So just a few short weeks ago there was talk and and panic about New York prepping for a nuclear fallout type of incident. Now with the narrative that President Trump had the nuclear codes or whatever, one must ponder the possibility that they are getting ready for their false flag event involving nuclear weapons...
I really hope I am over thinking this...
Too long for this venue. You are completely overlooking my connection to material evidence (trinitite from the Trinity test) and direct eyewitness testimony and evidence (my father at Nagasaki and my colleague digging out post-underground-test instrumentation). You are also overlooking the photographic record, and I suggest obtaining a copy of "Trinity and Beyond" or watch the video here: https://ok.ru/video/380190132976. And I worked with colleagues who were instrumental in building nuclear weapon delivery systems (B-36, B-47, B-52, BOMARC, Minuteman, SRAM). I've worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory concerning a defense system concept that involved nuclear devices. This is actual technology. You are like the guy who is telling me there are no zebras. I'm not interested in wasting my time, but I am interested in shedding light. (I've glanced at some of Palmer's book. He strains at gnats, and clearly has no understanding of the nuclear detonation process or how to read the high-speed photographs. He criticizes one photo of the developing Trinity detonation for not seeming to be luminous---not realizing that the image was taken so fast, the image was not strong enough to burn the film. He dwells on the mystery of mustard gas, and seems to omit the likely presence of nitric oxides produced by the detonation, a result of high-temperature high-pressure conditions in air. Inhale them and they burn the lungs.)
We aren't the only ones who have nuclear weapons, you know. There is evidence enough of this, through the other test programs (UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan).
Okay, I'll take a look. My mind is open. Maybe we "have them now", but my doubt still lingers on what we claimed we had in 1945.
Read Glasstone's book. Read about the Manhattan Project. Read about the formation of the special bomber squadron. Again, think about this: it took 334 B-29s in a single raid to conduct the fire-bombing of Tokyo in Operation Meetinghouse. It took only one B-29 to destroy Hiroshima---and again to destroy Nagasaki. What kind of "non-nuclear" bomb load could one B-29 carry to produce these effects? If that could have been done with chemical weapons, we could have done it sooner and made more use of it earlier in the war. No need for a secret project that cost billions of dollars. And if the objective was to create a hoax, why would there be any secrecy?
Palmer (is that his name?) knows all about looking at anything but what really happened, because he doesn't bother to read and understand Glasstone's book (although he quotes from it). He refers to a fast-frame photo of the expanding Trinity fireball (taken in self-produced light) and says "It doesn't even look luminous. It looks like it was lit by a lamp high and to the left." He doesn't realize that is what a fireball looks like when you have slowed down the process enough and filtered it enough to keep the film from being saturated and totally exposed (all white). He worries about "where's the uranium?" and doesn't stop to think that it all drifted away as uranium oxide, part of the mushroom cloud. He has poor epistemology. Remember the old saying: Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence. No retinal burns? Amazing. Do we really know why? Or is it impossible for people to walk barefoot over red-hot glowing coals? The flash-burned corpses, grease stains, and flash shadows are grisly forms of evidence that no ordinary incendiary bomb produces.
I'm sorry, but when I can read his first chapter and find three glaring stupidities, I don't have much patience or charity.
In spite of all your knowledge, are we correct in assuming that you’ve never, not once, seen a nuclear weapon detonate? In exactly the same way that people who ‘know’ viruses exist have never seen a virus?
In exactly the same way you have never seen an x-ray or an electron or a molecule, yet they exist. You haven't seen solid rocket propellant, I will bet. You haven't seen radio waves. You haven't seen a computer compute, have you? You rely on a LOT of information that does not come to you directly. That is what education is for. That is what the edifices of science and of history are for. I've seen the footage, heard the eyewitness testimony, seen the bomb residue, and was cleared for Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information...and was briefed into some special access pertaining to same. Have you been to Africa? How do you know it even exists?
Given the state of the world today, how do you propose anyone would get an opportunity to see a nuclear detonation (and survive)? And just because we want to avoid such an event, you take that as meaning they can't happen? What is your position on volcanic eruptions? Are they fake also?
You can push yourself into a corner of having no knowledge of most everything, since a single human being is not going to encounter everything. That leads to a life of profound ignorance, because you deny yourself the knowledge that would otherwise help you discern truth from something questionable. This guy Palmer has a problem with a bomb detonation photograph---because he is an idiot who doesn't understand what he is looking at. So, of course he goes bat-shit. This degree of paranoia gets into psychosis territory, so rethink what you are doing. Learn more and doubt less. I'm not saying there aren't liars out there, but if everyone was lying, we would have no civilization.
I will reserve judgement on viruses, but the fact that there are scanning electron microscope photographs of them gives a head start to their reality. You can't take pictures of something that doesn't exist.