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August 12, 1945: Just days after nuking Japan, the US gov't published an official (sanitized, deliberately incomplete) history of the Manhattan Project. Known as the Smyth Report, it tried to balance the need to inform the public about the ~$2 billion effort with the desire to keep many details secret including its black budget.



Solzhenitsyn and the Smyth Report

The report was quickly translated by the Soviet Union, which despite being a wartime ally had been excluded from the Manhattan Project, had circulated among its scientists, who learned a lot from it, including what NOT to do with their own A-bomb program.

Los Alamos and the Smyth Report

Written for the Manhattan Engineer District by Henry DeWolf Smyth, chairman of Princeton University’s physics department, the report says much about the key work at the laboratory at Los Alamos, which is partly why the physicists there emerged as the "heroes" of the project.



Here's a copy of the book: Atomic energy for military purposes

The Smyth Report was reportedly suppressed in Japan during the post-war US occupation. Apparently there was a period of time where you could read it in the USSR under Stalin, but not in Japan under Gen. MacArthur! The US occupation did not want Japan thinking too much about atomic bombs because they wanted them to become good loyal US allies. No doubt lots of complex consequences ensued, especially after the epic Castle Bravo mega nuke fireball and subsequent 'fallout' disaster in 1954.

Swedish journalist and author Monica Brau draws on declassified documents and interviews in Japan and the US to reveal how the US occupation authorities established elaborate systems of censorship and disinformation among the Japanese press, scientists, and even novelists, poets, and children's stories about the atomic bombing.

The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied Japan (1991) by  Monica Brau.


August 12, 1953: the Soviet Union conducted its first test of a boosted-fission device, a fission and fusion fuel (lithium-6 deuteride) were "layered", a design known as the Sloika (Russian: named after a type of layered puff pastry), a precursor to a true multistage thermonuclear weapon. This enabled a ten-fold increase in explosive power achieved by a combination of fusion and fission. The yield of the explosion at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan was 400 kilotons.



Here is video footage of that test, known as RDS-6c in the Soviet Union and "Joe 4" in the United States, so nicknamed because it was the fourth Soviet nuclear test.

Less than a year later, the Americans found out 'accidentally' just how enormously explosive lithium-6 deuteride when mixed with lithium-7, is in Operation Castle Bravo. It was 250% more powerful than the force calculated by the scientists who had engineered it. It would become known as the worst radiological disaster in history.

When did UFOs start showing up here in America, en masse? What states of matter are these non-human biologics made out of? As above, so below. It's all around us. Think physics.


August 12, 2000: during a large Russian naval exercise "Summer-X" in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, the Oscar-class nuclear submarine Kursk (K-141) sank with 118 crew aboard. All 118 hands lost in 100 m (330 ft) of water. An official 2002 report blamed a powerful explosion triggered by leaking hydrogen peroxide fuel in an old practice torpedo.



Vice-Admiral Ryazantsev Valery Dmitrievich differed with the government's official conclusion. Calling the official story a work of fiction. He cited inadequate training, poor maintenance, and incomplete inspections that caused the crew to mishandle the weapon.

Chapter IX. Rescue operation (Russian archived link)

In 2018, the film "The Command" released as "Kursk" overseas, and based on British journalist Robert Moore’s 2003 book "A Time to Die" dramatized the disaster and the Russian government’s inept response (according to western sources) under newly-elected President Vladimir Putin.




Movie trivia:

Vladimir Putin's character was cut from the film before an actor was cast for the role. Putin, who was just three months into the job as Russian president when the tragedy occurred in 2000, was slated to appear as a supporting character in at least five scenes in the film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, EuropaCorp's president, Luc Besson, wanted to shift the story's focus to the rescue mission rather than the politics behind the disaster. One theory is that nobody at EuropaCorp wanted to be hacked. "Remember The Interview (2014)?" a source said, referring to the Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen-directed comedy that angered Kim Jong-un and is believed to have sparked the infamous Sony hack in 2014. Ironically, the Russian leader is sympathetically portrayed in the original Kursk script, which highlighted why he took the tragedy personally (Putin's father was a submariner).

"Icy blackness (Kursk)", a heavy metal song by Armageddon Rev. 16:16 from the album "Sundown on Humanity".


Beginning on page 30 of the January 2, 1962 JFK fluff issue of LOOK magazine there was a multi-page feature on Fiddle & Faddle. In their 1965 Kennedy Library oral history, Jill ("Faddle) Cowan & Priscilla ("Fiddle") Wear recount JFK's reaction to their feature.







JFK's Air Force aide Brig. Gen. Godfrey T. McHugh has traded in his Nuclear Football for Fiddle & Faddle.





Jill Cowan and Priscilla Wear, Oral History Interview – 03/16/1965



Check out the six-pack abs on the blonde boy! I believe that is or was David Anthony Kennedy (June 15, 1955 - April 25, 1984) who died of a drug overdose at The Brazilian Court Hotel & Beach Club, Palm Beach, FL. The cart appears to have a front license plate so it may be road-worthy. The cart looks more like an airport people-mover of rather more generous proportions than the average golf cart today.



The golf cart is a Chadwick 300 and you can see it starting at 1 minute in this video:



Part of this home movie was made on October 27, 1963, and shows President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy at the Kennedy's vacation retreat in Middleburg, Virginia.

Footage from September 1963. Walter Cronkite and Kennedy sitting on the front lawn of a home Kennedy rented on nearby Squaw island. The "Kennedy compound" home was not large enough for news crews and White House staff and, the US Secret Service thought the island location was a better spot for protection. The home he rented was called "Brambletyde". Apparently, JFK driving around with a cart full of kids was a family tradition.

In the early 1960's, the American golf cart company Chadwick began buying Isetta 300 chassis and drive trains to be used as the foundation for fiberglass bodied golf carts. My understanding is that not many of these were produced and that they are pretty rare. Isettas may not have been very fast compared to other cars on the road, but I bet Chadwick 300 golf carts were some of the fastest carts on the course.
BZ's BMW Isetta 300 restoration and microcarblog

"The Chadwick's were Isettas from the frame down with a custom cart body installed in place of the factory shell. This one was never sold as new." - from Isetta Tech.