Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Trinity continued...

Touring The Trinity Test Site




What was that noise at 5:30 this morning??! On July 16, 1945.



Nothing to be concerned about... just the boys celebrating out in the Jornada del Muerto desert. A few more news reports of the "magazine" or "shell" explosion heard July 16, 1945.






"Who put those extra megatons in America's Hydrogen Bombs?" "That Little Old German Bomb Maker...Me." Artist George Woodbridge / Writer Stan Hart. MAD #76, Jan. 1963.




"No longer will your neutral neighbors accuse you of dirtying up the earth's atmosphere. With DuPont U-235 your radioactive clouds are fleecier and easy to manage. For your next blast use..." MAD #76, Jan. 1963. Artist: George Woodbridge/Writer: Stan Hart.


"THE MONSTER CREATED BY ATOMS GONE WILD!" "NO ONE ADMITTED ALONE without signing a waiver at theatre!" "$100 to the first person who can PROVE IT CAN'T HAPPEN!" Atomic ballyhoo for THE FLY. The film premiered in Los Angeles on Trinity Day 1958. 2nd feature: SPACE MASTER X-7.



Everyone knows about Trinity, but did you know Today in 1979 at 5:30am (I shit you not!), at Church Rock, New Mexico, a 50-foot earthen dam containing the radioactive and toxic byproducts of a United Nuclear Corporation uranium mine failed, resulting in the largest single unintentional release of radioactive materials in the United States.



The breach released 1,100 tons of uranium waste and 94 million gallons of radioactive and highly acidic water into the Rio Puerco and across Navajo lands as far as 50 miles downstream. Radioactivity levels near the breach were 7,000 times the allowable US drinking water standard.

As journalist Judy Pasternak wrote in her acclaimed 2010 exposé, “Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos,” the contaminated river water "burned the feet of a little boy who went wading. Sheep keeled over and died, and crops curdled along the banks."



Although the spill contaminated the groundwater and rendered the Rio Puerco unusable for drinking, irrigation, and watering livestock, Governor Bruce King refused requests by the Navajo Nation to declare the site a federal disaster area, sharply limiting help for those affected.

Sources:

Church Rock: The Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later

Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010) by Judy Pasternak.

Also on this same day in 1979, Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. Just a bizarre coincedence with WMD's in mind...these synchronicities is the universe speaking.

July 16, 1951: J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, "The Catcher in the Rye", later the book became famous in MKULTRA/assassination research circles.



July 16, 1973: Rains batter Manchester, UK, causing widespread flooding.


July 16, 1990: The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.

July 16, 1994: The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.

July 16, 1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.