WHAT DOES DIVINE STRAKE MEAN?

Divine: Having the nature of or being a deity. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. Superhuman; godlike. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball. Heavenly; perfect.

[WA: Who knows? There is a series of these Divine-s. Does the name reflect Bush's avowal that he has these little chats with God and God tells him what to do, so these are godly weapons to carry out the Almighty's will? Or, since it is the aim of Bush and the Neocons to establish the New Imperial Rome, and some of the ancient Caesars decided that being emperors of the most powerful nation on earth wasn't enough but wanted to be gods and worshipped as such, that our Georgie has godly ambitions too? His weapons reflect his holy divinity?]

Strake: A device for controlling air flow over an aircraft. A strake is also a part of a boat or ship used for generally the same purpose in water rather than air. It is a strip of planking in a wooden vessel or of plating in a metal one, running longitudinally along the vessel's side, its bottom or between them on the turn of the bilge.

WHAT DOES IT DO?
The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is planned to be a large-yield, buried burst detonated at the Nevada Test Site.(NTS) Divine Strake would appear to be associated with the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator RNEP, or possibly the B61-11 Earth-Penetrating Weapon, a fact that is obscured in most press coverage. [WA: See second post re: RNEPs and animated demonstration].

Divine Strake is a high-explosive (HE) test sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The test is a detonation of a 700 ton buried heavy AN/FO charge above a tunnel structure. The main purpose of the test is to study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnel structures.

Of secondary interest is the airblast produced by a buried charge and its modification as it propagates over the local terrain. Scheduled for the summer of 2006, as of 01 April 2006 the test was planned for 02 June 2006. DIVINE STRAKE is one of several "DIVINE" efforts under the Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat (HDBTD) program. DIVINE WARHAWK consists of deep underground operational tunnel facility defeat demonstrations using advanced weapons at the White Sands Missile Range. DIVINE HELCAT was a 2004 reconstitution exercise to determine reconstitution time for the C3I tunnel facility at Nevada Test Site (NTS). Also in 2004 planning began for DIVINE HATES, which is a WMD production and storage tunnel complex functional defeat effort.
(To read complete article: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/divine-strake.htm )

[WA: Just as the invasion of Iraq was planned long before 9/11 (which merely gave the neocons an excuse), so has the invasion of Iran and the Middle East been planned for a number of years. Nor forgetting the oil rich states of Africa, either, and look out! S.A.]

DOESN'T THE LOCAL PEOPLE OBJECT TO MORE NUCLEAR TESTING?

You bet your bippy, especially the Shoshone Native Americans who LEGALLY own the land but it has been stolen from them by the U.S. Government ( more on that later). Other American citizens from Nevada and neighboring states also protest. They want NO MORE radioactive fallout poisoning them, even though the government paid compensation for previous poisonings. The protests succeeded in delaying the tests but they are scheduled to resume this year - 2007.

For photos of protests, see: http://deesings.livejournal.com/295215.html

Shoshone march in protest: