Mar. 16, 2002 - 19:38 MST

THE WONDERING JEW

Repeat It Again

Anybody remember Hiroshima ? Anybody remember the nuclear tests in the Pacific ? Chernobyl ? Three Mile Island ?

Has anybody paid attention to the fact that no state wants to accept dirty dirt (radioactive) for storage underground ? How much atomic radiation has migrated above ground from the underground tests in Nevada and how much into the underground water ? The area in Denver where Shattuck Chemical had been operated for some number of years somewhere near the time I was born and sat empty for years with the wind blowing the radioactive dust into the neighborhood where I lived and played as a boy is still in the process of being uncovered from its supposedly safe covered over grounds and dug up to be taken to an area that doesn't want to accept it. Has White Sands in New Mexico ever been declared authoritatively to be clear of contamination ? Has the residue from that managed to migrate and contaminate groundwater and how much dust blew around from there ? Has Hanford ever been decontaminated ? Rocky Flats is still in the process of being cleaned up I know. The date that it will be clean keeps being put off.

Now it seems to be an accepted fact that we are going to build and stock small nuclear devices to use strategically to (hah) clear bunkers, and used on small military operations and such things. Where will that un-Godly stuff be built and stored and what roads and railroads are going to transport that stuff ? So now we seem to have put ourselves into the Great Satan position that other countries call us ! It seems to cause no great stir here. I think it should get us all in an uproar. Half life on radioactive things is longer than our great, great grandchildren will live. So, are we going to subject future generations to the radioactive clouds that will eventually blow into our country from nuclear operations in other lands as well as fallout in their paths in the course of their travels ?

Just what the heck are the big wheels thinking of to even consider going nuclear for any reason ? Is the harm from all this going to be called euphemistically, "collateral damage ?" And has the Brass thought about the accelerated production of copy cat munitions that probably will be made by the other paranoid countries of the world ? Again I will say that the use of radioactive materials or materials that will cause radioactivity on the loose to ensue will be with us to all intents and purposes forever . . . . . .

Gee Whiz, and shades of gunboat diplomacy, are we considering killing fleas with sledgehammers ?

Even in running our atomic powerplants we produce more radioactive waste than we can safely dispose of.

It seems to be an expansion of the philosophy that harm from the production, transporting and use is a shoulder shrugging state of affairs. But loosing clouds of atomic particles and creating airborne radioactive dust to me appears to be totally senseless and not to be considered as part of the game of life . I know that from what I see weather and winds travel over our globe roughly from east to west, wiggling as it goes. What is cut loose in Europe or Asia will eventually blow into our country. To make a point, many years ago a volcano called Krakatoa on a small island between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia blew its top in a spectacular fashion which put enough airborne dust in the atmosphere of the earth that for some number of years the entire earth observed some magnificient sunrises and sunsets. But, eventually the dust dissipated by dropping to the earth possibly one thing would be the attachment to rain drops, possibly clumping together due to moisture in the air causing clumping. Whatever, the dust went somewhere and it wasn't outer space. That is something that can happen with nuclear events, nice cancer causing sunsets.

Is the news media going to accept this state of affairs, only allowing columnists to say anything, but themselves keeping mum editorially and publishing the handouts from the Brass as accepted Gospel ?

So, here we go again demonstrating that in my opinion those who don't learn from history are doomed to Repeat It Again . . . . . .

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