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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926.




June 1, 1952: As part of "Operation Tumbler–Snapper" Los Alamos theoretical physicist and weapons designer Ted Taylor used a parabolic mirror and a 15-kt nuclear explosion "George" (Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead) detonated atop a 300-ft tower at the Nevada Test Site to light a Pall Mall cigarette. Taylor designed the lightweight "Scorpion" device for the test.



Excerpt from "Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing":


Page 154 (1991) by Richard Lee Miller.

A 1955 DoD film clip demonstrated the concept, without using an actual atomic bomb.

Ted Taylor (1925-2004) subsequently recalled that he “carefully extinguished the cigarette and saved it for a while in my desk drawer at Los Alamos. Sometime, probably in a state of excitement about some new kind of bomb, I must have smoked it by mistake.”



Taylor went on to design the highest- and lowest-yield US atomic (fission) bombs: the B18 (500 kt, tested above Enewetak Atoll in "Shot King" on November 15, 1952), and the W54 (.018-.022 kt, tested at the Nevada Proving Ground in Little Feller II and I on July 7 and 11, 1962).

Taylor spent much of his career obsessively pursuing even smaller atomic bombs: "Pursuing these limits became an obsession,” Taylor admitted. “What is the absolute lower limit to the total weight of a complete fission explosive? What is the smallest amount of plutonium or uranium 235 that can be made to explode? What is the smallest possible diameter of a nuclear weapon that could be fired out of a gun?” The answers were surprising. “I was narrowing my focus, getting the quantities of plutonium that one could use to make nuclear explosions down to less than a kilogram. Quite a bit less.”"

"I tried to find out what was the smallest bomb you could produce, and it was a lot smaller than Davy Crockett [the W54 warhead] ... . It was a full implosion bomb that you could hold in one hand that was about six inches in diameter." Quotes are from George Dyson’s 2002...



Or from Strange Love PDF




Note why they say they're doing it (in vid below) - to validate computer code which simulate nuclear detonations. The digital film analysis allows 1% accuracy of interpretation versus 10% accuracy via previous human analysis. Since they have the precise designs of everything detonated we can INFER that they will do a direct comparison of what is seen in the films and what supercomputer simulations of those exact designs produce. Since they are also doing incredibly extensive and detailed non-nuclear and non-critical nuclear testing of every component of nuclear warheads as part of stockpile stewardship (making sure our existing nukes remain viable), the unstated additional likely benefit of that stockpile stewardship is to develop highly accurate computer code to design 4th generation nuclear weapons if that is ever needed:



Amazing what they could do with the Cro-Magnon computing capabilities of 1956.

To Look A Demon In The Eye: Nuclear Tests and Rapatronic Imaging Standard

For the early nuclear weapons scientists, being able to observe the rapidly changing matter in nuclear explosions was vital to their understanding of the phenomena and the effects. Several aspects of the blast (e.g. the blinding light, the speed of the nuclear reaction in the bomb, and the need to be miles away from the detonation) made it very difficult to capture the initial stages on film.

In 1947 the Atomic Energy Commission contracted innovative photographic engineer Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton and two colleagues, Kenneth Germeshausen and Herbert Grier – their mission, improve imaging results.

By 1950 EG&G, Inc. had invented a device capable of capturing images from the fleeting instant directly following a nuclear explosion. Enter the rapatronic (for Rapid Action Electronic) shutter – a shutter with no moving parts that could be opened and closed by turning a magnetic field on and off.

Atomic Rogue Propaganda Booster



Cold War Chrysler V8 180hp Air Raid Siren at 138dB. Don Garlits Museum in Florida...cover yer ears:




June 1, 1988: the INF Treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev on Dec. 8, 1987 entered into force. Less than three years later, we were told 2,692 US & Soviet nuclear missiles had been verifiably destroyed. INF ended on Aug. 2, 2019, after Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from it. I recall something Trump had said back in May 2020 while at Kennedy Space Center, that we have something better, nukes are obsolete. Just his manner of remarks gave me the tinfoil impression he got a private tour beneath Area-51 or one of the many secret underground labs out in the desert. All those billion$ appropriated in annual NDAA budget (that nobody reads) for nuke maintenance could just as easily be re-routed to other more advanced black project weapons. I mean, on paper it's just a matter of switching out project numbers in the databases. That's how they roll.



For more on the negotiating history of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, including its so-called unprecedented on-site verification system, see this collection of declassified documents from the National Security Archives:

The INF Treaty, 1987-2019

In 1990, Soviet/Russian painter and sculptor Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli (AFAIK still alive) presented this 12 metres (39ft) high, 40 ton St George and the Atomic Dragon bronze sculpture to the United Nations to commemorate the signing of the 1987 INF Treaty. Titled "Good Defeats Evil", it sits in a garden outside UN headquarters visitors entrance in New York City for all the sheeple to admire.



By comparison, Good Defeats Evil has found a more receptive audience in Manhattan. In the gardens of the UN Headquarters, it shares a home with another dramatic Soviet sculpture, We Shall Beat Our Swords Into Plowshares by Evgenii Vuchetich. In 1959, in the aftermath of the successful Soviet Exhibition of Science, Technology and Culture in New York, the sculpture was likewise gifted to the United Nations as a symbol of the Soviet commitment to nuclear disarmament.

In an ironic twist, since 2001, "Good Defeats Evil" has stood in the shadow of the Trump World Tower.


The football is carried to Marine One, May 31, 2023:


She is the same Space Force officer who was also on Football duty at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan on May 19. The satchel (football) reportedly weighs ~45lbs (20 kilos).