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Hard to imagine the courage and uncertainty they must have felt, a ragtag militia standing on their village green, facing the most formidable trained military in the world. One morning you have breakfast and then step into history with one single "shot heard round the world."

On this day in history, July 13, 1729, Captain John Parker is born. Parker was the leader of the militiamen at Lexington, Massachusetts at the outbreak of the American Revolution. John Parker had lived in Lexington his whole life as a farmer and mechanic.

Parker had extensive military experience during the French and Indian War. He had served at the Siege of Louisbourg and the Battle of Quebec and may have been one of the famed Rogers' Rangers. The men of Lexington had enough confidence in Parker's military experience to elect him head of the local militia.

John Parker suffered from tuberculosis that was already in its advanced stages when the events of April 19, 1775 unfolded. After Paul Revere and others warned the countryside that a major British expedition was underway on the evening of the 18th, citizen-soldiers from all over Massachusetts began to gather their arms and head toward Concord, whose arms cache was the target of the British expedition.

Parker and the other local militiamen gathered on Lexington Common early on the morning of the 19th. They had already waited several hours when a scout arrived and warned that a large British force was very near. Lexington was on the road to Concord and the soldiers would be there soon. Parker instructed his men to gather on the side of the Common, but they were not blocking the road. Many of them were his own relatives. Parker was not anticipating military conflict, but he was ready for the worst.



When the British finally appeared around 5 am, the vanguard marched straight into Lexington. Thinking the gathered militia was much larger than it actually was and had hostile intent toward them, the British soldiers formed a battle line opposite the militia. Both Captain Parker and the British officer in charge gave orders to their men not to fire. Parker's alleged words have been immortalized: "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

Just before the first shot was fired, Captain Parker ordered his men to disband. Some heard him, while others did not in the confusion. No one knows who fired the first shot. Most eyewitnesses believed the first shot came from somewhere away from the Common. It may have been a misfire, or a drunken militia member at nearby Buckman Tavern. Wherever the shot came from, the result was catastrophic.

Most of the militia scattered and had no chance to fire back. The British began full scale firing on the assembled militia. After the first volley, the British soldiers began chasing the militia through the town and killing those they came across until their officers were able to corral them. When it was all done, 8 militia were dead with another 10 wounded. Only 1 British soldier was even injured. In the course of the next day, however, the British would be confronted again at Concord and chased all the way back to Boston with more than 70 killed and 170 wounded.

After Lexington, Captain Parker and his militia attacked the British as they returned to Boston near Lexington in what is known as Parker's Revenge. Lexington's militiamen then joined the Siege of Boston. It is not known exactly when Parker returned home, but he was not present at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17. John Parker passed away from complications due to his tuberculosis on September 17, 1775 at the age of 46.

Revolutionary War and Beyond - Everything you want to know about the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States.

July 13, 1863: American Civil War: The New York City draft riots begin three days of rioting due to the culmination of white working-class anger with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. In the end, around 120 dead and 2000 injured.
Later, the riots went on to become the largest civil and most racially charged urban disturbance in American history. Well, until the Jan 6 circus.


Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 (pp 31-33)


114 years later, July 13, 1977, this happened:


New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.


The afternoon of July 13, 1950, a B-50D Superfortress carrying an unarmed Mark-4 A-bomb from Biggs AFB in El Paso, TX, to a SAC base in England, fell from the sky and crashed west of Lebanon, Ohio, killing all 16 crew members. The bomb’s 5,000 lbs. of high explosives detonated on impact. According to a Broken Arrow report the explosion was heard over a radius of 25 miles.



The Mark-4, which weighed 10,800 pounds, was the first mass-produced atomic bomb (550 were built). It was deployed from 1949-53 and had six Dial-a-Yield options ranging from 1-31 kilotons.


July 13, 1959: a clogged coolant channel led to the meltdown of 30 percent of the fuel elements in the core of the uncontained 20-MW Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles above Simi Valley.



LA'S NUCLEAR SECRET

The coolant disruption and partial meltdown triggered a power excursion that could have caused the reactor to explode (as happened at Chernobyl). Although automatic safety systems failed to shut down the reactor, the operators successfully initiated a manual scram. Inexplicably, the operators restarted the reactor just a couple hours later, even though they could not determine the cause of the power excursion and knew there was a problem with the coolant. And they kept it running for two weeks even as radiation readings went off the scale.

Large quantities of highly-radioactive gases were diverted to tanks, then deliberately vented into the atmosphere for weeks. The levels were reportedly so high, automatic monitors could not read them and workers could not safely analyze them, making precise measurements impossible.

But independent experts believe the accident may have released up to 260 times more radioactive iodine-131 and 80-100 times more cesium-137 than the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, generally considered the worst reactor accident in US history. North American Aviation’s Atomics International division, which operated Santa Susana for the Atomic Energy Commission, did not alert the public to this serious accident for five weeks, and even then only issued a grossly-misleading press release that lied about the dangers.

The full, shocking story would not come to light for another 20 years, when inquisitive college students at the University of California, Los Angeles, unearthed the buried truth and released the official documents to the news media.

For years after the accident, workers at Santa Susana illegally disposed of sodium-contaminated reactor components in an on-site open burn pit, discharging toxic and radioactive materials into the open air and ground, contaminating the rapidly-developing area around the lab.

In January 2006, Boeing—which took over the lab when it acquired Rockwell International, North American Aviation’s successor, in 1996—settled a $30 million lawsuit by 133 local residents who alleged their cancers, tumors, and autoimmune disorders were caused by the 1959 accident.

Today, more than 500,000 people live within 10 miles of the site (more than 2,000 acres of which was also used for developing and testing rocket engines); thousands more live less than two miles away. A significant number, including many children, have developed cancer.

Also, the website of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Working Group for information on efforts to hold the US government, State of California, and federal contractor "The Boeing Company" responsible for fully cleaning up the disaster site. 


Quote from Statement of Daniel Hirsch, President Committee to Bridge the Gap (PDF) Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate Oversight Hearing on Cleanup Efforts at Federal Facilities, 18 September 2008:

In the late 1940s, the Atomic Energy Commission commenced a search for a remote site in Southern California for nuclear work too dangerous to perform near populated areas. In the decades since SSFL was established, the Southern California population mushroomed, so that now more than half a million people live within ten miles of the site. Over the years, SSFL was home to ten nuclear reactors, a plutonium fuel fabrication facility, and a “hot lab” for cutting up irradiated nuclear fuel shipped in from around the country, plus over 20,000 rocket tests, as well as munitions development and “Star Wars” laser work.4 Sloppy controls, an indifference to environmental rules, and a history of spills and accidents have created a legacy of radioactive and chemical contamination. A history of broken cleanup promises has left the vast majority of that contamination still in place. The SSFL tragedy is a microcosm of the problems across the extraordinarily contaminated Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear complex nationally and a powerful warning of the risks of proceeding with a nuclear revival that threatens to repeat over and over again the atomic fiascos of the past.

"There is tape in the Oval Office."


July 13, 1973: Three days before his nationally televised testimony, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield tells Watergate Committee staffers about Nixon’s taping system.
Investigating the Watergate Scandal

And the key moment of Butterfield’s July 16 testimony, being question by Fred Thompson...the future DA from Law & Order TV show. Ha.


So long Hollywood...Hello A.I.


DEADLINE


LOL, can't handle the truth or the 75 years of damn lies?!


Congressman has grim take after access to UFO footage (Yes, the Sphere is real)

Senator Schumer, Gillibrand, Marco Rubio, Rep Tim Burchett...just how in hell do you plan on getting access to private sector UAP related data and technologies? 

Are there any legal mechanisms that can be utilized to bypass a company’s constitutional rights and intellectual property? Why is no one pulling DOE officials up for questioning? The DOE acts as the liaison of classified research between private and state entities. It is the department’s literal public mission.

The legislation, which Sen. Schumer will introduce as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill (NDAA), has bipartisan support, and modeled after the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. So, that means No, as in they might get access but the public will not.

Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of U.F.O. Records - Force my ass.

Executive Order 13526 - "Classified National Security Information" signed by Obama. We always hear the swamp creatures preachin about "the rule of law" but nobody in Swampington D.C. follows it anymore.

Section 1.7 of this executive order states that:

(a)  In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to:
(1)  conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;

(2)  prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;

(3)  restrain competition; or

(4)  prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.




Good night.

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The weekend is here...





I remember reading George Orwell's "1984" back in high school and pondered how exactly a society would get to the point where people aren't allowed to say "2+2 = 4". Impossible! I couldn't imagine that level of tyranny as anything other than fantasy fiction.



That is, until I saw this:

Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 'reeks of white supremacist patriarchy'



July 14, 1945, plutonium for Trinity test was inserted into "the gadget", which was hoisted to the top of a 30m tower specially built for the occasion. Humanity was less than 48 hours from its first atomic explosion.




"Can Movies Teach History?" The New York Times Richard Bernstein on FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY. Letters responding to Richard Bernstein's critique of the atom bombs, including from the filmmaker Roland Joffe and historian Richard Rhodes.


Full 1989 article


"Fat Man Bombs" - One of the reasons it has been nearly 35 years between Oppenheimer movies...



FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (1989) [IMDB] is riddled with historical inaccuracies...


Atomic Heritage Foundation



The Nuclear Secrecy Blog


An article about The Bomb in the Santa Fe New Mexican - in the region that hosts Los Alamos and gave birth to the first atomic bombs.


The Congressional Budget Office (USCBO) just published its latest update on the costs of US nuclear weapons. Bottom line: US nuclear weapons and (some) weapons-related programs will consume $52.4 billion in 2023 and $756 billion through 2032, $122 billion more than its last estimate.



Excluded are all costs to manage and “clean up” large amounts of radioactive waste left over from manufacturing tens of thousands bombs and warheads, compensation for people harmed by past production and testing activities, nonproliferation/threat reduction, and ballistic missile defenses.

Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2023 to 2032

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Friday night double-feature post...


Convention 1964 – Nelson Rockefeller And The Creeping Extremism Of The GOP – July 14, 1964


WTF?! Nuclear rhetoric. What could go wrong?!

To deal with these realities, the United States must put aside the counterproliferation playbook and change the subject from arms control to firepower. This is both a DoD issue and, more specifically, a Navy issue, in which the sea-launched nuclear-armed cruise missile (SLCM-N) should play an initial prominent role. The Navy’s dispersion at sea provides the best advantage in every theater, with submarines, surface warships, and aviation squadrons able to close what retired Navy Admiral Charles Richard, while commander of U.S. Strategic Command, called a serious “deterrence-assurance-escalation” gap caused by the tactical hole in U.S. nuclear capabilities and posture.

The Navy Needs Tactical Nuclear Weapons . . . Again

'Sorry sir, all our sailors & soldiers have morphed into highly emotional snowflakes and we'll have to use our last resort. Don't worry, it'll all be over quick.'

Funny, the motto painted on the front of one of the ships I was stationed on read, "Peace through Superior Firepower".

Only people at the Pentagon would think "tactical nuclear weapons" could be used in a war & winnable and that it wouldn't rapidly escalate into an all-out nuclear war. Does the Pentagon have "acceptable" casualties in a nuclear exchange, making the use of these weapons plausible?



Even more concerning...


On March 28, 2022, the Biden administration sent to Congress a revised version of its classified National Defense Strategy. The new version removed the longstanding doctrine of “no first use” of nuclear weapons, and opened the door to a nuclear response to a non-nuclear threat. Within months of the new U.S. policy, but without referring to it, the Putin administration responded that it might consider first use in case of an existential threat to Russia, including a non-nuclear one.  More recently, Sergei Karaganov, head of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a non-governmental Russian think tank, argued that perhaps Russia should use a low yield tactical nuclear weapon in order to convince NATO to back off and stop threatening Russia’s security.




In 1955, GM engineers thought we would have flying cars by 1970. What happened?



They lost The Flying Car Contract to Lockheed Skunkworks.





Don’t let big bad Pope scare ya. He sold his soul to the defense industry. The secret "too terrible to be told" is what those in power call "CATASTROPHIC DISCLOSURE." That is, disclosure of the crimes against humanity committed in order to protect an illegal monopoly on advanced (ET) tech.




Question everything. What would the motivation be? What’s the desired outcome? Who would benefit financially from this information?
Follow the $$$ and belief systems.



It's been going on for thousands of years...


Preachers and UFOs

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This week in Photos & Headlines

This week the stepford Biden Administration reached full farce stage, reaching the territory Woody Allen described as "a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham." Both Biden and Kamala were out in public at the same time trying to one-up each other in their ongoing banal insanity contest; John Kerry said the "climate" was the biggest casualty of the Ukraine war; federal law enforcement, which was able to identify and round up hundreds of January 6 protestors from grainy video footage, gosh darn just can’t figure out who brought cocaine into the White House (polygraphs anyone?), while Ben & Jerry’s got called out for its farcical hypocrisy. And if the farce in Washington wasn’t enough, we were told by our austere media clowns this week that fitness training is a precursor to fascism, and it was also the week of the strangest viral internet sensation ever.














Joe Biden's Senior Moments of the Week & national embarrassment:




Sci-Fi Dolphin Saturday




Science et vie micro, Dec 1985 (French computer mag)


A spacefaring dolphin in "Cetacean Tomorrow" by Rick Sternbach, as seen on the cover of Future Life, March 1980.
So long, and thanks for all the fish...



Biography of a space dolphin...


Starlog Future Life Magazine #17 March 1980

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Trinity Anniversary Edition

78 years ago today at 5:29:45 AM (Mountain War Time) about 35 miles SE of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang when the United States Manhattan Project successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon codename "Trinity". The scientists referred to it as the "Gadget." Contrary to popular belief, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.



In fact, some 40,000 people lived in the vicinity. Manhattan Project scientists methodically tracked the radioactive cloud from that first test. The Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project created a more recent graphic (bottom pic) using the same data...




The scientists expected some fallout, but assumed that detonating the device at the top of a 100-foot tower would minimize it. But the explosion was larger than they anticipated and the fireball touched the ground, generating substantially more.

Some scientists involved had feared it might set the earth's atmosphere on fire. Long before the test itself, Edward Teller did some calculations and concluded that was a serious possibility. Hans Bethe checked Teller's math and found the calculations to be not correct and the likelihood was exceedingly small. Nevertheless, some non-physicsts continued to believe it was a risk. They had a poor track record in the years to come with thermonuclear bombs, most notably Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, which was a biblical explosion beyond imagination at that time.



The occult scientists do love obelisks & pyramids. Trinity Site obelisk. The black plaque on top reads: 


Trinity Site Where The World's First Nuclear Device Was Exploded On July 16, 1945 
Erected 1965 White Sands Missile Range
 J. Frederick Thorlin Major General U.S. Army Commanding 
The gold plaque below it declares the site a National Historic Landmark, and reads: 
Trinity Site has been designated a National Historical Landmark This Site Possesses National Significance In Commemorating The History of the United States of America 
1975 National Park Service United States Department of the Interior.

In 2021, scientists at Los Alamos reassessed the yield of the Trinity test using high-precision mass spectrometry and found the actual yield was 24.8 ± 2 kilotons, significantly larger than the longtime accepted value of 21 kilotons.

A New Yield Assessment for the Trinity Nuclear Test, 75 Years Later

Although first raised in late 1947, but ignored for decades, Trinity’s radioactive fallout had significant immediate and long-term consequences. This Atomic Bulletin article reveals evidence of a dramatic increase in infant mortality in the downwind region in the months after the test.


It’s very difficult to gauge how large the Trinity explosion was in photos or films. Fortunately, a nuke historian created this composite image which stacks photos at a consistent scale and includes the Empire State Building as a reference.




In 2019, "Atom Central" released a shock 'n awe restored black-and-white HD footage of the Trinity test, which was conducted in New Mexico’s aptly-named Jornada del Muerto desert (translates from Spanish as "Dead Man's Journey"). The cleaned-up film reveals a remarkable amount of detail previously unseen.





Also, Atom Central released this 11 second rare view of the Trinity test from a 16-mm high-speed Eastman camera shooting through a prism. As filmmaker Peter Kuran notes, “it displays some interesting anomalies not seen in other footage of the Trinity test.”

Those present at Trinity had a variety of reactions. Los Alamos director Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Physicist Kenneth Bainbridge, the test director, was more blunt: "Now we are all sons of bitches."

On September 9, 1945, General Leslie Groves, the military director of the Manhattan Project, opened up the Trinity site to journalists in order to refute disturbing reports coming from Hiroshima and Nagasaki of deadly radiation-caused illnesses.



At one point, Groves ordered Patrick Stout, a 29-year-old Army counterintelligence agent and his driver, to join him at ground zero to prove it was safe. Stout who also witnessed the Trinity test, remained there for 30 minutes. He later became severely ill with leukemia and died 22 years later.


A medical expert at Stout’s military disability compensation appeal estimated his total exposure at nearly 100 roentgens (the crews of two lead-lined tanks sent into the crater several times to collect soil samples the day of the test received 7-15 roentgens). Stout died in 1969.



There is only one in-focus, properly-exposed, color photograph of the Trinity test fireball.



It was taken with this Perfex 33 camera with a 35mm lens, using a shutter speed of 1/100 at f4 and Anscochrome color movie stock film by Jack Aeby, a 21-year-old civilian Manhattan Project employee based at Los Alamos who was not a professional photographer.





In a 2003 interview, Aeby discussed the making of that historic photograph.

Jack Aeby was one of the first civilian employees on the Manhattan Project, and captured the only color photograph of the Trinity test. He worked in many areas, starting with transporting people from Lamy to 109 E. Palace Avenue in Santa Fe and then on up the Hill. He was put in charge of the chemical stockroom. Aeby moved to P-5 (Physics Group 5) with Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. He reactivated the Los Alamos Ranch School’s Boy Scout Troop 22 on demand of the school superintendent. He discusses working with Emilio Segrè at Los Alamos, and how his famous photo of the Trinity test came about.

Aeby: It wasn’t long after that General Groves, who wasn’t anywhere around, said he wanted that picture. Well, he got it [chuckle]. So it was published fairly widely once the secrecy was off and they could at least announce that they had then bombed Japan and it became public knowledge that such a weapon existed.

So then they started publishing that picture as what happened at Trinity under the auspices of the US Army photo, so my credits didn’t stop or start til later on. I was interviewed by a couple newspapers and they finally started giving me credit.

That’s where that is and that’s what I did and this is only the most important event in my life. There were other things, yes I carried water as it were, dug ditches, moved sand, ran around our bunkers and this kind of thing, but that isn’t terribly interesting.

Aeby: There was some pressure of course to get done by—there wasn’t any deadlines or any such like this except with a man like General Groves somewhere in the background always. It was like the big eye in the sky, “Hey, you aren’t doing enough” or I don’t know—there was that feeling that you could do more and you should do more.

Kelly: You mentioned General Groves, did you ever hear him speak or—

Aeby: Oh yeah. Often.

Kelly: Tell me how he came across?

Aeby: Upon various occasions, he came across like a strong leader, ambitious, and in a word: a bumptious ass upon occasion. But that’s personal opinion and I assure there are others.

Kelly: I get the sense from talking to people that he was often sort of the butt of some jokes.

Aeby: Oh yes, often.

Radioactive fallout from the Trinity test drifted across the country, but the government never alerted people to the danger. Some of it fell into rivers in Indiana and Iowa, contaminating the strawboard Kodak used to package its X-ray film and ruining it.



Popular Mechanics


When the same problem occurred after the first open air tests ("Operation Ranger", originally named "Operation Faust") dropped by B-50D bombers in Nevada in early 1951, Kodak threatened to sue the gov’t. In response, the Atomic Energy Commission offered to alert Kodak before each future test and provide classified daily maps showing areas of potentially heavy fallout.


Excerpt from "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940" (1998) By Stephen I. Schwartz:



A Kodak executive and personnel at other film companies were issued "Q" clearances to receive and use this secret information to ensure their company’s products were not harmed by radioactive fallout. By contrast, the AEC consistently lied to the public about fallout’s dangers.

I think this was the beginning of how Kodak had accidentally injected itself into the Cold War secrets and later the top secret Corona satellite program and many other DoD projects.

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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.

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Hot Big Day in Aviation & Space history & UFOs, Baby Nukes, Bhagavad Gita in Pink

July 17, 1902: Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York. Praise Be Carrier.




Aviation/UFO History - First Man to Space on Wings
July 17, 1962 — Edwards AFB, CA
Maj. Robert Michael White is piloting Flight 62 of the X-15 at Edwards AFB, California. He flies it to 314,750 feet (59 miles), breaks altitude record qualifying him for USAF astronaut wings. For this, he is featured on the cover of the August 3 issue of Life magazine. At the top of his climb he sees a small grayish object “like a piece of paper” about 30–40 feet away. He exclaims, “There are things out there. There absolutely is!”



“A New Highway To Space,” LIFE Magazine (August 3, 1962; pp. 54-57)

Above Top Secret, Timothy Good (p. 366)

Space: Inside the Sky (TIME, July 27, 1962)

Air Force Major Robert White piloted a black needle-nosed X-15 rocket plane to an altitude of 59.6 miles—the highest man has ever flown in a winged aircraft, and a respectable second to the hundred-mile-high orbits of U.S. and Soviet astronauts. "For the first time," said Test Pilot White, 38, "it seemed as though I was up in this dark blue sky, instead of looking up at it." Like the astronauts before him, he was overwhelmed by the "fantastic view."

White's record-breaking flight over California's Mojave Desert (highest previous flight: 47 miles) made him the fifth man to receive NASA's pilot-astronaut badge, awarded to those "qualified to operate or control a powered vehicle in flight 50 miles above the earth."

This brief extra burst added 284 m.p.h. to his speed—which reached 3,784 m.p.h. —and six miles to his maximum altitude, disrupting the carefully planned flight pattern. But since he was flying an airplane rather than a capsule, the remedy was simple. White simply maneuvered the X-15 back on course, and made a perfect touchdown practically atop the magenta-smoke landing marker on California's Rogers Dry Lake. He emerged from the plane to greet his seven-year-old son trailing his air-conditioning tube behind him like an umbilical cord.

Closest Call. The U.S.'s hottest airplane (top speed to date: 4,159 m.p.h.) has given handsome, soft-spoken Bob White fewer problems than the P-51 he flew in World War II. Early in 1945, when only 20. White led a squadron of the Eighth Air Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip.

...
White spent 2½ months in Nazi prison camps. After the war, he came back home and entered New York University as a freshman. He no sooner had his degree (electrical engineering) than the Korean war broke out. He had kept up his flying in the Air Force Reserve, and in 1951 was recalled to active duty. Though White saw no combat in Korea, he decided to stay in the Air Force.

New Mystery. After the sky-stabbing record flight last week, four Xis pilots —White. Walker, North American's Scott Crossfield and Navy Commander Forrest Petersen—journeyed to Washington, where President Kennedy gave them the Robert J. Collier Trophy, presented annually since 1911 for outstanding achievement in flight. But for White and his fellow X-15 pilots, the greatest reward for their work is the satisfaction of probing the mysteries inside the sky. In last week's flight Bob White found a new mystery for scientists to puzzle over: through the X-15's thick left quartz window, he saw a strange sight. "There are things out there," he said dramatically over his voice radio. "There absolutely is." As White later described one "thing": "It looked like a piece of paper the size of my hand tumbling slowly outside the plane. It was greyish in color, and about 30 to 40 feet away. I haven't any idea what it could be."

Bob White setting a previous altitude record 2 years earlier in the X-15. Only about 25 miles...



NASA documentary on the X-15 from 1962 Video


July 17, 1962: the United States conducted its 100th and last atmospheric nuclear test in Nevada: Little Feller I, the second operational test of the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle and its W54 warhead (plutonium-239, yield = .018 kilotons). More than 1,000 troops took part in on-site exercises.





Davy Crockett Atomic Battle Group Delivery System could fire conventional warheads but its big crowd pleaser was the ability to fire a W-54 warhead with a variable yield between 10 and 250 kilotons. The intent was for American infantrymen in Eastern Europe to directly counter Soviet armored units if the Cold War went hot.

Despite very serious concerns about its battlefield accuracy and risks to its operational security in wartime, the Davy Crockett and 400 W54 warheads were deployed in Guam, Okinawa, South Korea, and West Germany from 1961-71.



Rare high quality footage: Robert Kennedy watches a test of the Davy Crockett on July 17 fired from a stationary 155 millimeter launcher:



Here is the original and full(?) declassified version of the US Army’s official film report about Little Feller I and its concurrent military exercise, codenamed Operation Ivy Flats, as well as the preceding Little Feller II test on July 7, 1962:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_q8q6Z9_I


At 51 pounds, the variable yield W54 (.01-1 kt) was the lightest and the lowest-yield implosion-type US A-bomb ever deployed. It also armed the GAR-26A Falcon air-to-air missile carried by F-102A interceptors (1961-72), and the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM, 1964-88) for Dam & bridge annihilation.


"MISSILES AND MEN
Some of the weapons illustrated on this page make an individual infantryman more powerful armed than a bomber squadron of World War II; others give him a fighting edge over the most powerful tanks yet devised, Right, top: Mauler, a small vehicle-borne ground to air weapon deadly to strafing planes. Below, the T-55 chemical launcher. Close up, SS11 wire guided anti-tank missiles. On the jeep in the foreground in the launcher for Davy Crockett, a recoilless rifle which fires a nuclear warhead."


Davy Crockett Makes History with a Little Feller at the NTS




Mayer, Epton, and Schwartz also developed the 280mm artillery shell for the Army’s massive M65 atomic cannon (though not the nuclear explosive inside it).

Interesting Factoid: Even at .018 kilotons (18 tons), the explosive yield of the Little Feller I test was almost twice as large as the 11-ton yield of the most powerful conventional bomb currently in the US arsenal: the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (aka "Mother of All Bombs").





Books formerly owned by J. Robert Oppenheimer




Direct PDF Book listing (53 pages)

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Continuing with more Space & Not a good day to fly, but first...

July 17, 1919: The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.

Finland's form of government for 100 years

In June 1919, the Parliament approved Finland's republican form of government, which was confirmed by Regent Mannerheim on July 17, 1919. The form of government, as well as the previously approved parliamentary order, election law and municipal election law, are still important to Finnish democracy. These decisions have guided the structure of Finnish society and the development of Finland into a modern state governed by the rule of law.

Finland's republican form of government, the constitution enacted in 1919, turns one hundred years old this year. The form of government established as a constitution a hundred years ago is celebrated with various events during the summer and autumn.

Finish archived link

July 17, 1975: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.






Did you know there’s a Masonic Lodge on the Moon?


July 17, 1953: The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 43. 23 midshipmen from the University of Oklahoma, ten from Rice University, two from the University of Missouri, two from Oregon State University, one from the University of Oregon, one from the University of Utah, and one from the Georgia Institute of Technology were flying aboard United States Marine Corps R4Q Packet BuNo 131663 from Corpus Christi, Texas to Norfolk, Virginia. The plane was the second of five transports making a midnight refueling stop at NAS Whiting Field. The port engine lost power during initial climb following takeoff and the plane hit a clump of trees a mile north of the runway. The plane then destroyed three parked cars and a barn as it crashed and burned. Six injured men were found in the wreckage, but only two midshipmen and one of the 6-man USMC crew survived.


July 17, 1996: TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

July 17, 1997: After takeoff from Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Sempati Air Flight 304 crashes into a residential neighborhood in Bandung, killing 28 people.

July 17, 2000: During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, India, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.

July 17, 2007: TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.



July 17, 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.




July 17, 1984: The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.





Biden’s ‘Final’ Order on Kennedy Files Leaves Some Still Wanting More







July 17, 1987:

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Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of “doubtful legality,” “badly out of date,” and “even illegal,” according to top government officials whose views are memorialized in declassified records posted today by the National Security Archive.

Since the late 1950s, U.S. military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case known variously as the “satchel,” the “black bag,” the “emergency actions pouch” and, as it is perhaps best known, the “Football.” Epitomizing presidential control of nuclear weapons, the Football and the military aides who carry it enable the President to make decisions about the use of nuclear weapons in the event of a sudden military crisis.

While the existence of the Football has been known since the 1960s, reliable details about its contents have been relatively scarce. During the Cold War, and possibly later, they included proclamations and executive orders known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) for use in a national emergency. Edward A. McDermott, who led the federal Office of Emergency Planning in the 1960s, said the purpose of the documents was “to clothe the President with formal emergency powers,” although he said some were of “doubtful legality,” perhaps because they included the suspension of habeas corpus, a declaration of martial law, and the authorization of mass arrests and arbitrary detentions.

Today’s posting by the National Security Archive includes several documents about the contents of the PEADs and the Carter administration’s efforts to revise directives considered “badly out of date.” The President’s second cousin, Hugh Carter, Jr., who played a leading role in White House emergency planning, said he was “concerned that the entire PEADs series is obsolete given the total devastation which could be expected from a thermonuclear attack.” By 1980, the PEADs had been revised and updated and were ready to be placed in the President’s “emergency portfolio.”

Also included in the posting are documents on the Carter administration’s arrangements to assign a Football to Vice President Walter Mondale, with one permanently stationed at his residence. This was in keeping with Mondale's substantive and innovative role in national security policy. It remains unclear whether the four vice presidents who held the office between Johnson and Mondale were assigned Footballs, but so far there is no evidence to suggest that they were.

The posting also includes excerpts from interviews conducted by William Manchester while researching his book, The Death of a President (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), which shed light on the Football arrangements during the Kennedy administration. General Chester Clifton, one of the White House military aides who was with Kennedy in Dallas on the day he was assassinated, explained that a military aide was always near the President because the Football included "emergency war orders.”

According to Captain Tazewell Shepard, Naval Aide to President Kennedy, the military aides had responsibility for the contents of the Football “whenever and wherever the President goes.” The exception was when the President was in Washington, D.C., in which case the satchel stayed at the White House and did not “chase him around.”

More: Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush

You always hear about the ‘nuclear football.’ Here’s the behind-the-scenes story



The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie


Post-atomic Oppie & Gen. Groves, Los Alamos, Oct 16, 1945:



The Army-Navy "E" Award was a honor presented to companies during World War II whose production facilities achieved "Excellence in Production" ("E") of war equipment. The award was also known as the Army-Navy Production Award. The award was created to encourage industrial mobilization and production of war time materials. By war's end, the award had been earned by only 5% of the more than 85,000 companies involved in producing materials for the U.S. military's war effort.


So, while the stepford Biden administration has been busy emptying out NATO forces stockpiles of conventional weaponry, the nuke arms has been building. Regardless if you believe nukes are real or not, one has to question why & where exactly is all that money going?

France's nuclear arsenal has changed little for a decade, but major upgrades are underway and budgets are increasing.

The possibility of using the nuclear weapon first is assumed: our doctrine is neither that of no first use nor that of the sole purpose, according to which nuclear weapons are only addressed to the nuclear threat . . . Nuclear deterrence does not seek to win a war or prevent losing one” (Burkhard  2023; our translation).

Concerning the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war for the role of nuclear weapons, Burkhard said: “The war in Ukraine confirms the strategic value of nuclear deterrence and its moderating effect in any conflict involving one or more nuclear powers. Everyone has also noted a great restraint on the part of the Russian forces vis-à-vis NATO . . . The other lesson to be learned from the Ukraine war is of course the return of the balance of terror by the threat of force, a customary action during the Cold War” (Burkhard  2023; our translation).

France typically conducts four air-based nuclear exercises each year, known as “Poker.” These exercises are intended to simulate a strategic air raid and are conducted in the skies above France (see Figure 1). The “Poker” exercise involves a majority of France’s nuclear-capable Rafale aircraft, which carry simulated air-sol moyenne portée-amélioré (ASMPA) air-launched cruise missiles (Air & Cosmos International 2022; Service de l’Information Aéronautique 2022). The most recent “Poker” exercise was conducted in March 2023, and included nuclear-capable Rafale air-craft from both the Forces Aériennes Stratégiques (FAS) and the Force Aéronavale Nucléaire (FANu) (Marine Nationale 2023).

French nuclear weapons, 2023

Or maybe it's reboosting a secret nuclear money laundering network.


Someone here has history with the VW bug...

"TEDDY ESCAPES, BLONDE DROWNS" July 18-19, 1969:



The "blonde," as the NY Daily News headline writer put it, was Mary Jo Kopechne. R.I.P.

Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls". In 1969, she asphyxiated when a car driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after leaving a party. According to reports, Kennedy left the party at 11:15pm. Kopechne's body and the car were not reported until the next morning, approximately nine to ten hours later.

Anne Beatts [1947-2021] & Phil Socci [1953-2002] created the infamous Chappaquiddick-inspired VW parody ad. It appeared in "The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor" (1973). VW sued and a settlement was quickly reached.

VW responded with a $30 million damage suit against Lampoon, charging violations of trademark and copyright laws and defamation. Last week Lampoon agreed to withdraw all unsold copies of the magazine by Nov. 15 (450,000 were printed), to destroy the plate of the ad, and to run Volkswagen's statement on the incident in the magazine's January issue. It seemed only fitting that the Lampoon, which has thrived on necrological humor, would at last find itself forced to kill one of its own items.

Lampoon's Surrender (Nov 12, 1973)

John Curran's 2017 film CHAPPAQUIDDICK (IMDB) is excellent and worth seeing (Bob Shrum former speechwriter for Ted Kennedy & director of USC Center for the Political Future, trashed it, so you know it hit a nerve). Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo Kopechne give great performances.








"Yo ho, yo ho ho, a pirate’s life for me!"


How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises

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July 19, 1957: five USAF volunteers and a civilian cameraman stood on Yucca Flat at the Nevada Proving Ground, directly below the explosion of an AIR-2 Genie air-to-air nuclear rocket (the yield of the W25 warhead was ~1.7 kilotons). Here’s what happened:



The film clip of this nuclear test—with its play-by-play from the ground is also noteworthy because it is one of the few available which accurately renders the sound of the explosion arriving well after the explosion itself is seen.

According to the Department of Energy’s official history of US nuclear tests, the warhead used in Plumbbob John detonated at precisely 7:00am local time, 14,830 feet (nearly 2.81 miles) above the observers on the ground.




Test #95, pg 32 of United States Nuclear Tests July 1945 through September 1992


This part of the Plumbbob John nuclear test was a publicity stunt arranged by the Continental Air Defense Command to persuade a skeptical public that nuclear-tipped air defense weapons being deployed across the country posed little danger to anyone on the ground in wartime.


In case you’re wondering what happened to the six men on the ground that day in 1957:

Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (July 17, 2012)

Googling through the list, we quickly discovered (as did many of you) that George Yoshitake, the cameraman, was alive, at least as of two years ago. In 2010, he was interviewed in the New York Times and talked about his fellow cameramen who took pictures of atomic bombs. "Quite a few have died from cancer," he told reporter Bill Broad. "No doubt it was related to the testing." Yoshitake's nephew also wrote in and didn't mention his uncle's passing, so I'm guessing that he's now 84 years old and still with us.

    Col. Sidney C. Bruce — died in 2005 (age 86)
    Lt. Col. Frank P. Ball — died in 2003 (age 83)
    Maj. John Hughes — very common name, but I'm guessing he is Maj. John W. Hughes II (born 1919, same as the above) — died in 1990 (age 71)
    Maj. Norman Bodinger — unclear (not listed in the database), he may still be alive?
    Don Lutrel — I think this is a misspelling of "Luttrell." There is a Donald D. Luttrell in the DVA database, US Army CPL, born 1924, died 1987 (age 63). Seems like a possibility.

...

At least the folks in the films volunteered to be there (George excepted) and were given some pre-film training (not terribly useful, but still). That was not the case for a little community downwind from the Nevada Test Site, a place called St. George, Utah.

The folks in St. George were repeatedly hit by uninvited fallout. Alex wrote me that in 1953, one test, codenamed "Harry" actually deposited quite a lot of fallout on St. George, to the point where residents were forced to stay inside for many hours, and prohibited from washing their cars until they became less radioactive.
NPR article

Cameraman and USAF veteran Akira "George" Yoshitake, 84, died suddenly on Oct. 17, 2013, at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, due to complications from a stroke.

About 10 years ago my dad was looking at locations to retire. One on his list was St. George, Utah because of nearby location to Zion NP, Vegas & the city has one of The best healthcare/medical facilities west of the Mississippi. I told him to do a little research on nuclear fallout in St. George. He later crossed that place off his list.


Here is a July 23, 1957, Hearst newsreel report about this unusual and remarkable nuclear test: HISTORIC "FIRST" ATOMIC AIR ROCKET


The Silent Service breaks its silence...

When was the last time the locations of two deployed US Boomers were simultaneously well-known? July 18, 2023: USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) in Scotland and USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) in S. Korea, first SSBN to visit in 40 years...and just last month the USS Michigan (SSGN–727) arrived in S. Korea port.


https://twitter.com/US_STRATCOM/status/1...8618152960

Lotta boomer sabre rattlin toward Rocketman Kim.




A Newly Declassified CIA File Loosely Links JFK's Assassination to UFOs





Dragged off the street & pulled by the hair!

https://twitter.com/AufstandLastGen/stat...9250174977

American billionaire funded insurgency to kneecap Europe and encourage civil discord. If they’re so serious about the climate, go glue their hands to the streets in Antibes (French Riviera), protest the yachts in Monaco & the private airports in Switzerland, where these same people all go to hide.


Last Generation (climate movement)






Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research Published: 12 November 2015

In the article, Mosher describes several lines of reasoning, namely, that the lab is less than 10 miles away from the seafood market where a cluster of COVID-19 cases was first discovered, and that after the 2003 SARS outbreak, the SARS-CoV virus escaped from virology labs multiple times in China. He also describes how Chinese virologist and bioweapons expert Major General Chen Wei went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology with military scientists in January to study the new virus, which Mosher sees as a form of damage control.

...
Dimitrios Paraskevis, an epidemiologist at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, tells The Scientist that while it’s not possible to rule out the idea of lab escape, he believes that it is unlikely. “Any person who works in a lab must follow very strict safety regulations. It sounds to me very extraordinary that something happened and nobody took care about such an accident,” he says. The World Health Organization updated SARS surveillance guidelines in 2004 after the lab-based outbreaks, urging labs to follow proper biosafety procedures, and China replaced the director of its Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
...
    I’m not saying this has been genetically engineered to be a bioweapon that’s escaped from the lab. . . . I’m just saying that [China is] collecting dangerous pathogens, [and] they have a history of letting them escape from the lab.
—Steven Mosher, Population Research Institute

Theory that Coronavirus Escaped from a Lab Lacks Evidence

Replaced CDC director...problem solved. They follow the American CDC lead.


When capitalism started "doing something" about climate change, I think some knew this is what it would look like, while others could never imagine such hypocrisy horror: A joint Saudi-Thiel-funded AI firm that "monitors" emissions in a way that will allow the world's largest oil company to claim "net zero":


Saudi Aramco VC fund joins Thiel to back AI-powered emissions monitor

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At 4:17 p.m. Eastern time on July 20, 1969: "They’re On The Moon" - Yankee Stadium fans are notified that Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin have landed safely on the lunar surface!




Apollo 11/Chappaquiddick share headline space July 20, 1969.



Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, July 20, 1969.



However, the witches - specifically Endora and Cousin Henry - were shown on the moon approximately three months before Neil Armstrong made his small step.


Bewitched, S5E29


Today/yesterday in 1940, Congress passed the Vinson-Walsh "Two-Ocean Navy" Act which increased the size of the U.S. Navy by 70%. It was the largest naval procurement bill in U.S. history, adding 18 carriers, 7 battleships, 33 cruisers, 115 destroyers, 43 subs and 15k aircraft to the fleet.

Navy Raises Battle Force Goal to 381 Ships in Classified Report to Congress (July 18, 2023)

The Navy is now more than 80 ships short of the latest estimate of what the sea service thinks it needs to fulfill the Biden administration’s national security strategy.

The Battle Force Ship Assessment and Requirement, a congressionally-mandated report, requires 381 ships, up from 373 in the 2022 report, the first year it was released. As of Monday, the Navy’s battle force was 299 ships.

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg failed in the attempted assassination of Führer Adolf Hitler July 20, 1944. Unaware Hitler survived the bomb blast, conspirators then launched Operation Valkyrie in a military coup d'état. Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1944.




Today in scorch earth doctrine in 1956 (5:46am July 21, local time), the United States conducted Shot Tewa (part of Operation Redwing) at Bikini Atoll. Detonated on a barge between Namu and Yurochi Islands, the 5-Mt explosion blasted a crater 4,000 ft in diameter and 129 ft deep.




The Livermore-designed Bassoon Prime device used for Tewa was a "dirty" three-stage design (fission->fusion->fission), with a uranium-238 tamper around the third stage. Its fission yield was 87%, the highest of any US thermonuclear (H-bomb) test. It contaminated an area of 43,500 nautical miles.

Tewa was so powerful, its mushroom cloud was reportedly seen more than 2,500 miles away in Honolulu. The Bassoon Prime device evolved into the B41 bomb, the highest-yield (25 Megatons) thermonuclear weapon ever deployed by the United States (500 were built and stockpiled between 1960-76).


Caption reads: The Mk-41 "hydrogen" bomb, first produced in 1960, is now obsolete and is no longer in USAF service. Designed to be carried by B-47, B-52, and B-70 aircraft, it was to be released at high altitude, using parachutes to retard its fall, thereby permitting the releasing plane to escape from the target area safely. The parachutes used for this 10,500-lb bomb were one 5-ft pilot chute and one 16.5-ft ribbon chute. Having either an air or contact burst option, the Mk-41 was in the megaton yield range.

One could say Operation Annihilation was the primary purpose. Above was the barge used for Tewa. The Atomic Energy Commission utilized barges for 36 tests at Bikini and Enewetak rather than ground-based buildings or towers—starting with the Romeo test at Bikini on March 27, 1954 because high-yield tests were vaporizing the coral islands.

$157,664 per minute on nuclear weapons, an overall increase of $2.5 billion from 2021. That’s what the nine-nuclear armed states spent in 2022. In total, $82.9 billion on nuclear weapons that did nothing to make anyone safer. 


Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending


"Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century" by (you guessed it) Arthur C. Clarke, 1987 edition, with cover art by Tim White.




The first public graphic claim of Soviet sex schools for spies (male and female) was made by defector Anatoli Granovsky in his 1940s book, "I Was An NKVD Agent". The descriptions are funny and caused a sensation. Image below by pulp illustrator legend Walter Popp.



Reminds me of Mata Hari.

After indirectly denouncing his father, Granovsky was recruited into the NKVD on July 20, 1939, to spy on his acquaintances among his father's former colleagues. Following the horrifying conditions of the prisons, Granovsky was immediately given money, a salary, and exemplary treatment, including medical operations to undo the effects of illness and injury borne on him by the interrogations and imprisonment.

In spring 1945, Granovsky was assigned to begin preparing to infiltrate the West after the end of World War II, particularly the United States, by posing as a refugee with his wife, an alcoholic restaurateur whom he was to seduce and marry. The woman was eventually deemed an unreliable liability and Granovsky was reassigned to the military front.

When Berlin fell, Granovsky was one of the NKVD men who appropriated files and supplies from the Gestapo and other German agencies and sites, including the Reich Chancellery, transferring such resources back to Moscow and Kiev.

Post-World War II

Granovsky was reassigned to appear as a sympathetic Soviet war veteran "fighter-poet" on tour in London, getting acquainted with the West and spreading pro-Soviet propaganda.

Later, working in Prague, Granovsky was charged with helping ensure de-Nazification and the reliability of the local Communist Party and police apparatus.

The Americans refused to grant Granovsky asylum and he was arrested by Swedish authorities. On November 8, 1946, shortly before he was to be repatriated to Soviet authorities, which was a veritable death sentence, Granovsky was granted asylum by King Gustaf V of Sweden.

Granovsky wrote his memoirs under the title All Pity Choked [London 1955], but later paperback editions were published under the title I Was An NKVD Agent.

After moving to the United States, he died in Washington, D.C., in September 1974 at the age of 52.
Wiki

FBI HQ 100-356092, unrecorded, 7/14/61 W.A. Branigan to W.C. Sullivan on Granovsky states: “Granovsky first came to our attention in 1948 in Rio de Janeiro.  He claimed he had been forced into the Soviet Espionage Service in 1937 and that he had held positions with the Soviet Secret Police until September 1946 when he defected in Sweden.”

HQ 100-356092, #92 (10/12/62 R.W. Smith to W.C. Sullivan) reports that on page 179 of his book, Granovsky claimed that “a rich old man living in the South of the United States” had Soviet sympathies which led him to adopt a Soviet agent as his son and that son became a rich man in his own right.  Granovsky claimed the rich man died in 1942 in Texas.  Per memo “Investigation by the Bureau of all wealthy individuals who died in Texas around 1942 as well as the disposition of their fortunes failed to corroborate Granovsky’s allegation.”

His comment from 7/14/61 Washington Post article, page 1, by Rasa Gustaitis, entitled “Ex-Spy Says Anti-Reds Aid Soviet Aims in U.S.”: [reprinted in Edward Hunter’s 1961 Senate testimony on anti-anti-Communists]

“The Soviet Communists would sacrifice a thousand American Communists to save the John Birch Society, for instance.  I don’t mean the Birch Society is Communist-infiltrated.  It doesn’t have to be.  By discrediting prominent Americans, it confuses the population about whom to trust.  In socializing Czechoslovakia…we did everything to divide the armed forces units trained by the British and the Americans by spreading rumors about officers until they were so thoroughly discredited their men would not obey them and they had to be removed.”

Granovsky FBI file (Internet Archive)

He'd been placed on "international hold" by US & S. Korean authorities & shouldn't have been allowed on border tour. US military investigating whether N Korea knew in advance.
The Messenger


NY Post

North Korea Defector History repeats:
Larry Allen Abshier (1962)
James Joseph Dresnok (1962)
Jerry Wayne Parrish (1963)
Charles Robert Jenkins (1965)
Roy Chung (1979)
Joseph T. White (1982)
Travis King (2023)

Maybe Private Travis is a modern day clown plant of "Robert McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War" > McNamara's Project 100,000

Unreal story of the sailor who fell overboard from the USS Canberra (heavy cruiser) during Vietnam war!
"The Incredibly Stupid One"

The "memory palace" method that all memory prodigies use.

Bio on him at the POW Network.


July 20, 1988: Glenn Michael Souther (January 30, 1957 – June 22, 1989), appears on Soviet TV show Camera on the World to badmouth America. Also known as Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov, was an American sailor who became a Soviet intelligence officer after defecting to the Eastern Bloc in 1986.


He had a good 3 years in the USSR until he committed suicide.

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July 20, 1956: The annual nationwide civil defense drill known as Operation Alert was held.



July 20, 1956: in conjunction with the annual nationwide civil defense drill known as Operation Alert - the first daytime test of the emergency broadcasting system, CONELRAD, was held. Don't forget to complete your form!



Listen here:




At the July 20, 1961, NSC meeting, General Hickey, chairman of the “Net Evaluation Subcommittee” of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a plan for a nuclear surprise attack on the Soviet Union in late 1963, preceded by a period of heightened tensions.

In the summer of 1961 [Kennedy] went through a formal briefing on the net assessment of a general nuclear war between the two superpowers, and he expressed his own reaction to Dean Rusk as they walked from the cabinet room to the Oval Office for a private meeting on other subjects: "And we call ourselves the human race."
Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?



The real Lt General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) played by Paul Newman in "Fat Man and Little Boy" / Played by Matt Damon in Oppenheimer Movie / Drawn by Denis Rodier in The Bomb.


Reunion booklet...for members of OPERATION PAPERCLIP!



Just sold yesterday.



If you're curious about what might be in the Operation Paperclip reunion Year booklet from Fort Bliss, here's a copy of the 1963 edition scanned by the University of Alabama Huntsville. Includes photos, cartoons, and an address book.

Our Company was the first high-technology firm established in Huntsville Alabama to assist Wernher von Braun and his rocket team in developing the Redstone Rocket. The Company’s leadership founded Cummings Research Park the second-largest research park in the United States, where Teledyne Brown Engineering is still located today.

The Company’s doors opened as Alabama Engineering and Tool on July 1, 1953. It became Brown Engineering Company in 1956. When Teledyne Incorporated purchased Brown Engineering, the Company was renamed Teledyne Brown Engineering. During the 1990s, Teledyne merged with Allegheny Ludlum and was later made part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated in 1999. Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. became the foundation of the Engineered Systems Segment of Teledyne Technologies when it was formed in 2010.

Teledyne Brown Engineering has supported essentially every major U.S. space initiative, beginning with Jupiter and extending through the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Constellation programs, and Space Launch System (SLS). We have also provided services and specialty hardware for the European Space Agency and the Russian and Japanese space programs. We are the primary contractor supporting NASA’s critical payload operations integration function as well as ongoing microgravity research and development efforts. Today, we’re expanding the commercial side of our space business with the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing, or MUSES, an Earth-observation platform that was be installed on the exterior of the International Space Station and support up to four remote sensing instruments, or other payloads, simultaneously.
Teledyne Brown Engineering

"Plastics. An Important Part of Your Healthy Diet. You could think of them as the 6th basic food group." American Plastics Council ad, in the New Yorker mag, Feb 24, 1997.


The story of Brandon Fleury


On the set of STAR TREK, July 20, 1965:




Star Trek: Voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise by Keith Birdsong, 1998.

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Good morning, afternoon, evening...Your Friday gender reveal...




Don’t forget to scream into the void about any cool stories.




Protect and Survive: Armageddon advice guide to be republished



Protect and survive : this booklet tells you how to make your home and your family as safe as possible


When Bristolians received a terrifying nuclear war survival guide in the 1980s - from the council

Should your pamphlet become vaporized, covered in radioactive dust or used to maintain personal hygiene standards, worry not because Richard Taylor’s 20 advisory films would be broadcast on the TV. Made in 1975 and leaked in 1980, the animations feature the reassuring tones of voiceover artist Patrick Allen. His advice would keep survivors alive. (In 1984, anyone listening to the 12-inch mix of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s hit Two Tribes heard him state: "I am the last voice you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed.")




In print, Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel When the Wind Blows (later adapted as an animated film, radio and stage play) obliquely mentions various aspects of the Protect and Survive program, and the BBC play Threads featured three of the series’ films: Stay at Home, Action After Warnings and Casualties.



Ring the bells (ring the bells) that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
— Leonard Cohen, Anthem



The Getty Image has a creation date of 9/11/1945 and the photo ops went on for 4-5 days based on news clippings & Getty Images. The remnants of the melted Trinity bomb tower invokes an eerie feeling when reflecting on all those ground-zero 9/11 images.

On Sunday, September 9, 1945, Trinity Site was opened to the press for the first time. This was mainly to dispel rumors of lingering high radiation levels there, as well as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Led by General Groves and Oppenheimer, this widely publicized visit made Trinity front page news all over the country.
Project Gutenberg's Trinity [Atomic Test] Site, by The National Atomic Museum

"Among the dead were..." Manhattan Project hagiographer/NYT science reporter William "Atomic Bill" Leonard Laurence [1888-1977] wrote some interesting contingency texts (fake press releases) in the run-up to the Trinity Test in 1945...




May 1945 Memo (PDF)

Christopher Nolan's ATOMIC BILL coming in 2026...You will believe a Journalist can LIE.


William Leonard Laurence



Full NYT article: Archived

From the same ^^^ NYT journalist...

Civilians living nearby the Trinity test site "later reported that they thought they were experiencing the end of the world" on that day...

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Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

Young teenager Barbara Kent said that several hours after the atomic bomb went off on July 16, 1945, she and some friends in Ruidoso, New Mexico—a part of Lincoln County—noticed white flakes drifting down from a big cloud in the sky. “We were grabbing the white flakes, and putting it all over ourselves, pressing it on our faces,” Kent said. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were only thirteen; we didn’t know any better.” Kent says that this photo of her and her friends was taken that day, and that it features them playing in the fallout. Image courtesy of Barbara Kent’s daughter, Kaysie Kent.

n Sunday, July 15, 1945, at around 11 pm Mountain War Time, New York Times reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. Laurence joined the project’s scientists on a caravan of buses, trucks, and cars heading out of Albuquerque. Their destination: the New Mexico desert, about 125 miles to the southeast, to witness the first atomic bomb detonation in history. None of the bomb’s creators knew whether the test—codenamed “Trinity”—would be successful. One of the scientists even speculated that the blast could ignite the nitrogen in the earth’s atmosphere and end human civilization.

When the caravan reached its destination—the Alamogordo Bombing Range in the desert basin known as the Jornada del Muerto (translated into English “dead’s man’s journey”)—the night sky was dark with black clouds, Laurence later recalled, except for an occasional, foreboding bolt of lightning. The group was given strict instructions about what to do when the bomb went off: Lie prone on the ground, face down, head facing away from ground zero. Do not look at the bomb’s flash directly. Stay on the ground until the blast wave passed. Someone produced a bottle of sunscreen, and the scientists passed it around, rubbing it into their faces and arms in the dark.

When the blast came, Laurence recalled, it felt like a biblical experience. “There rose from the bowels of the earth a light not of this world, the light of many suns in one,” he later recalled. “It was as though the earth had opened and the skies had split. One felt as though one were present at the moment of creation when God said, ‘Let there be light.’ ” (Laurence 1946) Standing nearby, the so-called “father of the bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, famously likened himself in that moment to Vishnu, “the destroyer of worlds.”

The protective guidance that Laurence and the other eyewitnesses had been given was shockingly inadequate in the face of such awesome and destructive power, but at least they knew it was coming. Civilians living nearby, on the other hand, were given no advance warning of the test. Nor was any effort made by the US government to evacuate them beforehand or afterward.

Sunblock 1 million wasn't invented yet. Cringe factor x10...

Several civilians nearby—stunned by the blast—later reported that they thought they were experiencing the end of the world. A local press report stated that the flash had been so bright that a blind girl in Socorro, New Mexico—about 100 miles from the bombing range—was able to see it, and asked: “What’s that?” In Ruidoso, New Mexico, a group of teenage campers were jolted out of their bunk beds onto their cabin floor. They ran outside, worried that a water heater had exploded. Barbara Kent, one of the campers, recently recalled in an interview with National Geographic that “[A]ll of a sudden, there was a big cloud overheard, and lights in the sky. It hurt our eyes. It was as if the sun came out tremendous. The whole sky turned strange.” (Blume 2021)

A few hours later, white flakes began to fall from the sky. The campers began to play in the flurry. (See figure at top of page.)

“We were grabbing the white flakes, and putting it all over ourselves, pressing it on our faces,” Kent said. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were only thirteen; we didn’t know any better.”
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Barbara Kent, the teenaged camper, recalled attending an official town-square announcement soon after the blast in Ruidoso. Government officials told gathered locals that “[T]here was an explosion at a dump,’” she recalled later. “They said, ‘No one worry about anything; everything is fine.’ Some people believed it, but others couldn’t imagine that a dump explosion would do this. They lied to us. I didn’t learn the truth until years later” (Blume 2021).

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The decision not to inform or evacuate nearby civilians about the Trinity test came from the top-down. For Manhattan Project leader Gen. Leslie R. Groves, getting the bomb ready for wartime use in near-total secrecy was crucial and trumped all other considerations. Some Manhattan Project doctors and physicists had attempted to warn Groves and Oppenheimer about the possible exposure risk for surrounding communities. Physicist Joseph Hirschfelder made preliminary calculations about possible fallout distribution, and told Oppenheimer that radiation from the active material and fission products might render up to 100 square kilometers (roughly just over 38.5 square miles) around the test site uninhabitable.

Full horror cringe article at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists


Repackaged MARCH OF TIME "Atomic Power" film from 1946 hits Chicago theaters in 1949. Atomic Power is an American short documentary film produced by The March of Time and released to theaters August 9, 1946, one year after the end of World War II. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

MARCH OF TIME TV SHOW EPISODE "REPORT ON THE ATOM"

Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XrY5xDZiqE

Dating from the early atomic age, this episode of the "March of Time" TV show dates to 1952 and is hosted by Westbrook van Voorhis.  It examines the state of the atomic industry in the United States and nuclear testing, nuclear defense, atomic power, and the vital need to enhance the secrecy associated with the nuclear industry.  The film features historic footage of the University of Chicago and Dr. Enrico Fermi, and the building of the first nuclear reactor.  Dr. Robert Oppenheimer is shown in a clunky re-enactment, with the "atomic age" being born at the Trinity test site (supposedly this footage was shot in New Jersey a long time after the actual test!)  The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other facilities are shown, including the Hanford Plant and an atomic plant being built in Ohio, as well as the Savannah River Plant.  The hunt for uranium is seen, and its testing and refining for experimentation and use.  Admiral Hyman Rickover is seen, the father of the nuclear Navy, explaining how a nuclear reactor will operate inside a submarine, and B-52s are seen carrying atomic weapons. 

One of he most fascinating parts of the film is a promotion of the "atomic cannon", which is shown being transported at about the 19 minute mark.  The M65 Atomic Cannon, often called Atomic Annie,was a towed artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device. It was developed in the early 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War, and fielded by 1953 in Europe and Korea.  The use of the cannon during the Upshot-Knothole atomic bomb test is seen at the start of the film.

March of Time & nuclear desert rituals had dancers too, but not to be confused with these March of Time dancers...


IMDB

Brian Donlevy as Gen. Groves and Audrey Totter as his secretary Jean Marley O'Leary. THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947). Apparently, Ms. O'Leary is not depicted in OPPENHEIMER film. She wasn't in FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (1989), either.


Atomic Heritage Foundation




Princess Leia gold bikini sells for $135K at Star Wars memorabilia auction

La,la,la, LOL!



Daily Beast







Tony Bennett sang "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" with Judy Garland on episode 11 of The Judy Garland Show, December 15, 1963:

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NATO Security Posters


Vintage NATO Security Posters



Flying saucer - R100 Airship hanger



World War Two - The Home Front - Women's Auxiliary Air Force - 1942



Barrage Balloon Factory Workers | WAAFs Study Barrage Balloon Model on 9/11


Balloon Barrage with the King and Queen and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

Watching the sky




Battle of Britain Hairstyles - 1969



Many more Blimp crew photos here


50 years ago today, July 22, 1973...

Something seems...familiar.


12.5 months later he resigned. Things are reversed so far today. In ~12 months Trump may be his party's nominee for re-election to the office. Similar though in that so far no criminal convictions for either politicians though in Nixon's case many of his co-conspirators were well on their way to being convicted & jailed.

[BIAD]

I believe we knew how to pose better for the camera back then and in any image of a crowd,
there's always those who wonder what the media are up to when one is asked to enhance
a narrative!!

[Bally002]

I believe we knew how to pose better for the camera back then and in any image of a crowd,
there's always those who wonder what the media are up to when one is asked to enhance
a narrative!!

Maybe if the photographer yelled "Don't look up!"  He would've got a better response.  Or threw lollies (sweets) into the air.  The boof head lad on the right with the hair pointed over his forehead looks as though he is about to shove the camera sideways where it may fit.

Kind regards,

Bally)

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:: Lazy hot Sunday ::

Twitter military operations theater official name change to...



— Twitter to be shifted to new domain X .com. Existing domain twitter .com will retire. Twitter (the company) had already changed its name to X Corp.

— Imperator Elon has also announced to retire twitter's iconic Bluebird logo. As part of rebranding, a new logo, most likely inspired by X, will be launched.

— Twitter's name to be changed to X as well, both the app and the website. 'Twitter' brand name will no longer exist.

— Some users are also reporting a new 'timeline experience' alternate reality onto a parallel cybernetic twatter world. Most likely a total change of existing twitter timeline is being beta-tested and will likely be glitches...beware.





Spinning off into X multiverse...


Drifting off into Mil-Intel world...


IARPA ROSE


Athena Program Gov Contract


Athena Simulation Army Op



ATHENA IN 2013 AND BEYOND


Hmmm, is it ever not about "computerized simulation of sociocultural events" built on a substrate of RAND corp developed game theory.


Next-Generation Wargaming for the U.S. Marine Corps (PDF)


Imagine building a minority report panopticon simulation software, only to retire, and start a business making custom wooden pens...

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July 24, 1945: At the Potsdam Conference, Truman slyly told Stalin that he had a new weapon, but not that it was the atomic bomb. Stalin wasn’t fooled. He already knew. The nuclear arms race had begun.


Truman Tells Stalin, July 24, 1945


Rare shot of JFK military aide (and Nuclear Football carrier) Gen. Chester V. Clifton with Fiddle & Faddle. He was in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.




Priscilla Ware and Jill Cowen, allegedly slept with President Kennedy while interning at the White House.

Files of Chester V. Clifton, November 22, 1963–January 20, 1969

This Series contains records, none of which have been digitized.

This series consists of the working files of C. V. Clifton during his time as Military Aide to the President under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. The files reflect the subject matters for which Clifton was responsible.

Access: Partially Restricted
Access to some of these archival materials is restricted for the following reason:

    Donated - Security Classified
    Top Secret

Too many damn secrets in this Country!

September 16, 2015 – Today the big pooh-bahs of the security services–Fearful Leader Clapper, the Machiavellian Brennan, former SEAL chieftain Admiral McRaven, and a number of their predecessors, have gathered in Austin, Texas, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. Their purpose is to preside over an event at which the government agencies and the National Archives formally open for research the key intelligence reports for the ages. Today these are called the President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs). Jack Kennedy knew them as the PICKL (predictably, “pickle”), or President’s Intelligence Checklist; Dwight D. Eisenhower’s staff had even more awkward names like “Synopsis of Intelligence Items Reported to the President.” (They never could find an acronym for that one.)

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But like most things that go to presidents, the PDBs became the focus of fierce jockeying. (Still today: In an attempt to assert that it was always the oracle of the PDB, the CIA maintains that its publications Current Intelligence Bulletin and Central Intelligence Bulletin, precursors to the National Intelligence Daily, all lower-level organs, were “PDBs.”)

Responsible for the actual information utilized in the PDB the CIA sought to gain control over the drafting. They succeeded when John F. Kennedy occupied the White House. The PICKLs, as they were then known, were delivered by the president’s military aide, General Chester V. Clifton. Then a focus of infighting became who would be present when the president received his daily dollop of intel. McGeorge Bundy often attended, Walt Rostow wanted to be a recipient of the document himself, Henry Kissinger did not want the PDB delivered if he wasn’t there to hear it; Zbigniew Brzezinski, I am told, sought to prevent CIA director Stansfield Turner from delivering the document, to take over the delivery duty himself, or at least be there for the event. In Ronald Reagan’s time security advisers did not trust the president to understand the issues and were almost always in attendance.

Freeing the President’s Daily Brief

Most everyone knows about the heated Kitchen Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev in Moscow that took place July 24, 1959. After the debate, Nixon did his duty and led Khrushchev to the exhibit where he downed 7 Pepsi cola's and provided the USSR with an alternative to Coca-Cola. However, less remembered is the fact that the Nixons were subjected to high levels of radiation at Spaso House during their visit to the USSR.



CIA newspaper clipping from WaPo (PDF) It's a crappy OCR scan (per usual)...you can read a very short NYT version here.

The Nixon radiation story was broken in 1976 by Rick Berke and Michael Gill of the Walt Whitman High School student newspaper.



Rick Berke went on to become a...journalist and later an editor at NY Times. The Black & White school newspaper is still around.

The State Department's response to Government Attic's Freedom of Information Act request re: the 1959 Nixon radiation incident in the USSR...




July 24, 1990: the last continuous "Looking Glass" flight took off from SAC HQ at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. For more than 29 years, beginning on February 3, 1961 at least one EC-135 airborne command post was kept aloft, ensuring the ability to fight a nuclear war if SAC were destroyed...or so went the justification.




Sekai daisensô (The Last War) released in 1961, directed by Shūe Matsubayashi, Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.


THE LAST WAR press release from TOHO and a newspaper ad from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from December 28, 1961. Based on newspaper archive searches alone, it looks like this film's only U.S. theatrical release was in Hawaii.

The English version/dubbing of The Last War has only been released on VHS and is currently the only home video release of the film in the United States. Germany has seen a DVD release in 2008, under the title of Todesstrahlen aus dem Weltraum (translation: Death Rays from Outer Space).


Meanwhile, over in UFO circus world...

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July 24, 2023: The X or xAI Games commence.



The tweety Bluebird logo (not to be confused with MKULTRA Bluebird) was designed in 2012 by a team of three: Todd Waterbury, Angy Che, and Martin Grasser...the former two have since died...off of Twitter that is.



On the passing of Twitter as we know it, today’s song of all things is avian. Starting us off with this as it’s on to X.




Ever wonder...  X.?



The first operational use was on Aug. 29, 1943 -- over the Mediterranean -- and the most famous employment of "Fritz X" was the sinking of the Italian battleship Roma off Sardinia on Sept. 9, 1943, to prevent its surrender to the Allies.


German "Fritz X" Guided Bomb


Huntsville Alabama fallout shelter of Fritz Mueller German rocket scientist. Heavy door with bolts, hand crank vent fan and block walls in. Shelter was well stocked with schnapps and Von Braun wanted to stay if anything happened.



I'm not sure if this pre-dates von Braun’s own fallout shelter which he reportedly constructed it after learning Huntsville was on the Russian first-strike list of targets during the Cuban missile crisis.

2014 photos of von Braun's shelter when his house was put up for sale.


Wernher von Braun's 1958 Huntsville home for sale; some updates, lots of history, only 2 owners


Space X, son X, Platform X, Singularity award X, founder Jesuits LaYola X, Osiris X, Nimrod X. The mysterious X Symbol can be traced back many thousands of years...ancient to modern day magick. It is the sign of King Ashur (Osiris). Also Skull and Bones (German Illuminati). The sign, or letter X, has a long history of use in the Ancient Mystery Religions, in apostate Judaism, in Freemasonry, and in the occult sciences. The Illuminati elite use it to this day to symbolize key phenomena and mark significant events.

The same forces are now implementing CBDC and trans-humanism. X'ing out humanity. 2023 in reverse is 3202. X out the 0 and you have our current year 2023. The year of the X ritual. The 'X' icon'tography AND the number '11' (the door) connects to everything. They’re going to hold their press conference for disclosure and the top secret alien tech will be CBDCs.