Nuclear

The Untold Story of Israel's Bomb [ 30 April 2006 ]
The Americans knew pretty much from the start that the Zionists were making nukes at Dimona but they pretended that they didn't for political reasons. This is from a Jew and a man writing in the Washington Post, a Zionist propaganda operation.

 

Israel Carried Out Nuclear Test In 1979 [ 19 May 2006 ]
They are the ones complaining bitterly about Iran making nukes even though they are not. The got their uranium by theft. They got the technology by theft. They have had them up and running since 1979 at least. See Israel tested nuke in 1979

 

American Air Force Accidentally Dropped Two Nukes On Home Soil [ 27 April 2012 ]
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Their awesome power had been harnessed by the Americans ten years earlier to help bring about an end to the Second World War. But a US Air Force crew nearly wrought similar destruction on its own people after accidentally dropping a nuclear bomb on south Carolina at the height of the Cold War.

But thanks to remarkable good fortune no one was killed in the incident on March 11, 1958. That afternoon sisters Helen and Frances Gregg, aged six and nine, and their nine-year-old cousin Ella Davies were in the playhouse their father had built for them in the woods behind their house in Mars Bluff, South Carolina.  At around four o’clock they decided to move from the playhouse to the side yard 200 yards away. It was a decision that kept them from becoming the first Americans killed by a nuclear weapon released on U.S. territory. Minutes later the woods behind the playhouse were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

The high-explosive trigger in the bomb blew up on contact with the ground, leaving a crater 50 feet across and 35 feet deep. The girls were all injured but it could have been much worse - all that remained of the playhouse were a few twisted shards of the corrugated metal roof. American Heritage: 'Aircraft 53-1876A Has Lost A Device' How the U.S. Air Force came to drop an A-bomb on South Carolina
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This will confirm a lot of men's suspicions about trigger happy Yanks. It is not really new news but it is relevant.

 

Marshall Islands Sue All Nine Nuclear Powers  [ 21 May 2014 ]
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Some five decades ago, world leaders came together on an urgent mission to avert "the devastation that would be visited upon all mankind" in the event of a nuclear war. The five then-existing nuclear weapon states - the United States, Soviet Union (now Russia), United Kingdom, France and China - signed the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)........

Five decades later, the nuclear threat has only increased. Four more states - Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea - now have nuclear weapons. The world is more dangerous because the signatories of the NPT have failed to keep their promises and have undermined the Rule Of Law.

Until now, no one has held them accountable. Last month, the Republic of the Marshall Islands courageously took the nine nuclear weapons-wielding Goliaths to the International Court of Justice to enforce compliance with the NPT and customary international law.
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Desmond Tutu writes. Little Des is an honest man who objects to Apartheid in Israel as well as South Africa, which is why he is very persona non grata among Jews. Suing governments will not work though.

 

Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed
Film has surfaced 60 years later. Governments like controlling the truth. It is a form of lying.
PS Fun fact; the men who were blessed by a Catholic Air Force chaplain, Father George Zabelka blessed the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - see Blessing the Bombs The Hiroshima Bombers' Chaplain Faces Christ, by George Zabelka then he went the other way.

 

Thank God For The Atom Bomb [ 26 May 2016 ]
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TODAY’S Hiroshima doesn’t give the TV journalists a lot to work with. It’s a raucous, bustling, mid-sized Japanese city with only few reminders of its destruction by atomic bomb in 1945. There’s the skeletal dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (which was right under the blast), and discreet plaques on various other buildings saying that such-and-such a middle school, with 600 students, used to be on this site, and that’s all.

So it’s no wonder, with President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to Hiroshima this week (but no apology), that practically every journalist writing about the visit resorts to quoting from Paul Fussell’s famous article in the New Republic in August, 1981: “Thank God For The Atomic Bomb”.

In 1945 Fussell had been a 20-year-old infantry second lieutenant getting ready to invade Japan. He had already been through almost a year of combat in France and Germany, and he was one of the few original soldiers left in the 45^th Infantry Division. The rest had been killed or wounded.

Fussell had reached the point – all soldiers who see real combat reach in the end – where he KNEW that he too would be killed if his division was committed to combat again. But having survived the war in Europe, he was going to be sent to Pacific, and the 45^th Division would be in the first wave of landings on the main Japanese island of Honshu in March 1946.

Like his few surviving comrades from the European war, he absolutely knew that he would die in Japan. So when they heard about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the Japanese surrender, they were crying with relief even as they cheered.

When I interviewed Paul Fussell in the mid-1980s for a documentary, even in recollection the emotions he had felt when he learned that he had been reprieved, that he would live to grow up, were so strong that he was crying again. The atomic bomb did save his life, and perhaps the lives of a million others who would have died if there had been a full-scale invasion of the Japanese homeland. For him, that was enough.

It will have to be enough for us, too. In any case, we do not need to engage in the tricky accountancy of balancing the quarter-million horribly real deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki against the hypothetical (but quite realistic) estimates of a million military and civilian deaths if the Allies had really had to invade Japan.

There’s a different way of looking at the Hiroshima bomb. It’s often mentioned by the hibakusha (bomb survivors) who struggle to give meaning to the horrors they experienced. If not for those bombs on living cities, they argue, the world would not have been afraid enough of these new weapons to avoid a nuclear war all down the long years of the Cold War.

I suspect Barack Obama sees the logic of that, and that he is going to Hiroshima not because it is a symbol of the past, but rather to use it as a warning for the future. At the beginning of his presidency, in April 2009, he said in a speech in Prague: “As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a responsibility to act.”

It has not acted decisively yet, and it is unlikely to do so before Obama’s presidency ends next January. All he can claim is a deal that probably prevents Iran from becoming the next nuclear power, and a controversial trillion-dollar programme to modernise US nuclear weapons while reducing the actual numbers. But if the remaining weapons have more accuracy and higher yields, have you actually achieved anything?

Obama’s heart is certainly in the right place. He has held four nuclear security summits during his presidency, mainly aimed at improving the custody measures meant to keep the weapons out of the wrong hands, and getting the nuclear powers to move away from launch-on-warning postures that keep everybody at hair-trigger alert.

In Hiroshima, he will probably ask the US Senate once more to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (ten years and counting). He will talk up a proposed new treaty banning the production of fissile material. He may even call for a world without nuclear weapons, although that is a concept that does not have much support in Washington.

But it’s hard to get the world’s attention when the threat of nuclear war seems low, and almost impossible to get real concessions out of the great powers when it seems high. In the end, Obama is just using Hiroshima to remind everybody that we have a lot of unfinished business to conclude in the nuclear domain.
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Gwynne Dyer, ex Royal Navy lectured at Sandhurst so he understands the issues. He is largely right. The comments range from silly to hostile. Having had two friends with one way tickets to Japan and death among a million others I take their point and Gwynne's. Paul Fussell's article Thank God For The Atomic Bomb is on line as a reprint with couple of errors. Gwynne is RIGHT, as in correct.

 

House Of Commons Backs Trident Renewal 472 To 117  [ 19 July 2016 ]
That is a pretty convincing majority, one that should shut Rent A Mob cum CND up for a decent interval. Even murderous hooligans like Blair haven't been fool enough to use them.

 

Nuclear Power Is Grossly Overpriced  [ 7 September 2016 ]
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French President Francois Hollande’s government is concerned that discussions on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks in China will sound the death knell for the Hinkley Point nuclear power project in the U.K., according to people involved in the talks.

The prospects of Hinkley Point going ahead have diminished significantly since May replaced David Cameron as prime minister in July. Hours after EDF gave the project a green light, May’s government said it needed time to reconsider. Hollande and his advisers have repeatedly sought reassurances that the project would proceed and failed to get firm commitments, French officials and executives said. They asked not to be named because the discussions are private and have yet to be concluded...........

Cameron’s government agreed in 2013 to pay EDF 92.50 pounds ($121) a megawatt-hour for electricity from Hinkley, more than double the prevailing market price [ circa £50 = 5p per kilowatt-hour ]. The National Audit Office estimated in July that consumer-funded top-ups over the project’s 35-year lifetime would total almost 30 billion pounds, five times original estimates. Offshore wind developers such as Dong Energy A/S and biomass producer say the government should look again at alternatives to nuclear, which are falling rapidly in price.
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Nuclear power uses less coal; it burns cleaner but should we pay over the odds? NO! £18 billion + maybe 30% cost overruns is serious money. Waste disposal shouldn't be a problem but it is the excuse the Greenies use; they are loudmouthed ignoramuses using an excuse, any excuse to make problems. They are just Rent A Mob. The French are looking to screw the English taxpayer & stave off bankruptcy. See Private Eye on the point.

 

US Pulls Out Of Nuclear Treaty With Russia  [ 3 August 2019 ]
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President Donald Trump defended the decision to rip up a nuclear pact with Russia Friday, saying he intends for the U.S. to always be first in nuclear weaponry – but that both Russia and China have expressed a willingness to talk.

'We have new nuclear coming. I hate to tell that to people because it's devastating, but we always have to be in the lead. I hope to god you never have to use it,' Trump told reporters Friday as he left town for his New Jersey golf course.

 'They weren't living up to their commitment,' Trump said of Russia, who his administration had warned must cease violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty or else the U.S. would withdraw.
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Is Donald Trump being misquoted by malicious liars full of hate? Quite possibly. Of course blaming Don and the Russians for everything is what the Mainstream Media do.

 

Russia Is Developing A Powerful Secret Missile Claims Jew          [ 3 August 2019 ]
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Dominic Raab has blamed Russia for the collapse of a landmark arms control treaty, saying Moscow has been 'secretly developing and deploying a treaty-violating missile system which can target Europe's capitals'.

The Foreign Secretary said the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, which was signed by US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev three decades ago, is down to Russian 'contempt for the rules-based international system'.

Mr Raab said Russia's action 'threatens European security', and pledged the UK's support to NATO's response to the situation. The US and Russia both walked away from the INF treaty on Friday.
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The Mail's readers are not stupid enough to take this nonsense. The Russians have had the nukes and the rockets for decades. Raab is half Jew; his mother married one. Is he loyal to England or Israel? Is he trying to incite another war?

 

Where That Uranium Came From
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Can old metal men still learn?
I was a metal merchant once - but I’m ok now. In a career of forty-one years, I thought I knew some of the trade’s more morally compromised subjects. But every now and then you come across an issue that is hard to wipe clean.

The one I’m referring to today is the story of Shinkolobwe – a mine in the Congo. Have you heard of it?

In 1939, its name was proscribed; for to speak of it would imply knowledge of its significance - and that was the treasure of only a few; some military commanders and spooks in the recesses of administrations of five of the countries prosecuting the second world war – America, Germany, Belgium, France and Britain.

To any who dared whisper it, its output was even more secret than the mine’s name. Its was described as ‘special cobalt’ or ‘industrial diamonds’, both as subterfuges to deter the curious.

By using the disguise of one verifiably precious mineral - diamonds – to conceal the identity of another, those interested were successfully thrown off the scent. Diamond smuggling was believable. In fact it was a camouflage for which spies and smugglers died, without knowing the true name of the ore for which they were killed.

The mineral was of course uranium.

And where was Shinkolobwe situated? Of course, in the country chosen, it seems, to be the most wronged and benighted in the world – at that time called Belgian Congo.

Here in the 1940s, the chicotte was still a sadistic instrument of subjugation; a whip made of thin strips of dried hippopotamus hide, a hundred lashes of which would flay a man to death; still in use 60 years after King Leopold II of Belgium became founder and owner of Congo Free State.

The reason for secrecy was because the British and Americans sought to secure the element before the Germans, in the race to create the bomb.

In this place, at the very centre of Africa, no black person oversaw anything, or profited from the supply of uranium for the atomic bomb. The profit for that was all channelled via Union Minière’s New York commercial arm African Metals Corp.

Meanwhile, Belgium, occupied by the Nazis from May 1940, alternately dissembled or collaborated with whichever side appeared to be winning. Congolese workers milled uranium by hand and transported it without protection at radiation levels high enough for the area to remain closed off until this day. Nevertheless, in these conditions 1200 metric tons of uranium was shipped to the USA for the Manhattan project.

Once again, as in the 1880s, Congo was to be cursed because of its unique resources. As it was with vine rubber that made rich men of the founders of Firestone and Dunlop, or elephant tusks for piano keys to play sonatas in genteel salons, or the copper, zinc, and lead to make rich and powerful the Belgian industrial state and adorn its buildings, so with uranium. All was exploited with almost no benefit to the country from which it was taken, while Catholic priests promulgated the teachings of Christ.

To ordinary folk, not in the metals or minerals trade, Shinkolobwe is a simple resource story to comprehend, because uranium is so indelibly associated with nuclear weapons, and because the atomic bombs for which the uranium was used, caused the death of 100,000 Japanese in August 1945.

However, in the scale of iniquity it should perhaps not overshadow the less dramatic but equally amoral ways in which this resource story lives on in the Congo in 2022.

This time the mineral is not just called ‘special cobalt’, it is indeed ‘cobalt’. Like uranium, the Congolese cobalt ore of Katanga is a freak occurrence in nature, richer than any geological formation to be found elsewhere on the globe. At Shinkolobwe the U308 content was between 65-70% which compares to commercial uranium mined today at Rössing in Nambia at a mere 100 ppm (or 0.01%). Cobalt surface artisanal ores in Katanga are said to be Co 10-15% while larger volume corporate mines containing as little as Co 0.5% are commercial.

The only thing that has changed is that Britain, France, and Germany are not in the frontline and not presently at war. While the UK stock market is the domicile for a portion of the shares of one or two of the exploiters, and Germany and France are consumers of cobalt for the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles, China, USA, Israel, and Switzerland are the diggers.

Rapaciousness in the 1940s was justified because of war, even though indigenous Africans had little role in it except as cattle fodder for their imperial masters. Today, the exploitation of Congolese cobalt is justified because the world genuflects before the altar of green technology. In all this, it matters not that small boys and whole families subsist in pre-biblical conditions mining cobalt ores with their hands, while poisoning water systems with tailings and heavy metals, causing malformations in pregnancy and pollution of crops.

And which company is common to both the uranium and cobalt stories? The one that states on its website that its ambitions lie in ‘clean mobility and recycling’. The company was once called Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK). Today it is called Umicore where you can read on their website of their battery technologies. But go to the Umicore corporate history section and you may be surprised to read that nothing of note happened between 1906 and 1968 (although there are ten entries between 1989 and the present). Or pick up a copy of Umicore’s educational book of elements (2003) and you will note that Uranium is omitted. Metal merchants, it would seem, can bear only a little reality.

If there is a conclusion to be drawn – one that isn’t too trite or revisionist – it is that we should try harder to recognise threads of history that should not be forgotten. The arguments you will hear aired to justify the expropriation of uranium are that the side of the good had to have the biggest gun, or that the atomic bomb shortened the war.

I’ll leave the last word then to a family friend whose father was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. A couple of weeks ago when we discussed this subject, he said that he felt it had been wrong to drop the bomb, even though the longer the war went on the more unlikely it would have been that his father would have survived.

Some moralities exist, it appears, on a higher plane than self-interest. Who knows, perhaps we could learn from Shinkolobwe and do better in the Congo today?

By Anthony Lipmann and Published on www.lord-copper.com 03.02.22

Further Reading: ‘Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that built the atomic bomb’, by Susan William (2016)

Image: Uraninite from Shinkolobwe, Katanga. [Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Natural History]
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Interesting stuff. Is Anthony a Jew as well as a trader? Quite possibly, even probably [ Yes, by his own admission ]  but then so was Nigel Farage.

 

Americans Might Have Nuclear Fusion Producing Clean Power  [ 13 December 2022 ]
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It could help tackle climate change, speed up a trip to Mars, and relinquish Vladimir Putin's vice-like energy grip on the West. 

In short, nuclear fusion would change the world.

And that's why scientists across the globe are rejoicing at news coming out of the US that the 'holy grail' of unlimited clean power is within touching distance.
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This would be good news IF it turns into reality. But then the Luddites will start sabotaging it. The American oil industry will be putting the boot in as well.

 

How To Survive A Nuclear Explosion  [ 18 January 2023 ]
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Since Russia's invasion on Ukraine started almost a year ago, the threat of devastating nuclear war has for many felt closer than ever before.  

Now, a study reveals the best way to survive a powerful nuclear explosion if you're inside a concrete building – as long as it hasn't been toppled by the blast. According to the researchers, the best place to shelter is in the corner of a room, facing the direction of the blast, or to 'duck and cover', potentially behind a chair or table. 

However, people should steer clear of windows, corridors and doors as this is where extreme winds travel at the highest speeds, strong enough to lift people into the air and cause serious injury when they hit the ground.
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Surviving a first strike is one thing. Surviving the aftermath is another, much more difficult. You doubt it? See America’s Unable To ‘Absorb’ A Russian First Nuclear Strike to know. Of course the man who pressed that big red button will be  safely sheltered; it is just the rest of us. The Mail pretends that the cause is Vladimir Putin. He IS NOT. American hooligans in the White House and American State Department set up this proxy war to break Russia and retain world dominance. The US is a Superpower on the skids as China is on the up.

 

https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/29/scott-ritter-the-end-of-us-nuclear-superiority/

The End Of US Nuclear Superiority by Scott Ritter  [  29 November 2023 ]
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On Nov. 1, the U.S. Air Force was forced to explosively “terminate” the flight test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). This meant blowing it up in the air after it exhibited unspecified in-flight anomalies to engineers monitoring its progress.

The test launch, carried out by the U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command, is, according to the Air Force, “part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable, and effective to deter 21st century threats and reassure our allies.”

The U.S. Air Force maintains some 400 Minuteman III, stored in silos and ostensibly on 24-hour alert to respond to any potential strategic threat targeting the United States and/or its allies. The Minuteman III has been the land-based component of the “nuclear triad” of U.S. strategic deterrence (the other two being the sea component of Trident missiles onboard Ohio-class submarines and the air component of specially designated B-52 and B-2 manned bombers). 

The Minuteman III was developed in 1968, an improvement on the original Minuteman I missile design from 1958. It entered operational service in 1970. Originally conceived to carry three independently targeted warheads, the Minuteman III was retrofitted with a single warhead as part of the now defunct START II treaty, ratified by both the U.S. and Russia, but never entered into force. 

While the New START treaty that remains in effect today does not limit the number of warheads the Minuteman III can carry, the warhead limitations of the previous treaty means that the Minuteman III continues to be fitted out with a single warhead, although the U.S. Air Force routinely carries out flight tests of Minuteman III missiles retrofitted with three warheads.

The Minuteman III is scheduled to be replaced starting in 2029 with a new generation of U.S. land-based ICBM known as the Sentinel. Some Minuteman III missiles will remain on duty until the Sentinel is fully deployed sometime in the mid-to-late 2030s.

Sometime last year a British Vanguard submarine, carrying 16 nuclear-armed Trident II missiles, suffered a mechanical failure during dive operations which, if left unrectified, could have resulted in a catastrophe for the 140 crewmembers aboard at the time. 
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Scott does not say much about Russian up grades.