chinese missiles were accurate, as I did not want missiles meant for metro areas hitting rural areas. I hope that American systems do not fail until they are entering earth again and falling on Eurasia. I do not want armed or unarmed nuclear warheads falling on me. I suspect that you have that same hope.
The Americans who built these missiles are gone. That America is replaced by these fagsexuals like at NASA who can not push the enter key on a keyboard without all running around Hi Fiving each other. The people who built and knew these systems are retired or dead. It is like putting your old tractor into the shop and the kids in their now have no idea what the specs are as they can not hook up a computer to tell them what is wrong.
No one is asking the question if these missiles in silos, subs and aircraft are still all viable. Other missiles deteriorate in a shorter time than what these aged nuclear missiles are.
This is the question the Lame Cherry is asking. No one else is.
This is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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