20 Radioactive Dangers We All Face

1. Nuclear reactors crashing on Earth from space 
and fallout from:
2. Pacific nuclear testing
3. the Nevada Test Site
4. High-altitude nuclear tests 
5. Project Rulison
6. Mighty Oak nuclear test
7. North Korea's nuclear tests
8. Global nuclear testing
9.  'Project 57' (Area 13) 
10. Trinity, WSMR & Steel

11. Hanford & INL & LANL
12. Nuclear Power
13. DTRA's Divine Strake's babies 
14. Fallout resuspension: Milford Flat Fire 
15. Australia's fallout and duststorms
16. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-and-
17. Low-level radiation impacted viruses
18. Radioactivity in drywall (dust) 
19. Nuclear waste transport
20. Greenham Common

       

Divine Strake: A Warning of Things to Come

Divine Strake would have been the climactic ('large-scale') event (but certainly not the last event) of the Tunnel Target Defeat Advanced Concept and Technology Demonstration (ACTD), which DTRA did NOT cancel.  Divine Strake cancelled

Per DTRA's 2007 budget request: "The Tunnel Target Defeat ACTD will develop a planning tool that will improve the warfighter's confidence in selecting the smallest proper nuclear yield necessary to destroy underground facilities while minimizing collateral damage." 

In early April 2006, DTRA confirmed that Divine Strake was the experiment described in budget documents as the large-scale test of the Tunnel Target Defeat ACTD intended 'to simulate a low yield nuclear weapon ground shock environment.’ The official language, however, used by DTRA since last April deliberately avoided all reference to a nuclear simulation. Instead, DTRA has described the purpose of Divine Strake in terms of conventional weapons. Representative Jim Matheson of Utah wrote a letter in 2006 to DTRA in which he noted this discrepancy, saying that in his experience, "budget documents and the stated intent of planned experiments do not typically change on a whim."Divine Strake satellite photo

DTRA's press release of Divine Strake’s cancellation on February 22, 2007, indicated that the agency "remains committed to help develop non-nuclear means to defeat underground targets.” DTRA’s statement contradicts the objectives of the Tunnel Target Defeat program, which Divine Strake was a part.

The Pentagon's study into the bunker-busting abilities of low-yield nuclear weapons is controversial for three main reasons.  First, the study appears to go against Congress’ intent about no new nuclear weapons; Congress has year after year refused to fund research into the Robust Nuclear fallout cloud Earth Penetrator (RNEP), the name of a proposed, but un-designed, nuclear bunker buster weapon.  Second, the Pentagon's study may be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  Third, the purpose of the study, which is to determine what nuclear yield calibration is needed to destroy an enemy bunker, may be intended to help support and strengthen a nuclear-first strike doctrine, which ignores international law and the very basis of all human values. 

DTRA plans to continue its Tunnel Target Defeat ACTD through additional data-gathering (computer modeling and small scale testing).  

Idealist's public document archives: 1. Documents 2. Documents

U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1 A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+ A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that 
 the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

In 1986, the U.S. Dept. of Energy used the cover of the Chernobyl fallout cloud over the United States to release huge amounts of radiation into the air from a failed underground Nevada nuclear test. It was called Mighty Oak.

Did global fallout cause massive mutations that may explain disorders like autism?

learn more on our global fallout page

 

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