Good news travels fast; bomb test postponed, again
First, there was a flash of an e-mail yesterday afternoon from anti-nuke activist J. Preston Truman in Idaho. Then came a call from Chicago, where Peggy Maze Johnson, of Las Vegas’ Citizen Alert organization, was doing her part to combat the insanity. It all came together with confirmation from Alyson Heyrend, the super-aide to Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah.
Divine Strake, the dangerous U.S. bomb experiment, has been postponed again. This time because the nuclear-powers-that-be can’t prove that testing at the Nevada Test Site, which poisoned so many all those years ago, would be safe. Imagine that.
From top to bottom, we have been fighting this madness for some time now as the Bush administration keeps tossing the shadow of yet another mushroom cloud upon us. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice — have been hot on this one, angling for some loophole to create a next-generation nuclear weapon that could take out deeply buried hardened targets.
I’m not sure, but I think that’s code for Iran and North Korea.
I do know that in the realm of Cowboy Diplomacy, the one with the biggest six-shooter thinks he's the winner, although there can be no winners when nukes are involved.
So, according to the mad bombers, the explosion of a 700-ton device at the Nevada Test Site has been pushed back until early 2007 at this point.
Hopefully by then we’ll have a different influence in the Congress that sees the folly in this dangerous game of nuclear chess.
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