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On the table of things the Federal Government wants to do, we have an operation called Divine Strake. The purpose of this event, is to explode 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO) at our neighbor’s nearby Nevada Test Site. Yes, it’s a proper noun. You may or may not recognize the ingredients for the bomb. It was Timothy McVeigh’s choice of materials for a building in “OOOOOklahoma, where wind comes sweepin’ across the plain”. The current claim, is that the government wants to find out exactly how much it would take to destroy an underground tunnel/facility space for the Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat (HDBTD) program. This would be the largest non-nuclear conventional explosive test since 1993. The majority of U.S. tests in the early 90’s have been on 18 ton explosives of this same material. Divine Strake, nearly 40 times that amount is being detonated to ’simulate’ a low level nuclear test. We don’t want to actually blow a Nuke up and piss of the UN, Russia and even more American’s.

The Divine Strake test is being done on location at the exact spot where a few hundred nuclear tests were conducted during our Nuclear growth stage. It is considered one of the most highly radioactive area’s in the world. Problem: Blowing up a non-nuclear 700 ton bomb that is designed to pummel bunkers on this site, does what to the radio-active compound the entire site is made up of? When Salt Lake ABC News questioned the US Government division in charge of this, they confirmed that the mushroom cloud would in fact bring radio-active material across the US, and that this cloud would reach most of UT in its initial expansion over the first few days.

Governor Huntsman is soon heading to Washington to oppose Divine Strake in person. Though we just recently got cable TV at our house, the news was filled with Anti-Divine Strake segments this evening when I sat down to watch. After being introduced to Divine Strake for the first time tonight from a few different news agencies, I actually thought it was a massive nuclear bomb that was going to kill everyone in UT from the effects, and that the US Government has been hiding many facts and truths about what the real purpose is, and how it would affect us. Conspiracy . . blah blah . . Bush sucks… blah blah; the usual. It was really quite amazing to watch as these news anchors incited ‘group think’ rather than deliver ‘fair and balanced’ information on the subject. My favorite part of the evening was watching the channel 4 ABC local news anchor get emotional in trying to convince Utah residents to do what ever they can to stop Divine Drake with a very routine, generic practiced speech against the bomb by talking about our responsibility, “I’ll stake my professional career in taking a stand” type of usual cud. It was very moving except I saw this type of speech in Independence Day and Dave. Rather than make me sympathize with the issue, the news anchors put me in a situation that made me feel like I was being told to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a good hearted, unbiased American who will represent what everyone in the country wants, when the truth is really quite the opposite.

I turned to my good friend Google, and asked him if I could find some of the truths about the upcoming planned explosion.

Interesting Divine Drake Fact: Lee Benson wrote an article for one of the public hearings just over a week ago on the subject of what dangers we face. He stated “It bothers me to hear of people worried about trivial or nonexistent amounts of radiation, and what we’re talking about in this case is a level of radiation so small it should realistically be called zero.”

He continues: “According to quotes from the (government’s) official draft assessment, the most radiation a person could receive standing next to the test site boundary during the explosion is estimated to be 0.006 to 0.007 millirem, while off-site populated areas would have an exposure two to five times lower still. That is 40 to 100 times lower than the 0.1 millirem level established by the EPA as allowable exposure (at the Nevada Test Site) under any conditions.”

This is quoted from the perspective of someone standing at Site 16 in the Nevada Test Site when Divine Strake is blown. Apparently, a dental X-ray exposure is about 100 millirems. Oh, and the US doesn’t make anything large enough to deliver 700 tons of liquid explosives. The closest thing is a space shuttle external tank.

I suppose another interesting fact would be that there have been around 100,000 various cases of cancer in people who spent routine time near and around the Nevada Test Site, caused by the Governments 900 nuclear tests at that location. Idea numero uno: Don’t got to ground zero. Regardless of the face that this bomb is non-nuclear, I don’t need front seats anyway. LV- good. NTS- bad.

Point: I wish the news would have spent more time telling me what Paris Hilton is doing or what American Idol gossip there is. Not really, but it’s all about the same usefulness to me considering how much the news channels didn’t know or didn’t want to tell us. It felt like the News here in UT was really just wanting something to be mad about, and were happy that such a big story was taking place here. Well… in Nevada really, but don’t tell them, they are enjoying it. There was so much talk about what people in the area feel like (based on what information they had or what the news channels had told them), and pretty much nothing on the reality of the situation.

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