GROUND ZERO

THE NUKING OF THE WTC

Part 2, by: Dr. Stefan Grossmann

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I recently had an argument with a difficult submitter about whether they nuked the WTC on 9-11. See presentation here:

http://www.gallerize.com/9-11/270_Ton_Rebuttal.htm

(with link to an update).

Well, this hasn’t gone out of my head – clear sign that the writing has not „cleared” it yet, at least not fully. I looked in the older part of my archives, and I found more. The lead question is: Were there sideways bomb forces; were they strong? If yes, we do not have a gravitational collapse.

Here is a good government photo (source: Wikimedia 2008) showing the huge size of the debris that were somehow „blown” across the highway into the neighboring complex (World Financial Center):

Those are easily several thousand tons of steel. The argument with the

difficult submitter was, whether the government estimate for a single

beam of 270 metric tons was right. Well, above is a lot of load!

Here are two other views. Note the huge size of the debris that flew at least 400 feet sideways through the air from WTC1 (north tower) in contrast with the relatively large steam shovels and cranes:

The big idea is, of course, that it takes explosives to create such sideways drift. The gravity of free fall pulls down but not (in this example) to the west!

Here are some still frames from Eric Hufschmid’s documentary DVD, Painful Deceptions. The core beams are mostly not bent but are cut:

Bent core columns? No: Cut core columns!

Here is the government’s NOAA aerial photo of Ground Zero. I marked the core columns by hand and added the text boxes, otherwise the photo is unedited (smaller ones are sections of the big photo):

Memo: NOT BENT BUT CUT!

The government („truss theory”) has two major structural problems: (i) its truss theory would have made the walls bend inwards but not explode outwards, (ii) its truss theory does not explain how the massive core columns (the spine of each tower) came to a fall.

Some details see pdf report here (3 pages summary)

The only little step in the direction of a possible explanation by the government is, basically: Well, the planes and their initial explosions and fires broke the core columns at the spot where the impact happened.

So what do we know about that?

In the documentary film, How the Twin Towers Collapsed, towards the end a American structural engineer with an Egyptian name shows us, in the junk yard, the exact core column from south tower (WTC2) where the „plane” impact happened. There is a dent, and a pock-mark from explosives. But we see clearly that this core column is not substantially bent, even less is it cut in two. Here is a video excerpt:

Junk Yard Clip: Plane Impact Did NOT Cut Core Column (6.8 MB video, wmv format)

NOAA Photo Credit:

The large photo above is a section from a 14 MB aerial photo of Ground Zero by the U.S. government, see at the end of the following page:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s798b.htm

Details of the aerial photo per the foregoing page:

NOAA's Aerial Photo of World Trade Center
Image taken by NOAA's Cessna Citation Jet on Sept. 23, 2001 from an altitude of 3,300 feet using a Leica/LH systems RC30 camera.
Image released Oct. 2, 2001 at 6:15 p.m. EDT
Please credit "NOAA."