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Have you heard anything like this? (extract from one of Greg Hallet & The Spymaster's books.)
<span style="font-style: italic">There was a sudden mushroom of bright white light to 1800 feet, then another mushroom of white light to 10,000 feet, an intense roar and then a concussion blast travelling around 720 mph (1 mile every 5 seconds). This was reported by several eyewitnesses before there was any knowledge of what a nuclear explosion looked like.
At 10.18 pm on 17 July 1944 a 9000-lb nuclear bomb was set off in Suisan Bay in Port Chicago,2 35 miles northeast of San Francisco and 70 miles southwest of Sacramento; 322 workers, trainmen, ship’s crew, stevedores (ship loaders), sailors and marines were killed. Most of them died instantly and most of those that died were Black. It was the largest stateside disaster of WWII, yet no conclusions have been reached as to its cause.
<span style="font-weight: bold">For the test scenario to be as valid as possible, the atomic explosion had to occur on a ship, in a harbour, with people around. Those people were mainly Black people in a heavily racist America. Black American Navy personnel were the first victims of an atomic blast, not the Japanese</span>. The atomic explosion at San Francisco’s Port Chicago was a test made to look like an accident.
The US government did have the capability to produce several nuclear weapons at the time of the Port Chicago explosion. It needed to test them, was in a position to test them, and tested one in Port Chicago, 35 miles northeast of San Francisco. </span>
<span style="font-style: italic">There was a sudden mushroom of bright white light to 1800 feet, then another mushroom of white light to 10,000 feet, an intense roar and then a concussion blast travelling around 720 mph (1 mile every 5 seconds). This was reported by several eyewitnesses before there was any knowledge of what a nuclear explosion looked like.
At 10.18 pm on 17 July 1944 a 9000-lb nuclear bomb was set off in Suisan Bay in Port Chicago,2 35 miles northeast of San Francisco and 70 miles southwest of Sacramento; 322 workers, trainmen, ship’s crew, stevedores (ship loaders), sailors and marines were killed. Most of them died instantly and most of those that died were Black. It was the largest stateside disaster of WWII, yet no conclusions have been reached as to its cause.
<span style="font-weight: bold">For the test scenario to be as valid as possible, the atomic explosion had to occur on a ship, in a harbour, with people around. Those people were mainly Black people in a heavily racist America. Black American Navy personnel were the first victims of an atomic blast, not the Japanese</span>. The atomic explosion at San Francisco’s Port Chicago was a test made to look like an accident.
The US government did have the capability to produce several nuclear weapons at the time of the Port Chicago explosion. It needed to test them, was in a position to test them, and tested one in Port Chicago, 35 miles northeast of San Francisco. </span>
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