veteranstoday--2020-08-07--‘Chuckles’ Erdogan – Misunderstood and Unappreciated

The world is unfair to Turkey ’ s charming , witty and irrepressible president .
For years , Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been misunderstood and unjustly condemned by a world which doesn ’ t appreciate whimsy and is incapable of detecting the irony in farceur Erdogan ’ s “ abrasive ” proclamations and threats of war .
Just because he goes around scowling , smouldering , fulminating , and threatening don ’ t mean the man isn ’ t one of the greatest natural cutups of the century .
Once the world realizes funereal Erdogan is Turkey ’ s gift @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it will heap the Nobel , the Pulitzer , the Oscar , the Mao Tse Tung , the Pol Pot , and the Augusto Pinochet humor prizes on the much-maligned former Istanbul footballer .
Here ’ s a sample of Erdogan the Wit ’ s sense of humor selected from a rich trove of Erdogiana at the Turkish National Revisionist Archives .
“ We are proud that we are the country that has no colonial history and has not committed massacres in the past , ” said the Ankara Farceur recently .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up the banal fact that between 1822 and 1925 Turkey committed at least 21 massacres ( starting in Chios , Greece ) killing 685,500 Arabs , Armenians , Bulgarians , Greeks , and Macedonians plus committing genocides of Armenians , Assyrians , and Greeks , in addition to oppressing the Kurds of Turkey and attacking Kurds in Iraq and Syria .
Re Turkey not having colonial history , only a wet blanket would drag out the dreary fact that Central Asia ’ s marauding Turks colonized Iraq , Syria , Armenia , Lebanon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Saudi Arabia , Oman , Yemen , Greece , Cyprus , Albania , Macedonia , Hungary , Romania , Serbia , Croatia , Bulgaria , Wallachia , Crimea , Moldavia , Libya , Tunisia , and Algeria .
“ Factist ” drones will say the Ottomans killed millions of people and their empire covered 1,800,000 sq .
km–larger than the combined size of Germany , France , Spain , and the U.K. A few weeks ago , the Ankara Jester promised the “ liberation ” of Jerusalem ’ s Al-Aqsa Mosque .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overcome the little matter of Israeli nuclear bombs .
Besides , the Kidder of Ankara wouldn ’ t want a repeat of the worst Turkish defeat coincidentally took place in Palestine/Israel in 1799 .
Some 4,000 of Napoleon ’ s troops defeated a 30,000 Ottoman army near Mount Tabor .
When the dust settled , 6,000 Ottoman soldiers had been killed and 500 captured .
The French dead ?
TWO as in one plus one makes two .
A barrel-of-laughs Erdogan has called feminist women “ half-persons ” and elaborated on his thesis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to men .
At an international women ’ s conference in Turkey , he accused feminists of rejecting motherhood .
Women didn ’ t roll down the aisles , but we know feminists have no sense of humor .
An unfriendly world doesn ’ t appreciate Turkish army ’ s collegial social visits to Syria , Iraq , and Libya .
What ’ s wrong with Erdogan ’ s troops visiting neighbors for a chat .
Is it such a bad thing to swap the Imam Bayende recipe for that of ma ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he converted Hagia Sophia to a mosque , Erdogan—all pout and twitching moustache–hailed the “ glorious ” Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 .
To appreciate the “ glorious conquest ” one must consider that the attackers were 150,000 to 200,000-strong and were equipped by oversized cannons bought from an enterprising Hungarian inventor .
The defenders had 7,000 fighters .
Yet it took the Ottomans 53 days to take Constantinople , which had shrunk to a provincial town of 50,000 .
The 22-year-old sultan , who headed the victorious army was a pedophile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his advances .
Bored by a slow-news day ( no Turkish attacks on Syria , Iraq and Libya ) , the other day Erdogan decided to play a joke .
He told his foreign minister , a man described as toxic concoction of narcissism and paranoia , to sue a Lebanese TV personality who had “ insulted ” him .
The TV man was a “ remnant of the sword ” —the Turkish synonym for Armenian .
Although such an action would be dismissed by any government , Erdogan decided it was worth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man .
Imagine Erdogan ’ s surprise when the Lebanese failed to get the joke and scheduled the trial for October .
Although many believe Erdogan is planning to revive the Ottoman Empire and become its sultan , the boisterous buffoon had an unpublicized changed of mind recently .
Ottoman sultans bore the following titles : “ Allah ’ s deputy on earth , Lord of the Lords of this world , Possessor of men ’ s necks , King of believers and unbelievers , King of Kings , Emperor of the East @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Chakans of great authority , Prince and Lord of the most happy constellation , Seal of victory , Refuge of all the people in the whole entire world , the shadow of the Almighty dispensing quiet on the Earth.
” After learning about the multi-tiered titled of sultans , Erdogan said he didn ’ t want to become sultan because there would be no room for all the titles on his business card .
If that quip doesn ’ t indicate a high-level of humor up there with that of Wilde @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing will convince the great unwashed that Erdogan is a man of wit .
It ’ s time for even Turkey ’ s victims ( Alevis , Armenians , Assyrians , Cypriots , Greeks , Iraqis , Kurds , Libyans , Syrians , Yazidis , and Yemenis… ) acknowledged that the world is a better place because of Erdogan , president , buffoon , laugh riot , jester , zany , and a standout stand-up comedian .
Throughout history Turks have been cursed with leaders who apparently believed cracking a smile would tear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ II , genocidier Tal ’ at whose eyes shone like malignant hard-boiled eggs , sadistic-looking Mustaphalic Kemal , prissy Ismet Inonu , and the squadron of stiff military leaders with salad splattered over their expansive chests .
Finally relief : Erudite Erdogan .
People who fail to find Erdogan funny should consider that half the world ’ s cartoonists would be unemployed if the Ankara Aristophanes left the stage .
That ’ s reason enough to re-examine our attitude toward international raconteur of Ankara-Istanbul-Idlib-Aleppo-Tripoli-Latakia-Sinjar-Aden .

By Jerry Tutunjian
The world is unfair to Turkey’s charming, witty and irrepressible president. For years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been misunderstood and unjustly condemned by a world which doesn’t appreciate whimsy and is incapable of detecting the irony in farceur Erdogan’s “abrasive” proclamations and threats of war.
Just because he goes around scowling, smouldering, fulminating, and threatening don’t mean the man isn’t one of the greatest natural cutups of the century. Once the world realizes funereal Erdogan is Turkey’s gift to comedy in these somber times, it will heap the Nobel, the Pulitzer, the Oscar, the Mao Tse Tung, the Pol Pot, and the Augusto Pinochet humor prizes on the much-maligned former Istanbul footballer.
Here’s a sample of Erdogan the Wit’s sense of humor selected from a rich trove of Erdogiana at the Turkish National Revisionist Archives.
“We are proud that we are the country that has no colonial history and has not committed massacres in the past,” said the Ankara Farceur recently.
It’s only spoilsports who will bring up the banal fact that between 1822 and 1925 Turkey committed at least 21 massacres (starting in Chios, Greece) killing 685,500 Arabs, Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and Macedonians plus committing genocides of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, in addition to oppressing the Kurds of Turkey and attacking Kurds in Iraq and Syria.
Re Turkey not having colonial history, only a wet blanket would drag out the dreary fact that Central Asia’s marauding Turks colonized Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Macedonia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Crimea, Moldavia, Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. “Factist” drones will say the Ottomans killed millions of people and their empire covered 1,800,000 sq. km–larger than the combined size of Germany, France, Spain, and the U.K.
A few weeks ago, the Ankara Jester promised the “liberation” of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. To achieve that, he first has to overcome the little matter of Israeli nuclear bombs. Besides, the Kidder of Ankara wouldn’t want a repeat of the worst Turkish defeat coincidentally took place in Palestine/Israel in 1799. Some 4,000 of Napoleon’s troops defeated a 30,000 Ottoman army near Mount Tabor. When the dust settled, 6,000 Ottoman soldiers had been killed and 500 captured. The French dead? TWO as in one plus one makes two.
A barrel-of-laughs Erdogan has called feminist women “half-persons” and elaborated on his thesis by pointing out women are not equal to men. At an international women’s conference in Turkey, he accused feminists of rejecting motherhood. Women didn’t roll down the aisles, but we know feminists have no sense of humor.
An unfriendly world doesn’t appreciate Turkish army’s collegial social visits to Syria, Iraq, and Libya. What’s wrong with Erdogan’s troops visiting neighbors for a chat. Is it such a bad thing to swap the Imam Bayende recipe for that of ma’’lubeh?
Last month, when he converted Hagia Sophia to a mosque, Erdogan—all pout and twitching moustache–hailed the “glorious” Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. To appreciate the “glorious conquest” one must consider that the attackers were 150,000 to 200,000-strong and were equipped by oversized cannons bought from an enterprising Hungarian inventor. The defenders had 7,000 fighters.
Yet it took the Ottomans 53 days to take Constantinople, which had shrunk to a provincial town of 50,000. The 22-year-old sultan, who headed the victorious army was a pedophile who strangled a Christian boy for refusing his advances.
Bored by a slow-news day (no Turkish attacks on Syria, Iraq and Libya), the other day Erdogan decided to play a joke. He told his foreign minister, a man described as toxic concoction of narcissism and paranoia, to sue a Lebanese TV personality who had “insulted” him. The TV man was a “remnant of the sword”—the Turkish synonym for Armenian. Although such an action would be dismissed by any government, Erdogan decided it was worth a laugh to scare the infidel TV man. Imagine Erdogan’s surprise when the Lebanese failed to get the joke and scheduled the trial for October.
Although many believe Erdogan is planning to revive the Ottoman Empire and become its sultan, the boisterous buffoon had an unpublicized changed of mind recently. Ottoman sultans bore the following titles: “Allah’s deputy on earth, Lord of the Lords of this world, Possessor of men’s necks, King of believers and unbelievers, King of Kings, Emperor of the East and West, Majestic Caesar, Emperor of the Chakans of great authority, Prince and Lord of the most happy constellation, Seal of victory, Refuge of all the people in the whole entire world, the shadow of the Almighty dispensing quiet on the Earth.”
After learning about the multi-tiered titled of sultans, Erdogan said he didn’t want to become sultan because there would be no room for all the titles on his business card.
If that quip doesn’t indicate a high-level of humor up there with that of Wilde, Shaw, and Adam Sandler, nothing will convince the great unwashed that Erdogan is a man of wit. It’s time for even Turkey’s victims (Alevis, Armenians, Assyrians, Cypriots, Greeks, Iraqis, Kurds, Libyans, Syrians, Yazidis, and Yemenis…) acknowledged that the world is a better place because of Erdogan, president, buffoon, laugh riot, jester, zany, and a standout stand-up comedian.
Throughout history Turks have been cursed with leaders who apparently believed cracking a smile would tear their lips: glum Sultan Abdul Hamid II, genocidier Tal’at whose eyes shone like malignant hard-boiled eggs, sadistic-looking Mustaphalic Kemal, prissy Ismet Inonu, and the squadron of stiff military leaders with salad splattered over their expansive chests. Finally relief: Erudite Erdogan.
People who fail to find Erdogan funny should consider that half the world’s cartoonists would be unemployed if the Ankara Aristophanes left the stage. That’s reason enough to re-examine our attitude toward international raconteur of Ankara-Istanbul-Idlib-Aleppo-Tripoli-Latakia-Sinjar-Aden.


veteranstoday--2020-08-07--DoD: Convalescent Plasma Collection Program Seeks 10,000 Units of Blood

The COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma ( CCP ) Collection Program is a Department of Defense effort to obtain 10,000 units CCP with emphasis on blood donations by members of the military community who have recovered from the disease .
CCP will be given to critically ill patients , and to support the development of an effective treatment against the disease .
Potential donors should visit the Armed Services Blood Program website at : https : //www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/COVID-19andBloodDonation.aspx – to find a complete list of available collection centers .
The world is searching for a treatment , a cure and a prevention for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be tapped via the sap of human life – blood .
At Madigan Army Medical Center , and 19 other Department of Defense facilities , those who have recovered from COVID-19 can donate the liquid part of their blood – the plasma – in an effort to apply it to use as a treatment for those battling the disease now .
Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery made a special stop at the Armed Services Blood Bank Center – Pacific Northwest ( ASBBC-PNW ) to talk to the staff about convalescent plasma and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ units by Sept. 30 .
“ We are doing this across the DoD , across the Military Health System , ” said McCaffery .
“ This is an all-in effort , we are counting down to the end of September to get those ten thousand units.
” Army Maj. Juan Guzman , the chief of the ASBBC-PNW , toured McCaffery through the center ’ s operations ; which was started with Navy Hospitalman Edward Yelland , a lab technician , taking McCaffery ’ s forehead temperature before the Assistant Secretary entered the center @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the center ’ s officer-in-charge , had the center ’ s impressive blood product collection numbers at the ready and offered an overview of operations before Army Maj. ( Dr. ) Benjamin Cook , the medical director for Transfusion Services , gave McCaffery a blast of chilly air from the center ’ s deep freezers .
According to the National Institutes of Health , in order to retain viability , plasma must be frozen at subzero temperatures .
After a look at the processing area and an introduction to the tri-service staff , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was able to see Steve Christodoulou , an apheresis nurse , and Frank Wake , a phlebotomist , attending to a COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor .
Within that plasma reside antibodies – proteins that the immune system produces in response to infection .
Convalescent plasma has been used for nearly a century to transfer antibodies from a recovered person to help protect another from an infection .
In that time , there has been some evidence that there has been benefit against rabies , hepatitis B , polio , measles , influenza @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case studies have also shown that during previous coronavirus outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome , known as MERS and SARS , respectively , the use of convalescent plasma was both safe and helpful in clearing the virus faster .
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the virus known as SARS-CoV2 , which is a coronavirus .
“ It is important for people to donate , ” said Guzman .
“ It ’ s helping lives.
” Beyond speeding the clearance of the virus , McCaffery also sees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use .
“ We believe there is potential for this plasma to ultimately be converted into another treatment that can be used as a preventive measure , or be used for somebody who has been exposed to COVID and can get this as treatment to prevent the further development of the virus , ” McCaffery said .
Many people may be familiar with typical blood donation .
The apheresis process takes longer , roughly 45 minutes , but is no more complicated for the donor .
The center has lounge chairs , reading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shortage of snacks .
The staff ensures that it has all the favorites of regular donors on hand to make them as comfortable as possible .
“ People can donate several ways – through apheresis or through whole blood , ” said Guzman .
“ People can offer their blood , their life-saving product and help out people in need.
” To learn more about the Military Health System ’ s Convalescent Plasma Collection Program , visit https : //go.usa.gov/xf8h5 .
For more info on donating , visit www.militaryblood.dod.mil .

Madigan collects CCP in fight against COVID-19
by Kristin Grace Simmons/Military Health System
The COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP) Collection Program is a Department of Defense effort to obtain 10,000 units CCP with emphasis on blood donations by members of the military community who have recovered from the disease. CCP will be given to critically ill patients, and to support the development of an effective treatment against the disease. Potential donors should visit the Armed Services Blood Program website at: https://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/COVID-19andBloodDonation.aspx – to find a complete list of available collection centers.
The world is searching for a treatment, a cure and a prevention for COVID-19. One piece of that puzzle may be tapped via the sap of human life – blood. At Madigan Army Medical Center, and 19 other Department of Defense facilities, those who have recovered from COVID-19 can donate the liquid part of their blood – the plasma – in an effort to apply it to use as a treatment for those battling the disease now.
Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery made a special stop at the Armed Services Blood Bank Center – Pacific Northwest (ASBBC-PNW) to talk to the staff about convalescent plasma and the DoD’s effort to collect 10,000 units by Sept. 30.
“We are doing this across the DoD, across the Military Health System,” said McCaffery. “This is an all-in effort, we are counting down to the end of September to get those ten thousand units.”
Army Maj. Juan Guzman, the chief of the ASBBC-PNW, toured McCaffery through the center’s operations; which was started with Navy Hospitalman Edward Yelland, a lab technician, taking McCaffery’s forehead temperature before the Assistant Secretary entered the center.
Army Capt. Zachary Albright, the center’s officer-in-charge, had the center’s impressive blood product collection numbers at the ready and offered an overview of operations before Army Maj. (Dr.) Benjamin Cook, the medical director for Transfusion Services, gave McCaffery a blast of chilly air from the center’s deep freezers.
According to the National Institutes of Health, in order to retain viability, plasma must be frozen at subzero temperatures.
After a look at the processing area and an introduction to the tri-service staff, McCaffery was shown the apheresis room where he was able to see Steve Christodoulou, an apheresis nurse, and Frank Wake, a phlebotomist, attending to a COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor.
Within that plasma reside antibodies – proteins that the immune system produces in response to infection.
Convalescent plasma has been used for nearly a century to transfer antibodies from a recovered person to help protect another from an infection. In that time, there has been some evidence that there has been benefit against rabies, hepatitis B, polio, measles, influenza, Ebola and other pathogens. Small case studies have also shown that during previous coronavirus outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as MERS and SARS, respectively, the use of convalescent plasma was both safe and helpful in clearing the virus faster.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the virus known as SARS-CoV2, which is a coronavirus.
“It is important for people to donate,” said Guzman. “It’s helping lives.”
Beyond speeding the clearance of the virus, McCaffery also sees expanded possibilities in the plasma’s use.
“We believe there is potential for this plasma to ultimately be converted into another treatment that can be used as a preventive measure, or be used for somebody who has been exposed to COVID and can get this as treatment to prevent the further development of the virus,” McCaffery said.
Many people may be familiar with typical blood donation. The apheresis process takes longer, roughly 45 minutes, but is no more complicated for the donor. The center has lounge chairs, reading material, televisions and movies and no shortage of snacks. The staff ensures that it has all the favorites of regular donors on hand to make them as comfortable as possible.
“People can donate several ways – through apheresis or through whole blood,” said Guzman. “People can offer their blood, their life-saving product and help out people in need.”
To learn more about the Military Health System’s Convalescent Plasma Collection Program, visit https://go.usa.gov/xf8h5. For more info on donating, visit www.militaryblood.dod.mil.


veteranstoday--2020-08-07--Exploration of Wreck of WWI U-Boat Off Coast of Yorkshire

Wreck of U-Boat Sunk Off English Coast During WWI Explored for the First Time British archaeologists have surveyed the wreck of a German U-boat for the first time since it sank 103 years ago .
The remarkably intact vessel adds to the story of an especially fraught period of naval warfare during World War I .
A team led by Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz of the University of Southampton discovered the submarine ’ s remains during an exploratory dive this summer .
Resting at a depth of 150 feet below the surface , the wreck is situated some 20 nautical miles off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As David Keys reports for the Independent , the researchers used two remotely operated vehicles to capture the first video and sonar 3-D images of the sunken ship .
After more than a century at the bottom of the North Sea , the vessel showed an “ astonishing ” level of preservation , according to a statement .
The main hull remains intact , and images show a large hole on its port side , where Royal Navy patrol boat P-57 rammed it on November 18 , 1917 .
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Wreck of U-Boat Sunk Off English Coast During WWI Explored for the First Time
by Claire Bugos/Smithsonianmag.com
British archaeologists have surveyed the wreck of a German U-boat for the first time since it sank 103 years ago. The remarkably intact vessel adds to the story of an especially fraught period of naval warfare during World War I.
A team led by Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz of the University of Southampton discovered the submarine’s remains during an exploratory dive this summer. Resting at a depth of 150 feet below the surface, the wreck is situated some 20 nautical miles off the coast of Yorkshire, England. As David Keys reports for the Independent, the researchers used two remotely operated vehicles to capture the first video and sonar 3-D images of the sunken ship.
After more than a century at the bottom of the North Sea, the vessel showed an “astonishing” level of preservation, according to a statement. The main hull remains intact, and images show a large hole on its port side, where Royal Navy patrol boat P-57 rammed it on November 18, 1917. Debris including a torpedo tube surrounds the wreck. Read More:
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-08-09--NIH Seeks to Identify Children at Risk for Severe Complication of COVID-19

Health Editor ’ s Note : It was no sooner announced , months ago , that children , when they contract COVID-19 do not get as ill as adults .
This was drastically disproved when children started to develop Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children ( MIS-C ) which is a very severe complication of COVID-19 .
Children with MIS-C develop inflammation of the lungs , kidneys , brain , heart , skin , eyes , or gastrointestinal organs .
Symptoms of MIC-C are fever with other symptoms such as vomiting , diarrhea , rash , neck pain , conjunctivitis ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and feeling very tired .
The cause is not known other than children who developed MIC-C also had the COVID-19 virus or had been exposed to someone who had COVID-19 .
Not all children who develop MIS-C have the same symptoms .
Reasons for a child to be seen immediately by health care professionals is difficulty in breathing , constant pressure or pain in the chest , appearing to be confused , unable to stay awake or to wake up , severe abdominal pain , and/or bluish color of face and/or lips .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as is COVID-19 , and needs to be researched and studied to see how this COVID-19 complication affects children and why some children go on to have MIS-C after being infected with COVID-19 and others do not .
The best scenario would be to protect children against developing MIS-C Medical science is still learning about MIS-C and how it affects children , so it is not predictable to determine which child will get sick with MIS-C and which child will not develop this severe complication .
It is also do not know if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likely to get MIS-C .
These are among the many questions researchers are working to try to understand……Carol NIH-funded project seeks to identify children at risk for MIS-C The National Institutes of Health has announced research funding to encourage the development of approaches that identify children at high risk for developing Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children ( MIS-C ) , thought to be a severe complication of COVID-19 .
Up to $ 20 million will be awarded to successful research proposals over four years .
Most children exposed to or infected with SARS-CoV-2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ develop only a mild form of the illness .
However , others go on to develop MIS-C ( link is external ) , a severe , sometimes fatal , inflammation of organs and tissues , including the heart , lungs , kidneys , brain , skin and eyes .
The new effort seeks to encourage studies of genetic , immune , viral , environmental , and other factors that influence how severe a case of COVID-19 will be and the chances of developing to MIS-C. “ We urgently need methods to distinguish children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unlikely to experience major ill effects from the virus , so that we can develop early interventions to improve their outcomes , ” said Diana W. Bianchi , M.D.
, director of NIH ’ s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( NICHD ) .
The NICHD-led project , called Predicting Viral-Associated Inflammatory Disease Severity in Children with Laboratory Diagnostics and Artificial Intelligence ( PreVAIL kIds ) , is part of NIH ’ s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics ( RADx ) initiative to speed innovation in the development @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for COVID-19 testing .
PreVAIL kIds aims to encourage development of cutting-edge approaches for understanding the underlying factors influencing the spectrum of conditions that may occur in children and youth infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus .
These range from no symptoms at all to fever and cough , abdominal pain and diarrhea , and inflammation of the coronary arteries .
The goal of the initiative is to understand the range of symptoms of COVID-19 and the factors leading to MIS-C .

Health Editor’s Note: It was no sooner announced, months ago, that children, when they contract COVID-19 do not get as ill as adults. This was drastically disproved when children started to develop Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) which is a very severe complication of COVID-19.
Children with MIS-C develop inflammation of the lungs, kidneys, brain, heart, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. Symptoms of MIC-C are fever with other symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, rash, neck pain, conjunctivitis (blood shot eyes), abdominal pain and feeling very tired. The cause is not known other than children who developed MIC-C also had the COVID-19 virus or had been exposed to someone who had COVID-19.
Not all children who develop MIS-C have the same symptoms. Reasons for a child to be seen immediately by health care professionals is difficulty in breathing, constant pressure or pain in the chest, appearing to be confused, unable to stay awake or to wake up, severe abdominal pain, and/or bluish color of face and/or lips.
MIS-C is a new medical phenomenon, as is COVID-19, and needs to be researched and studied to see how this COVID-19 complication affects children and why some children go on to have MIS-C after being infected with COVID-19 and others do not. The best scenario would be to protect children against developing MIS-C
Medical science is still learning about MIS-C and how it affects children, so it is not predictable to determine which child will get sick with MIS-C and which child will not develop this severe complication. It is also do not know if children with certain health conditions are more likely to get MIS-C. These are among the many questions researchers are working to try to understand……Carol NIH-funded project seeks to identify children at risk for MIS-C NIH News Release The National Institutes of Health has announced research funding to encourage the development of approaches that identify children at high risk for developing Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), thought to be a severe complication of COVID-19. Up to $20 million will be awarded to successful research proposals over four years. Most children exposed to or infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, develop only a mild form of the illness. However, others go on to develop MIS-C(link is external), a severe, sometimes fatal, inflammation of organs and tissues, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin and eyes. The new effort seeks to encourage studies of genetic, immune, viral, environmental, and other factors that influence how severe a case of COVID-19 will be and the chances of developing to MIS-C. “We urgently need methods to distinguish children at high risk for MIS-C from those unlikely to experience major ill effects from the virus, so that we can develop early interventions to improve their outcomes, ” said Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The NICHD-led project, called Predicting Viral-Associated Inflammatory Disease Severity in Children with Laboratory Diagnostics and Artificial Intelligence (PreVAIL kIds), is part of NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to speed innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of technologies for COVID-19 testing. PreVAIL kIds aims to encourage development of cutting-edge approaches for understanding the underlying factors influencing the spectrum of conditions that may occur in children and youth infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These range from no symptoms at all to fever and cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and inflammation of the coronary arteries. The goal of the initiative is to understand the range of symptoms of COVID-19 and the factors leading to MIS-C. Read More:
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-08-08--US sanctions on China will trigger more job losses in US

Beijing may target Apple , Boeing & other US tech giants in retaliation for Huawei ban [ Editor ’ s Note : The Trump regime , to look tough on China , is pushing the button on technology sanctions on China .
While there will be a one day media splash about this move , there will be a delayed cost .
China will certainly retaliate with its own counter sanctions on US suppliers that will throw American workers out of precious permanent jobs , undermining the attempt to recover from the huge coronavirus economic hit .
Boeing will take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump regime care , especially if they lose in November ?
I would guess , hardly .
So we will have another hair-brained , boomerang Trump foreign policy screw up , for a slight media bump .
Politico was already reporting last week that new unemployment figures will be showing growth in the loss of permanent jobs versus temporary ones , as companies close their doors after bearing all the losses that they could .
Closed businesses mean more permanent unemployment and less tax revenues for local governments , which spirals the economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I suspicious that if Trump was certain of his defeat in November , he would want to leave a destroyed a country behind if possible ?
After all , he spent his business career stiffing subcontractors to add to his bottom line .
I am viewing Pompeo ’ s delusion as the heir apparent for the next Republican candidate as just that…a dream .
Biden does not look to be an eight year candidate by any means , but Pompeo will never be able to get the Trump stink off him ; and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump legend to rebuild itself… Jim W. Dean ] Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > China has reportedly picked US targets to strike back at in response to new restrictions on its telecom giant Huawei , as Washington attempts to cut the firm off from global semiconductors supplies .
As tensions continue to escalate between the world ’ s two biggest economies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Friday that it was amending an export rule and the Entity List to “ narrowly and strategically target Huawei ’ s acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain US software and technology.
” Chinese state media was quick to react to the new restrictions on key technological supplies for domestic companies .
According to the Global Times , Beijing is ready to put US companies on the so-called “ unreliable entity list , ” as well as launch investigations against Qualcomm , Cisco and Apple under Cybersecurity Review Measures and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the firms may face some restrictions , without elaborating on the scale of the measures .
Additionally , China can suspend its purchases of Boeing aircraft , which could be a huge blow to the aerospace firm as it faces massive losses over the coronavirus crisis .
The latest restrictions from the US Commerce Department require foreign semiconductor manufacturers that use US software and technology to obtain a license from US officials before shipping products to Huawei .
At the same time , the ban targets chips designed for Huawei , requiring a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ targeted by the US for alleged links to the Chinese government , a charge which the company has repeatedly denied .
Washington has deemed the company a threat to national security and has been pushing its allies to ditch Huawei technology , especially when it comes to 5G networks .
Last year , the Trump administration barred US companies from doing business with Huawei , but has been granting temporary licenses to facilitate support for existing hardware with software updates since then .

Beijing may target Apple, Boeing & other US tech giants in retaliation for Huawei ban
[ Editor’s Note: The Trump regime, to look tough on China, is pushing the button on technology sanctions on China. While there will be a one day media splash about this move, there will be a delayed cost.
China will certainly retaliate with its own counter sanctions on US suppliers that will throw American workers out of precious permanent jobs, undermining the attempt to recover from the huge coronavirus economic hit. Boeing will take a hit.
Will anyone in the Trump regime care, especially if they lose in November? I would guess, hardly. So we will have another hair-brained, boomerang Trump foreign policy screw up, for a slight media bump.
Politico was already reporting last week that new unemployment figures will be showing growth in the loss of permanent jobs versus temporary ones, as companies close their doors after bearing all the losses that they could.
Closed businesses mean more permanent unemployment and less tax revenues for local governments, which spirals the economy down into a recession. Why am I suspicious that if Trump was certain of his defeat in November, he would want to leave a destroyed a country behind if possible?
After all, he spent his business career stiffing subcontractors to add to his bottom line. I am viewing Pompeo’s delusion as the heir apparent for the next Republican candidate as just that…a dream.
Biden does not look to be an eight year candidate by any means, but Pompeo will never be able to get the Trump stink off him; and the Republican party might need to banish the Trump legend to rebuild itself… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … August 08-08-20 –
China has reportedly picked US targets to strike back at in response to new restrictions on its telecom giant Huawei, as Washington attempts to cut the firm off from global semiconductors supplies.
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veteranstoday--2020-08-08--Voltairenet: Israel Destroys East Beirut with ‘new weapon’

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By Thierry Meyssan
The first Israeli Prime Minister has ordered the destruction of a Hizbollah weapons warehouse in Beirut with a new weapon. The weapon, which is not well known, caused considerable damage in the city, killing more than 100 people, injuring 5,000 and destroying many buildings. This time it will be difficult for Benjamin Netanyahu to deny it.


veteranstoday--2020-08-08--VT Proving again that Nuclear Weapons are your friend (Banned by National Security Letter-Ignored Ag

VT Proving again that Nuclear Weapons are your friend (Banned by National Security Letter-Ignored Again)

[ Editor ’ s note : This article is one of the most important VT ever published , and it remains every bit as relevant today , as the use of mini nukes with ‘ clean ’ designs continues unabated ; and unless this becomes widely known and pressure applied by the masses of the people to stop it , they will continue to be used with impunity to kill innocent people en masse .
Ian ] We are now at the fifth generation of nuclear weapons design which means that a number of different types of nuclear weapon exist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the weapons we are familiar with from all those 1950s newsreels of huge atomic blasts .
Modern 5th gen weapons are often of much lower yield than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs with yields of less than 1 kiloton ( 1000 tonnes of TNT equivalent ) .
They also have different manners of explosion – instead of one big bang they can have much longer burn times producing visual effects that look quite different .
This is why it is important to learn a little about these new weapons types and how their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better enable the identification of nuclear events in future ; allowing people to discern between the explosion of a warehouse full of rocket fuel and a nuclear explosion .
Make no mistake , we have entered into a dangerous new age where the use of these advanced low yield nuclear weapons will become increasingly commonplace ; therefore we all need to become better informed about these weapons so it becomes harder to use them covertly to commit acts of terrorism .
The uranium hydride bomb is a variant design of the atomic bomb @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It uses deuterium , an isotope of hydrogen , to act as a neutron moderator in a U235 based implosion weapon .
The neutron chain reaction is a slow nuclear fission process vs a fast fission process .
Due to the use of slower moving neutrons the bombs total explosive power is adversely affected by the thermal cooling of neutrons since it delays the neutron multiplication factor or Alpha production rate .
Two uranium hydride bombs are known to have been tested back in the 1950 ’ s , the Ruth and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1956 .
The tests produced a yield comparable to about 200 ton of TNT or more each .
However both tests were considered to be fizzle yields at the time .
Since the trend was for weapons with a bigger bang , the technology was shelved for over 20 years .
In a delayed or slow fission nuclear weapon design the hydrogen deuterides in the form of uranium hydride ( UH ) or plutonium hydride ( PUH3 ) moderates ( slows ) the neutrons , thereby increasing the neutron cross section for neutron @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lower required critical mass , and thus a smaller weapon thereby reducing the amount of U235 or plutonium PU239 needed for an explosion .
The result in the original 1956 design was that the slower neutrons delayed the reaction time too much and reduced the efficiency of the weapon .
Its effect was to increased the time between subsequent neutron generation events that are necessary for a rapid explosion and it creates a problem in the containment of the explosion ; the inertia that is used to confine implosion type bombs will not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction in time .
The end result is a lower yield fizzle blast with a very long burn time instead of a big bang .
The predicted energy yield would be in the order of 1kt or 1000 tons TNT up to 5 kt equivalent instead of a standard 20 kt blast for the same amount of fissile material used .
In a classical nuclear weapon design a critical mass is supposed to go more or less instantly into an explosion .
However if half the critical mass , of U235 or U239 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process will continue so long as Alpha gain ( neutron production ) is positive .
With huge numbers of atoms involved , even if there isn ’ t enough for a prompted explosion ; There will always be enough energy given off as Bremsstrahlung radiation and the whole thing should get ‘ burning hot ’ before it detonates .
Unburnt deuterium fuel will then be consumed by the fireball as neutron or Alpha production slowly decays .
This is done by reducing the size of the critical mass by adding a mixture of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before it undergoes compression .
The end result is what used to be called a fizzle yield .
So instead of a 20KT blast you would only get about a 5KT blast but a much longer plasma fireball burn time .
The Uranium Deuteride design is a hydride type device , which relies on moderated fission ( UH3 or UD3 ) rather than fast fission .
The hydride designs work well but their slow fission process due to the use of moderated fission reactions is extremely limiting to their yield .
This meas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very long plasma burn time .
If the purpose of the weapon is a very small yield with a very long thermal burn time .
I.E .
a nuclear thermobaric weapon with a limited yield of less than 5 to 6 kt and a maximum blast radius damage of less than 1 mile with little fallout ; Then this is the weapon of choice .
In a slow burn nuclear weapon over 75 % or more of the energy is now released as thermal and neutron radiation instead of a shock wave blast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ small fireball that quickly grows in size until full detonation level is achieved at about the 200 to 300 ton level .
Then you get the classical explosion ( the flash ) and blast wave from the rapidly expanding fire ball .
After the massive explosion , the fireball continues to burn and consume its unburnt nuclear fuel that is now in a fully plasmatized state .
The nuclear fuel in a plasma form will continue to burn at a slower and slower rate until the alpha or neutron production goes to zero @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The heat of the fission reaction produces fusion of the hydrogen isotopes surrounding the pit .
Thus releasing a second burst of neutrons .
This causes even more uranium atoms to fission , creating a much larger nuclear chain reaction that doubles the yield of the weapon with only a small percent of the total energy released being contributed by the original fission reaction .
Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted from the plasma fireball is also called free / free radiation .
This refers to the fact that the radiation is created by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before and after the explosion that produced there emissions .
Pre-initiation is only a problem in the older WW2 era solid core devices ( fatman ) with a high pure fission yield because it is only in these types of bombs that you have an intrinsic disassembly limited time yield , and thus the requirement that a very high “ alpha ” ( neutron multiplication rate ) exist at disassembly time .
Alpha ramps up as implosion proceeds , and if you integrate the neutron multiplication rate over the implosion time you find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ device the total number of doubling intervals that occur between criticality and full assembly is a large number , over 80 to 100 or more , while the number required to generate enough energy to disassemble the bomb at full yield is only about 80 .
This is why disassembly in the older solid core weapon designs is a problem ; Any neutrons introduced in the first 20 doubling intervals will cause disassembly before maximum criticality of 80 doublings or shakes can occur .
A “ shake ” is basically one doubling of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a modern boosted weapon the pure fission yield is only about 300 tons with boosting kicking in around 200 tons , and the total number of integrated doubling intervals between criticality and full criticality is less than the number of intervals required to take one neutron generation ( a shake ) up to the population level required to produce a full 200 ton boosted yield .
This means that not only is pre-detonation not a problem in a modern boosted weapon design , but you can design the bomb in such a way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ large number of neutrons into it to get it to explode at full yield .
This is called a subcritical device and it is the basis of all mini or micro nukes operation .
Boosting requires millions of neutrons to flood the fissile core very rapidly with lots of heat and compression needed .
But if you ’ re requirements are much more modest , ( only a few kilotons or less ) then just a small amount of neutrons are only needed to spark a single fission chain reaction .
Then the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shock implosion from an HE shell can produce enough fission to start the fusion chain reaction .
The purpose of the deuterium hydrates is to act as a moderator for the neutrons , which will allow a much smaller quantity of fissile material to be used for a given critical mass .
Unfortunately , moderating implies slowing of the blast detonation sequence , just what you don ’ t want in a big device .
That ’ s why they fizzle .
But for a small device it will work just fine .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of using a moderator in a neutron bomb is that the amount of fissile material needed to reach criticality is greatly reduced .
The slowing of fast neutrons will increase the total cross section for neutron absorption , thus greatly reducing the critical mass and allowing for a much smaller amount of fissile material to be used in a weapon .
A side effect of this is that as the chain reaction progresses , the moderator will be heated , losing its ability to properly control the neutrons velocity .
Another effect of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subsequent neutron generations is increased , Alpha is slowed down thus slowing down the total reaction time .
Producing a lower yield .
This makes the containment of the explosion a problem ; the inertia that is used to originally confine the implosion will not be able to hold the reaction together long enough .
The end result will be a lower fizzle yield instead of a big bang .
The explosive power of a fully moderated explosion is thus limited , at worst it may be equal to a chemical explosive of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in yield .
“ One can never make an efficient explosive weapon with slow neutrons alone because the neutrons will only move at thermal speeds , with the result being , that the reaction is so slow that the weapon explodes ( disassembles ) before the reaction is complete.
” While a nuclear bomb working only on thermal neutron expansion alone may be impractical , modern weapons designs still benefit from some level of moderation .
A beryllium tamper used as a neutron reflector also act as a moderator slowing neutron production in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the neutrons can be properly regulated to a compromising velocity then a small neutron device will work very well based on this principal .
With the effect of producing a slow burning nuclear thermobaric weapon with a massive heating effect and a very small blast effect .
This is then basically an enhanced radiation weapon of a 5th generation design .
Also called a mini or micro nuke .
The concept of pre initiation problems is only an issue with the old style WW2 era ( 1945 ) ( fatman ) solid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Boosted weapons or neutron moderated weapons along with gun implosion uranium based weapons do not have this problem .
There is a major misconception amongst the general public as to how these weapons really work .
Modern weapons do not have this pre detonation problem and virtually any fissile PU or HEU material over 80 % pure will work .
And if you want a really slow burn with low fallout and limited blast damage range , then a moderate or slow burn neutron bomb works best .
By simply re-manufacturing the already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surplus pits that the US government has in long term 100 year storage .
These weapons could easely be produced so cheaply that they would make all future long range maned bomber designs obsolete .
Rember 1 kiloton of nuclear energy is equal to about 20 , B-52 Vietnam era bomb loads .
At a cost of over 100 million dollars per bomber .
Do the math .
Which one is cheaper a single 1 kt nuke weighing less than 1,000 lbs sent by a cruse missile , or dropped by an F-16 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 billion dollars doing the same thing with conventional TNT based explosives .
In the “ High-Impact Terrorism : Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop ( 2002 ) ” , The National Academies Press , stated that the average citizen had very little actual knowledge about how nuclear weapons work and that during a planned terrorism attack , these misconceptions would be greatly preyed upon by the terrorists in order to produce a general sense of panic so needed in order to disrupt our system of government .
This is a list of some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapons use : • “ There was no significant fallout in the vicinity of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings .
All radiation injuries were a result of immediate ( first 1 minute ) radiation.
” True .
• “ The only cases of significant fallout exposure as of 1964 to individuals , was in the Marshall Islands after a U.S. test .
The short term effects were skin ‘ burns ’ .
As of 1964 , no long term effects were known , although a slight excess cancer rate would be expected based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Almost all radioactivity in fallout – even in a ground burst – comes from the fission products themselves or transmutation of parts of the weapon .
Thus air bursts and ground bursts produce approximately the same amount of radioactive products .
However , ground bursts cause much more of the radioactive debris to be deposited within a fallout pattern , rather than distributed ( and accordingly diluted and decayed ) across the entire planet.
” True .
• “ The blast effect is primarily determined by the “ overpressure ” – given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human being can withstand up to about 35PSI of peak overpressure from a nuclear blast ( 1 % fatality rate ) .
Your distance may vary .
Thus a human will almost always survive the blast overpressure at approximately the following distances ( slant range ) from a blast according to the following table ” : when we extrapolate these statistics , we see that the news reports from other blasts are consistent with these scientific data .
True .
Our calculations tell us that these so called terrorist blasts are probably small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 0.01 kilotons and up to 5 KT or slightly larger in size .
All the reported facts from these blasts indicate an exceedingly small nuclear warhead was used that is now being passed off as a large conventional explosive that ignited propane gas cylinders .
But the reported facts of the blasts are consistent with our calculations produced by such a small nuclear explosion .
Any blast crater that is larger than 6 feet wide requires more than 4,000 lbs of TNT to make it .
16,000 lbs of TNT will only make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when you see a 60 or a 100 foot wide crater that ’ s too big to be caused by conventional explosives and when you see a flash that is brighter than the sun followed by a ever expanding and rising fireball .
Thats a nuke .
Everything else is just a secondary explosion going off .
In any explosion .
There are 3 types of explosions to be considered .
1 .
A molecular mater based explosion such as TNT : Producing a dark black cloud of dust and a single point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dirt and producing a strong shock wave .
Multiple secondary explosions can be involved .
Coats everything with a dry black powder residue .
2 .
A vapor or fuel air / dust explosion : Producing a very large red and orange fireball .
May have multipoint ignition sources from exploding fuel or gas /propane tanks .
It also leaves an oil residue on every thing from unburnt hydrocarbon fuel residue .
3 .
A nuclear blast explosion : Producing a single point explosion with a very bright white flash that is spherical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fire ball and a mushroom dust cloud .
Then a delayed shock wave .
It leaves behind lots of very fine white or gray ash / powder residue and many chunks of dirt or pulverized cement and melted metal .
In the case of the recent China blasts , all three types of explosions were used by the offenders .
With the first conventional explosion masking the second larger nuclear explosion , followed by the third massive fuel air vapor explosion being set off by the nuke to mask it use , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything into white ash .
The overpressure collapsing the cars roofs and blowing out the glass .
Thermal radiation vaporizing the car tires and glass that was then ashed with the radiation effects melting and toasting the cars at over 2,000 degrees centigrade .
The massive 400 foot wide crater being created from the overpressure blast of the nuclear weapon estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.8 Kt in size .
The fracture zone around the crater proving that it was a low altitude surface burst and the soil debris extracted from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place looking like big chunks of dirt clods .
If you have ever seen photographs of a neutron bomb test this is exactly what it looks like .
In the case of near-surface , surface , and shallow sub-surface bursts , the fireball ’ s interaction with the ground causes it to engulf much of the soil and rock within its radius and remove that material as it moves upward .
This removal of material results in the formation of a crater .
A near-surface burst would produce a small , shallow crater @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the same yield would be larger and deeper ; crater size is maximized with a shallow sub-surface burst at the optimum depth .
The size of the crater is a function of the yield of the detonation , the depth of burial , and the type of soil or rock .
Where have we seen this effect used before ?
In clandestine terrorist attacks but unrecognized by the general public due to their misunderstanding of nuclear weapons effects and the many modes available that can be used by the clandestine attacker .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali .
The attack killed 202 people ( including 88 Australians , 38 Indonesians , and people from more than 20 other nationalities ) .
A further 209 people were injured .
Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah , a violent Islamist group , were convicted in relation to the bombings , including three individuals who were sentenced to death .
The attack involved the detonation of three bombs : a backpack-mounted device carried by a suicide bomber ; a large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ detonated in or near popular nightclubs in Kuta ; and a third much smaller device detonated outside the United States consulate in Denpasar , causing only minor damage .
An audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama Bin Laden stated that the Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States ’ war on terror and Australia ’ s role in the liberation of East Timor .
The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar , Saudi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ company ( Saudi Aramco ) headquarters of Dhahran on June 25 , 1996 .
At that time Khobar Towers was being used as quarters for foreign military personnel .
A truck-bomb was detonated adjacent to Building # 131 , an eight-story structure housing United States Air Force personnel from the 4404th Wing ( Provisional ) , primarily from a deployed rescue squadron and deployed fighter squadron .
In all , 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and 498 of many nationalities were wounded .
Although al-Qaeda has been described by some sources as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1996 statement by the United States named members of Hezbollah Al-Hejaz ( English : Party of God in the Hijaz ) as responsible .
In 2006 , a U.S. court found Iran and Hezbollah guilty of orchestrating the attack .
C. Lebanon – US Embassy in Beirut The April 18 , 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut , Lebanon , that killed 63 people , mostly embassy and CIA staff members , several soldiers and one Marine .
17 of the dead were Americans .
Of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Central Intelligence Agency , including the CIA ’ s top Middle East analyst and Near East director , Robert C. Ames , Station Chief Kenneth Haas and most of the Beirut staff of the CIA .
It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time , and is thought of as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups .
The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force , made up of Western countries , including the U.S. , in the Lebanese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order and central government authority .
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19 , 1995 .
Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols , the bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others .
The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius , destroyed or burned 86 cars , and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings , causing an estimated $ 652 million worth of damage .
You will find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media about the nuclear nature of 9-11 .
However , here at VT we have published a large number of articles that detail every aspect of this most heinous crime .
Again , the MSM will never mention this incident in August 2014 was nuclear but VT published the truth ; a missile strike with a nuclear warhead : Just as “ Little Boy ” and “ Fat Man ” were rushed to the Pacific Theater in time to be tested on the starving Japanese citizenry before the emperor ’ s surrender pleas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ version of the bunker-busting GBU-28 was rushed to Afghanistan to conduct remote field tests before the Taliban surrendered .
The nuclear version of the GBU-28 bunker buster is the B61-11 .
When American forces targeted Tora Bora in 2001 , there were 150 B61-11s in the U.S. arsenal .
Featuring nuclear warheads that could be dialed from 0.3 to 340 kilotons – equivalent of 300 to 340,000 tons of radioactive TNT – these new Earth Penetrating Weapons were , according to atomic scientists , capable of “ destroying the deepest and most hardened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warheads are not capable of doing.
” [ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May/June 1997 ; Wired Oct 8/01 ] According to sources , under the cover of massive DU-tipped bombs that raised dirty mushroom clouds in thunderous explosions that rained radioactive dust over Jalalabad and nearby villages , the first nuclear bombs dropped since Basra in 1991 were detonated by American forces in Afghanistan beginning in March 2002 .
Before their field tests were concluded , United States forces would explode four 5-kiloton GBU-400 nuclear bombs in Tora Bora and other mountainous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. military sources , the first detonation of a nuclear weapon against another country since 1945 took place approximately 11 miles east of Basra , sometime between February 2 and February 5 , 1991 .
By then , Iraq ’ s former capitol had been declared a “ free fire zone ” – open to carpet-bombing by high-flying formations of eight-engine B-52s .
“ Basra is a military town in the true sense , ” military spokesman General Richard Neal told the press .
“ The infrastructure , military infrastructure , is closely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Though the soon-to-be fired General Neal claimed there were no civilians left in Basra , the city was actually sheltering some 800,000 terrified residents .
In direct violation of Article 51 of the Geneva Protocols , which prohibits area bombing , the B-52s commenced saturation grid-bombing of the city .
Mixing fuel-air bombs with shrapnel-spraying cluster bombs , the bombers leveled entire city blocks , the Los Angeles Times reported , leaving “ bomb craters the size of football fields , and an untold number of casualties.
” [ Washington Post Feb @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] With the city of Basra resounding to gigantic explosions , and engulfed in “ a hellish nighttime of fires and smoke so dense that witnesses say the sun hasn ’ t been clearly visible for several days at a time , ” a 5-kiloton GB-400 nuclear bomb exploding 11 miles away under the desert attracted no notice .
[ deoxy.org ; Los Angeles Times Feb 5/91 ] The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred during the night of 20 September 2008 , when a dump truck filled with explosives detonated in front of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Islamabad , killing at least 54 people , injuring at least 266 and leaving a 60 ft ( 20 m ) wide , 20 ft ( 6 m ) deep crater outside the hotel .
The majority of the casualties were Pakistanis ; although at least five foreign nationals were killed and fifteen others reported injured .
The attack occurred mere hours after President Asif Ali Zardari made his first speech to the Pakistani parliament .
The Marriott hotel was the most prestigious hotel in the capital , located near government buildings , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
During the investigation , three suspected terrorists were arrested by the Pakistani police .
They were suspected of having facilitated the suicide bomber .
However later they were acquitted of all charges as no evidence was ever presented against them .
May 2015 , outskirts of San ’ a .
Another incident ignored by the MSM but we at VT broke the story : Tianjin was hit first and we at VT were the only ones who told you the truth .
Two more strikes against Dongying and Zibo have taken place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the coming days .

We are now at the fifth generation of nuclear weapons design which means that a number of different types of nuclear weapon exist and they differ substantially in effect from the weapons we are familiar with from all those 1950s newsreels of huge atomic blasts.
Modern 5th gen weapons are often of much lower yield than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs with yields of less than 1 kiloton (1000 tonnes of TNT equivalent). They also have different manners of explosion – instead of one big bang they can have much longer burn times producing visual effects that look quite different.
This is why it is important to learn a little about these new weapons types and how their explosions would appear visually as it will better enable the identification of nuclear events in future; allowing people to discern between the explosion of a warehouse full of rocket fuel and a nuclear explosion.
Make no mistake, we have entered into a dangerous new age where the use of these advanced low yield nuclear weapons will become increasingly commonplace; therefore we all need to become better informed about these weapons so it becomes harder to use them covertly to commit acts of terrorism.
The uranium hydride bomb is a variant design of the atomic bomb first proposed as far back as 1939. It uses deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, to act as a neutron moderator in a U235 based implosion weapon. The neutron chain reaction is a slow nuclear fission process vs a fast fission process. Due to the use of slower moving neutrons the bombs total explosive power is adversely affected by the thermal cooling of neutrons since it delays the neutron multiplication factor or Alpha production rate. Two uranium hydride bombs are known to have been tested back in the 1950’s,the Ruth and Ray test explosions in Operation Upshot-Knothole, 1956. The tests produced a yield comparable to about 200 ton of TNT or more each. However both tests were considered to be fizzle yields at the time. Since the trend was for weapons with a bigger bang, the technology was shelved for over 20 years.
In a delayed or slow fission nuclear weapon design the hydrogen deuterides in the form of uranium hydride (UH 3 ) or plutonium hydride (PUH3) moderates (slows) the neutrons, thereby increasing the neutron cross section for neutron absorption. The result is a much lower required critical mass,and thus a smaller weapon thereby reducing the amount of U235 or plutonium PU239 needed for an explosion. The result in the original 1956 design was that the slower neutrons delayed the reaction time too much and reduced the efficiency of the weapon. Its effect was to increased the time between subsequent neutron generation events that are necessary for a rapid explosion and it creates a problem in the containment of the explosion; the inertia that is used to confine implosion type bombs will not be able to confine all of the reaction in time. The end result is a lower yield fizzle blast with a very long burn time instead of a big bang. The predicted energy yield would be in the order of 1kt or 1000 tons TNT up to 5 kt equivalent instead of a standard 20 kt blast for the same amount of fissile material used.
In a classical nuclear weapon design a critical mass is supposed to go more or less instantly into an explosion. However if half the critical mass, of U235 or U239 is undergoing delayed or moderated fission the process will continue so long as Alpha gain (neutron production) is positive. With huge numbers of atoms involved, even if there isn’t enough for a prompted explosion; There will always be enough energy given off as Bremsstrahlung radiation and the whole thing should get ‘burning hot’ before it detonates. Unburnt deuterium fuel will then be consumed by the fireball as neutron or Alpha production slowly decays. This is done by reducing the size of the critical mass by adding a mixture of Lithium6 and Deuterium hydrates to the core before it undergoes compression. The end result is what used to be called a fizzle yield. So instead of a 20KT blast you would only get about a 5KT blast but a much longer plasma fireball burn time.
The Uranium Deuteride design is a hydride type device, which relies on moderated fission (UH3 or UD3) rather than fast fission. The hydride designs work well but their slow fission process due to the use of moderated fission reactions is extremely limiting to their yield. This meas a much lower blast yield but a very long plasma burn time. If the purpose of the weapon is a very small yield with a very long thermal burn time. I.E. a nuclear thermobaric weapon with a limited yield of less than 5 to 6 kt and a maximum blast radius damage of less than 1 mile with little fallout; Then this is the weapon of choice.
In a slow burn nuclear weapon over 75% or more of the energy is now released as thermal and neutron radiation instead of a shock wave blast. It starts out as a very small fireball that quickly grows in size until full detonation level is achieved at about the 200 to 300 ton level. Then you get the classical explosion (the flash) and blast wave from the rapidly expanding fire ball. After the massive explosion, the fireball continues to burn and consume its unburnt nuclear fuel that is now in a fully plasmatized state. The nuclear fuel in a plasma form will continue to burn at a slower and slower rate until the alpha or neutron production goes to zero.
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In the newer moderated weapon designs. The heat of the fission reaction produces fusion of the hydrogen isotopes surrounding the pit. Thus releasing a second burst of neutrons. This causes even more uranium atoms to fission, creating a much larger nuclear chain reaction that doubles the yield of the weapon with only a small percent of the total energy released being contributed by the original fission reaction. Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted from the plasma fireball is also called free / free radiation. This refers to the fact that the radiation is created by the charged particles that are set free both before and after the explosion that produced there emissions.
Pre-initiation is only a problem in the older WW2 era solid core devices (fatman) with a high pure fission yield because it is only in these types of bombs that you have an intrinsic disassembly limited time yield, and thus the requirement that a very high “alpha” (neutron multiplication rate) exist at disassembly time. Alpha ramps up as implosion proceeds, and if you integrate the neutron multiplication rate over the implosion time you find that in a high yield pure fission device the total number of doubling intervals that occur between criticality and full assembly is a large number, over 80 to 100 or more, while the number required to generate enough energy to disassemble the bomb at full yield is only about 80. This is why disassembly in the older solid core weapon designs is a problem; Any neutrons introduced in the first 20 doubling intervals will cause disassembly before maximum criticality of 80 doublings or shakes can occur. A “shake” is basically one doubling of a neutron generation.
However, in a modern boosted weapon the pure fission yield is only about 300 tons with boosting kicking in around 200 tons, and the total number of integrated doubling intervals between criticality and full criticality is less than the number of intervals required to take one neutron generation (a shake) up to the population level required to produce a full 200 ton boosted yield. This means that not only is pre-detonation not a problem in a modern boosted weapon design, but you can design the bomb in such a way that you actually have to inject a large number of neutrons into it to get it to explode at full yield. This is called a subcritical device and it is the basis of all mini or micro nukes operation.
Boosting requires millions of neutrons to flood the fissile core very rapidly with lots of heat and compression needed. But if you’re requirements are much more modest, (only a few kilotons or less) then just a small amount of neutrons are only needed to spark a single fission chain reaction. Then the quantity of fusion generated with a spherical shock implosion from an HE shell can produce enough fission to start the fusion chain reaction. The purpose of the deuterium hydrates is to act as a moderator for the neutrons, which will allow a much smaller quantity of fissile material to be used for a given critical mass. Unfortunately, moderating implies slowing of the blast detonation sequence, just what you don’t want in a big device. That’s why they fizzle. But for a small device it will work just fine. IE a micro-nuke.
The main benefit of using a moderator in a neutron bomb is that the amount of fissile material needed to reach criticality is greatly reduced. The slowing of fast neutrons will increase the total cross section for neutron absorption, thus greatly reducing the critical mass and allowing for a much smaller amount of fissile material to be used in a weapon. A side effect of this is that as the chain reaction progresses, the moderator will be heated, losing its ability to properly control the neutrons velocity. Another effect of moderation is that as the time between subsequent neutron generations is increased, Alpha is slowed down thus slowing down the total reaction time. Producing a lower yield. This makes the containment of the explosion a problem; the inertia that is used to originally confine the implosion will not be able to hold the reaction together long enough. The end result will be a lower fizzle yield instead of a big bang. The explosive power of a fully moderated explosion is thus limited, at worst it may be equal to a chemical explosive of similar mass and at best about 6kt in yield.
Quoting Heisenberg:
“One can never make an efficient explosive weapon with slow neutrons alone because the neutrons will only move at thermal speeds, with the result being, that the reaction is so slow that the weapon explodes (disassembles) before the reaction is complete.”
While a nuclear bomb working only on thermal neutron expansion alone may be impractical, modern weapons designs still benefit from some level of moderation. A beryllium tamper used as a neutron reflector also act as a moderator slowing neutron production in boasted weapons. If the expansion rate of the neutrons can be properly regulated to a compromising velocity then a small neutron device will work very well based on this principal. With the effect of producing a slow burning nuclear thermobaric weapon with a massive heating effect and a very small blast effect. This is then basically an enhanced radiation weapon of a 5th generation design. Also called a mini or micro nuke.
The concept of pre initiation problems is only an issue with the old style WW2 era (1945) (fatman) solid core pure implosion PU based weapons. Boosted weapons or neutron moderated weapons along with gun implosion uranium based weapons do not have this problem. There is a major misconception amongst the general public as to how these weapons really work. Modern weapons do not have this pre detonation problem and virtually any fissile PU or HEU material over 80% pure will work. And if you want a really slow burn with low fallout and limited blast damage range, then a moderate or slow burn neutron bomb works best.
By simply re-manufacturing the already built and paid for 6,000 plus military surplus pits that the US government has in long term 100 year storage. These weapons could easely be produced so cheaply that they would make all future long range maned bomber designs obsolete. Rember 1 kiloton of nuclear energy is equal to about 20, B-52 Vietnam era bomb loads. At a cost of over 100 million dollars per bomber. Do the math. Which one is cheaper a single 1 kt nuke weighing less than 1,000 lbs sent by a cruse missile, or dropped by an F-16; or twenty B-52 bombers costing over 2 billion dollars doing the same thing with conventional TNT based explosives.
In the “High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2002)”, The National Academies Press, stated that the average citizen had very little actual knowledge about how nuclear weapons work and that during a planned terrorism attack, these misconceptions would be greatly preyed upon by the terrorists in order to produce a general sense of panic so needed in order to disrupt our system of government.
This is a list of some of the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons use:
“There was no significant fallout in the vicinity of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. All radiation injuries were a result of immediate (first 1 minute) radiation.” True.
“The only cases of significant fallout exposure as of 1964 to individuals, was in the Marshall Islands after a U.S. test. The short term effects were skin ‘burns’. As of 1964, no long term effects were known, although a slight excess cancer rate would be expected based on modern knowledge.” True.
“Almost all radioactivity in fallout – even in a ground burst – comes from the fission products themselves or transmutation of parts of the weapon. Thus air bursts and ground bursts produce approximately the same amount of radioactive products. However, ground bursts cause much more of the radioactive debris to be deposited within a fallout pattern, rather than distributed (and accordingly diluted and decayed) across the entire planet.” True.
“The blast effect is primarily determined by the “overpressure” – given in English units in PSI. A human being can withstand up to about 35PSI of peak overpressure from a nuclear blast (1% fatality rate). Your distance may vary. Thus a human will almost always survive the blast overpressure at approximately the following distances (slant range) from a blast according to the following table”: when we extrapolate these statistics, we see that the news reports from other blasts are consistent with these scientific data. True.
Our calculations tell us that these so called terrorist blasts are probably small tactical nuclear warheads in the vicinity of 0.01 kilotons and up to 5 KT or slightly larger in size. All the reported facts from these blasts indicate an exceedingly small nuclear warhead was used that is now being passed off as a large conventional explosive that ignited propane gas cylinders. But the reported facts of the blasts are consistent with our calculations produced by such a small nuclear explosion.
Any blast crater that is larger than 6 feet wide requires more than 4,000 lbs of TNT to make it. 16,000 lbs of TNT will only make a 10 foot wide crater. So when you see a 60 or a 100 foot wide crater that’s too big to be caused by conventional explosives and when you see a flash that is brighter than the sun followed by a ever expanding and rising fireball. Thats a nuke. Everything else is just a secondary explosion going off .
In any explosion. There are 3 types of explosions to be considered.
1. A molecular mater based explosion such as TNT: Producing a dark black cloud of dust and a single point of detonation throwing up a lots of dirt and producing a strong shock wave. Multiple secondary explosions can be involved. Coats everything with a dry black powder residue.
2. A vapor or fuel air / dust explosion: Producing a very large red and orange fireball. May have multipoint ignition sources from exploding fuel or gas /propane tanks. It also leaves an oil residue on every thing from unburnt hydrocarbon fuel residue.
3. A nuclear blast explosion: Producing a single point explosion with a very bright white flash that is spherical in shape. Followed by a rising fire ball and a mushroom dust cloud. Then a delayed shock wave. It leaves behind lots of very fine white or gray ash / powder residue and many chunks of dirt or pulverized cement and melted metal.
In the case of the recent China blasts, all three types of explosions were used by the offenders. With the first conventional explosion masking the second larger nuclear explosion, followed by the third massive fuel air vapor explosion being set off by the nuke to mask it use, with the ever burning hot plasma fireball turning everything into white ash. The overpressure collapsing the cars roofs and blowing out the glass. Thermal radiation vaporizing the car tires and glass that was then ashed with the radiation effects melting and toasting the cars at over 2,000 degrees centigrade. The massive 400 foot wide crater being created from the overpressure blast of the nuclear weapon estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.8 Kt in size. The fracture zone around the crater proving that it was a low altitude surface burst and the soil debris extracted from the crater floor being deposited all over the place looking like big chunks of dirt clods. If you have ever seen photographs of a neutron bomb test this is exactly what it looks like.
Surface Crater
In the case of near-surface, surface, and shallow sub-surface bursts, the fireball’s interaction with the ground causes it to engulf much of the soil and rock within its radius and remove that material as it moves upward. This removal of material results in the formation of a crater. A near-surface burst would produce a small, shallow crater. The crater from a surface burst with the same yield would be larger and deeper; crater size is maximized with a shallow sub-surface burst at the optimum depth. The size of the crater is a function of the yield of the detonation, the depth of burial, and the type of soil or rock.
Where have we seen this effect used before? In clandestine terrorist attacks but unrecognized by the general public due to their misunderstanding of nuclear weapons effects and the many modes available that can be used by the clandestine attacker. A. Bali The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, and people from more than 20 other nationalities). A further 209 people were injured. Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah, a violent Islamist group, were convicted in relation to the bombings, including three individuals who were sentenced to death. The attack involved the detonation of three bombs: a backpack-mounted device carried by a suicide bomber; a large car bomb, both of which were detonated in or near popular nightclubs in Kuta; and a third much smaller device detonated outside the United States consulate in Denpasar, causing only minor damage. An audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama Bin Laden stated that the Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States’ war on terror and Australia’s role in the liberation of East Timor. B. Khobar towers The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran on June 25, 1996. At that time Khobar Towers was being used as quarters for foreign military personnel. A truck-bomb was detonated adjacent to Building #131, an eight-story structure housing United States Air Force personnel from the 4404th Wing (Provisional), primarily from a deployed rescue squadron and deployed fighter squadron. In all, 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and 498 of many nationalities were wounded. Although al-Qaeda has been described by some sources as the likely culprit, the official June 25, 1996 statement by the United States named members of Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (English: Party of God in the Hijaz) as responsible. In 2006, a U.S. court found Iran and Hezbollah guilty of orchestrating the attack. C. Lebanon – US Embassy in Beirut The April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 63 people, mostly embassy and CIA staff members, several soldiers and one Marine. 17 of the dead were Americans. Of the Americans killed, eight worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, including the CIA’s top Middle East analyst and Near East director, Robert C. Ames, Station Chief Kenneth Haas and most of the Beirut staff of the CIA. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is thought of as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups. The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force, made up of Western countries, including the U.S., in the Lebanese Civil War, to try to restore order and central government authority. D. Oklahoma City The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage. E. 911 You will find not a single word in the mainstream media about the nuclear nature of 9-11. However, here at VT we have published a large number of articles that detail every aspect of this most heinous crime. F. Ukraine Again, the MSM will never mention this incident in August 2014 was nuclear but VT published the truth; a missile strike with a nuclear warhead: https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2015/02/13/kiev-missile-nuked-donetsk/ G. Afghanistan – 2002, attacking the Tora Bora caves Just as “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were rushed to the Pacific Theater in time to be tested on the starving Japanese citizenry before the emperor’s surrender pleas leaked to the press, the nuclear version of the bunker-busting GBU-28 was rushed to Afghanistan to conduct remote field tests before the Taliban surrendered. The nuclear version of the GBU-28 bunker buster is the B61-11. When American forces targeted Tora Bora in 2001, there were 150 B61-11s in the U.S. arsenal. Featuring nuclear warheads that could be dialed from 0.3 to 340 kilotons – equivalent of 300 to 340,000 tons of radioactive TNT – these new Earth Penetrating Weapons were, according to atomic scientists, capable of “destroying the deepest and most hardened of underground bunkers, which the conventional warheads are not capable of doing.” [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May/June 1997; Wired Oct 8/01] According to sources, under the cover of massive DU-tipped bombs that raised dirty mushroom clouds in thunderous explosions that rained radioactive dust over Jalalabad and nearby villages, the first nuclear bombs dropped since Basra in 1991 were detonated by American forces in Afghanistan beginning in March 2002. Before their field tests were concluded, United States forces would explode four 5-kiloton GBU-400 nuclear bombs in Tora Bora and other mountainous regions of Afghanistan. . H. Iraq – Basra, 1991 According to U.S. military sources, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon against another country since 1945 took place approximately 11 miles east of Basra, sometime between February 2 and February 5, 1991. By then, Iraq’s former capitol had been declared a “free fire zone” – open to carpet-bombing by high-flying formations of eight-engine B-52s. “Basra is a military town in the true sense,” military spokesman General Richard Neal told the press. “The infrastructure, military infrastructure, is closely interwoven within the city of Basra itself.” Though the soon-to-be fired General Neal claimed there were no civilians left in Basra, the city was actually sheltering some 800,000 terrified residents. In direct violation of Article 51 of the Geneva Protocols, which prohibits area bombing, the B-52s commenced saturation grid-bombing of the city. Mixing fuel-air bombs with shrapnel-spraying cluster bombs, the bombers leveled entire city blocks, the Los Angeles Times reported, leaving “bomb craters the size of football fields, and an untold number of casualties.” [Washington Post Feb 2/91; Los Angeles Times Feb 5/91] With the city of Basra resounding to gigantic explosions, and engulfed in “a hellish nighttime of fires and smoke so dense that witnesses say the sun hasn’t been clearly visible for several days at a time,” a 5-kiloton GB-400 nuclear bomb exploding 11 miles away under the desert attracted no notice. [deoxy.org; Los Angeles Times Feb 5/91] I. Pakistan – Islamabad Marriot Hotel Bombing The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred during the night of 20 September 2008, when a dump truck filled with explosives detonated in front of the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing at least 54 people, injuring at least 266 and leaving a 60 ft (20 m) wide, 20 ft (6 m) deep crater outside the hotel. The majority of the casualties were Pakistanis; although at least five foreign nationals were killed and fifteen others reported injured. The attack occurred mere hours after President Asif Ali Zardari made his first speech to the Pakistani parliament. The Marriott hotel was the most prestigious hotel in the capital, located near government buildings, diplomatic missions, embassies and high commissions. During the investigation, three suspected terrorists were arrested by the Pakistani police. They were suspected of having facilitated the suicide bomber. However later they were acquitted of all charges as no evidence was ever presented against them. J. Yemen May 2015, outskirts of San’a. Another incident ignored by the MSM but we at VT broke the story : https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2015/05/29/how-israel-was-busted-nuking-yemen/ K. China Tianjin was hit first and we at VT were the only ones who told you the truth. Two more strikes against Dongying and Zibo have taken place, which we will be reporting on in the coming days. https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2015/08/25/confirmation-tianjin-was-nuked/ ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed
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