Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. Your destiny is a mystery to us.
- Chief Seattle leader of the Duwanish tribe in Washington Territory in an 1854 letter to U.S. President Franklin Pierce to mark transfer of ancestral Indian lands to the United States
There are efforts underway to oppose explosions of radioactive materials by the US government into the air in which we breathe. This article will outline various reasons why and how radioactive explosive "tests" are harming America - and describe the efforts of citizens in one area of the country who are now working to try to put a stop to them.
Like most people over 21, you may already know that the United States used to "test" nuclear bombs in the NV and NM deserts, right out in the open air. If asked, most people would probably be able to tell us that yes indeed, both above ground and below ground "nuclear testing" in the United States ended years ago. Yet, even though 1992 saw its last nuke bomb "test" inside the United States, how many know that our government is still firing radioactive explosives into our atmosphere? This fact appears to be one of Uncle Sam's "dirtiest" not-so-little, well-kept secrets.
Photo Top Left -- The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) triggered the atomic bomb called Priscilla on June 24, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site. According to U.S. Department of Energy documents, Priscilla was a balloon type test, it was weapons related, and had a yield of 37 kill tons.
Photo Top Right -- This photo was taken on November 1, 1951 and was the "Dog" detonation. It was conducted as part of the Buster/Jangle test series between October and November of 1951. It was an airdrop with a yield of 21 kilotons. Another event
Photo Center Left -- On December 18, 1970, the Baneberry underground nuclear test was conducted at the Nevada Test Site (NTS); the event released radioactivity to the atmosphere. Baneberry had a yield of ten kilotons (a kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT). The nuclear bomb was buried about 900 feet beneath the surface of Yucca Flat near the northern boundary of the NTS. The radiation release or venting resulted in a cloud of radioactive dust that reached an altitude of 10,000 feet. Following the Baneberry venting, new containment procedures were adopted to prevent similar occurrences.
Photo Center Right -- The Stokes atmospheric nuclear test was conducted at the Nevada Test Site on August 7, 1957. The tests was conducted as part the operation "Plumbbob" testing events. Stokes produced 9 kilotons and was exploded from a balloon.
Photo Bottom Right -- This above ground atmospheric nuclear test was conducted at the Nevada Test Site on May 25, 1953. Named Grable the nuclear bomb was fired from a 280 mm gun. The test was an airburst, it was weapons related and had an estimated yield range of 15 Kiloton.
(Photos: Nevada Division of Environmental Protection)
Yes, they fire radiation out into the very same air that our families breathe. Tons of radioactive munitions, in fact. Depleted Uranium is the name of one of the materials they use. And if that material sounds familiar? It because it's the same stuff that they're using on the "enemy" - that is, on civilians - in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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, 4 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 126 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
