"At 11:03 p.m. local time on May 28, 1993, seismograph needles all over the Pacific region twitched and scribbled in response to a very large-scale disturbance near a place called Banjawarn Station in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia. Some long-distance truckers and prospectors, virtually the only people out in that lonely expanse, reported seeing a sudden flash in the sky and hearing or feeling the boom of a mighty but far-off explosion. One reported that a can of beer had danced off the table in his tent.

"The problem was that there was no obvious explanation. The seismograph traces didn't fit the profile for an earthquake or mining explosion, and anyway the blast was 170 times more powerful than the most powerful mining explosion ever recorded in Western Australia.

The shock was consistent with a large meteorite strike, but the impact would have blown a crater hundreds of feet in circumference, and no such crater could be found. The upshot is that sicentists puzzled over the incident for a day or two, then filed it away as an unexplained curiosity--the sort of thing that presumably happens from time to time.

"Then in 1995 Aum Shinrikyo gained sudden notoriety when it released extravagant quantities of the nerve gas sarin into the Tokyo subway system, killing twelve people. In the investigations that followed, it emerged that Aum's substantial holdings included a 500,000-acre desert property in Western Australia very near the site of the mystery event. There, authorities found a laboratory of unusual sophistication and focus, and evidence that cult members had been mining uranium. It separately emerged that Aum had recruited into its ranks two nuclear engineers from the former Soviet Union. The group's avowed aim was the destruction of the world, and it appears that the event in the desert may have been a dry run for blowing up Tokyo.

"[A] band of amateur enthusiasts could conceivably [have] set off the world's first non-governmental atomic bomb and almost four years would pass before anyone noticed.

"Interestingly, no Australian newspapers seem to have picked up on this story and the _New York Times_ [which reported the story in Janurary 1997] never returned to it, so what happened in the desert remains a mystery. Aum Shinrikyo sold its desert property in August 1994, fifteen months after the mysterious blast but seven months before it gained notoriety with its sarin attack in the Tokyo subway system. If any investigating authority took the obvious step of measuring the area around Banjawarn Station for increased levels of radiation, it has not been reported."

_In A Sunburned Country_, Bill Bryson (2000) Some questions:

(1) Has the area ever been investigated for radioactive aerial "plume" deposition?

(2) Who did the cult sell their desert "base" to?

(3) Has anyone ever run explosives-sniffing dogs or mechanical "sniffers" past the Scientology bases such as "Flag" (and the "Super Power" building site), "Gold" and "Big Blue" (in LA)?

(4) What about Geiger counters or similar but more powerful devices?

-- tinmimus99@hotmail.com

>Didn't you see Tilman's post on the WISE companies in Russia? They run a
>nuclear power plant there. It's probably old so it's probably a fast
>breeder type in which case it manufactures its own plutonium which is
>far more explosive than uranium. The Scientology cult knows how to do
>things properly. They make Aum look like the bunch of amatuers they are.

I've spent several years in this countries nuclear weapons production plants ( facilities cooling and particle containment systems engineering). ( I am currently black listed for speaking up) Manufacturing plutonium is a major undertaking. Starting a plant from scratch is well beyond even the cult that has billions.

Especially in light of the fact that these weapons can apparently be purchased from the russian military that is starving, begging in the streets for food, and patroling the storage facilities in bare feet sometimes. there have been 60 minutes and time magazine articles on this issue several times. Its no secret.
With the cult in bed with Adnan Koshoggi (via his wife who is a cult member)... probably Adnan is also a cultie but its not a matter of record for obvious reasons...getting tactical nuclear arms would not be much of a problem imho. and the cult is big in russia and ***runs at least 4 coverted russian weapons plants Search google for 'scientology, russian, nuclear weapons' Getting finished plutonium even less of a problem.... The US recently approved a Japanese purchase of 50 tons ! of plutonium. It was in the world press several years ago. (the primary concern was how they were shipping it... by boat.)... It takes 7 lbs to of plutonium to be fisionable in normal circumstance. thats enough to take out any big city. 50 tons would take out the entire world several times over.

why we let japan have this stuff is not an entire mystery... (. if the japanese banks pull thier money and investments out of the US we will go into depression. even with the current japanese finanical crisis...

btw that could have avoided by pulling their US investments)

The tactical weapons use what are called modifiers inside the bomb, reflectors and compressed tritium gas to make much smaller amounts of plutonium fisionable ( modifiers slow down the speed of neutrons released as the Pu decays, various plastics etc. wood is also a modifier) it seems te slower neurtrons create a better chain reaction than the faster ones...the faster ones go though the metal without reacting as much...and of course the goal is to create a chain reaction of radio active decay in the metal.... Also by shaping the thick beryllium metal contaiment and polishing it, and embedding various dense reflective materials, the neutrons that escape the Pu can be bounced back into the Pu mass and cause an even faster rate of decay.)

These smaller devices are used as 'triggers' in the larger devices... but a more appropriate way of saying it they act to create both the pressure and added neurtron supply to cause the main load to decay faster...and more completely.

the trigger is just an electrical switch that sents off a chemical charge that drives the plutonium masses together to form the requisite "critical mass".

The tritium gas btw is radio active hydrogen (H3).. it decays quite readily and adds to the neutrons flying around that gets more complete fission of the Plutonium. Thus the term "H bomb".... the previous "atomic bomb" had no tritium gas in it.)

The cult can buy these 'triggers' for a million dollars or so... the trigger alone will take out much of a large city and it easily and undetectably transportable in a suitcase.

Did you know that you could hold a lb or two of plutonium in your hand with little or no short term ill effect...its a heavy grey shinny metal. Plutonium releases what are called "alpha particles"...

these are very reactive inside a plutonium mass but will not peneterate a sheet of paper or you skin or more than and inch or so of air. (plutonium is also highly flammable even in a chunk)..

Phil Scott (none of the information presented here is currently classified)

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