Was the First Atomic Bomb [in modern times] Exploded on an American Town by the American Govt?
Book Review: "The Last Wave From Port Chicago" by Peter Vogel
by The Anonymous PhysicistVogel’s book is freely downloadable here.
http://www.portchicago.org/Port
Chicago was a WWII munitions port about 35 miles northwest of San
Francisco, traversed through various waterways. The massive explosion
that occurred there, at 10:19 P.M. on July 17, 1944 has been the subject
of debate ever since. Wikipedia has
this summary
of the superficial info: “The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly
explosion that took place on July 17, 1944 at the Port Chicago Naval
Magazine in Port Chicago, California ... killing 320 sailors and
civilians, and injuring more than 400 others. Most of the dead and
injured were African American recruits, and the continuing unsafe
conditions even after the disaster resulted in a number of servicemen
refusing to work, known as the Port Chicago Mutiny, a month later ...
Two hundred and eight sailors were convicted in summary courts-martial,
and received bad conduct discharges. The remaining 50 men, known today
as The Port Chicago 50, were found guilty of mutiny in a subsequent
court martial, and were sentenced to dishonorable discharges and prison
sentences of 8 and 15 years of hard labor... Thurgood Marshall sued the
Navy on behalf of the 50 sailors. Although he was unable to get the
convictions overturned, Marshall succeeded in winning clemency for the
50 sailors, but not until after the war in 1946.”
In The Last
Wave From Port Chicago, author Peter Vogel, details his over 20-year
quest to prove that the Port Chicago explosion was a nuclear one. The
book attempts to show that Port Chicago was the one and only “proof
firing/test” of the Mark II [Uranium Hydride Autocatalytic Lateral
Implosion] atomic bomb. Vogel starts off his tale with his own history
of being a rebel and being anti-establishment, and even being arrested
at a protest rally for assaulting a policeman. He then became a reporter
at the “San Francisco Chronicle”, and subsequently an editor for
“Electronics” magazine. At the latter, he wrote, or edited, at least one
piece on electronic component reliability in ICBMs shot into the Van
Allen Radiation belts! Vogel ends up in 1980 in New Mexico, appointed
by Governor King to be Secretary of the Board of Directors of
NMERDI--the New Mexico Energy Research and Development Institute. He
writes that Gov. King liked him so much, that he appointed him to be an
honorary Colonel in the NM National Guard.
This is how Vogel
ended up in New Mexico where, for 25 cents, in 1980, at a Santa Fe
Church rummage sale, he purchased a box of donated tools that had in its
bottom, a photocopy of a remarkable document. The document was titled
“History of 10,000 ton gadget.” [Gadget was code for the fission bomb.]
It included information on “fireball,” “detonation,’ and “radiation.”
Vogel traced the document to Paul Masters, who worked at Los Alamos,
during the Manhattan Project. Masters was involved with photography and
copying. Masters had apparently copied this secret document, and taken
it home with him, in his “shirt pocket.” The penalty for doing this was
quite severe, and gives pause. Curious also, is the fact that Masters’
wife, Charlie, was in “counterespionage,” and “connected” to the Secret
Service! Vogel reads the document and begins researching the Port
Chicago explosion, and related Los Alamos matters.
One of the
first people he interviewed, at Los Alamos, was Dr. Edward Teller. Vogel
had actually taken a course from Teller in California years earlier.
Teller, of course, is notorious as the right-wing “father of the
H-Bomb.” Except that that claim is false. (See the book, “Dark Sun: The
Making of the Hydrogen Bomb” by Richard Rhodes, read here.) Teller was
also involved in the so-called SDI or “Star Wars” development of
shooting down missiles, high above the Earth. Vogel arranges to meet
Teller at Los Alamos--and lies and says the interview will be about the
energy crisis--and photographs him, after he surprised Teller with the
“History of 10,000 ton gadget” document.
This photo shows Teller looking at the document.
Teller stops and tells Vogel, “I believe you have a classified
document. You should take it immediately to the Classification Office. I
will deny I have ever seen this document. I will deny I have ever
discussed Port Chicago with you.” The two go off to that office with the
document, but Vogel keeps a copy, of the classified document.
Shortly
after this, as Vogel begins his in-depth research into the possible,
deliberate nuking of Port Chicago, by the American gov’t, an important
Los Alamos report on Port Chicago gets re-classified, after it had been
de-classified. Nonetheless, there is a massive store of documents on
Port Chicago at Los Alamos. Officially Port Chicago could not be a
nuclear explosion, in part, because there was not enough Uranium-235
[U-235] available for this in July, 1944. Vogel attempts to show that
this is incorrect, and that every book saying this is wrong. He takes
particular aim at Richard Rhodes’ Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The
Making of the Atomic Bomb.” (Read here.) Vogel shows numerous errors of
commission and omission, and says the book must have won its awards for
its mass, not its veracity. Vogel writes that he is told, by physicists,
to help prove his case, he should ascertain the amount of U-235 that
was available at the time of the Port Chicago blast. This too remains
classified, even though this is now six decades later. The book thus has
numerous chapters and appendices related to the amount of U-235 the
Govt’s labs had produced at different times. Curiously again, Vogel gets
two Los Alamos Manhattan Project scientists to tell him the answers to
this question. They tell him that there was enough U-235 in July, 1944
for the Port Chicago blast--even though this information is classified,
and has serious penalties for Manhattan project scientists to reveal to
anyone. (Assuming those scientists’ responses were truthful.)
Let
me now summarize the findings of this book, and articles by Vogel and
others that try to prove that the Port Chicago explosion was a nuclear
one, as opposed to an explosion of the munitions at the pier, or on
board the two ships (the SS E.A. Bryan and the SS Quinault Victory,) in
the water near the pier at Port Chicago. The explosion was massive--the
pier was leveled and much of the nearby town was also--and had a large
white fireball visible for several hundred miles. People for over 20
miles reported seeing a bright white light as bright as several Suns.
Reports state that the column of flame rose to approx. 10,000 feet
before the night sky prevented observation of any further rising. The
flame from the Trinity test, a year later, also rose to that altitude,
with its subsequent mushroom cloud rising to nearly twice that height.
The resultant cloud at Port Chicago was described as being a “mushroom
cloud”--the first time that term was used in public discourse in the
English language. The document Vogel found which was written after Port
Chicago, but before Trinity, correctly predicted the 18,000-foot
altitude of the Trinity mushroom cloud “in typical Port Chicago
fashion.” Vogel shows these things did not occur in other huge munition
ship explosions, that he details in the book. All seismograms were
immediately seized, and not allowed to be published for several years.
Were they re-done, as I have asserted the WTC seismic recordings were?
Eyewitnesses said some of the many missiles that flew to great distances
were of various colors indicating they were in a molten state due to
what we lately call “extraordinarily high temperatures.” The official
report itself says many missiles were molten. The Navy was even there
across the pier making a film of the explosion. This was revealed some
years later when they began showing a nuclear explosion that some
recognized as being of Port Chicago. The military then said this was not
an actual film, but was “special effects” [sound familiar?] created
much later. Others examined the film itself, and proved that this was
false, as the film was made of nitrate that was used in 1944, but was no
longer used because of its own flammable nature.
Of particular
importance is the following: 1. Reports from Los Alamos, and other
places, about subsequent fission bomb detonations contain the phrase,
“in Port Chicago fashion,” when referring to the rising mushroom cloud
or fireball. Even when the British regime exploded its first atomic
bomb, in 1952, off the coast of Australia, their report stated, the bomb
was placed in a forward hold of the HMS Plym and detonated "Port
Chicago style." 2. Crucially, before the Port Chicago explosion, there
are Los Alamos reports (at the highest levels--Dr. Conant and General
Grove) on the need for a test/proof firing of the Mark II nuclear
device--before further development or use of this type of A-bomb. But
just after the Port Chicago explosion, Los Alamos reports (between the
same top people) state that this is no longer necessary, and that they
can go on to other things. 3. Los Alamos scientists were immediately
sent to Port Chicago, and the Navy’s three man Court of Inquiry on the
matter, which began a few days later, included the brother-in-law (Capt.
J.S. Crenshaw) of one of the top Los Alamos people, Captain Parsons.
Parsons would fly in the Enola Gay to arm the Bomb before its dropping
on Hiroshima. 4. At the time of the Port Chicago blast, Los Alamos
physicists thought the bomb to be used on Japan would be too heavy for
airborne use, and therefore had to be taken in by ship. 5. There was a
massive 800-foot diameter crater created under the S.S. Bryan.
Out
of 320 dead, only 81 bodies were recovered. Out of these 81, only 30
bodies could be identified. However, we cannot assume any vaporization
of people, as these figures could possibly result from conventional
explosions in ships. The long lasting effects of the Port Chicago blast
are also telling. In 1968, the federal govt bought up all the buildings
in Port Chicago, and demolished them, and later erected a monument.
There has been a high cancer incidence in Contra Costa County, CA for
the last several decades.
Curiously, Vogel did not suffer a
strange car accident, nor surprise heart attack, nor rapid cancer, nor
was he brutally assaulted nor had his home contaminated with a very
toxic form of mercury, as was done to me, for just once speaking out on
how SS agent Greer shot both Connally and Kennedy. Vogel meets with many
Los Alamos scientists and tells each one that he is researching Port
Chicago, and that he is trying to prove that the U.S. Govt deliberately
nuked this American pier and town, and suffers no harmful consequences
for this. There is much else in the book that gives me pause. Much else
seems to be establishment dogma. There is the omission of what the
Ottawa agreement really was about (British control of American nukes),
standard nonsense about Osama bin Laden is thrown in, immense praise for
one of the members of NMERDI, Dean McGee, Chairman of Kerr McGee. I
have written of the jury verdict against Kerr McGee in the Plutonium
poisoning and car ramming murder of Karen Silkwood. There is an
establishment view on many things in the book, even saying there was a
need to nuke an American town, and American sailors, to “save 100,000
American lives” in the invasion of Japan. When the truth is that Japan
had tried to surrender for months prior to Hiroshima. Some of the
reports on Port Chicago at Los Alamos, and other Los Alamos reports,
show one parameter the Manhattan Project was always concerned with, was
destruction of “dwelling houses.” So the mass murder of innocent
civilians was always the goal.
Recently I have seen what is
likely an intel Hangout regarding Port Chicago. Now it is claimed, by
some, that Port Chicago was indeed a nuclear explosion, but it was an
accident! All sorts of specious arguments are used. But the history of
American nuclear bombs is that, from the outset, various fail-safe
mechanisms were employed that made it virtually impossible for an
accidental explosion to occur. If the SS E.A. Bryan held an atomic bomb
in its hull, it would not have been armed until it was ready to be
“proof/test fired” and also studied and filmed at its “anointed place.”
A
related matter is that I have read another book on some of these
matters that has a very different take on them. This book is "Critical
Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for The United
States' Atomic Bomb" by Carter Plymton Hydrick. It may not be readily
available, but is highly recommended here. It demonstrates that both the
fissile material, and even the advanced detonator mechanism used on
Hiroshima were of German origin, and taken from the submarine that
officially was intercepted on its way to Japan, which had set sail near
the end of Hitler’s reign. I thought the book did a good job of
demonstrating its hypotheses. Now the regime’s intel assets have gone
crazy both in regards to Hydrick’s book and Vogel’s. (See the use of
foul ridicule that would be recognized, even here, as coming from intel
entities.) But
here you can read how some of the strongest critics of “Critical Mass” changed their minds when presented with the evidence. I have a different take than Hydrick on this, going to my Ultimate Truths here:
http://anonymous-physicist.blogspot.com.
If
the Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had German fissile
material and advanced detonators, this wasn’t by accident that this came
into the hands of the Manhattan Project people. Rather the PTB intended
this destination for these materials, and not Japan. Similarly, the
Uranium for the Port Chicago blast may have been delivered from Germany,
or elsewhere in 1944, as well. This could be the reason that the
American Govt won’t release its 1943-45 Uranium production amounts
still, over 60 years later! And the PTB do not want the People to know
how they controlled WWII for that purpose--creating nuclear bombs for
use on Humanity; and the different “sides” of that war, and all wars,
have been a ruse. “Critical Mass” also reveals some strangeness
regarding the physicist given credit for the advanced detonators that
also had been a great stumbling block to implosion fission devices. This
was Luis Alvarez, PhD. Decades later, this Alvarez (who would also
receive a Nobel Prize) would write some impossible Physics that
President Kennedy’s body could be slammed backward against the incoming
momentum of a bullet fired from behind him. Alvarez wrote this claptrap,
and got it published in a Physics Journal--shades of Bazant and
Seffen--after the Zapruder film was first publicly shown in 1975. It’s a
violation of the fundamental Law of Conservation of Momentum. Before
this, the regime/media just lied and said Kennedy’s body went forward in
the limo. So Hydrick’s book and Vogel’s book are similar, but
different. Unlike Hydrick’s book, Vogel’s ignores the issue of the
detonation difficulties that also held up testing and use of fission
bombs, and asserts that there was enough fissile material (U-235) by
July 1944, let alone August 1945. I recommend people read both, and
make up their own minds.
Vogel shows that the Hiroshima nuke used
only 1.14% of its contained fissile material--the rest of the U235 did
not undergo fission--due to the geometry and Physics of the
implosion/explosion. Thus its efficiency is about 1%. The Port Chicago
type A-Bomb had even less efficiency--about 0.5%. More recently, 6%
efficiency for updated nuclear bombs is
cited. This will be important in another (upcoming) article.
My
conclusion is that there is much circumstantial evidence that the Port
Chicago explosion was a nuclear fission explosion that was deliberately
perpetrated by the U.S. regime. One could argue that circumstantial
evidence is not proof, but trials have resulted in murder convictions
based solely on circumstantial evidence. But one could say that there is
no absolute proof, unless that film is of the Port Chicago nuking. Or
unless some Los Alamos scientists who know the truth, would come
forward. Of course, if they did, they could face charges of releasing
secret information on the one hand. And on the other hand, they could
(if the People ever got control of the regime again) face charges of
Mass Murder, Treason, Conspiracy, maybe even genocide of a race, as the
use of Afro-Americans, and removing the white Coast Guard detail that
night is also telling. So we are not likely to get a confession from the
perps.
Peter Vogel’s "The Last Wave From Port Chicago" presents
much evidence that the July 17, 1944 Port Chicago explosion was a
deliberate nuking of our own citizens, and sailors, and an American town
and pier, by our own government. It should be read by all. It also fits
in with the evidence that the WTC destruction on 9/11/01, was the
deliberate nuking of America’s largest city by its own regime, and that
the China Syndrome resulted, as detailed here
http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com and here
wtc-chinasyndrome.blogspot.com.
But going beyond this level,
I
consider it a strong possibility that the PTB wanted the deliberate
nuking of Port Chicago to get out! While they deny it officially for the
masses, they want others to know. There is too much
“coincidence” here. Vogel’s early anti-establishment, and so much later
recitation of establishment dogma, the finding of the document, the
strangeness of its owner and his “secret service, counterespionage”
wife. The lack of prevention/retribution rained down on Vogel. The two
scientists who told him there was sufficient Uranium--IF that is true.
We have both too many coincidences, and also many people who could have,
and maybe still could, face severe penalties for their parts in this.
Would anyone but a spy--or someone starting this “revelation” want to
photocopy a top-secret document, and then take it home, and face severe
penalties? The document would be available from then on, at such time as
the PTB would want to promulgate it. Likewise for the scientists who
faced severe penalties for revealing Uranium-235 production amounts.
They were not arrested or harmed. But all these “coincidences” in
Vogel’s tale may be genuine.
Finally, in light of the
distinctions of the two above books in regards to available amounts of
fissile material and advanced detonators, I can not know for sure which
is right. But this is not the main issue. Regardless of whether the
Uranium-235, or the detonators, in a nuclear bomb at Port Chicago came
from an American lab, or a German lab, or elsewhere,
the
evidence itself reveals that it is very probable that the American and
British regimes ordered the nuking of Port Chicago, in furtherance of
its plans for more massive nukings on other civilians in Japan, and so
on.
Did the perps, still at
Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore observe the nuking of the WTC on
9/11, and say that the rising smoke, photographed going up into space,
was in ... “Port Chicago fashion”?
