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Cynthia Lazaroff's must- read "Dawn of a new Armageddon" synthesizes her family's personal experiences with the false missile alert in Hawaii and her technical expertise in the arena of weapons of mass destruction:
Cynthia Lazaroff (2018, August 6) "Dawn of a new Armageddon". The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/dawn-of-a-new-armageddon/ 
It is January 2018, at the height of “fire and fury” fears about North Korean nuclear tests and long-range missiles; I know more than I want to know about nuclear weapons.... We face a complex set of nuclear threats that could lead to a 21st century Armageddon in any number of ways—through bluster, blunder, accident, miscalculation, malfunctioning sensors, malware, terrorist computer hacking, or simple human rage and reaction.

I strongly recommend reading the entirety of this excellent analysis.

The Hawaii missile story disappeared out of the news cycle with no clear resolution as to how that terrible mistake occurred.

I remember reading that peopled panicked by redundant warnings of an incoming nuclear missile dropped kids down storm drains. I think that was probably good thinking given the circumstances. Where would you go? There is no where the average person can hide from an atomic explosion targeted above their heads.


The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission formed after World War II to study the detonation and radiation effects of the atomic bombs dropped over Japan did find that "shielding" saved some people in the outer perimeter of the blast but the atomic bombs of the 1940s were small in comparison to today's.

Indeed, the blast from Fukushima eclipsed the Hiroshima explosion.  Kodama Tatsuhiko (2011), head of the Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo, told a Diet committee that Fukushima produced the heat equivalent of 29.6 Hiroshima a-bombs, although he acknowledged that direct comparisons of fallout across atomic catastrophes falter on uncertainties pertaining to the volume, characteristics, and dispersion of radionuclides as nuclear power plants are far dirtier than "typical" atomic weapons.

Although the atomic bombs of the 1940s were small in comparison to today's yields, they produced HORRIFIC effects, that are being remembered this week.

That is why many in Japan are anti-nuclear and support denuclearization across the globe. For example, Hiroshima's Mayor called for a "nuclear free world" (here).

We think we are enlightened alchemists, but remain dominated by bumbling monsters who build weapons of mass destruction that cannot be survived, that we would not want to survive.






21 comments:

  1. No where to go. Downwinders know that, for sure.

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    1. ‘Dirty Bombs’

      Chemical Corps had a whole division exploring radiological weapons

      The U.S. Army Tested Its Own ‘Dirty Bombs’
      UNCATEGORIZED October 13, 2015 Joseph Trevithick 7
      dirty bombs1
      From television to Hollywood blockbusters, the “dirty bomb” – a device designed to spew radioactive material rather than set off a massive atomic explosion – has captured the public imagination as a potential terrorist weapon. But the U.S. Army once tried to make it into a real weapon of war.

      In 1952, the ground combat branch conducted at least two live tests of prototype munitions at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The experimental E-83 “radiological bomb” consisted of more than 70 pounds of tantalum 181 pellets wrapped around a high explosive charge, as technicians explained in one report:

      The agent was composed of approximately 75 percent tantalum dust … and 25 percent fine copper wire to provide effective binding. The mixture was compressed … in cylindrical pellets. Each pellet had a diameter of 5/16 inch and a height of 5/16 inch.


      The pellets were placed in aluminum tubes at the Chemical and Radiological Laboratories [in Maryland] and shipped to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the material was irradiated for a time calculated to produce an activation level of three to five curies per pound. The tubes were shipped to Dugway Proving Ground in lead-lined iron containers.
      Scientists measure how fast radioactive materials decay using curies, named after pioneering nuclear physicists Pierre and Marie Curie. As these substances break down, they emit potentially hazardous alpha, beta or gamma rays.

      Above - a schematic of a section of the E-83. Army art. At top - the infamous Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. via WikimediaAbove – a schematic of a section of the E-83. Army art. At top – the infamous Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. Photo via Wikimedia

      The average person naturally produces around 0.1 curies from potassium-40 in the human body. A little more than a pound of uranium-235 – used to make the cores of the first atomic bombs – will generate one curie of radiation. A similar weight of material producing three to five curies is highly radioactive.


      After World War II, the Pentagon had put the Army’s Chemical Corps in charge of cooking up chemical and biological agents. In the same vein, the service’s chemical arm established a radiological division to see if those substances would make useful weapons.

      On May 20, 1952, the Army set off four “sectional munitions” at Dugway. A complete E-83 would have several 12-chamber sub-munitions, and steel “pusher” plates protected the pellets from the bomb’s main explosive core. When the bomb went off, the blast would propel the projectiles far and wide without shattering them.

      Rather than drop the prototypes from planes, soldiers trucked the weapons out to various positions on Dugway’s “Target H” range. To protect the drivers from radiation, the Army installed lead-lined shields behind the truck’s cab.

      After the test explosions, the Army discovered that size and shape of the explosive charges did not radically change where the tantalum pellets landed or how far they flew. In the future, they recommended sticking to one design and seeing if it produced the same effect.

      Four months later, the ground combat branch trucked four more modified E-83 sections out to Dugway, along with a portion of another type, the E-59. Again, the Army blew each one up, and each weapon flung their payload in predictable patterns.

      However, the Army was concerned about the reliability of the weapons since the pellets from the newest versions fell in completely different patterns from the designs in the first round. The explosive cores in three of the five bombs didn’t even work properly.

      “Failure of … the jet-type initiators used in this test indicates some fault in the design or application of this type of initiator,” the technicians surmised in a second report.

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    2. Another terror tactic by Trump. Maybe in preapartion for thme using Nuclear weapons against Iran. What an awful time we live in. Try to imagine,what it it will be like when they implement their new Military Branch: the nuclear Space Force. It will be like the movie from the 60s "The Time Machine" A saattelite will appear over head. There will be a flash of light. Everything, will be obliterated. At the rate earthquakes are occuring at Fukushima and by the Damaged reactors, reopened in Japan, one will go soon. Do you think, they will give us any notice?

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    3. https://nuclear-news.net/2018/08/08/asbestos-and-mesothelioma-everywhere-for-everyone-epa-is-allowing-asbestos-back/

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  2. The united states also built the ugliest dirty bombs in history and tested them at the Dugway Proving Grounds

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  3. https://warisboring.com/the-u-s-army-tested-its-own-dirty-bombs/

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  4. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/09/the-bonfire-of-humanity/

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  5. They brought us down to this level of ugliness. It is getting worse

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    1. Ace Hoffman Twitter

      https://mobile.twitter.com/AceHoffman/status/1027959795024687104?p=v

      FERC, DOD, DOE & NSC are creating a list of what they think are "vital" nuke power plants needed to keep essential infrastructure operational. The correct answer is NONE. But if there's any truth to it, their choices will be an excellent targeting list for an enemy 1st strike.
      9:48 AM - 10 Aug 2018
      NoPlanetB
      @1Earth1Sea1Sky
      8h
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      ...and now the pro-nukers are gonna join in & tell you that all nuke power plants can withstand a military attack.
      View conversation ·   

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    2. It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. Marjane Satrapi
      Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/marjane_satrapi_557358?src=t_fascism

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    3. From

      https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/10/dying-of-consumption-while-guzzling-snake-oil-a-realists-perspective-on-the-environmental-crisis/

      Nordhaus, Shellenberger, Musk all Pronuke shills


      "While an individual ecosystem is able to withstand and adapt to deleterious forces for a certain amount of time, if that injurious bombardment continues unabated, the ecosystem will finally reach a threshold, at which point it will collapse. The Earth’s entire biosphere is no different.

      And yet charlatan academics who cherry-pick data outside of their fields to support their elitist perspective, like Steven Pinker, as well as ecomodernists, such as Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger at the Breakthrough Institute, and tech giants such as Elon Musk, would have you believe that we are living in the greatest era known to manand that our human intelligence and innovation – particularly of the technological sort – will carry us through these perilous ecological times. It’s an optimistic message that everyone likes to hear, but it is hollow at its core. Just read through their proclamations and manifestos. What you will find is wishful-thinking based on flimsy, unsubstantiated premises that we all want to believe so that we in the first world can carry on in our daily lives with little disruption to our usual profligate consumption, and especially, to corporate capitalism. Indeed, fourth-wave environmentalism, which too many of the large environmental non-profit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund promote, is predicated on corporate-environmental partnerships and technological modernization. It is touted as “win-win” – yet in practice, it is nothing but a loss for the biosphere." . .

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    4. https://brothawolf.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/what-ive-learned-about-right-wing-trolls-while-blogging-its-a-long-one/

      Most of their bs is rooted in racism

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    5. One here from 2009

      Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2009;85(7):229-39.
      Accumulation of radium in ferruginous protein bodies formed in lung tissue: association of resulting radiation hotspots with malignant mesothelioma and other malignancies.

      Nakamura E1, Makishima A, Hagino K, Okabe K.
      Author information

      Abstract

      While exposure to fibers and particles has been proposed to be associated with several different lung malignancies including mesothelioma, the mechanism for the carcinogenesis is not fully understood. Along with mineralogical observation, we have analyzed forty-four major and trace elements in extracted asbestos bodies (fibers and proteins attached to them) with coexisting fiber-free ferruginous protein bodies from extirpative lungs of individuals with malignant mesothelioma. These observations together with patients' characteristics suggest that inhaled iron-rich asbestos fibers and dust particles, and excess iron deposited by continuous cigarette smoking would induce ferruginous protein body formation resulting in ferritin aggregates in lung tissue. Chemical analysis of ferruginous protein bodies extracted from lung tissues reveals anomalously high concentrations of radioactive radium, reaching millions of times higher concentration than that of seawater. Continuous and prolonged internal exposure to hotspot ionizing radiation from radium and its daughter nuclides could cause strong and frequent DNA damage in lung tissue, initiate different types of tumour cells, including malignant mesothelioma cells, and may cause cancers.

      PMID:
      19644223
      PMCID:
      PMC3561846
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19644223

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    6. ATrump is double and tripling down on turning america into a hardcore police state . Dont let the media LIES about Trump reforming the fbi throw u off. 

      HTtps://agrdailynews.com/2018/08/13/gang-stalking-dns-mike-german-scott-crow-discuss-fbis-expanded-domestic-surveillance-program-1-of-2-youtube/

      Harmless people and advocate harrassed by Government tripled under Trump while White racist Nationalist, White supremecists, nazis threaten, assault, and lieraly get away with murder

      Democracy Now

      https://youtu.be/_jdK13154wQ

      via (4) Mike German & Scott Crow Discuss FBI’s Expanded Domestic Surveillance Program. 1 of 2 – YouTube

      Trump is also up to his ears with Russia. Russia is the only place that Makes the most highly carcinogenic Asbestos and trump is making money from Russia bringing it into america again to kill millions of more americans

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    7. RACISM AND HATE ARE THE SELLING POINTS OF FASCISM AND TRUMPS EVIL WORLD. TRUMP HAS JUST LIED HIS ASS OFF ABOUT EVERYTHING YET RACIAL HATRED , HATING WOMEN, MILLENIALS, POOR, the children ARE THE ONLY THING IMPORTANT TO THEM HTTPS://AGRDAILYNEWS.COM/2018/08/13/FOR-THOSE-WHO-DEMAND-PROOF-OF-RACISM-BUT-WILL-REJECT-IT-AS-SUCH-WHEN-ITS-PRESENTED/


      GENERAL NEWS
      FOR THOSE WHO DEMAND “PROOF” OF RACISM, BUT WILL REJECT IT AS SUCH WHEN IT’S PRESENTED
      AUGUST 13, 2018 A GREEN ROAD DAILY NEWS LEAVE A COMMENT
      BROTHA WOLF

      I’ve fell into a trick that some people would pull in a thread discussing racism. I’ve mentioned it here (at least once), but I’ve learned it’s a common tactic that does nothing to move the conversation forward. It’s where you’re asked to prove that racism exists. It’s often done by white people and self-proclaimed conservatives. (Most of the time, they’re one in the same.) You bring up any kind of proof you can find. It can be a chart, a graph, a study, an article, a book or two, a news story, personal incidents, anything like the following:

      Exposing Bias: Race and Racism in America

      The Problem of Whiteness

      As Starbucks trains on implicit bias, the author of ‘White Fragility’ gets real

      The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

      Separate and Unequal: The Neighborhood Gap Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in Metropolitan America

      The Black Population:

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    8. GENERAL NEWS AGreen Road Daily Ne2e
      QUOTE AUGUST 13, 2018 A GREEN ROAD DAILY NEWS LEAVE A COMMENT
      But now, after over a year of bi-weekly neighborly protests, the rabid Trump-saluting white supremacist has apparently moved out of his self-described “hub” for the “alt-right” movement. Spencer allegedly fled Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday, despite having several months left on a two-year lease that he secured under dubious circumstances.

      In an email to Washingtonian, Jonathan Krall says Alexandria Police Chief Michael L. Brown told him Spencer had left, and that the chocolate shop downstairs saw a “moving van and other activity consistent with” him moving out.

      Spencer, of course, has been unwelcome in Alexandria since he got there, drawing protests in the historic neighborhood filled with retail shops and restaurants that wanted nothing to do with his message of bigotry—especially after the hair gel abusing zealot’s participation in the deadly Charlottesville nightmare last August.

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    9. Good Article and Site Majia
      Http://www.nukeresister.org/2018/08/13/fukushima-evacuee-arrested-jailed-at-hiroshima-memorial/
      Fukushima evacuee arrested, jailed at Hiroshima memorial
      Posted on August 13, 2018

      Speaker at the Go West Come West memorial, Hiroshima, August 6, 2018
      Among the many commemorative events all around the Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6 was an evening memorial service for victims of both the Bomb and nuclear power by Go West, Come West. It is a civic association of evacuees from the March, 2011 Fukushima disaster and their supporters who are challenging the Japanese government’s response to the ongoing catastrophe affecting all of eastern Japan as inadequate and cruel.

      This is their story about how police then arrested one of their members on trumped-up charges.

      Emergency Statement on the Oppression at the Hands of the Local Police against the Fukushima Nuclear Evacuees’ August 6 Hiroshima Action.

      Hiroshima Police Unlawfully Arrested a Citizen to Silence Evacuees Appealing about Ongoing Fukushima Disaster.

      A Serious Threat to Human Right and Free Speech.

      We demand that the Hiroshima police immediately release the arrested friend of the nuclear evacuees who participated in August 6 Hiroshima actions!

      We, an organization of evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear disaster and their supporters, attended various peace rallies and events held in Hiroshima on August 6th 2018, commemorating the 73rd anniversary of 1945 nuclear atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Survivors of Hiroshima atomic bombing and Fukushima nuclear evacuees are both victims of nuclear disaster and radiation.

      Our goal was to unite with Hiroshima and act together to end these ongoing disasters in the world.

      There on the night of the 6th, in front of the great number of people coming for these peace events from all over the world, we gave speeches in both Japanese and English. Our speech was for remembrance of those killed by the

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  6. Interesting article of the human interest type. It caused me to think about the people living in eastern Europe in the summer and autumn of 1941 when the German Wehrmacht was headed towards Moscow. Probably there were villages that were told by a man on a horse that an army was approaching that would take all the food and destory the buildings and kill many people. There must have been great hysteria. And these were not false alarms. Of couse I could have chosen one of the great invasions that came out of central Asia and swept into the Middle East. Amir Timur and his army may have killed as many as 17 million people in the 14th century. Not that that makes facing a potential nuclear attack less disturbing, but it does show that this is part of the human drama that has a long history. And this family was not very well prepard psychologically. I wonder how long it took them to recover their equanimity. I suppose if one dwells a lot on the subject one is also more susceptible to fear at the least sign of trouble. Most of us do not know what is going on at the higher levels of gov. Perhaps the whole thing is designed to make sure tax money is alotted for military purposes?

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  7. If I were going to worry, and worry on a regular basis, perhaps waking in the middle of the night in a state of dread, I would chose an asteroid hitting the earth, one that we would have plenty of advance warning of, say months at least . . . knowing what side of the earth it would hit and then whether any place would be safe or whether a huge and total fire storm would strip the planet of every living thing as some animations have shown vividly. Because an asteroid at this time in human development would not be something we could hope to stop. Of course this may never happen even in the next several thousand years though small space rocks may now and then strike various areas and cause local damage. And then there is the super volcano in California that could erupt at any time really. We have a variety of catastrophes to chose from apart from the more familiar earthquakes. But one could be in a car accident and meet the same fate--death. Still the idea of a vast calamity has a quality which the pedestrian death lacks, the persons who die in silly accidents that beggar belief even like falling off a chair. Anyway we all arrive at death one way of another.

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  8. This past weekend one of Antifa's spokespersons said: Anyone to the right of Stalin is a fascist. Now this is an interesting statement as both Communism and fascism are socialist. Musolini was a prominent socialist in Italy before he become that national leader. Hitler was also a socialist, hence National Socialism. The difference between Communism is that it takes over the corporations and runs them whereas Fascism leaves them in private hands but dictates what they do. Both must be seen as on the Left. Now why anyone would lionize Stalin must be considered due to great ignorance. I am sure not one member of Antifa would have liked to live in Stalinist Russia. In that respect both Fascit Italy and Nazi Germany were less frightening. Obviously Alexandra Solzhenitsyn is an author unknown to them. Clearly there are people who want their lives organized and dictated to by government. I would conclude that independent persons find socilaism repugnant. I suppose some look to Nordic socialism as an ideal but Sweden seems to have become a very bad place especially for women.

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    1. Of those in the news in recent times we have several Communists or former Communists: James Comey, Nellie Ohr (wife of Bruce Ohr), a Stalin apologist, John Brenan, probably others who choice Communism is puzzling since they are all living prosperous upper middle class lives having attended prestige American universities!and having thereafter sought significant employment. Well, a certain class of person seeks Salvation via political structures and may have once considered a religious version--though I believe Brenan is a Muslim now. Obama seems to be a Muslim as well. Again to me at least a puzzling choice.

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