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by Michael E. Salla, PhD
August 12, 2006
from
Exopolitics Website
Introduction
On August 31, 2006, a UN imposed deadline will pass for Iran to
comply with international efforts to prevent it developing a nuclear
enrichment program that could lead to Iran acquiring nuclear weapons
capacity. Iran’s predicted non-compliance is likely to once again
lead to speculation on a possible US led military campaign to remove
Iran’s hidden nuclear facilities, and the possible use of US bunker
busting weapons.
In considering such a possibility, it is
important to evaluate the background factors and policy debates
surrounding the indefinite delay of a simulated bunker busting
weapon test in June 2006, Divine Strake, that many considered to be
a simulation for the development of tactical nuclear bunker busting
weapons that would be used against Iran.
The possibility of a preemptive nuclear war against Iran led to much
internet debate and media interest over whether this could result in
extraterrestrial intervention to deter a preemptive war, and how
such intervention might occur. Some speculated that a comet strike
orchestrated by extraterrestrials may occur, while others discussed
a range of alternative extraterrestrial interventions.
Consequently, the public announcement of
the indefinite delay of ‘Divine Strake’ on May 25/26 led to
speculation that extraterrestrials may have played a significant
role in this decision by the Pentagon. This paper explores such a
possibility and examines whether there is sufficient evidence to
conclude that extraterrestrials may have played a role in deterring
the Pentagon from launching a preemptive nuclear war against Iran.
Was Divine
Strake a simulation for a nuclear bunker busting weapon?
‘Divine Strake’ was initially brought to public attention with a
story in the Washington Post on March 31, 2006, titled, “Pentagon to
Test a Huge Conventional Bomb”.
Ann Tyson wrote:
A huge mushroom cloud of dust is
expected to rise over Nevada's desert in June when the Pentagon
plans to detonate a gigantic 700-ton explosive -- the biggest
open-air chemical blast ever at the Nevada Test Site -- as part
of the research into developing weapons that can destroy deeply
buried military targets.[1]
Tyson interviewed James A. Tegnelia,
director of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, who
confirmed that the test was “aimed at determining how well a massive
conventional bomb would perform against fortified underground
targets.”
The Washington Post article immediately raised public concern over
the reference to the mushroom cloud it would generate, whether it
was conventional bomb test or not, and whether Divine Strake was
secretly designed to simulate a nuclear bunker busting weapon to be
used on fortified underground targets.
According to Andrew Lichterman, the first public evidence of
Project
Strake was found in February 2005 Department of Defense budget
documents that revealed plans to conduct tests that would simulate
the effects of a nuclear weapon. He described a:
"Full-Scale tunnel defeat
demonstration using high explosives to simulate a low yield
nuclear weapon ground shock environment at Department of
Energy’s Nevada Test Site” in fiscal year (FY) 2006.[2]
Lichterman discovered descriptions of
the same program in February 2006 budget documents that described
the program of which the Divine Strake test was apparently a part,
“will develop a planning tool that
will improve the war fighter’s confidence in selecting the
smallest proper nuclear yield necessary to destroy underground
facilities while minimizing collateral damage.”[3]
According to Lichterman, Divine Strake
is part of classified Pentagon Advanced Concepts study called Tunnel
Target Defeat Advanced Concept and Technology Demonstration(s).[4]
Here is how the “Tunnel Target Defeat” project was described in a
February 2005 Budget document:
The Tunnel Target Defeat Advanced
Concept and Technology Demonstration(s) (ACTD) will develop a
planning tool that will improve the war fighter’s confidence in
selecting the smallest nuclear yield necessary to destroy
underground facilities while minimizing collateral damage.[5]
If Divine Strake was part of the “Tunnel
Target Defeat Advanced Concept” project which was unambiguously
described in budget documents as an atmospheric test using chemicals
to simulate a low yield nuclear bunker busting weapon, then Divine
Strake was simulating a nuclear bunker busting weapon. Since the US
Congress had already refused funding for the study of low yield
nuclear bunker busting weapons, the official language used to
describe Divine Strake deliberately avoided all reference to it
simulating nuclear weapon explosions.
In the initial Washington Post report of the Divine Strake test, all
references to the simulation of low yield nuclear weapons were
removed, and Divine Strake was described as follows:
The test is aimed at determining how
well a massive conventional bomb would perform against fortified
underground targets — such as military headquarters, biological
or chemical weapons stockpiles, and long-range missiles — that
the Pentagon says are proliferating among potential adversaries
around the world.
The Washington Post story went on to
describe the importance of Divine Strake in the development of a
conventional bunker busting bomb:
Such a bomb would be a conventional
alternative to a nuclear weapon proposed by the Bush
administration, which has run into opposition on Capitol Hill.
The Pentagon for several years has sought funding for research
into the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) — also known as
the “bunker buster” — after the administration’s 2001 Nuclear
Posture Review stated that no weapon in the U.S. arsenal could
threaten a growing number of buried targets. Congress, however,
has repeatedly refused to grant funding for a study on a nuclear
bunker buster, instead directing money toward conventional
alternatives.
Consequently, it can be concluded that
Divine Strake was originally conceived as a simulation for a low
yield nuclear weapon, but this was covered up in subsequent public
reports that described it as a conventional test due to the
opposition of Congress to nuclear bunker busting weapons.
What was the
Significance of Divine Strake?
Seymour Hersh wrote an article in the April edition of the New
Yorker that gave a chilling account of the Bush administration's
efforts to get the Pentagon to go along with its war plans for Iran. Hersh claimed that
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were leading a
Bush administration effort to pressure a reluctant Pentagon to go
along with their Iran policy which involved the preemptive use of
tactical nuclear weapons.
Hersh wrote:
"that the idea of using tactical
nuclear weapons in such situations has gained support from the
Defense Science Board, an advisory panel whose members are
selected by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld."[6]
According to one of Hersh's sources the
Defense Science Board is,
"telling the Pentagon that we can build the
B61 [tactical nuclear weapon] with more blast and less radiation,"
he said.
Hersh's describes that the chairman of the Defense Science
Board, William Schneider, Jr., "served on an ad-hoc panel on nuclear
forces sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy."
According to Hersh, the panel's report
recommended treating tactical nuclear weapons as an essential part
of the U.S. arsenal and noted their suitability,
"for those occasions
when the certain and prompt destruction of high priority targets is
essential and beyond the promise of conventional weapons."
Several
signers of the report are now prominent members of the Bush
Administration, including Stephen Hadley, the national-security
adviser; Stephen Cambone, the Under-Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence; and Robert Joseph, the Under-Secretary of State for
Arms Control and International Security.
In an article released on April 9, "Exopolitical
Implications of a Preemptive Nuclear War in Iran," I speculated that
the test would be used to persuade the public that "bunker busting"
weapons that generated mushroom clouds in a possible attack against
Iran were not nuclear weapons but were conventional.
I wrote:
The Bush administration likely plans
to advertise the June test as a new 'conventional' weapon, that
generates a mushroom cloud while destroying underground
facilities. Consequently, preemptive nuclear strike against
Iran's underground facilities could be marketed to a skeptical
American and global public as a series of 'new' conventional
weapons being used rather than tactical nuclear weapons.
The Bush administration could argue
that the mushroom clouds generated by the new conventional
'bunker busting' weapons are not due to them being nuclear
weapons, and any radioactive fallout was 'proof' that the bunker
busting bomb had in fact destroyed a nuclear facility.[7]
Consequently, the significance of
'Divine Strake' was threefold.
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First, it would have made it easier
to justify a preemptive war against Iran where the public and
senior military leaders were opposed to the use of tactical
nuclear weapons as an instrument of national security policy.
Divine Strake would have enabled the Bush administration to
launch a preemptive nuclear attack against Iran without
confirming that nuclear weapons had actually been used.
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Second, Divine Strake would have
enabled the Pentagon to refine its understanding of low yield
nuclear bunker busting weapons that could be used against
underground assets in countries such as Iran. This would have
been indispensable for minimizing collateral damage and
therefore the likely adverse public reaction to the actual use
of tactical nuclear weapons.
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Finally, the testing was scheduled
at a time when increasing international attention on Iran’s
determination to push ahead with its nuclear enrichment program
had made it likely that the UN Security Council would shortly
pass a resolution declaring Iran in violation of international
standards established by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
This would have justified international sanctions either from
the UN or from individual nations. The use of preemptive
military force against Iran would therefore have been more
likely thereby requiring the use of bunker busting nuclear
weapons to destroy Iran’s hidden nuclear facilities. The
completion of Divine Strake would have signaled to the Iranian
government that the US was determined to pursue military action
Iran if it didn’t reverse its nuclear policy.
Consequently, the Nevada test scheduled
for Divine Strike would have indicated that a preemptive nuclear
strike against Iran was impending. After having been initially
delayed from June 2 to June 23, officials from the Pentagon first
announced on May 25/26 that Divine Strake had been indefinitely
postponed.
Given the significance of 'Divine Strake', the
announcement was a startling turn around.
Indefinite
Postponement of Divine Strake
The rationale for the Pentagon’s indefinite delay was stated to be
the reversal of a key government agency over the environmental
impact of the scheduled test. In a May 26 press release, the
National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the Energy
Department, announced the withdrawal of its “Finding of No
Significant Impact” for Divine Strake.[8]
The Agency declared:
“This action is being taken to
clarify and provide further information regarding background
levels of radiation from global fallout in the vicinity of the
Divine Strake experiment.”[9]
What caused the withdrawal of the “no
significant” environmental impact determination that had earlier
been granted by the same organization? One explanation is the rising
tide of protests by various activists, protests by indigenous
peoples, and different lawsuits organized in Nevada. These had
quickly built up with a rapid coalition of concerned citizens and
indigenous Indian organizations that were challenging the proposed
test.[10]
While such protests and lawsuits
certainly created a public relations problem for the Pentagon’s
Threat Reduction Agency in charge of the test, it is questionable
that these would have been sufficient for the surprising withdrawal
of the “no significant” environmental impact determination that led
to the indefinite delay of Divine Strake.
A second explanation is that the publication of the Hersh New Yorker
article tilted the argument in favor of those opposed to a
preemptive nuclear strike plan for Iran. Hersh's article first
alerted the general public that plans to use nuclear weapons had
progressed beyond the contingency planning level, and the Bush
administration were seriously pushing to have these operationalized.[11]
Hersh exposed the furious policy debate
occurring between the Pentagon and the Bush administration and a
near revolt among key military personnel. Such a revolt was echoed
by the unprecedented series of former generals openly criticizing
the Bush administration’s management of the Iraq occupation in April
2006.
The revolt allegedly had more to do with a
preemptive strike
against Iran than past policy on Iraq. It led to Hawks within the
Bush administration, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others identified by Hersh
eventually deciding to abandon plans for a preemptive nuclear
attack.[12]
In
a more recent New Yorker article,
Hersh describes the victory of Pentagon doves over the
Bush
administration hawks:
In late April, the military
leadership, headed by General Pace, achieved a major victory
when the White House dropped its insistence that the plan for a
bombing campaign include the possible use of a nuclear device to
destroy Iran’s uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz, nearly two
hundred miles south of Tehran. …. “Bush and Cheney were dead
serious about the nuclear planning,” the former senior
intelligence official told me. “ And Pace stood up to them.
Then the world came back: ‘O.K., the
nuclear option is politically unacceptable.’ ” At the time, a
number of retired officers, including two Army major generals
who served in Iraq, Paul Eaton and Charles Swannack, Jr., had
begun speaking out against the Administration’s handling of the
Iraq war. This period is known to many in the Pentagon as “the
April Revolution.” [13]
The indefinite delay of Divine Strake
may consequently have been a result of internal national security
policy debates, and the victory of generals opposed to a nuclear
bombing campaign against Iran.
There is, however, a third ‘other
worldly’ explanation for why Divine Strake was indefinitely
postponed that needs to be considered.
Threats Posed
by Nuclear Weapons for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
In 2004, Jean-Jacques Velasco, the former head of the organization
monitoring UFO activities in France, SEPRA, a unit within France’s
equivalent to NASA, CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)
co-authored a book, OVNI, l'évidence, that used an extensive UFO
database collected by French authorities.[14]
Velasco found firm empirical evidence
that
UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, and a
clear correlation
existed between nuclear weapons testing and UFO sightings. Velasco’s
book brought about a swift reaction by French authorities who forced
him to resign from SEPRA, and he was reassigned to another position
in CNES.
Velasco’s findings are supported in the testimony of a number of
military whistleblowers such as Robert Salas who was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967 when seven or eight nuclear
minuteman missiles that were part of the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
were deactivated by UFOs.
Salas vividly described the incident as
follows:
The UFO incident happened on the
morning of March 16, 1967. I was ... on duty at Oscar Flight as
part of the 490th strategic missile squad and there are five
launch control facilities assigned to that particular
squadron.... I received a call from my topside security guard...
and he said that he and some of the guards had been observing
some strange lights flying around the site around the launch
control facility…. I said, You mean UFO?
He said, well, he didn't know what
they were but they were lights and were flying around. They were
not airplanes. They were not helicopters. They weren't making
any noise... [A little later] our missiles started shutting down
one by one. By shutting down, I mean they went into a "no-go"
condition meaning they could not be launched…. These weapons
were Minuteman One missiles and were of course nuclear-tipped
warhead missiles... this incident was of extreme concern to SAC
headquarters because they couldn't explain it.[15]
Salas also claims that a similar
occurrence involving ten minuteman missiles at another nearby SAC
facility, Echo Flight, led to a high level inquiry by the USAF.
Salas described his surprise when the investigation was terminated
and he was instructed to remain silent. Salas’ testimony has been
partially corroborated by other military whistleblowers such as Lt
Colonel Dwynne Arneson who was also stationed at Malmstrom Air Force
base in 1967, and read a top-secret communication confirming that
UFOs were hovering near missile silos.[16]
Salas has subsequently written about his experience and the aborted
official enquiry in his book, Faded Giant.[17] He subsequently has
concluded that UFOs are vitally interested in nuclear weapons and
have actively interfered with these in an apparent effort to deter
the US and other countries from ever using nuclear weapons.
This is
supported by the testimony of other whistleblowers such as Colonel
Ross Dedrickson who had worked with the US Air Force and Atomic
Energy Commission (ret.):
After retiring from the Air Force I
joined the Boeing company and was responsible for accounting for
all of the nuclear fleet of Minuteman missiles. In this incident
they actually photographed the UFO following the missile as it
climbed into space and, shining a beam on it, neutralized the
missile.
I also learned of a number of incidents which happened,
a couple of nuclear weapons sent into space were destroyed by
the extraterrestrials …. the idea of any explosion in space by
any Earth government was not acceptable to the
extraterrestrials, and that has been demonstrated over and over.
[18]
So Dedrickson believes that nuclear
explosions in space or atmosphere are clearly not acceptable to
extraterrestrials and extraterrestrials interfere with nuclear
delivery systems to prevent nuclear explosions.
Salas believes that
UFOs interfere with nuclear weapons out of an altruistic desire to
prevent nuclear war on Earth. However Dedrickson gives another
explanation that identifies what may be a strong self-interest in
UFOs interfering with nuclear weapons.
He claims that a nuclear
weapons test over the Pacific in the 60s was:
… one that the extraterrestrials
were really concerned about because it affected our ionosphere.
In fact, the ET spacecraft were unable to operate because of the
pollution in the magnetic field which they depended upon. It was
my understanding that in either the very end of the ‘70s or the
early ‘80s that we attempted to put a nuclear weapon on the Moon
and explode it for scientific measurements and other things
which was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials.[19]
Dedrickson’s point that extraterrestrial
space craft is negatively affected by nuclear testing demonstrates
that a strong self-interest is behind the extraterrestrial
interference of nuclear weapons testing.
In an article analyzing Velasco’s correlation of UFOs and nuclear
weapons, French UFO researcher,
Eric Julien speculates that the use
of nuclear weapons affects the time/space continuum in ways that
disrupt UFO/extraterrestrial navigation and propulsion systems.[20]
He argues that there is a correlation between UFO behavior around
nuclear tests and 74 alleged UFO crashes documented in Ryan Wood's
book, Majic Eyes Only (2006).
This is used to support Julien’s thesis
that nuclear testing negatively affects UFOs by impacting the
space-time continuum they use to navigate to Earth. In his book,
The
Science of Extraterrestrials, Julien argues that atomic explosions
directly impact on the space-time continuum that they occupy.[21]
This suggests that use of nuclear weapons threaten the civilizations
of extraterrestrials who use space-time to travel and to establish
bases of operation on or near the vicinity of the earth.
Based on the data presented by Velasco, Salas, Dedrickson and
Julien,
it can be proposed that the use of nuclear weapons either threatens
the key interests of extraterrestrial civilizations on Earth or
poses a direct threat to them. Consequently, the planned use of
nuclear weapons could provoke extraterrestrials to respond in a
preemptive manner. Such responses would directly impact on the
ability of the US and other militaries around the world to
effectively plan to use nuclear weapons in military operations.
If nuclear weapons pose a threat of some undefined nature to
extraterrestrial civilizations or their interests, what does this
suggest about the means used by extraterrestrial civilizations to
respond to the possible preemptive use of nuclear weapons? More
specifically, how would they have responded to the Bush
administrations plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran?
Based on historical precedents described by Salas and Dedrickson, it
appears that extraterrestrials have the capacity to deactivate
nuclear weapons while either in storage or in flight, and to destroy
nuclear weapons while in flight. Consequently, extraterrestrials
could give warnings through their communications with individuals
and military officials of impending action to prevent the possible
use of nuclear weapons.
If these warnings went unheeded then
extraterrestrials could take a range of defensive measures based on
their influence over key policy makers and institutions, and their
ability to impact on the capacities of nations to use nuclear
weapons. Such measures could culminate in a coordinated set of
extraterrestrial responses, a ‘Divine Strike’, to prevent the Bush
administration launching a preemptive nuclear war against Iran.
These responses may have been communicated and/or displayed, and
actively deterred the US military from pursuing a preemptive nuclear
attack against Iran.
At this point, it can be asked whether the Pentagon’s announcement
of
an indefinite delay of Divine Strake on May 25/26, was in any way
deterred by a possible Divine Strike by extraterrestrials.
Furthermore, it can be asked whether public awareness of a possible
extraterrestrial ‘divine strike’ played a role in the delay.
Historical evidence supporting a possible extraterrestrial divine
strike to prevent a preemptive nuclear war can be found in the
publicly verified relationship between nuclear weapons testing and
UFO sightings, extraterrestrial interference in the storage of
nuclear weapons, and the alleged destruction of nuclear weapons by
extraterrestrials.
If extraterrestrials have acted in the past to
interfere with or destroy nuclear weapons, it can be assumed that
they would not have remained idle if a nuclear preemptive war
against Iran affected their vital interests on Earth, and/or their
ability to navigate in the Earth’s vicinity.
Certainly, key policy makers familiar
with past extraterrestrial interventions to make inoperable or to
destroy nuclear weapons, would have factored such a possibility into
their calculations over the effectiveness of a preemptive nuclear
campaign against Iran.
It may have been decided that such a campaign
would have been compromised by extraterrestrial interference in the
delivery systems of tactical nuclear weapons.
Extraterrestrial Divine Strike
Public awareness of a possible extraterrestrial ‘Divine Strike’
first emerged after a series of articles between Eric Julien and the
author that discussed the extraterrestrial nuclear relationship, and
how this related to the Bush administration’s plans for a preemptive
nuclear strike against Iran.
In the April 2006 edition of the
Exopolitics Journal, Julien argued that
nuclear weapons testing
threatened extraterrestrial civilizations due to the disruptive
effects of such weapons on the space time continuum used by them to
visit the Earth.[22]
He provided some statistical data on the
correlation between nuclear weapons testing and UFO
sightings/crashes to support his hypothesis. He speculated that the
threat posed by humanity's irresponsible use of nuclear weapons
could lead to extraterrestrials taking preemptive actions to prevent
such use.
Julien’s paper was followed on April 8 by Hersh’s article describing
the steps taken by the Bush administration to
secure military
approval for a preemptive nuclear strike against Iran.[23] I
subsequently authored an article on April 9 discussing the plans for
a preemptive nuclear attack and how this might be responded to by
extraterrestrials that might be directly affected by the use of such
weapons.[24] I argued that extraterrestrials could respond in a
number of ways to deter the US from launching a preemptive nuclear
war against Iran.
Julien then authored a paper on April 11, "May 25, 2006 - Day of
Destiny," where he discussed his research concerning
Comet 73P Schwassman-Wachman 3.[25] He linked the use of nuclear weapons and
the threat they pose to extraterrestrial civilizations, to the
scheduled May passage of the comet. He cited coded messages
contained in some crop circles to support his argument that the
unexplained break up of comet 73P in 1995 was linked to
extraterrestrials.
He further argued that extraterrestrials
deliberately fragmented the comet due to their awareness that
nuclear weapons would eventually be used in a war and that the
extraterrestrials' intent was to time the comet's passage to
coincide with a predicted nuclear war. Using an online NASA orbital
simulator, Julien tracked the comet's passage, and argued that
several fragments from comet Schwassman-Wachman's, would pass
through the Earth's ecliptic plane on May 25.
This in his view was the most likely
date of impact. Using data gained from his own private
extraterrestrial communications, Julien predicted that the impact
would occur in the Atlantic Ocean and generate giant tsunamis.
Julien’s analysis and Atlantic Ocean impact prediction led to great
public interest and heated debate, including a public statement I
issued on April 25
disassociating myself from Julien’s comet
prediction.[26] An article in Aljazeera on May 25 reported
widespread panic in Morocco as a result of Julien’s comet
prediction.[27]
The result of the widespread public
debate over possible extraterrestrial responses to a preemptive
nuclear strike and Julien’s comet impact prediction, firmly brought
into the public realm an association between nuclear weapons and
extraterrestrial civilizations, and possible extraterrestrial
responses.
In conclusion, possible extraterrestrial intervention may have been
a key factor in deterring key policy makers from pursuing a
preemptive nuclear war against Iran. Extraterrestrial intervention
may have helped tilt the policy debate in favor of ‘Pentagon doves’
opposed to a preemptive nuclear campaign. Also, public awareness of
possible extraterrestrial intervention may have further helped deter
policy makers from pursuing a preemptive nuclear policy.
The likelihood that extraterrestrial
intervention would have been identified and disseminated by members
of the general public may have again helped deter a preemptive
nuclear attack.
Consequently, extraterrestrial intervention and
growing public awareness of possible extraterrestrial responses, a
‘Divine Strike’, may have been key factors leading to the indefinite
delay of ‘Divine Strake’.
Conclusion:
Did a possible ‘Divine Strike’ deter ‘Divine Strake’?
The fact that Divine Strake was indefinitely postponed on May 25/26
was strong evidence of a very significant policy shift having
occurred over the wisdom of a preemptive nuclear strike against
Iran. This was soon followed by a May 31 Press conference where
Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, offered to “come to the table
with our E.U. colleagues and meet with Iran's representatives.”[28]
The US willingness to sit down in face to face discussions with Iran
was described as a “staggering turnaround of U.S. policy regarding
the Islamic Republic”.[29]
The indefinite delay of Divine Strake
and subsequent diplomatic overtures to Iran suggest that the
preemptive nuclear war option against Iran has been indefinitely
pushed back or completely removed as a policy option.
Furthermore, the fact that this announcement of Divine Strake’s
delay occurred on Julien’s so called "Day of Destiny" may be
entirely coincidental or raises the possibility that policy makers
were concerned about possible extraterrestrial intervention against
plans for a preemptive nuclear war.
Some of the ways extraterrestrials could
intervene were described in a
May 29 Aljazeera article, where I
outlined a number of options that might be used by extraterrestrials
to affect policy as opposed to a comet strike predicted by Julien.[30]
Key among these was past historical examples of extraterrestrials
deactivating nuclear weapons which would have made a successful
military strike using such weapons highly questionable.
The indefinite delay of Divine Strake was partially influenced by
domestic political opposition in the US arising from increasing
demonstrations and lawsuits over its environmental impact. While
public opposition was determined and increasingly well organized, it
is unlikely that this on its own would have achieved the
cancellation of divine strake.
Therefore, a more significant factor in
the delay appears to have been the apparent victory of Pentagon
‘doves’ over Bush administration ‘hawks’ in the heated internal
policy debate over plans for a military solution to the Iran nuclear
problem. Hersh’s description of the policy victory won by senior
Pentagon officials opposed to a nuclear preemptive strike as the
“April Revolution” does point to Bush administration hawks suffering
a significant policy defeat.
The third explanation that there may have been an extraterrestrial
factor in terms of a possible ‘divine strike’ that helped deter the
Bush administration from pursuing its preemptive nuclear war plans
for Iran needs to be considered.
The way in which extraterrestrials
communicated such a possible ‘Divine Strike’ to the Bush
administration, the Pentagon and the general public; and the actual
way in which such a ‘Divine Strike’ would have unfolded can be best
deduced from historical precedents over extraterrestrial
intervention in the deactivation and/or destruction of nuclear
weapons. In the author’s view, preemptive extraterrestrial action to
prevent a planned nuclear strike against Iran was a credible
deterrent for policy makers seriously contemplating a nuclear strike
against Iran.
In conclusion, 'Divine Strake' appears to have been a red line that
the Pentagon/Bush administration finally did not cross and have
backed off indefinitely. If extraterrestrials did or planned to
intervene as the above analysis suggests, then the world's first
preemptive nuclear war has been put off indefinitely as a result of
extraterrestrial intervention.
Furthermore, exopolitical debates in the
public realm over the extent and nature of extraterrestrial
intervention may have impacted on the policy making process. The
possible actions that extraterrestrials might have taken to prevent
a preemptive nuclear war against Iran growing public awareness of
this, may have been a significant deterrent for policy makers in the
Bush administration.
Domestic political factors and internal policy debates undoubtedly
influenced the Bush administration decision to indefinitely delay
Divine Strake on May 25/26, 2006. More unknown is the significance
of possible extraterrestrial intervention to deter a preemptive
nuclear attack against Iran, and widespread public debate over such
an intervention.
The announcement of Divine Strake’s
indefinite delay may be due entirely to domestic political factors
and internal policy debates. If this is the case, then the
forthcoming August 31 deadline for Iran to comply with UN Security
Council Resolution to stop its nuclear enrichment program may again
lead to the threat of military intervention against Iran, and Divine
Strake may again be scheduled for testing.
Alternatively, a possible
extraterrestrial ‘Divine Strike’ may have deterred the US from
pursuing such a policy thereby suggesting if Divine Strake does go
ahead, it is unlikely to presage a nuclear strike against Iran.
The May 25/26 announcement of the
indefinite delay of Divine Strake may go down in history as the day
a preemptive nuclear war was prevented by possible intervention of
extraterrestrials and rising public awareness of such an
intervention.
Additional Information:
The Military’s Problem With The President’s
Iran Policy
ENDNOTES
[1] Available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001735.html
[2] Available online at:
http://disarmamentactivist.org/2006/03/31/did-the-washpost-miss-explosive-story/
[3] Available online at:
http://disarmamentactivist.org/2006/03/31/did-the-washpost-miss-explosive-story/
[4] Available online at:
http://disarmamentactivist.org/2006/03/31/did-the-washpost-miss-explosive-story/
[5] Available online at:
http://www.dtic.mil/descriptivesum/Y2006/DTRA/0603160BR.pdf
[6] Available online at:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact
[7] “Exopolitical
Comment #42”
[8] Office of Public Affairs, National Nuclear Security
Administration, Nevada Site Office News, May 26, 2006.
[9] For further discussion go to:
http://tinyurl.com/zls2h
[10] See
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2006/05/17/news/protest.html
[11] Hersh, “The Iran Plans,” New Yorker, 8 April, 2006.
Available online at:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact
[12] See Jeffrey Steinberg, “Behind the Generals' Revolt,”
Executive Intelligence Review, April 21, 2006. Available online
at:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3316genls_revolt.html
[13] Seymour Hersh, “Last Stand: The military’s problem with the
President’s Iran policy”. New Yorker, 3 July, 2006. Available
online at:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060710fa_fact
[14] Jean-Jacques Velasco and Nicolas Montigiani, OVNI,
l'évidence (Carnot Editions, 2004).
[15] Cited in Steven Greer,
Disclosure: Military and Government
Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History
167-70
[16] Cited in Steven Greer,
Disclosure: Military and Government
Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History
177.
[17] Robert Salas and James Klotzhttp, Faded Giant (BookSurge
Publishing 2005). Details available online at:
www.ufopop.org/Special/FadedGiant.htm
[18] Dedrickson, in
Disclosure, 192-93.
[19] Dedrickson, in
Disclosure, 192-93.
[20] See Julien, "Are
We a Security Threat to Extraterrestrial Civilizations?"
[21] See Eric Julien,
La Science des Extraterrestres
(JMG Editions, 2005)
[22] See Julien, "Are
We a Security Threat to Extraterrestrial Civilizations?"
[23] Hersh,
http//www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact
[24] Michael Salla, “Exopolitical
Implications of a Preemptive Nuclear War against Iran”
[25]
May 25,
2006 - The Day of Destiny!
[26] See Michael Salla, “Public
Statement Concerning Eric Julien's Prediction of Comet 73P
Schwassman-Wachman 3 impacting into the Atlantic Ocean on May
25, 2006”
[27] Ahmed El Amraoui, “‘Alien
Message’ Sparks Tsunami Panic,” Aljazeera, May 25, 2006.
Available online at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F4396687-6C85-4C8C-B47A-3B8F785FE95C.htm
[28] Cited in:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053100937.html
[29]
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1168438.php/A_way_out_for_Iran
[30] Ahmed El Amraoui, “The Truth is Way Out There,” May 29,
2006. Available online at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EB1724B0-9E51-4F13-831F-FB4DA5E7325D.htm
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