During 1950-1952 (Korean War Era), I was on active duty in the US Navy on Guam. As part of my additional duties, I was in charge of the Geiger Counters or radiation detectors which I kept stored in the Officer’s Quarters or BOQ. Atomic warfare was expected any day, so I made sure that they were always in working order and calibrated, and checked them out about once a month.
1952年11月3日,我在我办公室的办公室往返往窗口屏幕的桌子上进行了常用的检查。那时没有空调。我拿出了家具的校准杆,有一小位放射源,看看计数器。我把柜台放在较低的设置上,准备将校准杆放在柜台的“窗口”附近放置在“窗口”附近,但是针在规模上是在规模上的方式,并且可听信号是疯狂的,或几乎是一个连续的声音。单击单击单击单击。
I thought the counter was malfunctioning; but when I sort of raised it up and put it nearer the window, the dial and sound increased still further. I then put it close to the screen, which was on the ground floor, and it went off scale. I knew it was not the counter, but that there was some radioactivity outside. I panicked.
I ran outside and the counter was still giving a high reading over the normal background noise (natural radioactivity or it getting hit by Cosmic Rays) and as I got closer to where the rain had run off the buildings, the ground was very hot. I bypassed the Chain of Command and ran about ½ mile to the Admiral’s office, who was in charge of the whole Comnavmarianas region.
I went into his reception area and spoke with the Flag Lieutenant (top aide), who just happened to be a friend of mine, and told him that the island was radioactive. I also told him I had not spoken with my immediate Commanding Officer due to the urgency. He told me to go wait outside in the corridor. A few minutes later, he came out and told me that I was to ignore the radioactivity and keep my mouth shut. PERIOD. I started to protest, but he told me to scram. I then knew something was very, very wrong. The old “cover-up.”
The saddest part of this story is that the Guamanians, for a large part, had only rainwater for drinking, especially out in the “boonies” or jungle, and they were drinking highly contaminated radioactive water and I could not tell them to stop nor would the Navy inform them not to do so. Madness.
The picture cleared up the next day or so, I forget exactly when it was announced that the “Hydrogen Bomb” had been detonated at Eniwetok. The military forced to admit it when that Japanese fishing boat, the “Lucky Dragon #3,” had been too close to the fallout and its crew was very sick from radiation. One of them died shortly, thereafter, from radiation burns. The rest were very sick but survived.
However, even when the military was forced to admit that it had detonated that bomb and it had thrown some quarter of a cubic mile of radioactive dust into the atmosphere, they still did not warn any of the Pacific Island natives not to drink the water but from coconuts or deep wells. How many died horribly from cancer later, will never be known. It was that dust which had drifted down over the whole Pacific which had “rained down” on Guam, which I detected. Why I was told to keep quiet then became clear.
Now very little information was ever released on this explosion. I did glean out a few facts that: 1. The H-Bomb was “very dirty.” That meant it created a lot of radioactive debris. 2. It was damn near a total disaster and far stronger than anticipated. 3. It was supposed to have worked by creating helium by fusion, but nothing was ever mentioned that any helium was detected. It worked all right, but not according to theory. Vast difference. This worried me and I had it in the back of my mind for over 35 years. I knew something had gone wrong, hence the cover-up.
It was not until I had worked on this manuscript and finally realized that thermofusion did not exist and that it was cold fusion which did, that the answer became clear. There was little, or practically no, fusion; but that fragmentation, which released untold number of neutrons.
当那些中子被吸收时,它们产生放射性要素,珊瑚粉尘和海水中的那些元素来自太平洋的爆炸,因此使其“非常肮脏”。更不用说炸弹组件,建造它被居住在蒸发和加入到总放射性的范围内的其他一切。现在,当我去华盛顿,D.C.在1992年3月下旬之前,我们进入现在,以便在超导超级赌注者作证(并且是另一个长话)。我住在一家酒店。一天早上,我在大堂里遇到了一个男人,他们想知道自从我们的酒店没有餐厅以来去吃早餐。我提出带他去一个。早餐过早,我告诉他我是谁,他告诉我他是谁,他为联邦政府设计了核武器。我告诉他这个漫长的一个和我的怀疑版本。当然,他回归国家安全,保密等;但他确实说,相当倾斜,“我们现在正在做得更好,”(更多的氦气创造)或言语到这种效果。
The upshot is that the H-Bomb will never be clean; and just increasing the helium yields, will not do much except keep a lot of people busy. It did result in the “clean” or neutron bombs.