US Government denies nuclear weapons hoax
On Tuesday, the US Government Director of National Intelligence issued a warning on the threat of nuclear weapons. The warning is apparently related to the escalation of the Ukraine conflict - although I have not been following that particular saga. That statement is supported by images, video and paintings showing the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the suffering of their residents. The warning included a simulation of the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge from a nuclear weapons.
Notably, the Director of National Intelligence stated:
“This isn’t some made up science fiction story.”
I’m not so sure.
As the public is becoming increasingly aware, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was indistinguishable from that of other cities attacked with conventional weapons. Attention to this issue has been raised in Hiroshima Revisited. Also, the secrecy regarding the scientific basis for nuclear weapons is becoming increasingly untenable. As reported previously, a major property of uranium - the delayed neutron fraction - an essential determinant of the maximum reaction rate of a nuclear chain reaction - has never really been investigated - or at least the results have never been published.
My question: Why not let the American public see for themselves? Why not allow the public to observe - first hand - a small nuclear explosion?
I haven’t taken the time to read Michael Palmer’s ebook, so I don’t really know how strong is the case he makes. I’ve pursued so many unconventional perspectives on so many things which upon close investigation look almost certain to be true - the claim that the attempted assassination of Trump was a hoax is a case in point - that I’m not sure I want to pursue yet another one in depth, though if nuclear weapons are a hoax it is certainly an important one to investigate.
Let me add a bit of personal history. I studied Physics as an undergrad in the 60s. One summer I got a job as a technician to aid a grad student who was studying radioactive cesium in the atmosphere. It was assumed that the radioactive cesium had been spewed recently by one of the nuclear weapons tests and they were measuring the amounts of cesium 137 in the atmosphere in various locations in order to determine how much mixing there was in one part of the atmosphere compared to another. I seem dimly to remember that there was some surprise that the mixing of air between the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere occurred more rapidly than expected.
So if the assumption that a nuclear test explained the changing global distribution of radioactive cesium was false, there would have to be some alternative explanation. There must be many thousands (millions?) of people like me who have some personal experience that we assume is explained by the conventional account of the development of nuclear weapons. While no single one of these experiences counts as much evidence, a full investigation of the matter would have to give alternative explanations for a wide range of them.
How do.yoy square this theory with fact that countries like India and DPRK claim to have nukes?