Fukushima – Japan’s Nuclear Disaster

Anyone knows about the nuclear accident happened on March 2011, as a consequence of the Tsunami generated by the 9.0 Richter scale earthquake, the 5th strongest ever recorded.
By now the nuclear threat level is 7 (INES – International Nuclear Event Scale), same level of the Chernobyl disaster.

Here an extract of what you can find about the INES scale:

Threat levels

7 – Major accident

6 – Serious accident

5 – Accident with wider consequences

4 – Accident with local consequences

3 – Serious incident

2 – Incident

1 – Anomaly

0 – Deviation (no safety significance)

Threat levels details

Level 7: Major accident

Impact on people and environment

Major release of radio­active ­material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended ­countermeasures

There have been two such events to date:

• Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. A power surge during a test procedure resulted in a criticality accident, leading to a powerful steam explosion and fire that released a significant fraction of core material into the environment, resulting in a death toll of 56 as well as estimated 4,000 additional cancer fatalities among people exposed to elevated doses of radiation. As a result, the city of Chernobyl (pop. 14,000) was largely abandoned, the larger city of Pripyat (pop. 49,400) was completely abandoned, and a 30 km exclusion zone was established.

• Fukushima I nuclear accidents, a series of events beginning on 11 March 2011. Rated level 7 on 11 April 2011 by the Japanese government’s nuclear safety agency.^[2][3] Major damage to the backup power and containment systems caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami resulted in overheating and leaking from some of the Fukushima I nuclear plant’s reactors. Each reactor accident was rated separately; out of the six reactors, three were rated level 5, one was rated at a level 3, and the situation as a whole was rated level 7.^[4] An exclusion zone of 20 km was established around the plant as well as a 30 km voluntary evacuation zone^[5] .

Level 6: Serious accident

Impact on people and environment

Significant release of radioactive material likely to require implementation of planned countermeasures.

There has been only one such event to date:

• Kyshtym disaster at Mayak, Soviet Union, 29 September 1957. A failed cooling system at a military nuclear waste reprocessing facility caused a steam explosion that released 70–80 tons of highly radioactive material into the environment. Impact on local population is not fully known. This is the only accident to go over 5 on the scale besides Chernobyl and Fukushima.^[6]

Level 5: Accident with wider consequences

Impact on people and environment

Limited release of radioactive ­material likely to require i­mplementation of some planned­ countermeasures.

Several deaths from ­radiation.

Impact on radiological barriers and control

Severe damage to reactor core.

Release of large quantities of radioactive material within an installation with a high probability of significant public exposure. This could arise from a major criticality accident or fire.

Examples:

• Windscale fire (United Kingdom), 10 October 1957.^[7] Annealing of graphite moderator at a military air-cooled reactor caused the graphite and the metallic uranium fuel to catch fire, releasing radioactive pile material as dust into the environment.
• Three Mile Island accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (United States), 28 March 1979.^[8] A combination of design and operator errors caused a gradual loss of coolant, leading to a partialmeltdown. Radioactive gases were released into the atmosphere.
• First Chalk River accident,^{[citation needed]} Chalk River, Ontario (Canada), 12 December 1952. Reactor core damaged.
• Lucens partial core meltdown (Switzerland), 21 January 1969. A test reactor built in an underground cavern suffered a loss-of-coolant accident during a startup, leading to a partial core meltdown and massive radioactive contamination of the cavern, which was then sealed.^{[citation needed]}
• Goiânia accident (Brazil), 13 September 1987. An unsecured caesium chloride radiation source left in an abandoned hospital was recovered by scavenger thieves unaware of its nature and sold at a scrapyard. 249 people were contaminated and 4 died.

Level 4: Accident with local consequences

Impact on people and environment

Minor release of radioactive material unlikely to result in implementation of planned countermeasures other than local food controls.

At least one death from radiation.

Impact on radiological barriers and control

Fuel melt or damage to fuel ­resulting in more than 0.1% release of core inventory.

Release of significant quantities of radioactive material within an installation with a high ­probability of significant public exposure.

Examples:

• Sellafield (United Kingdom) – five incidents 1955 to 1979^[9]
• SL-1 Experimental Power Station (United States) – 1961, reactor reached prompt criticality, killing three operators.
• Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant (France) – 1969, partial core meltdown; 1980, graphite overheating.
• Buenos Aires (Argentina) – 1983, criticality accident during fuel rod rearrangement killed one operator and injured 2 others.
• Jaslovské Bohunice (Czechoslovakia) – 1977, contamination of reactor building.
• Tokaimura nuclear accident (Japan) – 1999, three inexperienced operators at a reprocessing facility caused a criticality accident; two of them died.

Level 3: Serious incident

Impact on people and environment

Exposure in excess of ten times the statutory annual limit for workers.

Non-lethal deterministic health effect (e.g., burns) from radiation.

Impact on radiological barriers and control

Exposure rates of more than 1 Sv/h in an operating area.

Severe contamination in an area not expected by design, with a low probability of ­significant public exposure.

Impact on defence-in-depth

Near accident at a nuclear power plant with no safety provisions remaining.

Lost or stolen highly radioactive sealed source.

Misdelivered highly radioactive sealed source without adequate procedures in place to handle it.

Examples:

• THORP plant Sellafield (United Kingdom) – 2005.
• Paks Nuclear Power Plant (Hungary), 2003; fuel rod damage in cleaning tank.
• Vandellos Nuclear Power Plant (Spain), 1989; fire destroyed many control systems; the reactor was shut down.

Level 2: Incident

Impact on people and environment

Exposure of a member of the public in excess of 10 mSv.

Exposure of a worker in excess of the statutory annual limits.

Impact on radiological barriers and control

Radiation levels in an operating area of more than 50 mSv/h.

Significant contamination within the facility into an area not expected by design.

Impact on defence-in-depth

Significant failures in safety ­provisions but with no actual ­consequences.

Found highly radioactive sealed orphan source, device or transport package with safety provisions intact.

Inadequate packaging of a highly radioactive sealed source.

Examples:

• Blayais Nuclear Power Plant flood (France) December 1999
• Ascó Nuclear Power Plant (Spain) April 2008; radioactive contamination.
• Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (Sweden) July 2006; backup generator failure.

Level 1: Anomaly

Impact on defence-in-depth

Overexposure of a member of the public in excess of statutory ­annual limits.

Minor problems with safety components with significant defence-in-depth remaining.

Low activity lost or stolen radioactive source, device or transport package.

(Arrangements for reporting minor events to the public differ from country to country. It is difficult to ensure precise consistency in rating events between INES Level-1 and Below scale/Level-0)

Examples:

• Gravelines (Nord, France), 8 August 2009; during the annual fuel bundle exchange in reactor #1, a fuel bundle snagged on to the internal structure. Operations were stopped, the reactor building was evacuated and isolated in accordance with operating procedures.^[10]
• TNPC (Drôme, France), July 2008; leak of 6,000 litres (1,300 imp gal; 1,600 US gal) of water containing 75 kilograms (170 lb) of uranium into the environment.

Level 0: Deviation

No safety significance.

Examples:

• 4 June 2008: Krško, Slovenia: Leakage from the primary cooling circuit.^[11]
• 17 December 2006, Atucha, Argentina: Reactor shutdown due to tritium increase in reactor compartment.^[12]
• 13 February 2006: Fire in Nuclear Waste Volume Reduction Facilities of the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Tokaimura.^[13]

Out of scale

There are also events of no safety relevance, characterized as “out of scale”.^[14]

Examples:
• 17 November 2002, Natural Uranium Oxide Fuel Plant at the Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, India: A chemical explosion at a fuel fabrication facility.^[15]
• 29 September 1999: H.B. Robinson, United States: A tornado sighting within the protected area of the nuclear power plant (NPP).^[16][17][18]
• 5 March 1999: San Onofre, United States: Discovery of suspicious item, originally thought to be a bomb, in nuclear power plant.^[19]

The main worry, for me but I guess also for many people around the world, are health consequences on the local and global population, here what can be found in the Fukushima Accident wiki page:

Long-term health consequences

The situation remains in the acute phase for detection of human health effects, according to the World Health Organization. Still, the WHO has stated that the basis for continuing public health studies over the next 20 years need to be put in place.^[390] Studies on the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster suggest that longer-term studies are justified. A study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, “The Chernobyl Accident 20 Years On,” found that the most prominent health issue resulting from Chernobyl is thyroid cancer for people exposed to radiation as children; in neighboring Belarus, such reports were initially greeted with skepticism by scientists, but the link has been established. Adverse psychological consequences have been firmly established in the Ukraine and Belarus, including negative stress outcomes and addiction. Less certain, but worthy of increased attention, are possible genetic effects of radiation, which have been established; the precise health effects are still under study. Also less clear is the level of increased risk for leukemia and birth defects, although increases here have been observed.^[391] Another study, “Thyroid Cancers in Ukraine Related to the Chernobyl Accident,” states that across the sample population there exists an increased risk of thyroid cancer 20 years after the initial exposure. This risk was not uniform for the whole sample and was most varied conditional on geographical distance from the plant at the time of exposure. The study also found that there is no evidence indicating that this increased cancer risk for those who lived in the area at the time of the accident is decreasing at all over time.^[392]

Illuminati Wars

Following are apparently extracts of the letter, showing how Three World Wars have been planned for many generations.

“The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.” ²

Students of history will recognize that the political alliances of England on one side and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and 1898 by Otto von Bismarck, co-conspirator of Albert Pike, were instrumental in bringing about the First World War.

“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.” ³

After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdam Conference between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was simply handed over to Russia, and on the other side of the world, the aftermath of the war with Japan helped to sweep the tide of Communism into China.

(Readers who argue that the terms Nazism and Zionism were not known in 1871 should remember that the Illuminati invented both these movements.  In addition, Communism as an ideology, and as a coined phrase, originates in France during the Revolution.  In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out.  Restif and Babeuf, in turn, were influenced by Rousseau – as was the most famous conspirator of them all, Adam Weishaupt.)

“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.” ⁴

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001, world events, and in particular in the Middle East, show a growing unrest and instability between Modern Zionism and the Arabic World. This is completely in line with the call for a Third World War to be fought between the two, and their allies on both sides. This Third World War is still to come, and recent events show us that it is not far off.

Source:

• http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Guy_Carr#The_Three_World_Wars

A thing that is probably going to happen is the world government, a “New World Order”.

Just for your enjoyment, you can watch this video:

Many things are concourring to bring this world government to fact.

International alliances

There are already, at different degrees of implementation, numerous continental unions:

• European Union
• African Union
• North American Union
• Commonwealth of Australia
• Union of South American Nations
• Pacific Union
• Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
• Asia Cooperation Dialogue
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
• Central American Integration System

Also, in Europe, at least military and law enforcement unions are already at a certain level of implementation:

• European Defence Agency
• European Security and Defence Identity
• European Union Institute for Security Studies
• European Union Military Staff – supervises military operations carried out by the EU; its chief is General Henri Bentegeat, a former chief of the French Defence Staff
• EU Battlegroup – a type of force of which there are 15, each one numbering 1,500 troops. Under direct control of the European Council.
• Helsinki Headline Goal (listing of rapid reaction forces composed of 60,000 troops managed by the European Union, but under control of the countries who deliver troops for it)

http://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/stories/Home/95948_divise_in_strada_sta_nascendo_a_vicenza_la_polizia_deuropa/

In the following video the military exercise was about finding immigrants illegally employed for illegal work. In the exercise the immigrants where sent to a detention facility they call it “Campo di Accoglienza” (something like reception camp), most likely something like this:

By the way, a video (in english luckyly), about the french training simulation of the same international police force:

War 2010 scenery

You may want to give a look to one of my earliest posts:

http://lastdaysreport.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/war-scenery/

A confirmation to what was already undestood time ago is that the wars on terrorism are just a mere lie.
Look to what German President said:

“in emergencies, military intervention is necessary to uphold our interests, like for example free trade routes, for example to prevent regional instabilities which could have a negative impact on our chances in terms of trade, jobs and income.”

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/31/germany.president.resigns/index.html

President of Germany had to resign after his declarations on real reasons for interventions in mid east.

So again, as many are saing from a long time, wars will keep being fought by UN countries, no way they will retire untill they get what they want..

Hope they don’t want WW3!!

Oil Spill disasters

After the last disastrous Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico the situation of oceans is getting really bad, it is not in fact the only happened this year, let’s have a look on the most recent disasters:

Spill / Vessel	Location	Dates	Min Tonnage	Max Tonnage
2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill /MV Shen Neng 1	Australia, Great Keppel Island	April 3, 2010	3	4
2010 Port Arthur oil spill	United States, Port Arthur, Texas	January 23, 2010	1,5	1,5

Vessel	Location	Dates	Estimated flow rate (tonnes/day)	Spilled (min tonnes)	Spilled (max tonnes)	Notes
MT Bunga Kelana 3	Singapore, SingaporeStrait	May 25, 2010to present (2 days)	2,000 – 2,500 (max cargo: 62,000tonnes)	2	2,5	A collision between the tanker, BungaKelana 3 carrying light crude, and bulk carrier, MV Waily; no injuries reported.
Deepwater Horizon	United States, Gulf of Mexico	April 20, 2010to present (37 days)	700 – 13,600	24,5	491	Following an explosion on the drilling rig, an underwater well is leaking oil into the Gulf. Flow rate estimates vary widely, because some of the plume is apparently remaining well below the surface.

Now a map

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I “casually”, or probably not, stumbled upon Erin Brockovich, that is getting some attention again due to her campaing over the Lousiana Coast, well, on her website she states that one of the Bad Things BP is doing is also the usage of a poisonous substance “Corexit”:

I am very concerned about the Oil Dispersant “Corexit” that is being used because some reports are coming in about people getting very sick.

http://www.brockovich.com/gulfoilspill.html

Plese Note what Wikipedia article say about its toxicity:

Toxicity and alternatives

The safety data sheet states “The potential human hazard is: High.”
According to the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the use of Corexit during the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused “respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders” in people.^[9] According to the EPA, Corexit is more toxic than dispersants made by several competitors and less effective in handling southern Louisiana crude.^[14] However, the oil from Deepwater Horizon is not believed to be typical Louisiana crude.

Reportedly Corexit is toxic to marine life and helps keep spilled oil submerged. The quantities used in the Gulf will create ‘unprecedented underwater damage to organisms.’^[15] 9527A is also hazardous for humans: ‘May cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver’.^[16]

Alternative dispersants which are approved by the EPA are listed on the National Contingency Plan Product Schedule^[17] and rated for their toxicity and effectiveness.^[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit

Also please not what the substance does:

The oil film will be dispersed in small droplets which intermix with the seawater. The oil is then not only distributed in two dimensions but is dispersed in three and it is about 10 times as toxic.

Now, even if the fact that the becoming 10 time more toxic have no citation sources, it is probably more toxic that the Oil and Corexit alone..

Also I’d like to be able to find a way to have data on how much will the oil be dispersed in the next years and what is and will be the extent of damage. What happens when the Water evaporates? Will be the toxic substance carried up with the water vapor? then toxic rains again like in the past.

Oh boy… I’m starting to feel bad already..

Here a map on usatoady that displays the boundaries of the oil spill, please note that moving the slide control on the top you will see it’s evolution, and NOTE that at a certain point the oil spill looks HUGE, then it shrinks.. and most probably for the usage of the mentioned above “Corexit”.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/oil-spill-map.htm

And a satellite image

Rapidfire Satellite image - NASA

Heliosphere – interstellar space

This video by Nature, is very interesting and explains what is the Heliosphere and NASA’s last discoveries about this ‘shell’ that surrounds our solar system. Many things about it are to be discovered in my opinion since it’s something that was measured only very recently (by Voyager 1 and 2).

Like earth have a Magnetic Field that creates a sort of bubble arount itself, sun too have something similar, it’s called Heliosphere, and it’s located farther than Pluto.

Superflares & Cataclysm

earthquake light (from Wikipedia):

An earthquake light, is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon, that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions. Once commonly challenged, it was not until photographs were taken during the Matsushiro earthquake swarm, from 1965 through 1967, that the seismology community acknowledged their occurrence.

See 2 video examples:

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=36uyr9nx

Wikipedia, about solar flares:

Classification

Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to the peak flux (in watts per square meter, W/m²) of 100 to 800 picometer X-rays near Earth, as measured on the GOES spacecraft. Each class has a peak flux ten times greater than the preceding one, with X class flares having a peak flux of order 10⁻⁴ W/m². Within a class there is a linear scale from 1 to 9, so an X2 flare is twice as powerful as an X1 flare, and is four times more powerful than an M5 flare. The more powerful M and X class flares are often associated with a variety of effects on the near-Earth space environment. Although the GOES classification is commonly used to indicate the size of a flare, it is only one measure. This extended logarithmic classification is necessary because the total energies of flares range over many orders of magnitude, following a uniform distribution with flare frequency roughly proportional to the inverse of the total energy. Stellar flares (and earthquakes) show similar power-law distributions.

Superflares, from wikipedia:

Superflares are very strong explosions of even Sun-like stars that increase their energy production about one million times more than the production made by a strong eruption. According to scientists, the cause for such an eruption can be the interaction of the star’s magnetic field and the magnetic field of a Jupiter-like planet.

Super flare stars

As of 2000, nine super-flare stars have been found, some of them similar to our Sun. During such an explosion, 100 to 10 million times as much energy is released as that released by the largest coronal mass ejections of the Sun.

Warning about super solarflare on 2012

Reported superflare:

• The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare
• Monster Stellar Flare Seen by NASA Scientists Dwarfs All Others

Superflare on earth(?) SuperFlare audio story:

May 6, 2008: At 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington—widely acknowledged to be one of England’s foremost solar astronomers—was in his well-appointed private observatory. Just as usual on every sunny day, his telescope was projecting an 11-inch-wide image of the sun on a screen, and Carrington skillfully drew the sunspots he saw.

Right: Sunspots sketched by Richard Carrington on Sept. 1, 1859. Copyright: Royal Astronomical Society: more.

On that morning, he was capturing the likeness of an enormous group of sunspots. Suddenly, before his eyes, two brilliant beads of blinding white light appeared over the sunspots, intensified rapidly, and became kidney-shaped. Realizing that he was witnessing something unprecedented and “being somewhat flurried by the surprise,” Carrington later wrote, “I hastily ran to call someone to witness the exhibition with me. On returning within 60 seconds, I was mortified to find that it was already much changed and enfeebled.” He and his witness watched the white spots contract to mere pinpoints and disappear.

It was 11:23 AM. Only five minutes had passed.

Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.

Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted.

Damage caused by “regular” solar X  Flares:

• [...]causing voltage drops in power transmissions and damaging electrical equipment in the eastern United States[...]

Interesting exerpt from an article found:

GEOMAGNETIC PULSATIONS AND TUNGUSKA-1908
PHENOMENON
German, Boris
Institute for Physics of the Ukrainian Academy of Science

INTRODUCTION
In the early morning on June 30, 1908 at 7:15 (± 5 min) a.m. that correspond to 0:14 (± 5 min) UT, a powerful explosion occurred in the Kulik-caldera, Eastern Siberia. Scientists examining the area estimated that the explosion was equivalent to 5÷40 megatons of TNT. The blast felled trees in an area over 2,150 square km. Barometric and seismic disturbances from the explosion were recorded world-wide. For the first three nights after the Tunguska explosion, skies of Eurasia were exceptionally bright and then the effect abruptly disappeared. Although most observers generally accept that some kind of a celestial body, either a comet or an asteroid, could blow up, however, the main puzzle is the absence of space-body remnants in/on the ground in the affected region. And now, more 100 years later, the debate about the Tunguska event continues.
PULSATIONS IN KIEL AND THE VORTEX OF GRAVITY
Linear gravitational field equations, that are obtained from Maxwell’s equations by using gravitational vectors instead of electromagnetic vectors, have attracted the attention of scientists long ago. When Heavisidian monopoles are taken into account the equations can be modified by introducing two scalar fields. In 1969, J. Carstoiu [1] presented the so-called vortex field of gravitational force, comparable to the electromagnetic system.
For the first time vortical structures on the Sun were observed in 1857 [2]. On May 5, 1907 the same structures were registered on the sundisk again. A. Stentzel has paid attention to the effect of a 50-yr period of these structures. The effect of inversion of speeds for neutral points of polarization has been noted since May, 10th 1907 when the rate of increase of Arago point has exceeded the rate of increase of point Babine [3]. Obviously, this effect could correlate with above mentioned vortical structures on the Sun at that time. Increasing of the angular distance of neutral points (both Arago and Babine), which has begun on May, 1907, proceeded till the end of June, 1908. Exactly after the Tunguska explosion the maximum relative increase of the polarization for the whole period from 1905 till 1910 was recorded [4].

May Day 2007

What was seeing recently is nothing new..

Nukes on a Plane

Who knew that the threat posed by the American Midwest warranted a nuclear deterrent? Apparently a crew at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota did.

News reports revealed today that, in what can only be described as an unbelievable blunder, Air Force personnel allowed a B-52 bomber to fly from North Dakota to Louisiana last week armed with nuclear cruise missiles. The incident has provoked a massive response from top officials: Defense Secretary Gates and President Bush were notified, an investigation launched, disciplinary action taken against the Air Force personnel involved, an inventory underway of all Air Force nuclear weapons, and a halting of all fighter and bomber flights on Sept. 14.

The incident also raises the question of exactly when, where, and under what conditions US aircraft are allowed to be armed with nuclear weapons. Retired Air Force Major General Don Shepperd remarked in a CNN report on the story that “…the United States had agreed in a Cold War-era treaty not to fly nuclear weapons. ‘It appears that what happened was this treaty agreement was violated,’ he said.”

The CNN report isn’t clear on what “Cold War-era treaty” he’s referencing. However, an article from the Global Security Newswire provides a more in-depth and convincing explanation:

The risk of flying accidents, however, led the United States to abandon all nuclear-armed bomber flights in 1968, according to Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert with the Federation of American Scientists.

Until then, the Air Force kept about 12 strategic bombers in the air at all times, with each one usually carrying two to four nuclear gravity bombs. Several accidents occurred (see GSN, June 20, 2005), including a crash in Spain in 1966 and then a crash at an air base in Greenland on Jan. 21, 1968. The plane’s nuclear weapons did not explode in the latter incident, but their radioactive fissile material was dispersed at the crash site.

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that day ordered the grounding of all nuclear-armed aircraft, a policy that has continued for four decades. Instead of flying with nuclear weapons, armed bombers were kept on alert on the ground with flight crews nearby to enable the planes to take off within minutes, if necessary.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush reduced the bomber alert status further by ordering nuclear weapons to be removed from the aircraft and kept in nearby storage facilities.

The GSN description seems to indicate that the ban on flying nuclear-armed aircraft was the result of a DoD Directive or Executive Order. It’s worth noting that a separate GSN article from March reported that the US will soon end its use of nuclear cruise missiles pursuant to the 2002 Moscow Treaty. Perhaps this is the “Cold War-era treaty” mentioned by Shepperd.

The above is the article I took from here:

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2007/09/nukes-on-a-plan.html

Also please have a look at this article:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7158

The article begins with this:

According to a wide range of reports, several nuclear bombs were “lost” for 36 hours after taking off August 29/30, 2007 on a “cross-country journey” across the U.S., from U.S.A.F Base Minot in North Dakota to U.S.A.F. Base Barksdale in Louisiana. [1] Reportedly, in total there were six W80-1 nuclear warheads armed on AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles (ACMs) that were “lost.” [2] The story was first reported by the Military Times, after military servicemen leaked the story.

MTV THINK!

…again, scary…

In any case, searching at think.mtv.com i found that this site is related to the 2 videos:

http://gedenkmovement.org/

Georgia Monument

http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm

THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

…again, scary…