TRAPPED IN A MASONIC WORLD

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The purpose of this documentary film was to report the results of nuclear weapons detonations
experiments applied under an overall joint task force operation codenamed Operation HARDTACK I.
Carefully screened members of only applicable committee members of Congress saw this film report, as
well as need-to-know employees of the DoD and appropriate executives of the White House. [1b]
Operation Wigwam involved suspending a Mark 90 Betty nuclear bomb given the nickname ―Betty‖,
from a 2,000 feet [660 meters] cable from under a barge. ‗Betty‘ was10ft 2in in length, with a diameter of
2 ft 7.5 in and a weight of 1,243 lb, and it carried a Mark 7 nuclear warhead with a yield of 5-10 kilotons.
A six-mile tow line connected a fleet tug, the Tawasa, and the shot barge itself. Suspended from the tow
lines of other tugs were three miniature unmanned submarines named ―Squaws‖, each packed with
cameras and telemetry instruments. It was conducted between Operation Teapot and Operation Redwing
on the 14 th May 1955, about 500 miles southwest of San Diego, California. 6,800 personnel aboard 30
ships were involved in Wigwam, which was carried-out to determine the vulnerability of submarines to
deeply-detonated nuclear weapons, and to evaluate the feasibility of using such weapons in a combat
situation. [2][3][4]
Operation HARDTACK I & II [1a] was a series of 72 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in
1958. Hardtack I was carried out in the Pacific Ocean, at Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, and Johnston
Island. Operation HARDTACK I consisted of 35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground
between 28 th April and the 18 th August 1958. These tests included balloon, surface, barge, underwater and
rocket-borne high-altitude tests. The first test, Yucca, was a nuclear device attached to a helium balloon
launched from the USS Boxer near Enewetak Atoll.
However it‘s the second part of Operation HARDTRACK that I‘m concentrating on, as it consisted of
the underwater tests named Wahoo and Umbrella. Wahoo was detonated in the deep open ocean
southwest of Boken Island, and Umbrella inside the western end of the lagoon at Enewetak, these are the
two tests that; ―resulted in the sea-levels surrounding these islands by 12ft and 22ft respectively.‖
The purpose of these tests was to improve the understanding of the effects of underwater explosions on
Navy ships and material, and in regards to being able to create tsunamis, was I think just an accidental
occurrence following such experiments, that were continuations of earlier underwater testing that included
Operation Crossroads at Bikini in 1946, and the already mentioned Operation Wigwam off the US West
Coast in 1955 [4] .
Operation Crossroads also consisted of two detonations, each with a yield of 23 kilotons: Able was
detonated at an altitude of 520 feet [158 m] on 1 st July 1946; Baker was detonated 90 feet [27 m]
underwater on 25 th July 1946. A third burst, Charlie, planned for 1947, was cancelled primarily because of
the Navy‘s inability to decontaminate the target ships after the Baker test. The Crossroads tests were the
fourth and fifth nuclear explosions conducted by the USA following the Trinity test and the bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It part of the report, it states water rushing back into the space vacated by the rising gas bubble started a
―...tsunami-like water wave which lifted the ships as it passed under them‖. At 11 seconds after
detonation, the first wave was 1,000 feet [305 m] from surface zero and 94 feet [29 m] high. [5] By the time
it reached the Bikini Island beach, 3.5 miles [6 km] away, ―...it was a nine-wave set with shore breakers up
to 15 feet [5 m] high, just tossed landing craft onto the beach and filled them with sand.‖ [5] It was also the
case that; ―There was no mushroom cloud; nothing rose into the stratosphere.‖
There were many tests and experiments being carried out during the 50‘s, such as Operation Teapot [6] ,
Redwing [7][7a] , Plumbbob [8] and Operation Castle [9][9a] which was a USA series of high-energy [highyield]
nuclear tests by Joint Task Force SEVEN [JTF-7] at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. It
followed Operation Upshot-Knothole [10] and preceded Operation Teapot.
I‘m not saying these kinds of bombs would or have been used for creating any earthquakes or tsunamis,
as particularly the majority of these ‗nuclear test‘ of the 1950‘s took place above – on land, as opposed to
that of Operation Wigwam that was detonated 2000ft, and Operation HARDTACK [1a] 3000ft under the
ocean‘s surface.
To use some of the kinds of bombs that were used in them days, would leave obvious telltale signs, i.e. a
fuck-off sized mushroom cloud visible from outer space. Yet this isn‘t necessarily so with underwater