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Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

They even joke about it:




Synchronistic money magic...
Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour opens today in Glendale Arizona, which the mayor actually renamed the city to “Swift City” and SWIFT is also a banking identification system.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) banking system is changing starting MONDAY and in Taylor SWIFT's music video "Look What You Made Me Do", they show you the destruction of paper money; in 2023 the Year of the Cat (which they occasionally use as an alternative to the rabbit). Notice that gold appears untouched.



The SWIFT site: “Financial institutions are therefore encouraged to continue preparation for the 20 March start date and consider all potential scenarios in their planning to ensure readiness for the start of ISO 20022 coexistence for CBPR+ from that date.”





70 years ago this morning, March 17, the United States conducted Operation Doorstep—a civil defense exercise involving the construction and destruction of “Doom Town” at the Nevada Proving Ground—in conjunction with shot Annie, a 16-kiloton nuclear device detonated atop a 300-foot tower.





To allay public fears about nuclear war, 20 reporters were invited to witness the explosion from News Nob, about 6.8 miles away. This test was broadcast live on television shortly after 5:00am local time (although the signal was temporarily disrupted at the moment of detonation).



Some 1,700 troops were also on hand to observe the test. Here is the official Federal Civil Defense Administration 10 min film about Operation Doorstep, which emphasizes how, with a proper home shelter, people are likely to survive even a nearby atomic bombing.

March 17, 1953: Never forget the brave Vegas J.C. Penney mannequins who sacrificed themselves for Operation Doorstep.





Upshot–Knothole Annie was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. It took place at the Nevada Test Site on 17 March 1953, and was nationally televised. The live TV coverage was recorded on a kinescope (aka telerecording in Britain), so it is a rare record of the sound an actual atomic bomb makes, sorta given the recording tech.

Operation Doorstep was a civil defense study conducted by the Federal Civil Defense Administration in conjunction with Annie.

Operation Upshot-Knothole Shot Annie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpm6cVbwcQI

What happened to the atomic test dummies?

St. Patrick’s Day always rocks in Las Vegas, but not like it did 70 years ago when a 16-kiloton atom bomb detonated atop a tower at the Nevada Proving Grounds, 65 miles north of the city.

The March 17, 1953 above-ground nuclear test destroyed or damaged various test objects placed at differing distances from ground zero, including houses, cars and mannequins meant to simulate real people who might get caught in a nuclear blast. The explosion sent a shock wave through southern Nevada and left behind an atom-age mystery: What happened to the life-like mannequins used in the test?

Doom Town

The code-name for the test was “Annie,” and it was the first experiment to gauge the effects of an atomic detonation on a mock American city. Among other things, scientists wanted to learn how people exposed to the blast might fare in their homes, cars or basement bomb shelters. This aspect of the test was known as “Operation Doorstep,” and it required the construction of a simulated small town.

“The construction people who were out there called it ‘Doom Town,’” remembered retired test site technician Al O’Donnell.

Before he passed away in 2015, O’Donnell spoke to the author about Doom Town and the people who put it together.

“They weren’t building it to be occupied,” O’Donnell said. “They were building it to be destroyed.”

Private industry furnished the materials to assemble Doom Town. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors donated cars to be blasted. The L.A. Darling Company of Michigan provided the mannequins to pose as people, and JCPenney of Las Vegas supplied clothing to dress the mannequins, although not all of the dummies were initially clothed, according to O’Donnell.

O’Donnell said some test site workers, during a free moment when the bosses weren’t looking,  placed “mom” and “dad” mannequins in compromising positions in the bedroom of a test house. The joke was that if nuclear armageddon was expected, this is what Mr. and Mrs. America would be doing the night before.

However, O’Donnell said a high-ranking test official, inspecting the site shortly before the blast, discovered the undressed dummies in their connubial positions.

“He went ballistic,” O’Donnell said. “He ordered us to put the dummies back where they were originally, with Dad sitting by the window reading his paper, while Mom worked in the kitchen.”

With the dummies dressed and in their original places, the atomic detonation went off as planned.
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But where are the test dummies that faced a nuclear blast on St. Patricks’ Day, and later posed for shoppers at JCPenney? Did any of these mannequins survive? Are any resting silently, long forgotten, as macabre souvenirs in someone’s basement?

Without records regarding their fate, no one can be certain. We only know the mannequins left the test site for a brief stint as window dressing at JCPenney’s, where they stood in mute testament to the destructive power of the bomb.

What happened to them after that remains an enduring mystery of the atomic age.

Las Vegas Review-Journal


55 years later, in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” Indiana Jones found himself in “Doom Town” (or the more elaborate “Survival Town” built for the 1955 Apple 2 test) and, unbelievably, escaped the fate of all those mannequins:



They don't build refrigerators like that anymore. LOL.