Bali Micro Nuke - Lack of Radiation Confuses "Experts"
"The bomb flashed and exploded like a micro nuke,
but our Geiger counters don't show any radiation"

Copyright Joe Vialls, 21 October 2002

It was precisely 11.30 p.m. on Saturday 12 October 2002,
when someone somewhere pressed a button that sent a single coded
radio-squirt to an underground aerial located in a monsoon drain
outside the Sari Club in Bali. An unseen circuit closed and a primer
fired, then one-millionth of a single second later, a terrible
fireball formed under the street. Less than six inches in diameter
and burning at a staggering 300,000 degrees centigrade, the fireball
was a perfect shimmering sphere, made possible by 99.78% Plutonium
239 manufactured at Dimona in the Negev Desert.
Five microseconds passed while this fission monster from
hell expanded, then the already-cooling fireball tore its angry way
out into the street above, vaporizing all victims standing within
thirty feet while simultaneously spreading two tons of deadly
microscopic roadbed shrapnel in a lethal arc across Kuta Beach. Every
survivor standing in direct line-of-sight of its awesome ultraviolet
emission received terrible flash burns, the like of which three
eminent Australian burns surgeons would later claim on TV they "had
never seen before".
Less than ten-millionths of a second after the monster
achieved critical mass, its searing thermal wave set fire to
twenty-seven buildings in the immediate area, and spontaneously
ignited automobiles parked two blocks away from ground zero. But as
you will read later in this report, no ordinary Geiger counter from
any nation could detect any radiation from the weapon.

Political and paid "academic expert" whores were quickly
thrust in front of television cameras to explain the inexplicable.
How and why the bombing happened in the first place, and increasingly
as harsh reality kicked in and facts became clearer, why dozens of
full-size human victims had vanished completely without trace.
Every bomb expert in the world knows that conventional
explosives lack the heat and velocity to "vanish" complete bodies in
this manner, except perhaps when crushed into total oblivion by a
million tons of masonry as happened at the World Trade Center. When
the dust from the biggest IRA bomb ever detonated in Northern
Ireland finally cleared, the victims were still in the local area.
Many were disassembled into large bloody body parts, but they were
still generally recognizable.

When a diminutive member of Hamas recently detonated
thirty pounds of TNT strapped tightly around his own chest in
Palestine, emergency services still had to remove large recognizable
chunks of his dismembered body from the area. Believe me people,
believe me, conventional explosive cannot "vanish" citizens without
trace, and Bali simply did not have a million tons of masonry
available to fall on their heads. Only a nuclear weapon has the heat
needed for instant cremation, combined with the incredibly fast shock
wave needed to completely remove the resulting cremated particles
from the local area.
Next big problem for the politicians and "experts" was the
large crater in the street outside the Sari Club. Five feet deep and
twenty-two feet in diameter, the crater served as proof that the
weapon was detonated underground rather than on the surface. The only
way any explosive can cause a crater is if it is first dropped from
an aircraft and penetrates sub-surface before exploding, or if it is
physically positioned sub-surface in advance. The thousand-pound
Omagh bomb detonated in Northern Ireland by the IRA during 1998 did
not cause a crater, nor did any nuclear weapon detonated above-ground
regardless of equivalent TNT yield. Check the test sites yourself.

Politicians and "experts" alike had less of a problem than
they originally thought with the crater. The helpful media folk
simply refrained from showing it on television or in the newspapers,
and the brainwashed public soon forgot about the crater altogether.
However, there were considerably more problems with the savage blast
and horrific burns "never seen before" in Australia. Knowing that
even the public would not believe these could have been caused by a
large packet of runaway Chinese fire crackers, it was time to start
dishing out some serious disinformation.
Less than 48 hours after the blast, media outlets claimed
that investigators at the crime scene, "had found traces of C4". This
was a lie but nonetheless devastating news, because everyone with a
television set and a Sylvester Stallone or Bruce Willis video knows
how awesome C4 is [supposed] to be. Stallone sticks blocks of the
stuff on every enemy installation in sight, and Willis uses it to
knock down skyscrapers. In every case the resulting television blast
is accompanied by a giant fireball designed to impress the hell out
of you, to the point where C4 has become television's "most powerful
explosive on earth". Unfortunately C4 is no such thing, and it is
probably time to put this magic bullet down once and for all, and
along with it all the other media myths surrounding Bali.

Composition 4 [C4] is pretty dull stuff. Only 1.2 times as
powerful as TNT, this plastic explosive gained its reputation
primarily because of its flexibility in use. You can shape it anyway
you like, and stick it wherever you want including underwater with
little personal risk. Composition 4 is a stable and boring compound
made from 91% RDX and 9% non-explosive Polyisobutylene plasticiser.
Think about the formulation people, think very carefully. Could this
possibly mean that 100% plain old everyday RDX actually has more
explosive power than the Stallone and Willis magic bullet? Sadly,
yes it does. In fact about 9% more.
The media in Australia were reminded of C4's shortfalls,
and further advised the giant oily fireball that always accompanies
its detonation on television is not real. The giant oily fireball is
a special pyrotechnic effect designed specifically to satisfy the
"armchair soldier" lurking inside many television viewers. Real C4
contains no incendiary materials at all, and has a brisance [velocity
of detonation] of just over 26,300 feet per second, tending to
extinguish fires rather than light them.
This caused the media to swiftly put their heads together
with their paid "experts" to find an explosive device that the public
could really believe in, short of a micro nuke of course. Less than
24 hours later the revised media fiction went to air as, "a minivan
full of gas bottles, with explosives on top". Evidently the aim was
to force the public to believe the weapon was a FAE [Fuel Air
Explosive] commonly known as the "Poor Man's Atom Bomb", which was
successfully dropped by American aircraft on both Vietnam and Iraq.

Several telephone calls later, the media were forced to
admit that a Fuel Air Weapon must be "burst" at least 100 feet above
the target in order to create a stable ethylene oxide gas cloud
suitable for ignition. They also learned that even air-launched FAEs
cannot make craters because they do not penetrate the earth, and the
suction force developed by the weapon when it grabs oxygen for
combustion, is sufficient to drag a victim's lungs out through his or
her mouth. Horrific though the injuries were in Bali, there were none
even remotely like this.
By now the media and their paid "experts" were getting
quite angry, finally suggesting in Australia that the blast and
horrific burns were caused by high explosive "laced with napalm".
The fact that napalm leaves dirty stinking residue and soot all over
the place, and produces burns quite different from those on the
victims appeared not to disturb them. But the napalm story failed to
impress, and the media lead was taken over by ITN in London on 18
October, in the aloof haughty way that only a British television
station 'with real contacts' can manage:
"ITV News correspondent Julian Manyon, in the Indonesian
capital, Jakarta, has been told by a highly placed western source
that there was no plastic explosive and the bombers used a home-made
brew similar to that which the IRA has relied on in the past in
Northern Ireland and Canary Wharf. The ingredients are readily
available in Indonesia and experts suggest that they were almost
certainly mixed together on the island of Bali itself." Oh really?
The IRA used one-thousand pounds of the stuff in the Omagh photo
shown above, which killed nearly 30 people but made no crater, and
failed dismally in its efforts to create an instant fiery war zone.

The perception of most members of the public where a
critical nuclear weapon is concerned, was shaped decades ago in the
wake of the American bombing of Hiroshima in Japan. An atomic bomb
with a Uranium 235 core, nicknamed "Little Boy", was detonated
overhead the city with a TNT equivalence of 15,000 tons. For nearly
two generations thereafter, members of the public were 'taught' that
this was the text book interpretation for use after any and all
nuclear detonations, despite the fact that nothing could be further
from the truth.
Little Boy was one of the 'dirtiest' fission weapons ever
detonated in the atmosphere, with less than 1% of its critical mass
undergoing true fission. Thus what remained after the explosion was
a giant blizzard of lethal neutron, alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
For practical [amateur] purposes we can forget the short range
neutron, alpha and beta radiation, which has trouble penetrating the
human body.
Over time it was to be the gamma radiation that would
inflict such terrible injuries on the survivors of Hiroshima,
including necrosis and ulceration. It is this gamma radiation that a
standard Geiger counter detects, warning users that they are
entering a hazardous zone. The standard Geiger counter can also
detect significant quantities of beta, though this is more difficult.
In summary, every Geiger counter within miles of Hiroshima clicked
furiously for weeks after Little Boy went critical, primarily because
of the gamma radiation.
Time passed and by the late fifties these fission weapons
were being "micronized" because they were needed as "core weapons"
for hydrogen bombs. Incredible temperatures are required to start
the fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb, with the atom bomb the only
device capable of providing them. So for a while at least, the text
books accurately referred to the hydrogen bomb as a "fission-fusion"
weapon, meaning the heat from the core fission weapon [atom bomb]
started the fusion reaction in the larger weapon encasing it [the
hydrogen bomb].
It was not long before the scientists realized that in
creating the tiny "core weapon" for the hydrogen bomb, they had also
created a relatively lightweight micro nuclear weapon that could be
carried by a single soldier for various uses against high value
targets, including hydroelectric power stations and bridges. Less
than two years later, the first of the SADM [Special Atomic
Demolition Munition] series shown at the top of this page was pressed
into operational service. The "standard" SADM that evolved would
eventually have a core of Plutonium 239 encased in a thin shell of
non-fissile Uranium 238 known as a "neutron reflector".
Plutonium and Napalm flash burns - but can you tell which are which?

When the 10-ton TNT equivalence SADM went critical, it
obviously created far less radiation than the huge and
inappropriately named "Little Boy" at Hiroshima, but still produced
dangerously high levels of residual radiation. Most of this came from
SADM's very "dirty" Uranium 238 reflector, which along with its
Plutonium 239 core, exploded into millions of particles at the point
of criticality. This same non-fissile Uranium 238 material still
causes serious illnesses today, after being fired by American tanks
and aircraft as sub-critical Depleted Uranium [DU] shells or missile
warheads. Ask anyone in southern Iraq and Kosovo how sick this stuff
can make you.
The years rolled by and top-secret projects were initiated
in America and Israel to replace the old SADM with its heavy weight
and excess radioactivity, culminating in the successful development
and testing at Dimona during 1981 of the "new" micro nuclear device.
Using advanced nuclear physics, the scientists found a way of
detonating the new "suitcase" bomb without the use of a Uranium 238
reflector, and further refined the Plutonium 239 in its core to
99.78%. These measures resulted in a weapon considerably smaller and
lighter than SADM, which also had another enormous advantage.

The new Dimona micro nuke was the very first critical
weapon that could be used in "stealth" mode. Gone was the dirty
Uranium 238 reflector, and up went the purity of the smaller
Plutonium 239 core. You see, Plutonium emits only alpha radiation,
which is for all practical purposes "invisible" to a standard Geiger
counter. If you do not believe me then ask the American Environmental
Protection Agency, whose staff will confirm this.
In direct contrast with its more deadly cousins beta and
gamma, alpha can travel only a few feet and is incapable of
penetrating human skin. If you can afford an incredibly expensive and
highly-specialized Muller tube or similar, you may be able to detect
tiny amounts of alpha directly outside the Sari Club, though you
will more than likely be defeated in this quest by the Bali
environment.
Remember that this micro nuke was a tiny weapon in terms
of critical mass, with its limited number of particles distributed
over a very wide area. You will have to be within five feet to
detect a single particle, and most may have already washed away.
Bali lies in the Monsoon Belt with frequent heavy showers, and the
Sari Club is located less than 200 yards away from the surf at Kuta
Beach, which is where the monsoon drains in Kuta main street flow
into the ocean. One week on from the blast, detection may already be
too late.
Though the alpha particles cannot penetrate the skin, such
radiation is extremely harardous if inhaled because Plutonium is the
most toxic substance known to man. If you breathed in a mouthful
immediately after the blast you would be dead in less than an hour,
perhaps within minutes. If instead you breathed in a single
microgram, you might last for as few months. Anything in-between is
on a sliding scale.
The most dangerous time for burns victims as I understand
it, is known as the "golden hour" immediately following the burn
event. It is in this short critical time period that medical staff
have the best chance of stabilizing the victim and hopefully
accelerating his or her recovery. Nobody was helped medically this
quickly in Bali because the resources simply did not exist.

The next most critical period is when being manhandled
from the scene and eventually evacuated to hospital in another
country. If you are still alive then, and do not have burns to an
excessive portion of your body overall, the chances are you will make
it. An air-conditioned hospital with every facility available in a
western country, is a far cry from lying without help in the bomb
debris of Kuta Beach.
Despite this intensive care, and partly because of various
governments blocking information from the public, it is barely known
that several of these victims have died quite suddenly and
inexplicably under the latter favorable circumstances. Just how many
we will probably never know, because governments in general have a
joint vested interest in preventing their citizens from ever finding
out they were exposed to a critical nuclear weapon. It is not
difficult to imagine the panic this news would induce in the general
population, and even less difficult to envisage the torrent of legal
actions against government from survivors and bereaved relatives
alike.

On a more encouraging note, it must be emphasized firmly
here that very few of those survivors burned in the blast will
actually die from internal alpha ingestion at this late stage.
Common sense dictates that ninety-percent of those close enough to
ground zero to ingest an appreciable quantity, are most probably
already dead.

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