Not So Surprising Nuke-Earthquake
News Source: The Coastal Post December, 1996
On the morning of October 10, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation aired this piece. I obtained a copy of it from the
ever-vigilant Dr. Gary Whiteford.
Anchorwoman: "A Moscow newspaper reports that Russian
scientists tried to harness earthquakes as a means of mass
destruction, and the research continued under the new Russian
government long after the Soviet Union collapsed."
Correspondent Mike Hornbrook: "The Moscow News called it
'Earthquakes Made To Order.' In a detailed article, the newspaper says
research of the so-called tectonic weapons began under the Communists
in the 1970s. By late 1987, the Soviet government ordered a major
effort to develop such a weapon.
"It was code-named Project Mercury and Project Vulcan,
and involved almost two dozen major scientific and manufacturing
centers.
"The theory was that underground nuclear explosions
could trigger earthquakes far from the site of the original blast.
Researchers speculated the destructive force released would be many
times greater than the nuclear blast, that it could be directed toward
any point on earth and that there was no way to guard against it.
"According to the Moscow News, everyone involved with
the project had the highest security clearance. The first underground
nuclear test was carried out six years ago, possibly followed by two
more blasts as the pace of research picked up.
"The newspaper says Boris Yeltsin's government continued
the work until two or three years ago. At that time a crisis in the
Russian economy put everything on hold. However, the Moscow News says
that Russia's strategic military doctrine now includes a secret
protocol on tectonic weapons.
"Western experts are said to be astonished that such a
weapons program was ever attempted. Many believe the notion of
triggering and controlling earthquakes is pure science fiction."
Much of this fits data the Coastal Post has already
presented. However, evidence points to the closing of the nuclear
sites as well as to strikes by mine workers and demonstrations across
the Soviet Union as to being an economical necessity.
That same evidence shows Soviet, and very possibly
French and American, testing with an eye on related quakes was
conducted for a much longer time. At least, since President Reagan
reintroduced testing in the mid-'80s.
For example, two weeks before the deadly December 7,
1988, Armenian earthquake, which killed up to 50,000 people, Soviet
scientists predicted a large quake would shortly hit the region. On
December 4, the Soviets detonated a test at their nuclear Novaya
Zemyla site in the Arctic.
We could go through testing dates and once again show
the close relationship between earthquakes and nuclear testing.
However, as the information is statistical and dry, we recommend that
those interested readers not familiar with our series check back
issues of the Post or send a SASE to me at POB 864, Fairfax 94978 for
a list of corresponding dates and quakes.
The mainstream U.S. media refuses to publish anything on
the subject, even though scientific evidence is strong and plentiful.
Don't think Dr. Whiteford and I haven't tried. However, the English,
Canadian and Australian media, among others, are on top of it.
Even the U.S. Geological Survey, while skeptical, is
more open. You'll notice the reference in the Canadian piece that
"many [Western experts]...believe the notion...is pure science
fiction." Doesn't that infer many other scientists are open to the
possibility?
However, one bright point: The French are in the process
of dismantling the Mururoa Atoll nuclear test site in the South
Pacific. It's supposed to once again be clean and healthy-in 10,000
years. That is, except for that persistent hundreds of yards in
diameter bubble of melted radioactive material lodged in the core of
the volcano which forms the crumbling atoll.
by Karen Nakamura
http://coastalpost.com/96/12/2.htm