[Por la boca muere el pez – By / because of the mouth the fish dies, Spanish saying] From the Introduction:
“兵者詭道也 – Trickery is the way of war (Sunzi).
…this book lays out a wild proposition. It’s also an inconvenient truth, because I cannot
reveal the technical clincher. I’m forced to circle the issue, and use a megaton of
circumstantial evidence to do the clearance that a single gram of the direct, incontrovertible
but un-publishable counter-science would accomplish. Since that result cannot be
openly published, this book boils down partly to a review of circumstantial
challenges to the nuclear weapons orthodoxy. Though I could nuke the entire
orthodoxy with the scientific result (beyond a reasonable doubt), unfortunately
due to archaic USA national security laws I can only carpet-bomb the topic with
circumstantial material and inference (preponderance of the evidence).
The material is a mix of ‘new stuff’, sourced from me, blended with existing
historical and technical evidence scattered across the web, books and films. Even
if you work with highest beyond-top-secret clearance at a nuclear weapons
design facility, don’t feel superior to those in the Outer Darkness. We’re all in
the same boat. Amateur nuke debunkers, concerned analysts like me, academic
scientists of every stripe, and yes, you too, whoever you are – when it comes to
nukes, we’re all just rats beneath the mil.gov’s high table. For the foreseeable
future (because of the security laws), we can only gnaw at whatever scraps have
slopped down to the public domain. Yet by means of those scraps I have
discovered ‘the nuclear secret that dare not speak its name’.
This book is based entirely on unclassified public materials. As you can see from
the Bibliography, those mostly consist of mainstream histories and technical
manuals, compiled by qualified and knowledgeable authorities. It’s
overwhelmingly respectable, intellectual, clinical, responsible stuff.
Additionally, over the past few years a small community of internet nuclear
skeptics has developed. They occasionally display a spark of useful comment or
the glowing ember of a little-known citation. We may enjoy dissing them as
paranoid nutcases, but I feel that, if nothing else, we should admire their guts in
holding to a contrarian stance in this world of fearful conformity. Unfortunately,
their stuff suffers from contamination with both prejudice and distraction.
/…/ The core of this analysis is my own research result. Since I cannot present that
openly, I am doing the next best thing, which is to compile, organize, streamline
and cross-index the voluminous circumstantial evidence. In order to stick (as
closely as this radical subject matter may allow) to conventionally accepted
factoids, I use boilerplate citations from the USA Wikipedia for historical
context and technical reference wherever possible. Wikipedia is not an infallible
oracle, but as an orthodox sampling of ‘received’ opinion on most of the topics I
treat, it’s a good-enough point of departure.
Even when I have incorporated pre-existing skeptical material, I have developed
my own cross-correlated and creatively annotated versions of those (usually
inchoate and underdeveloped) points. I don’t cite sources for those kinds of
random internet inspirations, partly because of the identity problem. Most
internet boosters and drive-by cheerleaders for the null nukes conjecture use
aliases, handles and nicknames. It’s meaningless to credit net handles and
nonsense nicknames. Additionally, there’s the provenance and origination issue.
/…/ Throughout the book I’ll use Fake Atomic Instantaneous Liquidation – with its
easy acronym FAIL – for the hypothesis that explosive nukes don’t work.
Liquidation might seem a weird term in the technical sense (to refer to the
putative adverse effects of atomic explosion), but consider its synonyms:
destruction, eradication, annihilation, murder, extermination, carnage. The end
of the world as we know it – not. The FAIL hypothesis holds that nuclear
weapons are a technical fizzle rebranded for super-sized shock and awe, not to
mention a triumph of political/social command and control.
In no area of modern life is the chasm separating experts from lay readers wider
than when it comes to nuclear weapons. This is both by deliberate design
(national security laws), and by natural tendency (the topic is too complex and
depressing for most people to even approach). This book is an inevitably
insufficient and limited treatment of the world’s most complicated and urgent
problem. I hope it will serve as a fire-striker to spark up radical inquiry.”
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