Interesting thread. Not sure how it wound up in a "paranormal" forum, but that's where it is so that's where I'm responding to it.
What I've seen so far is a mixture of fact and fiction and gobs of stuff I simply don't know enough about to have an opinion on one way or another. Cutting to the chase, is there a major nuke event going on that's being covered up? I don't know.
The reason why I'm posting, is that some folks may doubt that a
very effective coverup can be done on a story that should be worldwide headlines and that many people actually have direct knowledge of. It can be, I know firsthand, and it's stuff that thanks to the Internet you can verify for yourself without taking my word for anything. (As we've seen many times in the last several years, thanks to cellphones and social media, news blackouts are much harder to achieve nowadays, but I'm not going to say it's impossible.)
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Back in '79 I was living in Oakland, California, and at night tried to tune in KFBK from Sacramento (my home town) just for fun. Instead, I snagged a broadcast from Tucson, such things being the vagaries of AM band nighttime skip. And what I heard was a real-time story unfolding, the Tucson station had suspended regular broadcasting to allow anyone with knowledge of what was going on to call in.
This is what was going on.
Chapter 10: Tritium in Tucson, Wastes Worldwide, "KILLING OUR OWN", 1982
Naturally, in the wake of Three Mile Island, I assumed that the whole thing would be worldwide newspaper headlines the following morning. So the following morning I bought a copy of the SF Chronicle, a newspaper regarded back then as willing to print news that the establishment didn't like. Not a peep! So I bought a copy of the (evening) Examiner...... not a peep! Nothing on local radio news either. It was truly bizarre.
So I went to a specialty newsstand and special ordered a copy of the Sunday edition of the Tucson paper. It took a few days to arrive, but when it finally did, the story was there.
Meanwhile I had been watching carefully the Chronicle and Examiner for clues what the heck had happened, since a prior experience with another scandal of international scope that I'd inadvertently stumbled across I'd found confirmed days later in print news. And it happened this time, too: the Chronicle ran a news story about how the nuclear industry had put together a massive advertising campaign. No mention of the events in Tucson.
And that, folks was the rest of the story. The nuclear industry knew that sooner or later there would be more nuclear disasters. Badly stung by the publicity from TMI, next time they'd do a news blackout. So they had this malarkey news release about a massive advertising campaign just sitting on the shelf waiting to be wired to all the major media in the event that something embarrassing happened.
After several days of not reporting what was happening in Arizona, the media realized they'd been burned, they'd been blackmailed. It was too late to actually print the news about what was happening in Arizona because to do so days late would raise some very disturbing questions about what the heck was going on in the newspaper head shed. The irony is that the nuke industry didn't even have to spend a lot of money to shut anyone up. All they had to do is to say they were going to, and anyone who wanted to be blackmailed got blackmailed for free.
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An atomic radiation disaster was unfolding in Tucson, the Fed told the Governor that they didn't give a damn, and he better not give a damn either since anything atomic was automatically Federal jurisdiction. In defiance of the Fed, he called out the National Guard to seize the offending plant and eliminate it, the Fed decided that having the President declare an insurrection would be a story impossible to hide and one with no possible good outcome. So the Governor's operation to eliminate the plant went forward. And of course the Governor being a Democrat, the Republicans never forgave him. Don't think many Democrats ever forgave him, either. After all, he'd committed the most unforgiveable sin of high level politics: he'd put public necessity ahead of the wants of the oligarchy.
--Dave J.
