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Cold War and Living With The Bomb – Part 11

The Tooth Fairy and Fallout:

The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) exploded more than 100 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere over its Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles from Las Vegas, between 1951 and 1962. The radioactive fallout blanketed ranchers and miners in the Nevada as well as Utah. It also drifted all the way to the east coast.

In 1961, John Kennedy, considering that the Soviet Union could…

Cold War and Living With The Bomb – Part 10

In 1960, fifteen years after the first fission nuke had been tested, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) formed a group to study fallout. It is amazing that it took that long, and it is amazing how scientific ignorance and turf protection shaped policy that caused deaths of the innocent then and possibly to this day.

In 1962, Harold Knapp, who worked in the AEC general manager office, was asked…

Psychic Spying and the Cold War – Part 22

How serious did the US military consider the psychic treat by the Soviet and its satellite states? It seems the military of the cold war period did give public peeks into one of their more esoteric concerns. This opportunity came from, of all places, research papers regarding psychic warfare. One paper gives us a glimpse of the unfathomable from the eyes of those dealing with real world treats.

I…

Cold War and Living With The Bomb – Part 9

Fog of Governments

The US conducted 65 atomic bomb tests in the Pacific from 1946 to 1962. The US fog machine was the AEC and vested military who wanted bombs at any cost to the people downrange. The Russians conducted 88 atmospheric tests and 30 surface tests from 1949 to 1962 in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The effects of the Russian testing were under a blanket of fog for many years.

During…

Psychic Spying and the Cold War – Part 21

In the early 1980s, when the remote viewers weren’t pursuing clandestine targets they studied various aspects of the remote viewing phenomenon. As a result of a paper published on a possible connection between psychic phenomena and the earth’s electromagnetic field the Stanford Research Institute, SRI, remote viewers began research of their own.

Hal Puthoff at SRI assembled data to find…

Cold War and Living With The Bomb – Part 8

Cold War and Living With The Bomb – Part 8

The H-Bomb

In 1952 the US military went to work on the north section of Eniwetok Atoll, at the island of Elugelab in the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands are about straight east of the Philippines. A mechanism called Mike was built in a laboratory. Mike had components for fission (atom splitting) weaponry and deuterium (hydrogen isotope) that had…

Psychic Spying and the Cold War – Part 20

One day in 1979 Hal Puthoff, resident remote viewing guru at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), got a call from Dale Graff at Wright-Patterson AFB , offering a task to be performed for the Air Force. The Air Force had a multibillion-dollar project and they needed an analysis carried out. They needed to determine if their project could be circumvented by psychic means and therefore negate its…

Cold War and Living With The Bomb – Part 7

The recent news of servicemen and women involved in the Fukushima cleanup having medical problems is a ghostly reflection of the past. Let’s look at this reflection and the scares left in the US in the 1960s.

In 1963 the atmospheric test ban between the US, Soviet Union, and Great Britain was being developed. In July 1963 Kennedy urged the Senate to ratify the test ban treaty. In August, Edward…