UnNews:Umbrellas 'won't work' in protecting against intercontinental missile attack

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17 April 2008

This man naively thinks that he is protected from the coming nuclear holocaust

A FORMER TOP US OFFICIAL has told a Congressional hearing in Washington billions of dollars have been wasted on developing umbrellas that were thought to provide protection from nuclear attack.

Philip Coyle, who used to be in charge of weapons testing at the Pentagon, said the projected protection that an umbrella would provide against a thermonuclear detonation was exaggerated. Another witness said that even the use of larger "golfing" umbrellas offered no prospect of defending the United States from a real attack.

Another witness, Lisbeth Gronlund, co-director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Global Security Program, told the hearing the US was "pretty deluded if it thought that a thin piece of material designed to repel raindrops or, at most small hail-stones would protect the human body from the full unholy maelstromic forces unleashed by a modern day nuclear explosion!"

But other witnesses at the hearing defended the proposed use of umbrellas citing the (unsubstantiated) tales that 100s of people in Hiroshima were spared death due to the fact that they were carrying parasols on that infamous afternoon when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1978.

The findings come a month after it was suggested that the use of knitted woollen hats would protect against chemical or biological attack.

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