The Middle East Nuclear Holocaust

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Is the threat of nuclear holocaust pure science fiction? Possibly, but not necessarily.

However realistic and plausible, the chilling doomsday feeling and painfully slow death of mankind in On the Beach is a horror of the past, as well as the absurd, yet harrowing Armageddon scenario in Dr. Strangelove. Outright science fiction scenarios where military AI systems deliberately triggers nuclear wars, as suggested in Terminator and hinted at in Matrix, is merely a distant possibility in the future; it is, to say the least, very unlikely that artificial intelligence will be created within the next 30 years. Even partial nuclear holocaust, as suggested in the excellent Warday and the less excellent multitude of WWIII thrillers, are basically dismissed as Cold War horrors today. Indeed, we conceive theme to be doomsday prophecies of the past. In our, perhaps short-sighted, perspective, nuclear holocaust is a horror scenario of the future, if even that.

Nuclear war is something completely different, though. Quite a few experts like to suggest that nuclear war is more than a distant future possibility. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Manhattan Project scientists, have maintained a "Doomsday Clock" since 1947, the global symbol of nuclear danger. In February 2002, the Board of Directors decided to move the minute hand from nine to seven minutes to midnight. It has never been so close since 1947! From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' point of view, these are indeed dangerous times.

This is not as far-fetched as one might think. Which nations possess nuclear weapons? Which nuclear powers could actually use nuclear weapons in conflicts? Which nations are actively striving to develop nuclear weapons? Which nations have the potential to develop nuclear weapons? It is a disturbing fact that none of these questions can be answered with 100 % certainty.

The most imminent danger is that a few nations are prepared to break the nuclear weapon taboo, i.e. to actually deploy nuclear weapons against their enemies. Such an event would most probably entail dangerous psychological effects; exactly which are difficult to forsee. It would definitely blur the distinction between conventional war and nuclear war, and send a dangerous message to existing nuclear powers, as well as nuclear powers to come. On a more general note, it would increase the general sense of uncertainty and unsafeness in the world; fear and paranoia would spread. The whole political climate could possible change dramatically. When facing unfamiliar war threats, we have a tendency to react irrationally; for instance, many a political mistake the years before WWII can be explained with the general fear of air raids against cities.

Basically, there are three nations which are likely to use nuclear force in the near future: USA, India and Pakistan. USA are planning to develop precision low-yield weapons, with an effect of less than 5 kiloton, which can be deployed against third-world nations. These missiles are supposed to penetrate deep into the earth before detonating, thus destroying subterranean facilities such as military bunkers and "terrorist nests" without any "collateral damage". However reassuring the scientists try to sound, such "mini-nukes" will create a lethal gamma-radiation field over a large area and an intense local fallout; as a comparison, the earth-penetrating nuclear missiel B61-11, introduced in 1997, only reaches about 6 metres into the ground. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan is more than plausible. These two nations have been hostile towards each other ever since the early 1970s, and there have been several conflicts and wars; one single terrorist action might trigger a new war. Both nations are prepared to use nuclear weapons and they possess many tactical nuclear weapons, i.e. weapons which primarily are designed for active battle, not psychological deterrence. Neither nation possess many weapons nor powerful weapons yet, but the result of a nuclear war would nevertheless be millions of dead, and a destabilised region as well.

A less imminent, but more severe danger is that the number of nuclear powers quite easily can be doubled or even tripled within 10-20 years. Most people know that USA, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, Israel, India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, that Iran and North Korea might have nuclear weapons, and that South Africa voluntarily dismantled its nuclear arsenal. Less people know that quite a few nations have been striving or are striving to develop nuclear weapons. As these projects usually are surrounded by dense secrecy, it is impossible to create a complete list. Of course, the more nuclear powers there are in the world, the more fissile material for nuclear weapons will be circulating, the more experts on constructing nuclear weapons will be available, and the more possible scenarios of nuclear war will arise. In a not so distant future, there might be dozens of nuclear powers, as suggested in the novelisation of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

There are basically four ways to acquire nuclear weapons:

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      They can be stolen from existing nuclear powers. This is not as far-fetched as it may sound. There is no way to verify if all weapons are accounted for and secured in Russia's and USA's vast arsenals. Especially older, tactical weapons have a tendency to be ignored and forgotten. For instance, after the fall of the Soviet system, Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi noted that some tactical nuclear weapons were missing; exactly what happened to these weapons is still unclear. Perhaps it was the same weapons which were captured in Chechnya some years later. Perhaps. As for China, India and Pakistan, we can only speculate about the situation.

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      Nuclear powers can help other nations acquire nuclear weapons. So far, at least as far as we know, no complete nuclear weapons have been delivered, but there are many examples of nuclear powers sharing doomsday know-how with other nations. For instance, France helped Israel to create a reactor for production of fissile material, and China gave Pakistan missiles which could carry nuclear charges. Nuclear powers may have several different motives to do this, e.g. financial, military, political or strategical reasons. If this sounds fantastic, then consider the fact that American congressional records show that the non-profit firm Rockville made 70 government-approved shipments of anthrax and other disease-causing pathogens to Iraqi scientists between 1985 and 1989. In the future, when the number of nuclear powers have multiplied and atom bombs have becomse something "normal", perhaps nuclear weapons simply will be sold like any other weapons?

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      A nation can decide to develope facilities for producing fissile material, the crucial component in a nuclear weapon. Certain industrial and scientific standards are required to construct such facilities, but as mentioned above, existing nuclear powers can be of assistance. One should remember that once a nation has acquired fissile material, it is comparatively easy to create these doomsdays weapons. In fact, most nations could hypothetically construct nuclear weapons if they could acquire fissile material. Blueprints and instructions for constructing a rudimentary atom bomb can easily be obtained in any major library in the Western world. The principle of such a construction is quite simple, and the necessary electronics, mechanics and explosives are far from impossible to acquire.

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      Finally, fissile material can be stolen and smuggled. The needed amount is fairly small: only 25 kilograms of weapon-grade uranium or 8 kilograms of plutonium are needed to construct a rudimentary nuclear weapon. As a comparison, Russia has a stockpile of more than 1,000 metric tons of weapon-grade uranium and about 140 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium, and USA has a stockpile of nearly 750 metric tons of weapon-grade uranium and 85 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium. Both countries lack complete inventories. To make things even worse, the smuggling attempts of uranium and plutonium have increased in recent years. For instance, since 1991 there have been at least 18 attempts to smuggle fissile material stolen from facilities in former Soviet Union. How many attempts that actually have been successful is of course unknown.

The only nations we know for sure actually have commenced serious atom bomb projects are Belgium, Sweden, Argentina and Brazil. The risk of massive pre-emptive strikes from the Soviet Union made Belgium and Sweden abandon their military programs in the 1960s; these projects can probably be resumed if need be. In South America, a nuclear arms race almost began between Argentina and Brazil, when Argentina's covert atom bomb project was revealed; it is generally known that both Argentina and Brazil probably can develope fully operational nuclear weapons within a few years.

In South Asia, it is far from unlikely that atom bomb programs may be implemented and completed in a not so distant future. Both Taiwan and South Korea have made attempts to create nuclear weapons, but now seem in a period of quiescence. Taiwan has always felt the threatening Chinese presence, and South Korea have always been worried about North Korea. Japan has considered the possibility of creating a nuclear arsenal for several years; it certainly possesses the means and the capability. Today, North Korean missiles can reach the heart of Japan; the industrial concentration in Japan makes it extremely vulnerable for a nuclear attack.

Apart from all the nations mentioned above, there are quite a few other potential nuclear powers in the world. Some nations have been in actual possession of fully operational weapons, e.g. Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union; they may, on a speculative note, still possess nuclear weapons, especially tactical weapons. Some nations have nuclear facilities which can produce fissile material, e.g. Finland and Switzerland in Europe and Algeria and Egypt in Africa; they could probably develop nuclear weapons in the future if need be. A few nations have had active atom bomb projects running in the past, e.g. Romania; to this day, very little information about this project is publicly available. There are also a few nations which are making serious efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, e.g. Syria and Lybia; so far, neither nation possess the necessary means, and are monitored by USA and IAEA. Finally, there is an unknown number of nations which probably have fissile material in their possessions, e.g. Serbia after Tito's atom bomb project in Yugoslavia, and Sudan after Saddam Hussein's in Iraq. Most of these nations have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), though. As an observation, Cuba never has; there are no indications of any kind of Cuban nuclear weapon program, though.

If, or rather when, the number of nuclear powers have doubled or tripled, we will be much closer to nuclear holocaust. For instance, alliances between nuclear powers might trigger large-scale nuclear wars. What if North Korea would attack South Korea and Japan in the future and they would retaliate? How would China react? USA? We can only speculate about the possible consequences.

The future and the present might interlace. The current world situation does indeed raise some disturbing question marks. There are several plausible scenarios where the outcome is impossible to forsee. For instance:

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      A new Cold War might actually be brewing, although a subtle version of the 21st century. Although most people fail to see it, China is becoming more and more powerful for every year that passes. Facts that China is developing weapons to counter USA's missile shield and that the first manned shuttle in the Chinese space project will be launched any year now, becomes tiny paragraphs in Western mass media. One almost suspects that the leaders of the Western world are in denial of this, or perhaps even are keeping the population in blissful ignorance. Thanks to the large population and determined discipline, China will, at a guess, be able to pit its strength against USA within two decades.

      China possesses a large nuclear arsenal; exactly how large is unknown. Western mass media routinely states that they have about 300 warheads, but the real figure is about 2,500, with 140-150 produced each year. Although Western military experts, especially American experts, often underestimate the range of the missiles, China does indeed have real ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). The SS18-class DF-5 missile has a range of over 12,800 kilometers; basically, they can reach every corner of every nuclear power. A majority of all the missiles are hidden in vast systems of subterranean tunnels in mountains; a preventive strike which destroyed all these tunnels would most probably result in a so-called nuclear winter on Earth. China's nuclear force is much smaller than USA's, but what does that matter when USA can be turned into a radioactive inferno anyway?

      There are many possible scenarios in which fatal power struggles between USA and China may arise, e.g. concerning Taiwan and North Korea.

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      China hardly even pretend to be a democracy, Russia does not have a democratic tradition, and USA is, to say the least, a dysfunctional democracy. In each of these nuclear superpowers, it is in reality more or less easy to concentrate political power. What if a madman came into power? What if a person with disputable judgement were to control a large arsenal of nuclear missiles?

      Does it sound far-fetched? Then consider that when this is written, the largest nuclear power in the world is ruled by a C-level student and former cocainist, and the next largest by an ex-officer from a dreaded secret police. Not many years ago, the Russian madman Vladimir Zhirinovsky was aiming for power; in his own book entitled My Struggle — i.e. Mein Kampf — he describes his dream at the end: Russian soldiers at the shores of the Indian Ocean. Other interesting examples are the Russian president Boris Jeltsin, a coleric and confused drunkard, and the American president Richard Nixon, a paranoid and likewise confused drug addict. Further back in history, we have some really frightening examples. The American general, military madman and "war hero" Douglas MacArthur seriously suggested that the UN forces should deploy nuclear weapons against China during the Korean War. On the other side, the Chinese dictator Mao Ze Dong toyed around with war scenarios which coldly calculated with 300 million deaths from a nuclear attack on China. With such alarming examples from the past, who knows what the future will hold?

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      On a more speculative note, elaborate terrorist acts will always entail confusion, which in turn may entail disaster. An atom bomb with an effect of 20 kiloton would be about the size of a desk and weigh about a ton, i.e. it could easily be transported in a van, boat or charter plane; hypothetically, a nuclear charge can even be a brief-case device today. What would happen if a terrorist would detonate such a bomb in Moscow, Beijing or, more likely, Washington? Or another, perhaps less plausible, but undoubtably more horrifying possibility: What if terrorists would capture a nuclear missile within let say Russia's borders and launch it against USA? What would happen if the entire leadership of one of these nations was to be consumed by the white fire?   



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      There are probably official guidelines on how to react in such situations. But then again, perhaps there are not; e.g. the attack against World Trade Center suggests a less than perfect preparedness. Furthermore, such a terrorist attack would most probably come without any warning, like a bolt from the blue. After all, we are all human beings, and human beings can make mistakes. Perhaps the military leadership would panic? Perhaps they would retaliate blindly? Remember that the three largest nuclear powers in the world are militaristic and aggressive by nature. In any case, there is no way to know for sure how they would react in such a shocking emergency situation.

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      Finally, on a perhaps even more speculative note, can we really trust the weapon systems? Can we really know for sure that a nuclear missile never will be launched due to human or technological short-comings? Since these weapon systems, for natural reasons, are surrounded by dense secrecy, we cannot really know in which shape they are; especially the Russian systems might be in serious decay. Remember that only one single missile can trigger a full-scale nuclear war. Of course, there are warning systems to prevent unfortunate misstakes, at least between USA and Russia, but could we really trust human nature in such an emergency situation? Could we know for sure that no leader would panic?

Of course, all these scenarios, speculative or not, assume that there will be no drastic changes in the forseeable future, be it political, economical, demographic, ecological or something completely different. The situation might become more or less alarming within a decade or two.

To me, it seems obvious the nuclear madness did not end with the Cold War. It has just taken a break.

Finally, a few depressing figures from the magazine Science Digest, July 1984:

    Number of human deaths possible from one pound of plutonium if finely ground up and inhaled: 42,000,000,000

    1984 U.S. plutonium inventory, in pounds: 38,000

    These numbers multiplied together: 16,000,000,000,000,000

http://hem.passagen.se/replikant/nuclear_holocaust.htm

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The Middle East Nuclear Holocaust

Quick Fact’s:


   1.  Hiroshima:
      64kg Uranium:
       - 70,000 died immediately from Atomic Blast 70,000 died over time from Uranium Poisoning.
   2. Iraq:
      1,820,000kg++ Uranium (1,820 Tons):
       - Statistics published in Encyclopedia Britannica's 2003 Almanac indicate that 325,000 Gulf War vets were receiving compensation for service-related disabilities in 2000 - that is 56% of the 1990-91 Gulf War soldiers. The number of disabled veterans from that war increases by 43,000 per year.  The total number of disabled veterans is now 2.5 million.
       - 21,000 U.S. & UK Gulf War veterans have died from Uranium Poisoning.
       - One Million Iraq's have died.
   3. It is confirmed that the US also used Uranium Nuclear Dirty Bombs while invading these other nations:
      Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Panama.
   4. Number of Years The Uranium Will Continue Killing: 4,500,000,000 years (4 1/2 Billion Years).

    (Don't worry, in Nazi Germany, most of the Germans were also not that concerned that their country was invading other nations.  They too were fiercely Nationalistic.  At least they loved Hitler, we can't say the same is true for Bush).

64kg of uranium was used in 'Little Boy' which blew up Hiroshima. 140 thousand people died, half from the explosion and half poisoned from the radioactive uranium. We all know the magnitude of the scare when nuclear power plants expose their uranium to the atmosphere; Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or the hushed up 1979 National Lead Industries (NLI) factory near Albany, N.Y where a leak of less than zero point three eight kilograms of depleted uranium per month cost well over one hundred million dollars to clean up. What was being made at NLI was the reason that disaster was hushed up, Depleted Uranium Dirty Bomb Bullets.

Most of us know what a dirty bomb is. That’s when depleted uranium nuclear waste is blown up or released into the atmosphere with the potential of killing hundreds of thousands if not million of people. Well it turns out that instead of storing the nuclear waste from power plants in proper and very expensive storage facilities, our dear government has been machining the depleted uranium into dirty bombs in the form of armor piercing bullets.

That’s right, those tanks you saw exploding into flame as our troops invaded other nations were being hit with dirty bombs. Mini atomic bombs as the uranium armor piercing rounds made out of nuclear waste called ‘Depleted Uranium’ or ‘DU’ hits it's target. It turns out the uranium from nuclear waste is very dense and possesses pyrophoric properties. That is it bursts into flame releasing an explosion of heat so intense when the DU bullet hits the armor, it literally melts through armor. The soldiers in the Gulf War called the victims who’s armored vehicles had been hit by the DU rounds ‘chrispies’, because their bodies were literally fried from the intense heat released from the mini atomic explosion.

If one of these dirty bomb bullets were fired in New York, they would have to evacuate the city, that’s if it got any publicity. Otherwise it would simply be kept a dirty secret and silently kill anyone who was exposed to the uranium dust released by the dirty bomb bullet.

Now our boys in the military have not been firing just one or two of these dirty bomb bullets and bunker busters, they have been letting loose a hail of death. In Iraq alone during the two invasions, more than one thousand eight hundred and twenty tons of depleted uranium dirty bomb bullets and bombs were blasted into that innocent nation.

Astonishingly, because most Americans watch TV, many still think Iraq had something to do with blowing up the three large World Trade center buildings and the Pentagon. Otherwise they try to suggest that Saddam Hussein had it coming because he murdered the Kurds with the helicopters we provided, the year we gave him a billion dollars.

Now if 64 kg of uranium can poison seventy thousand people. How many people will two thousand tons kill? The numbers are staggering, that’s more than twenty eight thousand Hiroshima’s. Forty percent of the Gulf War veterans are on “Gulf War Syndrome” disability from uranium poisoning. Seventy Three thousand of them have already died. But it’s quietly being ignored by our government and mainstream media.

http://www.libertyforlife.com/military-war/iraqi_nuclear_holocaust.htm

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Did They Stop A Nuclear Holocaust?

When the 6 Nuclear weapons went missing, breaking 60 years of stringent control and protocol, it was a few brave soldiers who blew the whistle and serious criminal actions by their authorities. Five of the Nuke's were destined for the middle east, one was assumed destined for some U.S. city to create a new 9/11.  Bush/Cheney have stated they plan to nuke Iran and steal their oil.  These brave soldiers who blew the whistle are dead:

    * Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20 years old, died Wyethville, Virginia, September 12
    * Two people from Barksdale Air Force Base, died Caddo Parish, Louisiana, September 15
    * Airman Adam Barrs, aged 20, killed in an auto crash in Minot, July 5
    * Air Force 1st Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, B-52 pilot assigned to the 23rd Bomb Wing at the Minot base, killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee
    * Air Force Capt. John Frueh, found dead in Skamania County, Washington state, September 2

Six were murdered, yet they stopped the death of millions of innocent people.  They are our hero's.  We salute you.

SEE: U.S. Bio-Weapons http://www.libertyforlife.com/military-war/us_bio_weapons_development.htm The New Threat!  Are these insane banksters and politicians now planning a new biological warfare attack.  Is that what is behind the "apple moth" spraying over areas in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Francisco?  Are these mad men preparing victims to be susceptible to biological weapons of their choice?

Air Force official fired after 6 nukes fly over U.S. B-52 bomber, accidentally armed with warheads, went over several states

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20427730/?GT1=10357

Updated: 11:43 a.m. PT Sept 5, 2007 WASHINGTON -
A B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states last week, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.

Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called the mishandling of the weapons “deeply disturbing” and said the committee would press the military for details. Rep. Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Homeland Security committee, said it was “absolutely inexcusable.”

“Nothing like this has ever been reported before and we have been assured for decades that it was impossible,” said Markey, D-Mass., co-chair of the House task force on nonproliferation.

The plane was carrying Advanced Cruise Missiles from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a Defense Department policy not to confirm information on nuclear weapons.

The missiles, which are being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber’s wings and it is unclear why the warheads had not been removed beforehand. Earlier, the Associated Press erroneously reported the bomber was armed with only five warheads.

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The Kennebunkport Warning And The Rogue B-52 - Confirmation With A Vengeance

By Webster G. Tarpley 10- 8 -7  http://www.rense.com/general78/kene.htm

The events of August and September 2007 now allow us to evaluate the accuracy of the August 26 Kennebunkport Warning, which generated much attention and controversy from the moment it was issued. The preliminary verdict of history is now in, and establishes the Kennebunkport Warning as one of the most remarkable successes of open source intelligence forecasting in recent decades. It may even have directly helped to disrupt Cheney's plan for a nuclear sneak attack on Iran.

The Kennebunkport Warning was written in the afternoon of August 24, 2007. Support signatures were obtained in Kennebunkport, Maine later on August 24, and primarily on August 25. The document was sent out to a list of recipients in the US and abroad just before midnight eastern time on Sunday, August 26. The first known internet posting was on the Jeff Rense web site (www.rense.com), where the document appeared before midnight Pacific time on Sunday, August 26. The Kennebunkport Warning was thus in public view all day on Monday, August 27.

On Tuesday, August 28, Bush signaled an escalation of tensions with Iran in a raving speech before the American Legion convention in Kansas. Here he warned that the Middle East now lay in the shadow of a "nuclear holocaust" because of the Iranian nuclear program. He accused Iran of acting as a state sponsor of terrorism, intervening against the US forces in Iraq, and also made allegations about Iran as a backer of Hezbollah and Hamas. Diplomatic observers recognized that this tirade constituted an important intensification of US threats against Iran.

On Wednesday, August 29, Bush's threats moved a step towards fulfillment as US Air Force personnel loaded six cruise missiles onto the wing mounts of a B-52 intercontinental strategic bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Each of the missiles carried a nuclear warhead of between 5 and 150 kilotons of explosive power. Reportedly because of mechanical problems, the loading process took some 8 hours.

On Thursday, August 30, the rogue B-52, with its cargo of six deadly nuclear-armed cruise missiles, made the 3.5 hour flight across the US to Barksdale, Louisiana. Barksdale is the number two US headquarters for nuclear warfighting, second only to Offutt AFB in Nebraska. Barksdale is also the jumping-off base for direct B-52 bombing runs into the Middle East, a role which Barksdale played in the shock and awe campaign in Iraq in the spring of 2003. By the time the rogue B-52 reached Barksdale, cataclysmic events were not far off. This was exactly the kind of situation which the Kennebunkport Warning, which by that time had been circulating on the internet for about three and a half days, had been concerned about.

At around this time, the rogue B-52 and its cargo appear to have come to a halt. Between the late afternoon of August 30 and the public announcement of the rogue B-52 incident on the afternoon of September 5, we enter a gray area which requires much further investigation. According to Wayne Madsen, it was a "revolt and push-back" by Air Force personnel determined to block a wider war in the Middle East from being set off by a nuclear sneak attack, with support from elements of the intelligence community, which blocked the rogue B-52 from proceeding towards a possible appointment with Armageddon in Iran or elsewhere in that region. This was exactly the case of loyal and patriotic military people refusing to obey an illegal order which the Kennebunkport Warning had pointed to less than four days earlier. As Madsen writes: "elements of the Air Force, supported by US intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and the US Intelligence Community." ("Air Force Refused to Fly Weapons to Middle East Theater," September 24, 2007, Wayne Madsen Report.)

The Kennebunkport Warning thus represents an exceptionally successful effort to alert public opinion to a grave and imminent danger. Precisely the dangerous situation the Kennebunkport Warning talked about occurred in reality less than four days after the document had been posted on the internet. The Kennebunkport Warning must be acknowledged as accurate, timely, necessary, and indispensable for anyone seriously interested in stopping a wider war with irreversible consequences.

On July 21, rense.com posted an analysis entitled "Cheney Determined to Strike in US with WMD This Summer." This article was published as the front page story of the Rock Creek Free Press, and was displayed in news boxes in the Washington DC subway during August and into September. With the exposure of the rogue B-52 affair, this warning was also fully vindicated.

But there may be a further dimension. It cannot be excluded that the loyal and patriotic military and intelligence people who blocked the plan of the Cheney clique to use the nuclear cruise missiles in the Middle East, or even against a target or targets in the United States, had some how been encouraged to act by having seen the Kennebunkport Warning. The period of August 30 to September 5, when the crucial actions regarding the rogue B-52 would have had to occur, corresponds precisely to the maximum diffusion of the Kennebunkport Warning on the internet. On September 1, a Google search indicated that the Kennebunkport Warning was either posted in full or was mentioned on 72,000 web sites worldwide. By September 2, this figure had risen to 102,000 web sites. On September 3, the maximum diffusion of 110,000 web sites was attained. These figures do not include e-mailings and other forms of attention generated by the vast interest and lively controversy generated by the document. In any case, those who stopped the nukes from going to the Middle East are unsung heroes who deserve recognition.

On September 5, the US Air Force made a public announcement of the rogue B-52, which is quickly the subject of dispatches by Agence France Presse, The Army Times, The Air Force Times, and other wire services and web sites. Considerable press interest was generated, but, so far as is known, not one member of Congress or presidential candidate of either major party has lifted a finger to start the obviously imperative in-depth investigation of the entire incident, including the half-dozen deaths which may be a result of this incident. These deaths include:

Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20 years old, died Wyethville, Virginia, September 12

Two people from Barksdale Air Force Base (names unknown), died Caddo Parish, Louisiana, September 15

Airman Adam Barrs, aged 20, killed in an auto crash in Minot, July 5

Air Force 1st Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, B-52 pilot assigned to the 23rd Bomb Wing at the Minot base, killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee (date unknown)

Air Force Capt. John Frueh (age unknown), found dead in Skamania County, Washington state, September 2

On September 6, the Sumerian News Agency SANA announced that the Israeli Air Force had mounted an incursion into the air space of northern Syria, and had jettisoned drop tanks and bombs along the Sumerian-Turkish border. The Turkish Foreign Ministry protested the objects that had fallen on Turkish territory. The Israelis first denied, but later admitted, that this illegal incursion, an ipso facto act of aggressive war, had taken place. Middle East experts estimated that the Israelis had been probing the Sumerian and Iranian air defenses, but that they had been driven off by the new and superior Russian air defense systems now fielded by these two countries. This meant that the US-UK-Israeli model of air blitzkrieg was now in crisis, just as the Israeli land blitzkrieg technique had been defeated by Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. To cover up this humiliating defeat, the Israelis later concocted a story that this had been a successful air attack on a nuclear facility operating in Syria with North Korean assistance; this silly tale was then retailed by neocon John Bolton and also by warmonger Democrat Hillary Clinton in a candidates' debate. But any bombing of a nuclear facility would have had to produce a cloud of radioactive nuclear debris, which would have been registered by Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia, China, Japan, or some other state in the region. Since no such reports have ever come to light, it must be assumed that the Israeli story was fabricated in an attempt to cover up the repulse of the Israeli jets.

According to Madsen, the rogue B-52's cruise missiles were very likely linked to the Israeli sneak attack: "WMR has learned that a US attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Sumerian nuclear facility in Dayr-az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad, in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD, was to provide a reason for the US to strike Iran."

On Friday, September 7, Joseph Cirincione is interviewed on the Bill Press morning show on Air America. Cirincione argues that transporting nuclear missiles by air is an exceedingly rare occurrence. It emerges that the US Air Force officially ceased air transport of nuclear weapons around 1968, partly as a result of crashes and lost bombs in the US, Spain, and elsewhere.

Shortly after this, the US Air Force announced a highly unusual stand-down of the entire USAF for Friday, September 14. The announced goal was to have all units at all levels review operating procedures and safeguards having to do with the handling of nuclear weapons.

On Sunday, September 23, the Washington Post published a front page article above the fold which offered a sanitized version of the rogue B-52 story. Even in this sanitized form, an article of this sort would normally have been enough to trigger a congressional investigation, with hearings and witnesses subpoenaed to testify under oath. But the Democratic leadership has done nothing to force such a probe ­ meaning in effect that the Cheney clique has paid no real price for an attempt to start a nuclear war! This active complicity of the Democratic Party in war and genocide, typified by the neocon-warmonger candidacy of Mrs. Clinton (the new Thatcher) mightily encourages the Cheney clique to have another go at World War III.

On Monday, September 24, Wayne Madsen Report posted a story which concluded that "the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, was destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. [] It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White House, was not the result of command and control chain-of-command 'failures,' but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned US attack on Iran using nuclear weapons."

This report does not however mention the possibility that one or more of the cruise missiles was destined to be used against an American city, as prescribed by the Cheney Doctrine. A stealth cruise missile fired at night would be almost undetectable; all the public would see would be a nuclear fireball. Predictably, the target city would be swarming with patsies and dupes carrying large suitcases or trunks with "Al Qaeda" or "Osama Bin Laden" monograms. At that point, Cheney would have the "suitcase bomb" pretext he so ardently desires. Madsen also does not discuss the half-dozen people connected to the Minot or Barksdale Air Bases who had perished under mysterious circumstances between July and September 2007. But Madsen does stress one critical fact: according to reliable sources, one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was reported missing in the course of the incident, and there was some indication that it was never found: "WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and still may be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE."

On October 2, David Swanson, an early critic of the Kennebunkport Warning, issued a statement on Iran entitled "Leading Americans," with the signatures of a number of well-known personalities from politics, entertainment, and the arts. This belated statement is of course to be welcomed, but at the same time its weakness and narrowness, especially if compared to the Kennebunkport Warning, must also be pointed out. As soon as the Kennebunkport Warning had been published, Swanson challenged the notion that there was "massive evidence" of a false flag provocation by Cheney, to be used as a pretext to launch war with Iran. This new statement, coming five weeks after the Kennebunkport Warning, and thus too late to influence the rogue B-52 affair, now acknowledges the danger of an attack, and urges US military personnel to refuse to obey illegal orders. So far, so good. There is, however, no reference to the rogue B-52 incident, in which Air Force personnel have apparently done just what the statement urges. There is no reference to the question of a false flag attack. There are warnings against a "preemptive" attack on Iran, but Bush and Cheney, as well as their accomplice Mrs. Clinton, are already presenting the attack on Iran as retaliatory, aimed at stopping Iranian interference in Iran. Any US attack on Iran predicated on a false flag terror attack inside the US (as noted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his Feb. 1 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) would be portrayed as purely defensive. The Swanson statement therefore has an escape clause in it big enough for Cheney to sail an aircraft carrier battle group through. Instead of such an uncertain trumpet, we must state unequivocally: NO ATTACK ON IRAN, SYRIA, PAKISTAN, SUDAN, LEBANON, VENEZUELA, NORTH KOREA or any other country, including the United States, for any reason. False flag events must be attributed to Cheney, and not to the governments or forces accused and scapegoated by US-UK propaganda.

As for the scurrilous "Cosmos," "Colonel Jenny Sparks," "Arabesque," and Michael Wolsey, to say nothing of their comrade in arms, the Ford Foundation's favorite Chip Berlet, they have no interest in doing anything to stop the new 9/11 and the threatened war with Iran. Their sole focus is to harass and sabotage those who are undertaking action in that regard ­ and remarkably effective action it has turned out to be, despite the exertions of the wreckers.

We urge all persons of good will to support, endorse, and distribute the Kennebunkport Warning, which is fully as relevant today as when it was issued. Above all, it is necessary to agitate in every way possible to force a public investigation of the rogue B-52 case, which allows us to address both the impeachment of the current executive branch and blocking the planned war with Iran. In addition, all investigate journalists are called upon to contribute to the findings of the research written herein.

What's Being Done About It?

Now what of the criminals who tried to steal the Nuke's.  This is an extraordinary breech of National Security.  Should not the persons responsible for attempting to steal the Nukes be arrested?

Who's going to arrest Bush, Cheney and gang, most certainly not the new criminal being placed in the position of Attorney General http://www.libertyforlife.com/constitution/politicians/bush_to_appoint_911_insider.htm .  Perhaps it's time the military stepped in and arrested our rampantly criminal government.  Is that why Bush has had all the soldiers apparently injected with his company Tannox's L-form Bacteria Bio Bomb's that allows him to kill them in an instant?  1.2 million of our Gulf War veterans are already disabled. http://www.libertyforlife.com/military-war/73_thousand_us_gulf_war_casualties.htm

http://www.libertyforlife.com/military-war/did_they_stop_a_nuclear_holocaus.htm

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Hiroshima Nebraska, Nagasaki Florida

By Henry Makow, Ph.D.
http://www.savethemales.ca/001082.html

The rationale behind the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago is driving the anticipated nuclear strike http://www.infowars.com/print/terrorism/cheney_nuke.htm on an American city by "Muslim terrorists."

The occult international banking cartel is behind these attacks, past and future. The purpose is to inspire fear and justify repression, war, debt and "world government."

A half million Japanese civilians were irradiated not to save American lives or impress Soviet Russia. They were slaughtered to force humanity to accept the Cold War, a nuclear arms race that cost five trillion dollars and accomplished nothing. Now that the Cold War has run its course, the bankers have to establish the new "War on Terror" potentially by nuking Americans.

There must always be an external enemy so people don't realize they are being fleeced by the bankers who appoint the leaders, control the media and create the money.


THE COLD WAR

With World War Two winding down, the bankers needed the "Cold War."

The bankers ignored Japanese attempts to surrender because they needed to demonstrate the devastating effect of the atomic bomb. "Our entire postwar program depends on terrifying the world with the atomic bomb," Secretary of State, Edward Stettinius Jr., the son of a JP Morgan partner, said. "We are hoping for a million [dead] tally in Japan. But if they surrender, we won't have anything."

My source here is Eustace Mullin's excellent on line essay http://www.whale.to/b/mullins8.html , "The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb." Mullins, a former Library of Congress researcher, is one of a handful of courageous historians the bankers don't own. I urge you to read his 14-page essay in full.

According to Mullins, President Truman, whose only real job before Senator had been Masonic organizer in Missouri, did not make the fatal decision alone. A committee led by James F. Byrnes, Bernard Baruch's puppet, instructed him. Baruch was the Rothschild's principal agent in the USA and a Presidential "advisor" spanning the era from Woodrow Wilson to JFK.

Baruch, who was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, spearheaded the "Manhattan Project" named for Baruch's home turf. He chose life-long Communist Robert Oppenheimer to be Research Director. It was very much the bankers' bomb.

On August 6, 1945, an uranium bomb 3-235, 20 kilotons yield, was exploded 1850 feet in the air above Hiroshima, for maximum explosive effect. It devastated four square miles, and killed 140,000 of the 255,000 inhabitants.

Mullins quotes a Japanese doctor: "My eyes were ready to overflow with tears. I spoke to myself and bit my lip so that I would not cry. If I had cried, I would have lost my courage to keep standing and working, treating dying victims of Hiroshima."

When the Air Force dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the principal target was a Catholic church: "The roof and masonry of the Catholic cathedral fell on the kneeling worshippers. All of them died."

Back in the United States the news of the bombing of Hiroshima was greeted with a mixture of relief, pride, joy, shock and sadness. Oppenheimer's colleague remembers the shouts of joy: "Hiroshima has been destroyed! Many of my friends were rushing to the telephone to book tables at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe in order to celebrate. Oppenheimer walked around like a prize-fighter, clasping his hands together above his head as he came to the podium."

The bankers serve a diabolical power whose goal is to thwart and enslave humanity. The Cold War served to brutalize a whole generation.

Mullins writes: "In the United States, the schools held daily bomb drills, with the children hiding under their desks. No one told them that thousands of schools children in Hiroshima had been incinerated in their classrooms; the desks offered no protection against nuclear weapons. The moral effect on the children was devastating. If they were to be vaporized in the next ten seconds, there seemed little reason to study, marry and have children, or prepare for a steady job. This demoralization through the nuclear weapons program is the undisclosed reason for the decline in public morality."


CALL IT KARMA?

Now child-like Americans may pay the price for their indifference to the fate of the Japanese and failure to punish the perpetrators who may be preparing to do it all over again. This time, the victims won't be strange-looking people thousands of miles away.

Sept 11 was the shot across the bow. The most privileged people on earth, Americans were murdered and humiliated in broad daylight. No one was held responsible for allowing this to happen, a sure sign that their own "leaders" were complicit.

Are Americans going to be disinherited and destroyed? The difference between them and Iraqi insurgents: the Iraqis know they have been invaded by an alien and evil power.

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/210805stagedterror.htm