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2018-08-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Radioactive sheep bolster nuclear weapon test claim against Israel, researchers say
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Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Declassified documents indicate Israel and South Africa conducted nuclear test in 1979

The Vela Incident: South Atlantic Mystery Flash in September 1979 Raised Questions about Nuclear Test

TW approved links courtesy of 3DC.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-14 02:20||   2018-08-14 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Glow in the dark sheep - Arabs rubbing their hands with glee...
Posted by Raj 2018-08-14 02:54||   2018-08-14 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 If a nuclear test had been done in the Marion and Prince Edward islands, we could test it in these islands now.
Posted by bernardz 2018-08-14 05:31||   2018-08-14 05:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe they were testing the population-control possibilities of radioactive sheep.
Posted by Bobby 2018-08-14 09:01||   2018-08-14 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 At the time the magazine "Atlas World Press Review" made quite a few claims about it. Even in the day few read that magazine. It had regular articles from the likes of Kissinger and even Brezhnev. The Atlas article suspected that it was a 3 way test involving the 3 shunned countries (Taiwan, South Africa & Israel). The Atlas article claimed Taiwan did the test monitoring electronics, South Africa supplied the ships, planes and test infrastructure and Israel the hi-tech bomb. The authors believed the bomb was hi-tech because of it's particular traces and indicators suggested an enhanced radiation device like a neutron bomb. It was pointed out that this fit quite well with the needs of both Israel and South Africa both who might need to deal with large concentration of hostile internal populations close to citizens and not particularly well with Taiwan's strategic needs. The belief was that Taiwan was more of a technically interested observer as they really needed something more destructive in their tool kit.

All this is neither here nor there and good luck finding online or in a paper a copy of the Atlas article. They never had a large distribution and I threw my copy away a month or 2 after it came out.
Posted by 3dc 2018-08-14 10:09||   2018-08-14 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Atlas World Press Review started it's long down hill slide shortly after that article. A hindu swami who preached levitation bought the magazine and moved it to a small college he bought in Iowa and credibility tumbled. The remnant of the magazine still exists as a the poorly updated and maintained neo-left web site: www.worldpress.org
Posted by 3dc 2018-08-14 10:29||   2018-08-14 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I have been wrong more than occasionally, and 3dc provides good arguments that I am wrong on the historical facts (thanks for posting those links here, Skidmark!). But the bottom line is that Israel is not subject to the treaty, and therefore the UN has no business investigating.

Interesting, too, that Taiwan is not mentioned...
Posted by trailing wife 2018-08-14 13:04||   2018-08-14 13:04|| Front Page Top

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