ENDANGERED CITIZENS ; MORE NUKE WEAPON TESTING

Comment on this blog from Kris, a visitor: Kris said.........................I have always liked Is America Burning! I would comment on your blog more,but sometimes I'm Lucky if I have time to sort through my own Email, and write a few sentences on my own blog! Keep up the Good Work! Your efforts are not in vain! May I also ask you to keep your readers updated on Divine Strake. This is a Huge Issue in Utah! Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:14:56 PM

OK Kris; 'nuff said. United we stand, divided we fall. Next three posts informing fellow citizens about Divine Strake. Glad to help out. Best of luck. Any addresses/urls that other activists so-minded may write to?

IT SHOULD BE A HUGE ISSUE FOR ALL SURROUNDING STATES AS WELL AS THE CONTINENTAL US AND THE WORLD.

Nevada has been the site of 935 nuclear tests over the years; citizens contaminated and poisoned by radioactive fallout have been compensated by the government (surprisingly enough!) The Divine Strake tests have been alleged to be radioactive free, then alleged to have no more radioactivity than normal background radiation.

Where does the truth lie, and is it even possible for citizens to trust their government?
Regardless of whether or not the tests will be radioactive, the fact remains that such shallow underground blasts will force into the air large amounts of surface soil, dust and debris that is already heavily contaminated by radioactivity. Depending on the prevailing winds, the radioactive fallout could be carried into neighboring states.

Tests & sites, continental U.S.: Nevada=935; Alaska=3; Colorado=2; New Mexico=2; Mississippi = 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
WHAT IS DIVINE STRAKE?
US Still Plans Divine Strake for Iran
http://www.pchpress.com/national/shoshone8-20-06.html
MALIBU - After years of protests, piles of legal paperwork, United Nations' resolutions against the United States' decisions, so-called gradual encroachment that violates a longstanding treaty, and a fictitious entity created to accept money on behalf of the Shoshone despite the tribe's opposition to take cash in exchange for their land, the United States is still planning to detonate Divine Strake on Shoshone territory - a specially designed nuclear bomb intended for use on Iran.

Divine Strake is a 700-ton bunker-buster style bomb that is designed to explode above a tunnel structure. The test's objectives are to study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnel structures and to study the airblast produced by a buried charge and its modification as it propagates over the local terrain. "This test is apparently designed to refine the ability of the United States to use low-yield nuclear weapons against underground targets," according to information on Citizen Alert's web site, a group opposed to the Divine Strake test.
[ "airblast" = the crud thrown into the air by the blast; "it propagates over the local terrain" = how far, wide and high does the radioactive fallout spread]

The big obstacle currently holding up the test is the Clean Air Act. The Department of Energy must obtain a permit from the State of Nevada to execute the test. However, the Divine Strake test is scheduled on land where above and below ground nuclear testing has taken place for decades. [and is grossly contaminated with radioactivity]

The resulting mushroom cloud would blow radioactive poison into the air that would float not only 65-miles downwind to the large urban area of Las Vegas, but also to neighboring states. Folks in Southern Utah have developed leukemia among other cancer diseases and have been compensated by the government for the lethal effects on their health from the NTS tests. If the winds shift, as they often do in Nevada, the radioactive poison could float into California.

Divine Strake is one of several "Divine" efforts under the Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat (HDBTD) program supported by the Bush Administration. Other such efforts are labeled Divine Warhawk, Divine Helcat, and Divine Hates. [ why divine? Does this reflect Bush's claims of a God mandated strike on the axis of evil, or his own crowned divinity?] However, the explosive power of Divine Strake will be approximately 593 tons of TNT equivalent, or roughly 0.6 kt. To put this in perspective, this is about double the lowest yield option on the non-strategic B61 nuclear gravity bomb. The analysis suggests Divine Strake may be intended to fine-tune use of the B61 bomb.[ Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrating Weapon (RNEP)].

“Divine Strake is one of many experiments and studies being conducted by the military aimed at learning how best to combine nuclear and non-nuclear weaponry in the new round of small wars that **powerful factions in the United States appear determined to fight," according to information published by the group Citizen Alert.

Last May, the government led the Shoshone Tribe to believe the Divine Strake test was "postponed indefinitely," meaning not likely to take place at all. Corbin Harney, Shoshone leader, said at that time the tribe had been lied to before by the U.S. government. And as was expected after the successful Shoshone protests at the Nevada Test site in that month, it is now clear the government lied. [Shocking! the government LIED?? Unbelievable!] (See protests in post below)

"The test is planned for sometime in 2007," Darwin Morgan, a spokesperson for the Nevada Test Site (NTS) said in a phone interview today. When asked to confirm if Divine Strake is intended for use on Iran or Iranian targets, Morgan merely referred media to other contacts. "As far as any other specifics, whether it is planned for Iran or other uses from their experiment, you'd have to call the DTRA in Virginia," Morgan said. "We are simply providing them a place to do their experiment." However, inside NTS sources brave enough to communicate with the Shoshone on condition of anonymity during the May NTS protests confirmed Iran was the intended target for Divine Strake.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) mission statement is: "In the post-Cold War environment, a unified, consistent approach to deterring, reducing and countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is essential to maintaining our national security. . .(and) to reduce the physical and psychological terror of WMD." [The U.S. has stockpiled the largest number of WMDs in the world. The U.S. also creates the most physical and psychological terror of WMDs in the world.Everyone distrusts our government and is scared to death of Bush's instability]

However, Dr. Hans Blix, former United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector, is the Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC). The WMDC released its report on June 1, 2006 titled: "WEAPONS OF TERROR: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms." This report disputes the claim that there is a need to create such weapons. Blix said in a report that after 50 years of cold war, we even see the risk of arms races involving new types of nuclear weapons, space weapons and missiles if the U.S. continues on its current road to test "Divine" bombs.

"The Divine Strake test sends a signal to the world that the United States is continuing to refine its own weapons of mass destruction, and considers them an integral part of military forces designed to carry out a policy of preventive war," according to information from the group Citizen Alert. "We will not end the fundamental danger to humanity posed by nuclear weapons by endless rounds of threat and counter-threat. It is time for the United States and the other nuclear-armed states to fulfill their end of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty bargain: to negotiate in good faith for the elimination of their nuclear arsenals."

The U.S. Government considers NTS government lands and not the property of the Shoshone through "gradual encroachment." [Oh, if you steal a little at a time by "gradual encroachment", then it is yours and no longer the property of the rightful owner? Legally, the 1863 Treaty with the Shoshone is still binding!]

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