Dead Men Tell No Lies

[@HockeyVictory66]

That base is insanely toxic, they have only done marginal remediation. The military had no safety provisions for over 70+ years a freely buried anything and everything no matter how dangerous to human life.

[@climatechangeishere]

That's my undertsanding , yes. It was up to the Navy to pass on it, just like Hunter's Point. The developers capitalized on the Navy"s deception. Politicians were complicit.

[@climatechangeishere]

U235 Uranium has a half life of 700 million years. Ponder, if you will.

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[@louischilds-odowd4739]

Insofar as exposure to weapons grade U-235 in the soil as reported by Dr. Chuck Bennett, we don’t know where this material came from and how much of it exists. In 2000, the Navy dismissed Dr. Bennett’s reports of enriched U-235 soil samples from the panhandle, and it’s doubtful that the government is interested in pursuing this issue today. The samples of weapons-grade Uranium 235 found by Dr. Chuck Bennett, a member of El Toro’s Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), doesn’t come as a big surprise since El Toro’s 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing no doubt had access to tactical nuclear weapons as demonstrated by the maintenance of a 24/7 nuclear guard watch reported by an El Toro Marine. Of course, the Navy and the Marine Corps can dismiss that allegation, too. How this radioactive material got into the soil is anyone’s guess but it’s highly unlikely that the Marines lost a nuclear weapon at El Toro. The New York Times reported that tactical nukes were kept on an LST, a small amphibious Navy ship, anchored off MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, in 1961. Daniel J. Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official and author of the Pentagon Papers, reported this in 1981. Ellsberg gave the Washington Post a copy of a memorandum he wrote in 1971, describing the LST carrying nuclear weapons. As a Marine stationed at Iwakuni in 1964-1965, I remember an LST that seem to be permanently docked near the airfield. Part of my duties at Iwakuni required me to observe the loading of supplies for shipment on an LST to Vietnam. So, it’s possible that all three Marine Wings (Cherry Point, El Toro and Iwakuni) maintained an inventory of tactical nukes, and it would make sense that nuclear weapons be guarded on a 24/7 basis. The late Dr. Chuck Bennett over 17 years ago, cited two Orange County experts who examined soil samples from the panhandle and found weapons grade U-235 (the stuff that makes the BANG in nuclear bombs). The Navy took issue with his report and nothing was done to follow-up on it. Any weapons grade uranium in the soil would be a major embarrassment to the Navy and extremely difficult to explain. The half-life of U-235 is 700 million years. Dr. Bennett’s report of U-235 should have set off alarm bells and demands for a thorough on-site investigation by independent experts. It didn’t.