Radioactive weapons use inside the US is certainly nothing new. The US Military has been conducting explosive radioactive "tests" inside America for the past sixty years. At this point, after umpteen years of "testing" the same materials, one can't help but wonder if it's actually the explosive material they are continually "testing"... or rather, what happens to citizen populations when radioactive materials are continually fired into the open air in communities where people live?
Former Livermore Laboratory whistleblower, Leuren Moret, gives us a clue as to why a nation might want to "test" Depleted Uranium within its own country: "International scientists, Drs. Andre Gsponer, J.-P. Hurni, and B. Vitali, watch-dogging nuclear weapons developments globally, pointed out that DU weaponry is being used to study the radiobiological effects of the new nuclear weapons now under development."
Moret also informs us:
"The use of weapons in war are most effective when the weapons do not kill, but create long-term health and environmental consequences such as lingering illnesses which slowly destroy the health of the environment and productivity of a nation and the economy.... DU is a permanent terrain contaminant with a half-life of 4.5 billion years, forms immense volumes of nano-sized particles (smaller than bacteria or viruses) which are lofted permanently as components of atmospheric dust traveling around the world until they are rained or snowed out of the air...Even worse, uranium targets the DNA... and slowly destroys the genetic future of exposed populations."
Site 300, where these radioactive explosions occur, is only about 40 miles from San Francisco. More than seven million people live in the highly populated Greater San Francisco Bay area. America has been breathing in this toxic, "gene busting" invisible poison since 1945 when Uranium-238, as well as other radioactive materials, were used inside the hydrogen bomb that the US exploded in the New Mexico desert.
Dr. Janette Sherman, after hearing about the DU explosions at site 300 at Livermore admitted, "I can not think of a single reason why munitions have to be tested in that area. It's not like munitions have not been tested before. I believe it must be stopped."
It would certainly appear that those in power are cooking up some "hot" treat for the liberal Greater San Francisco Bay area. In fact, San Francisco has been a long-established place to experiment upon the population. An advanced Google search using the exact phrases "human experiment" and "San Francisco" yielded 14,300 Google "hits".
As was noted by a recent report, "Lack of transparency is cause for concern if only because of the history of secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pentagon experiments in germ warfare that used the American people as guinea pigs. In his book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Common Courage Press reporter William Blum noted that both agencies 'conducted tests [over two decades] in the open air in the United States, exposing millions of Americans to large clouds of possibly dangerous bacteria and chemical particles.'
From 1949-69, the US Army tested the spread of dangerous chemical and bacterial organisms at over 239 US populated areas including San Francisco, New York, and Chicago with no warnings to the public or regard for the health consequences, Blum wrote. The Pentagon even sprayed navy warships to test the impact of germ warfare on US sailors."
AND WHAT ABOUT TRITIUM ?
The United States government fully admits that it has done radiation experiments on Americans before. And with the long history of such chemical, biological, and radiological exposures upon the people of the San Francisco area, one is forced to realize that its nation's government certainly did not, as the song goes, leave its heart there. Since such exposures have been going on since the Cold War started, one can not help but wonder what type of a "national security" project would involve dispersing radioactive uranium gas and tritium into such a densely populated area where millions of American lungs are breathing in the toxic air and drinking the water (of which tritium is not removed) all around them?
Livermore knows exactly what it is doing to the health of America's citizens with these DU blasts out into the California air. At a Tracy City Council meeting on January 2, Tracy Press reported that Larry Sedlacek, Deputy Associate Director of Operations in the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's Defense and Nuclear Technologies Group, as saying that tritium could be used in "tests" that would be "aerosolized" (turned into gas) after "test" blasts and that he "would not rule out" using tritium in the blasts when interviewed Wednesday, saying details of the blasts are classified." Sedlacek was quoted as saying, "We have used tritium at Site 300 in the past...It is contained in our environmental impact statement that we could potentially use small quantities in the future, but we don't have any scheduled."
One can't help but wonder if anyone gets rewarded for keeping things so quiet for so long? Take for example, how happy you would be if you were the head of a major nuclear weapons lab and your staff was able to keep explosions of radioactive materials so damaging to human health and the environment a really big secret from the nation for fifty years! Undoubtedly, the ability to keep such a major deal under wraps from the 7 million people living and working in the San Francisco Bay area must make for some mighty swollen incentive bonuses for public relations staff who know how to keep Uncle Sam's "hottest" and "dirtiest " of secrets!
STARTING AT TRACY - AND WAY, WAY BEYOND...
So going back to the people in the Tracy/Livermore area, any way you look at it, they've been dealt a really bum deal. According to Steve Sarvey, "It's like a triple whammy. There's three things going on." First, there's the issue of radioactive outdoor explosive "testing". It is not known exactly how much radiation has been released out into the atmosphere at Livermore, but outdoor explosives "tests" at Site 300 have averaged about 60 per year at 100 pounds each since 1997, according to Susan Houghton.
Want to make your head spin? Just do the math. If Livermore explodes 60,000 pounds of explosives in ten years? Since the high explosives "tests" began at Site 300 in 1955, that makes 60,000 pounds every ten years, which amounts to 300,000 pounds or 150 tons of radioactive blasts. And that's at only one of the federal "test" sites - of which there are several.
Cathy Garger is a freelance writer, public speaker, activist, and a certified personal coach who specializes in Uranium weapons. Living in the shadow of the national District of Crime, Cathy is constantly nauseated by the stench emanating from the nation's capital during the Washington, DC, federal work week.
Follow the links at the top of the article (www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_23826.shtml and tinyurl) to find even more links to take action against this barbarity. Current activities include lawsuits to stop testing, lobbying of the Tracy City Council which meets on February 6th, 2007 and other actions planned by TriValley CARES posted at http://haltdutesting.blogspot.com.
We need to outlaw the use of weaponized depleted uranium. Use of this substance should constitute a felony crime against humanity and all living things!
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Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 134 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 3:57:54 PM
Rense.con the Jeff Rense Show has a picture I supplied for a show of a deadly DU Bomb going off way back in 1961. The Rense address is: http://rense.com/general75/hyd.htm
Those "people" at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab really have been detonating these radioactive bombs for about 50 years. I suspect that is why the San Francisco Bay Area has such bad health statistics among 7 Million people. San Francisco needs everybody's help, those people at Livermore really are trying to kill us.
http://rense.com/general75/hyd.htm http://rense.com/general75/lvermore.htm
This is an overwhelming indictment of the genocidal (or rather, omnicidal) nature and intent of our government. The people who can direct the commission of such atrocities are the most evil psychopaths in history!
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Hajja Romi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 9:05:37 PM
What is it going to take before the people of this country get off of their hamster wheels and DO SOMETHING!!
DO something to stop the insane puppet governmental system hijacked by psychotic multinational elites who don't give a rat's behind if we live or die.
Did you hear that America?
The government that you trust and defend doesn't care about your life or your children's lives. ALL they care about is their profit margins that allow them to sit in their penthouse offices and look down on the rest of us slaves while we run around making them richer.
They call the shots, send our children to die for their corporate foreign policy, so that they can control countries and natural resources, and play with their toys that go BOOM, and kill people!
They order the manufacturing of nuclear weaponry such as Depleted Uranium, a misnomer, because it isn't depleted at all. These weapons are DEADLY!! They kill by eating your body up from the inside out, and they are not only manufacturing them here in the US, they are testing them...EXPLODING THEM RIGHT HERE IN OUR BACK YARD!!
All of this...while they go to their dinners and luncheons and laugh about the death and destruction, and the fact that they are getting away with it while a nation of citizens sit paralyzed, brainwashed, and too fearful to hold them accountable. They just have to claim God talks to them, say a prayer or two, hug a couple of babies, and call it christianity...ahhh...then they are forgiven for all, and now you can sleep at night. Just don't go outside and breathe the air, drink or swim in the water, eat the food grown from the earth contaminated by it, play in the grass covered by it, play in the sand at the beach, etc..
This is happening to ALL of us...NOT just in the Middle East, where millions of innocent men, women, and children have lost their lives, and many more will live with the horrors and deformities that will continue destroying and mutating DNA for a very long time!
It's happening to the people in Tracy, SanFrancisco, Berkley, California, Nevada, and ALL of the rest of us, everywhere, because it does not just stay in one place.
If you needed a reason to act, well, this is it!
The time is NOW!!
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Elaine Nichols (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 10:01:28 PM
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