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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Continued...

After completing his work in North Carolina, the Air Force sent ReVelle to Christmas Island (Kiritimati) in the Pacific Ocean, where he witnessed the final 25 (!) US atmospheric nuclear weapons tests from May 19 to November 4, 1962.


Jack and the Demon Core

Around 2014, ReVelle was diagnosed with Myeloid Dysplastic Syndrome, a rare blood cancer. His doctors believed it was likely caused by exposure to ionizing radiation during his military service. ReVelle filed a claim with the VA for a service-connected disability. It was denied.

In Mar. 2019, a local newspaper covered ReVelle’s plight, which sadly is not uncommon for atomic veterans. Then 83, he was recovering from a broken hip after falling at home. After Medicare refused to keep paying for hospital-based rehab, he was sent home.

Cold War hero who helped save the world battles for his health


In 2018, the Department of Veterans Affairs denied ReVelle’s appeal. In February 2020, the Board of Veterans Appeals—after reviewing extensive evidence assembled by his lawyers—finally granted his claim. But ReVelle died on January 26, 2020, just three weeks before that decision.

Snell & Wilmer pro bono appeal of the VA denial of Dr. Jack ReVelle’s veterans’ benefits (PDF)

At least he was spared from the Corona nightmare; he surely would have been 'ventilated'.


All in the Nuclear Family...

Father – Daughter duo make history

PINE BLUFFS, Wyo. -- For the last 64 years, sitting underground inside a concrete pill, F.E. Warren’s missileers have stood alert, responsible for the world’s premier nuclear arsenal 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Families of all kinds have served on F.E Warren, but never before have a father and daughter been together on alert in the capsule.

On Jan. 6, 2023, Lt. Col. Raymundo Vann Jr., and his daughter Capt. Gabriella Graham, stepped into the launch control capsule at Echo-01 missile alert facility and assumed the alert together.

The WC-135R Constant Phoenix 6414836 “nuclear sniffer” jet that last week flew down the east coast of South America is now making its way down the west coast. Don’t panic; possibly baseline calibration flights for the newly upgraded plane.