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Exploding the Nuclear Weapons Hoax
Akio Nakatani
Copyright © 2017 Akio Nakatani
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Introduction: SATAN 2
Fire Last Time
Fire This Time
Born Secret
Enemy At the Gates
Geek-Out
The Nuclear Secret That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Burn the Sky!
Virtual Manhattan Project
Checkmate
The Secret
Money Shot: TRINITY
Something Like an Actor
Unit Testing?
Jumbo
100-Ton Test
I Am Become Death
Trinitite
Fool Me Twice: Japan 1945
Hiroshima
Trickery is the Way of War
Nagasaki
Downfall
The Mike of the Beast
H-Bomb
Lookout Mountain Studios
Something Fishy: Bikini
Photo and Film Checklist
Conspiracy!
Fire No Time: Falsification
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
About the Author
Prologue
兵者詭道也
Trickery is the way of war.
Sunzi
The process of atomic fission produces all kinds of elemental “stuff”:
Plutonium and uranium split unevenly. It is rare that they split into two equal
parts, and in the explosion their fragments become every element below them.
Anything you can name is there – molybdenum, barium, iodine, cesium,
strontium, antimony, hydrogen, tin, copper, carbon, iron, silver, and gold.
(‘The Curve of Binding Energy’ John McPhee)
In that eclectic spirit, this book can be read as a critical assembly of many
different elemental traces: primer (Nuclear Bombs for Dummies), history,
polemic, prophecy, comedy or tragedy. If you think this topic’s gray and gloomy
gravitas rules out any of those, watch Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of atomic
humor, Dr. Stranglove, and think again.
If you’re already an atomic skeptic, this book will serve as a handy reference
compendium of familiar evidence coherently organized. If you’re a firm believer
in the reality of nuclear weapons, this book could make you think twice. If you
haven’t considered the subject one way or the other, I can promise you that by
the end of this book you’ll have received a larger dosage of nuclear knowledge
with less strain and boredom than you’d have thought humanly possible. If I get
you thinking more seriously about the implications of atomic weaponry, then as
far as I’m concerned – result!
Keep one thing in mind as you read. In addition to all the junky byproducts of a
nuclear blast listed above, there’s one other: photon emissions. That’s visible
light and it’s what I hope this book can radiate. I think you’ll find it both
enlightening (like a stimulating course lecture) and entertaining (like a horror
movie).
How could a topic so unthinkably ghastly be entertaining? I don’t mean to
disrespect the suffering of anybody injured or killed in any war, by any means –
conventional or otherwise. In this world of madness and pain, we need gallows
humor. I use levity to reduce our risk of ending up like noted historian Iris
Chang, who (it is speculated), spiraled into suicidal depression after interviewing
one too many of the survivors of the 20th century’s worst horrors.
As a counter-balance, I advise all readers to browse the Hiroshima memoir
Barefoot Gen (manga by Keiji Nakazawa) in parallel. Whenever you tire of the
occasional witticism or moment of sarcastic levity in this book, revert to
Barefoot Gen. Absorb the madness and mainline the stupefying graphic atrocity
as a mood-corrective. The conventional understanding of nuclear history is as
true in its function of allegory and metaphor (or warning and prophecy) as it is
false in its literal facts.
Introduction: SATAN 2
God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
No more water, the fire next time.
Traditional
In May of 2016, Russian state news outlet Sputnik reported on the latest
incarnation of the devil that has dogged humanity these seventy-plus years: the
RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which can carry a variable
number of warheads. According to Wikipedia, at maximum throw-weight of
10,000 kilograms, this doomsday machine can deliver a 50 megaton charge. It’s
a shotgun version of the largest single explosive device ever deployed, the ‘Tsar
Bomba’, supposedly tested by the Soviets, weighing in around 55 megatons
yield – more than all the ordnance used in World War II (including the atomic
bombs) combined. The RS-28 Sarmat (‘Satan 2’) can wipe out Texas or France.
Or can it? Hmmm. Only one way to find out: 3… 2… 1 – hit that red button:
‘FIRE IN THE HOLE!’
If the above weapon exists, it (and its brothers) will be used - sooner more likely
than later. Psychopaths run the world. The classic movie Dr. Strangelove will
easily convince you that all a nation’s top cabal needs is some confidence that
their central mil.gov officials (and a few buddies and lovers) have at least a
roach’s chance to survive the enemy’s counterpunch, and they will bring it. As
for non-state actors, they may not care about self-preservation, in which case
none of the elaborately gamed deterrence theory (Mutual Assured Destruction,
the Prisoner’s Dilemma, the Nash Equilibrium, and the like) is worth spit.
But hang on a sec – is fire in the hole truly the only way to determine the
credibility of the Satan 2 or any nuclear weapon? Is there no rational resting
place between fear-porn foreplay and the money shot that ends the world? There
is a calm eye in this storm - the fact that nuclear weapons don’t work, don’t
exist. This book explores the claim that nuclear weapons do not function, they
are a large-scale hoax. I call this hoax the Fake Nuke Feint.
feint: noun
1. a deceptive or pretended blow, thrust, or other movement, especially in boxing
or fencing. “a brief feint at the opponent’s face”
Who exactly ‘the opponent’ might be remains as a research topic. I’m just going
to lay out the relevant technical and social considerations without pointing
fingers at specific individuals or particular institutions.
Why this book:
To assemble relevant arguments and evidence
To organize arguments and evidence for easy access and navigation
To filter out irrelevant points, ill-logic, ill-will and prejudice
To disseminate key questions for wider awareness
To stimulate further discussion and research
A treatment of a hot topic like the fundamental feasibility of nuclear weapons
needs some justification, framing and scene-setting. The immediate expected
reaction, from a sane, rational, and educated audience, is the ad hominem
killshot below:
This author is just another internet conspiracy nut.
I won’t blame you for that knee jerk. After all, this book lays out a wild
proposition. It’s also an inconvenient truth, because I cannot reveal the technical
clincher. I’m forced to circle the issue, and use a megaton of circumstantial
evidence to do the clearance that a single gram of the direct, incontrovertible but
un-publishable counter-science would accomplish. Since that result cannot be
openly published, this book boils down partly to a review of circumstantial
challenges to the nuclear weapons orthodoxy. Though I could nuke the entire
orthodoxy with the scientific result (beyond a reasonable doubt), unfortunately
due to archaic USA national security laws I can only carpet-bomb the topic with
circumstantial material and inference (preponderance of the evidence).
The material is a mix of ‘new stuff’, sourced from me, blended with existing
historical and technical evidence scattered across the web, books and films. Even
if you work with highest beyond-top-secret clearance at a nuclear weapons
design facility, don’t feel superior to those in the Outer Darkness. We’re all in
the same boat. Amateur nuke debunkers, concerned analysts like me, academic
scientists of every stripe, and yes, you too, whoever you are – when it comes to
nukes, we’re all just rats beneath the mil.gov’s high table. For the foreseeable
future (because of the security laws), we can only gnaw at whatever scraps have
slopped down to the public domain. Yet by means of those scraps I have
discovered ‘the nuclear secret that dare not speak its name’.
This book is based entirely on unclassified public materials. As you can see from
the Bibliography, those mostly consist of mainstream histories and technical
manuals, compiled by qualified and knowledgeable authorities. It’s
overwhelmingly respectable, intellectual, clinical, responsible stuff.
Additionally, over the past few years a small community of internet nuclear
skeptics has developed. They occasionally display a spark of useful comment or
the glowing ember of a little-known citation. We may enjoy dissing them as
paranoid nutcases, but I feel that, if nothing else, we should admire their guts in
holding to a contrarian stance in this world of fearful conformity. Unfortunately,
their stuff suffers from contamination with both prejudice and distraction.
The prejudices are the usual tsunami of keyboard hate, directed at one or another
ethnic or religious group(s) suspected of secretly pulling the strings. I have no
idea how that disgusting and reprehensible ethnic hatred has crept into, or
perhaps originally motivated, investigation of nuclear weapons. Read my lips:
this book has zero connection with any ideology or propaganda of hate.
