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Our writings on NASA's Curiosity launch

Curiosity Diary: Launch Day Minus 1 (November 25, 2011): 12:22PM

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nobel laureates, scientific organizations and worldwide citizen and peace groups managed to convince the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to stop open-air nuclear bomb testing because it was leading to the incorporation of lethal amounts of strontium-90 in the bones and teeth of the young. One reason - which is the one that's widely accepted - why the superpowers succumbed to global opposition to their atmospheric nuclear tests was that they knew more testing was going to lead to a global medical crisis. But another reason, and one that is little known, is that after secretly studying the alternative - to continue testing while also 'denuding' strontium-90 from the upper atmosphere (where it resided for a short time after nuclear detonations) - and failing to find a workable solution, there was no choice by the superpowers but to agree to a ban on the most damaging types of nuclear tests.

Nowadays, scientists and citizen groups are protesting the contamination of Earth's air with unnatural quantities of a chemical called 'carbon dioxide,' which is leading to runaway climate change. The leaders of the industrial nations of the world will, predictably, have no choice in the end but to succumb to citizen's entreaties when they (secretly) realize - from the reports submitted by scientists - that there is no way to continue with the status quo and at the same time remove all of that excessive carbon dioxide before a great 'tipping point' is reached.

While for climate change it is too early in the game to fully know if we had a 'close call' or we acted too late and are screwed, I am convinced that the lingering effects (even despite the test bans) of nuclear testing fallout on global public health did 'screw us' - I think that fallout really caused our present-day global cancer epidemic. We acted too late and did great damage to our ecology and to future generations. Over-manipulation of our scientific knowledgebase by governmental interference has prevented most people from realizing this.

Sadly, the failure of people to imagine what human-induced climate change could look like in 20 or 100 years, or see that we have caused a true catastrophe from the global contamination of our atmosphere with radioactive chemicals that were impossible to remove, is what is keeping us from preventing a second, third, or fourth, catastrophe.

In less than 24 hours the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral. Its payload is a Mars rover that is powered by plutonium-238. Should the rocket and the rover - called 'Mars Science Laboratory' or 'Curiosity' - fail to leave Earth orbit, reenter the atmosphere and burn up, the fiery event could cause over 10 pounds of plutonium-238 to enter the upper atmosphere.

NASA thinks its safeguards and layers of shielding around the nuclear fuel will make it unlikely that a reentry will turn the plutonium-238 into an aerosolized form. Yet NASA admits there is a slim chance that aerosolization from burnup could occur. If that happens, it will be irreversible. There will be no way to de-nude the atmosphere of this plutonium 238 isotope, which will be present in our air for a period of 20-30 years in double the total amounts that were emitted into the atmosphere from all previous human activities, including nuclear reactor meltdowns and nuclear testing. I don't know - and I don't think anyone knows - how many lung cancers would be caused by the descent into millions of human lung cavities of 10 pounds of aerosolized plutonium-238. An environmental disaster of this magnitude has never happened before.

If in 10 years the signs of a global lung cancer crisis start showing because NASA's plutonium load burned up and infiltrated the atmosphere, it will be another repeat of the above case histories. People will plead for NASA to stop the nuclear space missions and only after realizing that the health crisis is real and atmospheric plutonium dust can't be removed, the space agency will finally give in and go 100% solar. But do we want that to be a possible scenario of our future? In less than 24 hours, if we could, and we did stop NASA, that possibility would be removed from our future; we wouldn't have to face a future of irreversible contamination of the air with harmful amounts of plutonium chemicals that risk global public health. If NASA didn't launch this plutonium fueled rover, we would be guaranteed a 0% chance of a catastrophe.

But we had more than 24 months to stop NASA and no movement grew strong enough to even make even a noticeable protest.

When will we admit to ourselves the truth, that we have blundered so greatly with our technologies that we ought to be much more careful in the future, perhaps to the point of techno-skepticism, perhaps to the point of doubting the military and all industries, perhaps even to the point of attaching substantial fear to this thing called 'pollution'?

NASA'S LACKLUSTER RADIATION MONITORING ON EARTH - November 22, 2011 - In 2011, during a launch window that begins on Nov. 26 and extends to mid-December, NASA plans to launch a rocket carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, aka 'Curiosity,' from Florida. One of the automated scientific devices on the plutonium-powered Mars rover is an alpha ray spectrometer, which is a laboratory device that can aid in identifying the distinct alpha ray-emitting radioisotopes in the environment. Alpha particles come in two types: natural (i.e., radon, uranium) and artificial (i.e., plutonium) forms, however Curiosity's spectrometer will be used to learn about levels and types of natural alpha radiation on Mars' surface.

In contrast to the sophistication of radiation equipment on Curiosity intended for use on Mars, NASA appears to have no tools in place for quickly identifying the presence of plutonium 238 dust in the case of a launch accident on Earth. Should an accident occur during one of the early phases of NASA's rocket launch and disperse plutonium dust into the local environment, the greatest danger to Floridians will be breathing plutonium dust in the hours after the accident. However, NASA has only announced it will have a 'monitoring' network in Florida equipped with weather instruments that can track a plume in the atmosphere. If NASA was taking public safety seriously, it would array literally hundreds of alpha counters (which can count the 'clicks' of alpha decay), alpha ray spectrometers and high volume air samplers within and beyond the 'Space Coast' in Florida. These three tools - if present in hundreds of locations - would enable the agency to firstly learn about high 'alpha counts' in a city or town when it happens and instantly identify the type of isotope through the 'alpha spec' - this would be the catalyst for quickly retrieving air filters and rendering laboratory analyses to determine the levels of plutonium-238 in a city or town's air. (Learn more about honest environmental radiation monitoring here.)

Even more concerning, most people on Earth could be exposed to inhalable plutonium particles over a 10-20 year period in case of a (low probability) low-earth orbit 'burn-up' of the rocket, yet NASA has not announced any plans for high altitude monitoring to determine the presence of plutonium dust in the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere to predict global deposition patterns and then global ground-level monitoring to track deposition onto Earth's surface, which will occur primarily during 'rainouts.' (return to 'Nuclear Rockets and Spacecraft')

Public Comment by Ace Hoffman published in NASA's MSL (Curiosity) Final EIS *which was enabled with password protected security features that prevent search engines from picking up the text*:

September 29th, 2006

Dear Chris Kridler,

NASA announced that meeting, as far as I know, about two days before it occurred, so no wonder people like me (who lives about 3,000 miles away) didn't happen to be there.

NASA's RTG's are incredibly dangerous. They twist their accidents into successes, when in fact, the plutonium they have already released has killed, and continues to kill, human beings throughout the planet.

One estimate I heard is that as many as a million people could be condemned to die, or have died already, from ONE previous NASA Pu failure (Gofman). Another estimate, by a pro-nuker, is that males in the Northern Hemisphere piss out about a million atoms of Pu every day from that one accident. NASA misunderstands totally, the dangers of the radioactive aerosol fumes their accidents create.

And sure, they now have containments for the Pu, they didn't used to. But these containments are paper-thin and not really all that good. There are numerous accident scenarios where they will breach. Furthermore they reduce the efficiency of the devices, requiring carrying MORE Pu for the same mission! So an accident with, say, a 10% release of 25 pounds (total) of Pu can be as bad as a full release of a much smaller quantity of Pu, which was delivering the exact same electrical output! (The release amount in the 1964 accident was 2.1 pounds.)

No one at NASA cares to truly understand the dangers of low level radiation, or to accept their (NASA's) true accident rates. Anyone in the organization who does grasp the truth is ostracized and outed as soon as possible. Question the faith that LLR might not even be good for you ("Hormesis," the fallacy that LLR has beneficial side-effects) and you will never even get in, let alone, advance, in today's nuclear NASA.

These people are part of a closed society of dangerous, closed-mined "scientists" who are hoodwinking the American public and who are guilty of premeditated random murder, infanticide, and even genocide.

The media has a duty to learn the truth rather than parrot NASA's blanketly-flase assertions such as "the risk from the mission would be low." As NASA looks for life on Mars, they don't just "risk" life on Earth. They condemn it, because as surely as day follows night, accidents happen when dangerous activities are repeated ad nauseam.

Sincerely,

"Ace" Hoffman

Carlsbad, CA

NASA's Plutonium Gamble is no Joke

Did you hear about NASA Hair Gel for Men? It's so strong it can tame even a wild mustang, but beware: it might blow up and spread plutonium all over the place.

Maybe you also heard about the NASA Deluxe Coffee Maker. It brews 10 cups in 10 seconds but also could blow up and send plutonium all over your kitchen.

No one in their right mind would spend their money on any of these fictitious items so why did American taxpayers foot the $2.5 billion bill for the Mars Science Laboratory aka 'Curiosity', the name of NASA's biggest yet (plutonium-powered) rover whose Mars-bound rocket could fail after the post-Thanksgiving Day launch and release plutonium into the Earth's air? Perhaps we 'bought' this latest nuclear gizmo because we still can't accept that it isn't in our best interests to trust corporations and governments, especially when they assure us about the safety of nuclear powered technologies. For example, they said it couldn't happen but Fukushima happened, right? And then when an accident like Fukushima happens they will say that cesium-contaminated pollen or rice or plutonium dust is harmless, implying the mindboggling equation: radioactive particles plus clean air still equals clean air! Since before most of us were born the scientific consensus has been that there is no safe dose of radiation, why do we let our goverments, and the corporations they're supposed to police, lie to us with such distortions of math and logic? Like corporations do to protect the image of their product lines to keep us buying, governments lie, cover up and twist logic to convince us to subsidize with our taxes (and our health) their nuclear gizmos that have the potential to - and have more than once - spread plutonium all over the place. The biggest U.S. accident involving nuclear power in space (in 1964) spread 2.1 pounds of plutonium across the globe. This one threatens to disperse 10.56 pounds of it. Please act to stop this launch - learn how by following our Facebook page.

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Nuclearcrimes.org/Idealist's analysis on Fukushima is now on-line, however it is still in draft-form, and our conclusion is still that Japan is fucked, and her residents should get the hell out of there and they should not believe *any* person, entity or resource that argues, implies or suggests that any amount of radiation exposure is safe or harmless.

Radiation standards are propaganda tools developed by nuclear powers to basically convince ordinary people like you that nothing deleterious will happen if their deliberately or accidentally leaked radioactive waste from their nuclear activities enters your body. Sadly, global peoples, especially the Japanese people, have a long history of swallowing both radiochemical forms of fallout and force-fed-lies about 'safe levels' of radioactive substances in their environment, their tap water, their wheat, their milk, their diet, their bones, etc.... There should be ZERO levels of cesium-137 and strontium-90 and plutonium in the environment. These substances are FAR more dangerous to human health than any other substances known in the universe.

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Our philosophy for social change: The institutions of our democracy and civilization regrettably cannot be trusted when it comes to many important issues nowadays, and especially the issue of nuclear radiation. Fukushima is the most recent case study in this regard. What is the common man and woman to do? Simply put: stewardship of human societies is self-stewardship writ large. Without impressive individuals we cannot have impressive societies and so the only act that will ensure the betterment of all is the betterment of each self. Unfortunately, that is always the last thing anyone thinks of when considering global problems.

Unbelievable and Believable Quotes:

"I am on record in 1957 as NOT being worried yet about fallout and stil being optimistic about the benefits of nuclear power.

There is no way I can justify my failure to help sound an alarm over these activities many years sooner than I did.

I feel that at least several hundred scientists trained in the biomedical aspect of atomic energy - myself definitely included - are candidates for Nuremberg-type trials for crimes against humanity through our gross negligence and irresponsibility.

Now that we know the hazard of low-dose radiation, the crime is not experimentation - it's murder."

- John Gofman, 'An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power'

"To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program." - Defense Secretary Robert Gates, 10/28/08

U.S. Declaration of Independence: "...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

'At the most fundamental of levels, the struggle to address the radioactive legacy of the Cold War has been a struggle over who has the right and power to shape, access, and use information. People seek access to information that depicts "the whole truth" about the nuclear war machine and its human health effects. And governments seek to control or remove from public access such information. They do so because this information demonstrates past harm and present or future risk, and thus demonstrates liability and supports demands for accountability.' - Barbara Rose Johnston (in 'Half Lives, Half Truths,' 2007)

'That radioactive elements created by us are found in nature is an astounding event in the history of the earth and of the human race. To fail to consider its importance and its consequences would be a folly for which humanity would have to pay a terrible price.' - Albert Schweitzer

Nations of the world exploded 'some 504 nuclear weapons in the atmosphere at thirteen primary sites..' - 'Half Lifes, Half Truths'

'a kind of secret low-intensity radioactive warfare has been waged against unsuspecting populations' - 'Nuclear Wastelands'

A U.S. government health study released in 2002 stated: "Any person living in the contiguous United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout and all organs and tissues of the body have received some radiation exposure."

Corporate HonorLESS Roll

Quaker Oats poisoned "science club" kids at Fernald State School with radioactive milk and cereal - "Finish all your milk."

Chrysler did Uranium-235 separation (diffusion) for the federal government's Manhattan Project in Detroit (the 'Project' built the bombs that poisoned New Mexicans and killed 100,000s of Japanese)

Coors - mysteriously stored drums of radioactive materials at a Colorado facility

Hershey - produced barriers for gaseous diffusion (for uranium enrichment) at its Hondaille, Ill. plant; failed to divert Pennsylvania milk supplies - tainted by TMI accident - from entering chocolate products

DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours) - 'director' of early Hanford through 1946, incl. irradiation of uranium to produce plutonium for Hiroshima bomb; built and ran Savannah River plant

General Electric - built reactors at and directed Hanford from 1945-1965; waste tanks polluted Columbia River and northwest coast with radiation; failed to whistle-blow 1949 'Green Run'; supports use of and produced RTGs

Lockheed Martin - supports use of and produces RTGs

Westinghouse - built reactors at federal facility at Argonne, Ill.; also managed Hanford; waste tanks polluted Columbia River and northwest coast with radiation

Food irradiating companies - turning our food into 'free radical' food; splashes and spills get Cesium-137 atoms into food supply

Union Carbide - ran Oak Ridge labs

Northrop Grumman - manager of consortium running the former Nevada Test Site - N2S2 - and has failed to whistle-blow dangerous routine radioactive leaks into populated areas and is liable for role in dirty-bomb experiment attempt, 'Divine Strake'

Bechtel - managed Nevada Test Site during underground nuclear testing years, failed to whistle-blow radiation leaks to public

Pan American World Airways (and other airlines), Aerojet, McDonald Douglas, Westinghouse - played a role in research and development of nuclear-rocket technology at the Nevada Test Site. Live tests released 10,000s of Curies of Iodine-131 that traveled as far as northern Idaho, Colorado, Los Angeles, and New Mexico.

Walt Disney (Disney) - creator of Our Friend The Atom (1957), a book and movie about atomic energy, for 'educational purposes'

Eastman Kodak Company (and other photographic film manufacturers) - never once warned the public during the 1950s about fallout they knew was headed to populated areas; never shared maps and forecasts they exclusively obtained through a secret agreement with the A.E.C.

Unbelievable exposures (to specific organs) in the 1950's:

Fluoroscopic exam: 10-20 Rem/minute

Cinefluorography: 25 Rem/exam

Dental full-mouth X-ray series: 10-150 Rem

Shoe-store fluoroscopy: 50-150 Rem/min to feet

Radium-dial watch: 7 Rem/yr

Half-value distances
	air	tissue
x-rays¹	40m	5cm
gamma²	200m	10cm
neutrons	40m	10cm
alpha³	3.6cm (max)	0.0003cm (max)
beta	10cm (max)	1cm (max)

¹100keV

² 5MeV

³Only alphas possess linear energy - they don't 'zig zag' like other energy types (betas zig-zag a lot and gammas deflect easily)

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The latest nuclear test was a Z Machine plutonium shot held in New Mexico on March 31, 2011. The previous two nuclear tests were Barolo A and Barolo B, conducted on Dec. 1, 2010, and Feb. 2, 2011.

Nuclearcrimes.org/Idealist's favorites (others' writings)

'The nuclear gang rides again' August 21, 2009 - Saul Landau

Iowa nuke workers: Government not living up to promises, March 11, 2010, Iowa Independent

'The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands, May 23, 2010, by Robert Alvarez

Radiation vibe - A series of supposed spikes in local radioactivity pits activists against scientists and federal officials, May 6, 2010, by Jason Whited @ Las Vegas CityLife

Facebook page of 'The Downwinders,' a full-length indy feature film by Lance Brittan (now in post-production)

Matheson, unlike Hatch, supports downwinder bill (Deseret News)

Two dozen arrested at NTS, April 5, 2010 - NDE's 62-mile, annual pilgrimage to the Nevada Test Site began on March 30.

"4,000 or 500,000 CHERNOBYL CASUALITIES", January 18, 2010, @ 'No Incinerator For Croydon' blog

Study finds we nuked ourselves pretty bad, October 20, 2009 - About the project; St. Louis fallout chart (see upper right quadrant); Read the study. Even more.

'Humor about nuclear testing in "Indiana Jones" lost on downwinders,' Salt Lake Tribune, June 29, 2008

Our writings about the U.S. D.O.E.

Diligent Anti-nuclear Activism - Dealing with Distrust and Deceit

The DOE, as with the entire federal government, the scientific community and most within American society, expects us to believe that it (the DOE) will be honest about the environmental impacts of proposed actions in all its NEPA documents and not 'cherry pick,' withhold or 'make up' data or distort the truth in order to suit its agenda. But the DOE and its predecessor have lied to the public time and time again surrounding radiological exposures suffered by downwinders, nuclear test site workers, atomic veterans, etc...The DOE is still putting out environmental reports that are questionable - consider the last of three Environmental Assessments for Divine Strake that included isotopic analysis of 26 samples in an area exceeding a staggering 3 million square feet that would have been disturbed by the Divine Strake blast and shock wave. The soil sampling was the equivalent to taking one soil test per football field and could have easily missed 'hot spots' of high concentrations of plutonium, americium and other deadly radionuclides. The sampling also did not explore what was below (more than 6") the ground of the site where the Divine Strake blast would have occurred. This was of concern because the 700 tons of ammonium-nitrate fuel-oil used for 'Divine Strake' would have been detonated in a 36-foot deep hole and the blast - equivalent to a 0.6 kiloton TNT explosion - would have forcefully ejected all of the dirt around the pit.

Since Divine Strake was cancelled in early 2007, the DOE has continued hosting - and has agreed to boost the frequency, yield and numbers of locations for - a Pentagon program of surface explosive tests at the NNSS that are a fraction the size of Divine Strake, yet these tests are capable of disturbing surface contamination. So, why is there is no publicly-made environmental data and why is the DOE getting away with exploiting a NEPA process called 'categorical exclusion' to green-light these tests? Read more about stopping Divine Strakes.

Based on this and other revelations of DOE deceit, I believe all of the DOE's pronouncements are questionable.

What do we do? How do we move forward when there are no trustworthy assessments of government actions that carry very real negative public health consequences?

The answer lies in getting citizens to become active in holding accountable the nuclear weapons complex of its past, present and future releases of radioactive pollution through citizen-based monitoring, reporting, investigations, legal action, and watchdogging.

SOURCE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS CONTINUE IN NEVADA DESERT - A WEEK BEFORE HALLOWEEN, the Nevada Site Office of NNSA/DOE conducted a phase of its ongoing Source Physics Experiment (SPE) program that involved the deliberate release of radioactive isotopes into the surface air. There is NO environmental impact assessment of this activity, no identification of the isotopes (or quantity) involved and no idea of how far these radioactive isotopes could drift offsite (as in Utah, Las Vegas, etc...). Keep in mind these isotopes were released to mimic the *venting* of an underground nuclear test, so they will drift pretty far...these SPEs are plain and simple underground nuclear explosion simulations. The press release from the DOE is here and our analysis is here. Yet another good reason to not live anywhere - anywhere! - near the NNSS, the former NTS, which remains open for 1 reason: to resume underground nuclear testing.

The Department of Energy conducted its 25th and 26th Subcritical Nuclear Experiment (SNE) in December 2010 and February 2011

Subcritical experiments were first introduced in 1997, five years after the last U.S.-held nuclear test. For the next 13 years or so, the Energy Department adhered to a custom they originally initiated of providing a 48-hour advance notice to the international community before carrying out each test. The Department, however, dispensed with that courtesy in late 2010 when it made public the news it had conducted the 24th subcritical experiment, dubbed 'Bacchus,' the day before. Now, in an unprecedented underhanded and nontransparent move, the Energy Department has told the world that it carried out these SNEs months ago. CONTINUED

TIMELINE OF EVENTS AND REACTIONS SURROUNDING BAROLO A AND BAROLO B

Dec. 1, 2010 - DOE's NNSA Clandestinely Conducts Barolo A Subcritical Nuclear Experiment

Feb. 2, 2011 - DOE's NNSA Clandestinely Conducts Barolo B Subcritical Nuclear Experiment

June 17, 2011 - DOE unceremoniously mentions the two experiments (not by name, but indicated by two "1's") in a small table in a 3-page pdf file in a quarterly report

July 19, 2011 - Kyodo News pens article "U.S. conducted subcritical nuclear tests in Dec. and Feb." that is syndicated across Japan's media

July 20, 2011 - Reporter asks questions about revelations of these experiments at a press conference with Japanese (Deputy) Chief Cabinet Secretary

EXCERPT OF LAME, STUPID, BULLSHIT RESPONSE BY JAPANESE GOV'T ON WHY THEY DON'T PROTEST THESE SUBCRITICAL TESTS:

'REPORTER: As a country that has suffered from atomic bombings, does our Government have any intentions of voicing its protest to the US Government?
DEPUTY CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY FUKUYAMA: As of now, Japan has no intentions of voicing its protest.
REPORTER: What are the reasons for this stance?
DEPUTY CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY FUKUYAMA: ...in his Prague Speech, President Obama also talked about the maintenance of safe and effective nuclear weapons as long as these weapons exist in the world, and we understand that these tests are aligned with this stance.'{END OF EXCERPT}

CONSIDER the point of view of Alicia Godsberg of Peace Action New York who recently opined about the proliferation risks associated with conducting these subcrits, arguing that "The value of sub–critical nuclear tests to the nuclear weapon states is questionable at best, but they would be valuable experiments for would–be nuclear weapon states, and that's why they should be banned under the CTBT and stopped immediately by the U.S. and Russia."

July 20, 2011 - MAYORS FOR PEACE sends Letter of Protest to U.S. President Barack Obama

MORE ABOUT THE SUBCRITICAL TESTS BELOW:

- NuclearCrimes.org's PowerPoint Presentation on Latest Subcritical Tests
- Nuclearcrimes' FULL analysis on subcritical experiments

OTHER FOREIGN PRESS COVERAGE OF BAROLO A AND B, THE TWO SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR TESTS CONDUCTED BY U.S. STRADDLING THE NEW YEAR

Nuclear explosion? No, shooting in critical ...{translated from post dated July 23, 2011, on a blog at Alternatives Economiques by Jean-Marie Collin, a French expert on defense issues.}

The United States has ruled since 1992 a moratorium on nuclear testing. However, all tests shall not be suspended, to be sure there are no mushroom cloud on the horizon, but still it remains a "critical test in '...

Under critical fire: The National Nuclear Security Administration has revealed that on 1 December 2010 and February 2, 2011, shooting two under criticism has been made by the Department of Energy (Department of Energy, DoE), on the site 'nuclear test in Nevada. This is the third shot (the first was held in September 2010) of this type, carried out since the election of President Obama. These three shots are part of the same experiment with the code name "Bacchus." The 25 th and 26 shootings have taken place in an underground tunnel nearly 700 feet deep, the area U1A test site.

Subcritical shots: What is it? This type of experience has many names. In France also known as cold shooting. This type of explosion does not cause chain reaction and is very low power. The objective is to validate the operating phase of the onset of the thermonuclear weapon. The arch in this context consists of both chemical explosive and a very small amount of fissile material (plutonium).

Shots subcritical Why? According to an official of the NNSA, these shots help to ensure the safety, security and reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons. Not without challenging this explanation, we must be aware that these shots are integrated into the simulation program of American nuclear tests, whose final objective is to safeguard nuclear weapons and to be in the ability to repeat the production of model of nuclear weapons until perhaps one day, if the political power gives the order to create a new nuclear warhead ...

Transparency: It still exists but is becoming increasingly blurred anyway. Before (period 1997/2006), the firing was announced to various international bodies concerned 48 hours before their executions. But the firing was announced in September 2010 with a day late, for the last two shots, their achievements were revealed several months after ...

Protests: Well, not hardly any. Usually, the first to respond are the Japanese, mainly because of their history. But for once they did not report the protests. On the contrary, the Japanese government has provided understanding on the implementation by the United States of these tests, which aims to ensure "the safety and reliability of their arsenals." How to understand this reaction? Would it be in order not to create a controversy with the U.S. Congress? This could indeed challenge the lobbying campaign that will launch the Obama for the ratification of the CTBT ...

And France? France also conducts subcritical tests at the site of Moronvilliers (near Reims). As it will be closed, there are high chances that future experiments are conducted on the future complex created on the site Valduc.

IPhone: Yes, who would have thought, there is an iPhone application (but also for its Android competitor) on the National Ignition Facility (main system simulation program of U.S. nuclear tests), since November 2010. So for "addicted" applications, for those who wish to be informed of the latest advances in testing and nuclear weapons is for you!

Kyodo News Agency said United States last year to have implemented three underground nuclear tests (Xinhua News Agency)

EXCERPTS: "United States national nuclear security administration of the Department of energy's subordinates to's Kyodo News Agency reporters confirmed the accuracy of a message.

...United States official announced, confirms nuclear test aging very slowly, from the final nuclear test for more than 5 months. National Nuclear Security Administration explained that this body in the nuclear tests after the completion of the public in the next quarter as far as possible nuclear test message, public channel is not released to the media, but by the national nuclear safety authority quarterly report of the summary of actions that have been used in support of the inventory. Ling Shuo (Xinhua News Agency for this feature)" (from translation of a JULY 21, 2011, article in Chinese by Xinhua News Agency that we translated via MicrosoftTranslator.com)

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WHO IS A VICTIM OF THE ATOMIC BOMB?

Is an atomic bomb victim one who was in a city attacked by an atom bomb? Or is it one whose city was attacked with fallout?

Could it be both?

The question should not be 'Who is a Victim of the Atomic Bomb' but rather the question should be: 'WHO ISN'T AN ATOMIC BOMB VICTIM?'

Sankichi Toge was a survivor of Hiroshima. His poems 'August 6th' and 'At the First-Aid Station,' excerpted below, help us imagine the horror of the world unleashed on August 6th, 1945:

'How could I ever forget that flash of light!'

'Buildings split, bridges collapsed'

'The fire-flood shifted on.'

'murky, quivering flames'

'burning, festering Hiroshima'

'skin dangling like rags'

'Limbs twitching, oozing blood and foul secretions'

'Eyes all puffed-up slits of white'

'spilt brains'

'Pot-bellied, one-eyed with half their skin peeled off, bald'

'Heaps, God knew who they were....'

Several years ago a group called Mohave Downwinders solicited letters from members of a rural Arizona county as part of an attempt to expand a federal program to compensate radiation victims. The locals wrote about the radiation injuries they suffered or witnessed in their families that they believed were linked to low and medium level fallout from Nevada nuclear bomb tests. Here are some excerpts:

'They opened him up, and the sewed him back up and sent him home. They said their was nothing that they could do. So we watched our father shrink up to nothing'

'At the time my sister was ill, several other young people were diagnosed with the same type of acute leukemia. All died within several weeks of each other.'

'up until the time he was about three, he had to have shots of whole blood about every three weeks... The doctor said it was a form of childhood anemia/leukemia.'

'Many times he begged his daughter to "go in the bedroom and get my gun" to take away the his pain and devastating humiliation of his now wasted and nonfunctioning body.'

'She could not eat, or have a desire to eat. The cancer starved her to death.'

'Out of the last four pregnancies, I am the only one to live....Baby #2: Miscarried -... This baby was missing a foot.'

'Our only daughter was born with birth defects ...and died a few days after she was born'

'I also had two sisters that died of brain tumors'

January 7, 2010 - Aided with stimulus money, the DOE is demolishing a key facility at the Nevada Test Site used to test nuclear rockets during the Cold War). Is the demolishment creating a radioactive-dust problem?

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In Australia, major nuclear test sites were blocked by a 100-mile radius security zone. Why don't we do the same, to protect the public from lofting plutonium dust from the Nevada Test Site? More

U.S. Nuclear Detonations from Japan to South Atlantic and everywhere in between -

Prefixes, conversions and equivalents

NuclearCrimes.org's public document archives: 1. 2.

'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.'
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980