Bunker Busting Practice Outside Liberal San Francisco

Bunker Busting Practice Outside Liberal San Francisco


Cathy Garger



I’ve got to admit I’ve never seen a bunker buster explosion, have you? Below is a tiny video clip that demonstrates just how buster bunkers actually work. And while we may have been told in the media that these weapons are used to destroy underground tunnels and caves, in the tiny film clip below we are shown the actual effects of these Uranium poison gas weapons taking place quite above the ground.

Why would I suggest you watch a film clip on bunker busters? Well, in the short article below, it ties in with what weapon laboratory researchers are doing roughly 40 miles to the west of San Francisco. The goal of the Livermore National Laboratory, after all, is to improve on the lethality of weapons for the wars of tomorrow.

Even from clear on the other coast, it sure seems unfortunate that the health of 10 million people in the greater San Francisco Bay/San Jose area within 100 miles of Site 300, where both chemical and radioactive materials are exploded regularly into the open air - have to be "sacrificed" in such a manner. http://www.rense.com/general75/hyd.htm

We always hear that San Francisco is such a "liberal" town. Certainly, decades ago, this was certainly true, as it was the heart of the hippie’s anti-war movement. Now one can not help but wonder - in the land of good-hearted activists who hug trees, throw Gay Pride parades, celebrate their bodies on nude bicycling day, and wipe off ducks after oil spills – why these same folks are not fighting open-air nuclear materials blasts… practically in their own backyard?

In case it’s some secret unknown to those on the Pacific coast, the nuclear weapons lab people both in Berkeley and about 40 miles away at Livermore have been busy for over 50 years "cooking up" radionuclide potions for liberals - such as so-called Depleted Uranium - in the air, in the SF Bay, and in the very soils where fruits and vegetables are grown in fertile - yet radioactive - valleys.

Is this legal, you may ask? A UN Humanitarian Attorney assures us that International law states it is most certainly not! http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_26286.shtml

In case you don’t believe that they’re testing bunker busters outside San Francisco? Thanks to the great folks in the UK (where we in America quite often get our news about what’s going on here at home) here’s an article and photo of a recent bunker buster explosive "test" being conducted outside San Francisco:

http://tinyurl.com/5fzfnm or

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/07/red-faces-at-us-explosion-lab.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=specrt12_head_Red%20faces%20at%20weapons%20lab

Red faces at US explosion lab

Spare a thought for a team from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California which this week unveiled a new technique for blasting out 50 times as much rock or concrete using the same weight of explosive as a standard shaped charge.

The "cluster charge" approach replaces a single shaped charge with a pattern of multiple small charges detonated simultaneously.

It's a clever technique that might be compared to what happens if you carelessly drill several holes too close together in a wall. Cracks propagate between them and the entire volume of material in the area bounded by the holes breaks free leaving one large hole.

The researchers say the cluster-charge technique is between 40 and 60 times more efficient than the shaped-charge approach. It has applications in blasting and mining, especially oil extraction. However, the first users will be for military demolitions and bunker busting. That's hardly surprising given Livermore's status as a government laboratory in the US.

But if this work has a strangely familiar feel, that's because a similar approach is described in a 1965 paper by researchers from Russia's Skochinskii Mining Institute on the using several explosive charges clustered closely together at the same time.

Perhaps there is nothing new under the Sun after all.

David Hambling, technology writer

http://tinyurl.com/5fzfnm

Watch this short – but amazing - Bunker Buster Explosion Clip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBXUBf12Xc4