Posted on 09/13/2018 6:23:50 AM PDT by C19fan
A mysterious event detected by U.S. satellites in 1979 was the detonation of an atomic bomb. The incident correlates with an equally mysterious rise in radioactivity in sheep in nearby Australia, confirming that a nuclear test took place. Experts believe that Israel and South Africa conducted a secret joint test of a tactical nuclear weapon in the Indian Ocean, hoping it would escape detection.
On September 22, 1979, a U.S. Vela satellite, part of the globe-scanning U.S. Nuclear Detonation Detection System (NDS), detected the characteristic “double flash” of a nuclear weapon. Nuclear bombs produce two distinct flashes: the superheating of air caused by the detonation and the shockwave itself, which emits light. The second flash is barely noticeable to human observers, but optical sensors known as bhangmeters can differentiate between single flash events, such as conventional explosions, and the double flash of a nuclear explosion.
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The SA government dismantled their nuclear bomb program in 1989.
We sure like having you Redlegs at Hawk Hill.
I worked with some of those guys in the video in the years after I joined Martin Marietta in 1976, at VAFB, CA.
We launched Titan IIIB and IIID from the West Coast.
Then on the West Coast Shuttle program starting in 1978.
Should have used it against the ANC.
Whoever set off an atomic bomb in the middle of nowhere in September 1979 went to great lengths to conceal it—only to be found out by flocks of sheep 40 years later.
Do sheep live 40 years? Or are these descendants of those sheep?
Don't forget about the nuke capable 8" Howitzer.
And no one will care.
People will care, but not enough to do something about it. If we tried to offer asylum to the whites, every media system in the world would scream "RACISM!!!!!"
I feel for them, but I have no idea what can be done about the problem. I've read they are forming self defense groups, but even if they were successful at fighting off the government, the rest of the world would then conspire to destroy them anyways, and they would claim they started it, and so deserve to be destroyed.
Ugly situation with no obvious solution.
What do you think can be done?
Don’t forget about the nuke capable 8” Howitzer.
And then there’s always the Davy Crockett.
Talk about Duck and Cover.
“What do you think can be done?”
The Bantu who control SA are no less colonizers than the English/Dutch settlers, and are many times more tribal/racist against other ethnic African tribes than the Europeans ever were.
Whites uniting with other oppressed tribes (and that’s really what we are talking about — tribal warfare) to oust the Bantu would be the local option.
The other option is what you suggest -— give the oppressed whites asylum. Trump would do it. They call him racists, regardless.
Even Israel has considered this, but I am afraid it is impractical — both politically, and practically, in that we are such a small little place. Maybe if they have mass conversions to Judaism (even if done with a wink and a nod), we could take them all in.
We’re still struggling with immigrants expelled from various Muslim countries and the Soviet states -— basically 50% of our population showed up here penniless and unable to speak the language within the last 40 years. It’s been difficult to integrate people.
The W48 was an American nuclear artillery shell, capable of being fired from any standard 155 mm (6.1 inch) howitzer, e.g. the M114, M198 or M109. It was manufactured starting in 1963, and all units were retired in 1992.
The W48 was 6.1 inches (155 mm) in diameter and 33.3 inches (850 mm) long. It came in two models, Mod 0 and Mod 1, which are reported to have weighed 118 pounds (54 kg) and 128 pounds (58 kg) respectively. It had an explosive yield equivalent to 72 tons of TNT (0.072 kiloton), which is very small for a nuclear weapon.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48
Just a point of order...the writers rarely pick the photos that go along with a story.
There are editors that do that stuff. As we live longer into the internet age, those editors become more and more stupid when it comes to “worldly knowledge.”
Now back to the story...
The W-54 was the fision package used in the Mk-54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition, the legendary "suitcase nuke," the discovery of which only came about because the documents regarding its decommissioning were declassified some several years after the fact. The weapon literally no longer existed (for 10 years, IIRC) before its (former) existence ever became public knowledge.
The closest anyone has come to popping the cap on a nuke in anger since Nagasaki was the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The Israelis used a fighter jet for a delivery platform (which at that time probably an F-4 Phantom fighter/bomber) employing a technique known as "toss bombing" or the "over-the-shoulder" technique, like tourists tossing coins into the Trevi fountain while their back is turned.
The pilot puts the a/c in a steep climb and releases the weapon, 'tossing' it skyward. Then he performs a sort of Split-S to reverse direction and strokes the afterburner to get the hell out of Dodge while the bomb is still on the way up. The technique provides the a/c with "stand-off," making it unnecessary to overfly the target.
We know the Israelis had nukes in the air in '73 but didn't pull the trigger (which speaks to both capability and willingness). And we know they undertook their nuclear weapons program to support the national covenant of "No more Masadas." So I think it is reasonable to presume that they will use the hundreds of nukes they now have on hand to turn as much of the Middle East as possible into a parking lot before they will permit Israel to be overrun or destroyed by their Arab neighbors.
aw,com’on..U no dats anudder WW2 German Leftover...
Yes I did. If you think the ANC gave a rats behind about anything SA was doing (other than racial discrimination) prior to the end of apartheid, you grossly overestimate the ANC.
Or one of Taiwan’s nuclear tests.
Hundreds of Israeli nuke weapons?
No, they’ve classified the number of course, while denying “officially” any weapons ready to deliver, but less than 2 dozen.
Good point. I did not consider Taiwan.
Good point. I did not consider Taiwan.
Which could be why China did not invade Taiwan all these many years when they had the chance.
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