Grid of the Gods (5 page)

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OVERNMENTS, AND THE
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“Meanwhile in the 20
^th
century, because of numerous aircraft crashes in the Lake Ontario Earth Grid area... the Canadian national Research Council and U.S. Navy began
Project Magnet
in 1950 to investigate the area’s magnetic anomalies and possible magnetic utility. This has been the only known official governmental research program into the Earth Grid system.”

Richard Lefors Clark, PhD.

Diamagnetic Gravity Vortexes
, cited in

Anti-Gravity and The World Grid,
pp. 53-54.

(...and that, strictly speaking, isn’t
exactly
true.)

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HERMONUCLEAR
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HEURGY
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APPENED
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“In the case of time,
there also exists a variable property which can be called the density of intensity of time
. In a case of low density it is difficult for time to influence the material systems, and there is required an intensive emphasis of the causal-resultant relationship in order that the force caused by the time pattern would appear.”
Dr Nikolai Kozyrev
¹

T
heir names were “Mike,” “Shrimp,” and “Runt.” They were a true alchemical trinity — genuine alchemical works — for when each was fired, for a brief moment, all the elements of the universe were recapitulated in a starburst. “Mike” was the world’s first “thermonuclear device,” a reassuring euphemism for the world’s first hydrogen bomb, for “Mike” was, for all intents and purposes, an artificial man-made sun, the fire of the ancient star-gods brought down to earth by an act of thermonuclear theurgy. “Mike” was a star that for a brief and terrifying moment would fire and light up the sky, outshining the sun itself, until he consumed himself and his fuel in a deafening roar of destruction, rising as a pillar of fire and smoke into the stratosphere. Every precaution had therefore been taken; calculations of his yield were checked and re-checked. Calm statements from Pentagon leaders reassured the American people, and indeed, the world population, that “Mike” would not ignite the hydrogen in the atmosphere and turn the entire planet into a funeral pyre. Newsreels of calm, confident pipe-smoking military men were prepared to announce to the world that mankind had entered a new age, the “thermonuclear” age, an age that made the short-lived “atomic” age seem a mere kindergarten by comparison. “Shrimp” and “Runt” were also “devices,” only in this case the euphemism was for actual deliverable weapons, but we’ll get back to them. First, we must deal with “Mike.”

Behind the scenes, the military was not, of course, being entirely truthful, and in that deception was bound all the insanity of the “thermonuclear age”. The committee that had overseen “Mike’s” development, the Panda committee, had “estimated that the Mike device would yield one to ten megatons, with the remote possibility that it might go as high as fifty to ninety megatons. The likeliest yield estimated was five megatons, the equivalent of ten billion pounds of TNT.”
²
Of course, a certain amount of latitude should perhaps be accorded this wild margin of error; after all, mankind was firing his first “thermonuclear device” and no one knew for certain how well and efficiently it would work, or even if it
would
work, until it was actually detonated.

Those estimates should nevertheless give one pause, for the military was throwing the thermonuclear dice. There is a great deal of difference between an explosion of one megaton, or a “mere” two billion pounds of TNT, and one of ten megatons — twenty billion pounds of TNT — not to mention the “outside” possibility of
ninety
megatons which would amount to a whopping
one hundred and eighty billion pounds
of TNT. The point is an important one, for the military would, of course, station observation ships and aircraft around the test site in the Pacific to monitor and witness the test; how far away from the “event” would they have to be stationed? How many local natives would have to be evacuated from their homes? And to what distance? The military decided on the likeliest yield — five megatons — and stationed the observation ships and aircraft, and evacuated the natives, accordingly.

The reason for this decision lay in “Mike’s” design itself.

A. The Design of “Mike” and the Actual Test: The First “Woops!”

“Mike,” like most hydrogen bombs ever since, was a “staged device,” that is, it was actually three bombs in one: (1) a standard “atom splitting” or fission bomb which was used to ignite (2) the second stage of the actual “atom fusion” reaction, not
splitting
atoms
apart
, but actually fusing them
together
, and (3) a third stage, another fission bomb to boost the yield even more. It is important to
understand that the first two stages are
essential
to a working hydrogen bomb, as the atom bomb is required as the “fuse” to achieve the enormous heat and pressures required to fuse atoms together. Thus,
all
hydrogen bombs are “staged devices” possessing at least the first two stages, the fission bomb (stage one) that sets off the fusion bomb (stage two), and most hydrogen bombs are three staged fission-fusion-fission bombs simply as a matter of efficiency, since the third stage provides the extra “kick” to make the reaction burn efficiently and to boost the yield of such devices.

“Mike” was part of a two-test series codenamed “Ivy,” with the second shot being the test of a pure but high yield uranium atom bomb codenamed “King” with an expected yield from four to six hundred kilotons.
³
The second test was thought to be necessary in case the “Mike” test, for whatever reason, failed. The design of “Mike” was simplicity itself.

Imagine a long cylinder several feet tall, as shown in the following photograph of the actual “Mike” device. Note the man sitting in the lower right of the picture for a comparison of scale.

Photo of the “Mike” Device During Construction. The Actual Device is the vertical cylindrical structure on the left. The horizontal pipes leading from the device to the right are the pipes for measuring radiation emissions that would allow scientists and engineers to determine if each stage fired, and if so, how efficient the reaction was.

Simplified Schematic of a Three Stage Fission-Fusion-Fission Hydrogen Bomb first tested in the “Mike”

In order to understand this simple schematic of a hydrogen bomb, we will go through each of the steps of how this device actually functioned when “Mike” was fired, describing what happened in the witch’s brew of the thermonuclear mechanics of the device. The essential thing to understand about hydrogen bombs is that the fusion reaction itself is triggered by the use of
radiation itself
to drive a massive shockwave inwards around the secondary core containing the fusion fuel — in this case cryogenically cooled liquid deuterium
⁴
— literally squeezing and compressing it to fusion temperatures and pressures.

This reveals the secret of the design on the facing page, for scientists very early recognized that the pressure of soft X-rays generated by the explosion of the primary atom bomb would not be sufficient to achieve the needed pressures to do this.
⁵
So “Mike’s” designers first decided to surround the entire device with a foot of steel casing, which would act as a reflector for the radiation for just the briefest fraction of a second. In addition to this, they lined the inside of this thick steel casing with a liner of lead, over which was layered a further lining of polyethylene plastic. This polyethylene, in the instant of the detonation of the primary atom bomb initiating the whole process, would act as a plasma generator since its atoms would be instantly turned into an ionized gas.

So, while referring to the diagram on the facing page, let us now describe what happened when “Mike” was fired, and how the design of the device itself engineered a sequence of events that all occurred within a few millionths of a second:

1) 92 detonators
⁶
around the “high explosive lenses” surrounding the spherical fission fuel (uranium-235 and plutonium-239) represented as a ball at the top of the diagram on the left, of the primary atom bomb are fired;

Simplified Schematic of a Three Stage Fission-Fusion-Fission Hydrogen Bomb first tested in the “Mike”

2) Each section of exploding high explosive is detonated within a fraction of a microsecond of every other detonation, and each drives a shockwave forward, merging with the shockwaves from all the other detonators, creating a shockwave “front” which presses forward to the aluminum casing surrounding the uranium and plutonium core of the primary;
⁷

3) The aluminum is instantly vaporized by this compressing shockwave, which passes through it and on to the surrounding U-235 shell of the core, liquifying it and pushing it across a small gap between it and the plutonium 239 core. It is important to note that in the very center of this plutonium core there was a device called an “urchin,” a small ball of the metals beryllium and polonium which, under intense stress (such as being symmetrically imploded by an explosion!) will spit out a lot of “thermal” or “fast” neutrons, the “bullets” used to split the nucleus of atoms;
⁸

4) At this point, the polonium ejects alpha particles into the beryllium, which in turn spits out approximately a half a dozen thermal neutrons for each impacting alpha particle, which are slammed into the supercritical, i.e., superdense, mass of uranium 235 and plutonium 239. As these neutrons slam into the nuclei of U-235 and Pu-239, the atoms split, spit out more fast neutrons which collide with more U-235 and Pu-239 nuclei, and the chain reaction has begun, with each generation of fissioning atoms growing in number, like compound interest;