by Michael E. Salla, PhD
Seymour Hersh has recently written an
article that gives a chilling account of the Bush administration’s
efforts to get
the Pentagon to go along with its war plans for Iraq. The
article contends that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are leading a
Bush administration effort to pressure a reluctant Pentagon to go
along with their Iran policy which involves the preemptive use of
tactical nuclear weapons.
Hersh writes:
"that the idea of using
tactical nuclear weapons in such situations has gained support from
the Defense Science Board, an advisory panel whose members are
selected by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld."
According to one
of Hersh’s sources the Defense Science Board is "telling the
Pentagon that we can build the B61 [tactical nuclear weapon] with
more blast and less radiation," he said. Hersh’s describes that the
chairman of the Defense Science Board, William Schneider, Jr.,
"served on an ad-hoc panel on nuclear forces sponsored by the
National Institute for Public Policy."
According to Hersh,
the panel’s report recommended treating tactical nuclear weapons as
an essential part of the U.S. arsenal and noted their suitability,
"for those occasions when the certain and prompt destruction of high
priority targets is essential and beyond the promise of conventional
weapons."
Several signers of the report are now prominent members of
the Bush Administration, including Stephen Hadley, the
national-security adviser; Stephen Cambone, the Under-Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence; and Robert Joseph, the Under-Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security.
It’s clear from Hersh’s article that Cheney and Rumsfeld are
committed to launching this war with the same kind of determination
that they used to carry the day for the preemptive war against Iraq.
Again, they are using a range of panel recommendations and personnel
supporting the preemptive military action as a policy option to
overwhelm skeptics in the Pentagon. Cheney and Rumsfeld obviously
haven’t learned the lesson about the danger of preemptive military
actions, and now want the Pentagon to authorize another preemptive
action. The difference with Iraq would be that the Iran military
action would require the preemptive use of tactical nuclear weapons
in destroying Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. According to Hersh:
"conventional weapons in the American arsenal could not
insure the destruction of facilities under seventy-five feet of
earth and rock, especially if they are reinforced with concrete."
This has been used by Cheney and
Rumsfeld to argue that tactical
nuclear weapons are necessary.
I suspect that the scheduled June 2 test of a massive ’conventional’
bomb that will generate a mushroom cloud, is in fact a test for the
eventual use of a tactical nuclear weapon designed to destroy
underground facilities. Here is how one journalist describes the
test:
"Mushroom clouds are commonly associated with nuclear blasts,
but this cloud will come from the detonation of a 700-ton explosive
charge
designed to test new bunker-busting technologies"
The Bush administration likely plans to advertise the June test as
a new ’conventional’ weapon, that generates a mushroom cloud while
destroying underground facilities. Consequently, preemptive nuclear
strike against Iran’s underground facilities could be marketed to a
skeptical American and global public as a series of ’new’
conventional weapons being used rather than tactical nuclear
weapons. The Bush administration could argue that the mushroom
clouds generated by the new conventional ’bunker busting’ weapons
are not due to them being nuclear weapons, and any radioactive
fallout was ’proof’ that the bunker busting bomb had in fact
destroyed a nuclear facility.
The preemptive use of tactical nuclear weapons would unleash a
devastating nuclear war that would be catastrophic for the region
and the globe in every respect. According to a Hersh and one of his
sources, the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff are resisting these
plans and there have been threats of high level resignations:
The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious
misgivings inside the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he
added, and some officers have talked about resigning. Late this
winter, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to remove the nuclear
option from the evolving war plans for Iran-without success, the
former intelligence official said. "The White House said, ’Why
are you challenging this? The option came from you.’"
The resistance from the Joint Chiefs of Staff may not be enough to
prevent the Cheney/Rumsfeld push for a preemptive nuclear war in
Iran. That takes me to discussing the exopolitical political
implications of a preemptive nuclear war in Iran.
Exopolitical Implications of Preemptive Nuclear War
To begin, I invite the reader to take a look at a French researcher,
Eric Julien’s (aka Jean Ederman’s) article on the relationship
between nuclear weapons tests and UFO sightings. In the article titled, "Are
We a Security Threat to Extraterrestrial Civilizations?" Julien
makes a cogent case that the use of nuclear weapons affects the
time/space continuum in ways that disrupt UFO/extraterrestrial
navigation and propulsion systems.
Hence the frequency of UFO
crashes around nuclear tests which he discusses in terms of 74
alleged UFO crashes documented in Ryan Wood’s book,
Majic Eyes Only
(2006). In his book, The Science of Extraterrestrials, published in
France and soon to be published in the US (for details see:
http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org/EricJulien.htm), he argues that an "atomic explosion is a foray into the
space-time continuum that they occupy!" This suggests that use of
nuclear weapons threaten the civilizations of extraterrestrials
whose space-time density is close to our own.
Consequently, the use of nuclear weapons is a threat to
extraterrestrial civilizations and can provoke a devastating
retaliatory strike against the planet due to our irresponsible use
of nuclear technology. Based on his analysis of UFO
sightings/crashes and nuclear tests, Julien argues that,
"we are a
threat to extraterrestrials and they are not likely to accept the
use of nuclear weapons. Any war that sparks nuclear confrontation
such as Iran might trigger an extraterrestrial response against
humanity."
If Julien is correct with his analysis of the threat
posed by nuclear weapons to extraterrestrial civilizations, what
does this suggest about the means used by extraterrestrial
civilizations to respond to a possible threat posed by humanity?
Presumably extraterrestrials would give warnings through their
communications with individuals and government officials in their
various interactions. If these warnings went unheeded then
extraterrestrials would be forced to take a range of defensive
measures based on their influence over policy makers and key
institutions. Such measures could culminate in a coordinated number
of extraterrestrial responses to prevent the Bush administration
launching a preemptive nuclear war. Presumably, such responses could
seriously undermine human sovereignty and freedom.
In conclusion, Julien’s research on the threat posed by nuclear
weapons to extraterrestrials points to the urgency of encouraging
those who have any influence in the policy making process to stop
the Bush administration drive towards authorizing a preemptive
nuclear attack against Iran. Hersh has done an important service in
informing the general public as to how real the prospect is that the
Bush administration will authorize the preemptive use of nuclear
weapons.
As to the ultimate loyalty and agenda of Cheney and Rumsfeld who are the principle architects of this preemptive nuclear
policy, I believe it highly likely that they are assets of forces
whose agendas are antithetical to human freedom and sovereignty. I
think the time has come for Cheney and Rumsfeld to be immediately
removed from their respective political offices by public officials
who understand the true dangers posed by a preemptive nuclear war in
Iran and how this threatens extraterrestrial civilizations.
The link
between world peace and extraterrestrial civilizations becomes
clearer as we appreciate the true nature of the relationship between
extraterrestrials and nuclear weapons