Divine Strake: Terminated // Divine Strake's Program: **Active**

[helderheid]

by Citizen P.
Thursday Mar 1st, 2007 12:44 PM

Divine Strake, a 700-ton chemical explosion set for the Nevada Testing Site, was stopped by activists. The test is terminated. The program that mothered it, ACTD, is not and still seeks to develop new mini-nuke weapons.

I was one of my activists that opposed Divine Strake in Utah. I had set up a MySpace account at http://www.myspace.com/stopdivinestrake to help inform people who otherwise did not even know it existed.

On Feb. 22, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency announced that it had decided to terminate Divine Strake after an outrage and uproar by activists and the community. However, the nightmare is not over.

We defeated Divine Strake. We won against Divine Strake. We SHOULD celebrate. At the same time, the war against Divine Strake isn't over yet. ACTD has not been canceled.

ACTD? What is that, you say?

Divine Strake was the large-scale event for the the Tunnel Target Defeat Advanced Concept and Technology Demonstration (ACTD), which DTRA did NOT cancel. ACTD is for the development low-yield nuclear earth penetrator weapons, mini-nukes to destroy underground bunkers. If such a weapon had hit a target in Baghdad, for example, 10,000 people would be estimated to die from the nuclear fallout.

Divine Strake was canceled. This is a victory. The end purpose of Divine Strake, however, has not been terminated. The DTRA made clear that large-scale explosion tests such as Divine Strake will not be conducted, but, however, alternatives will be pursued for the ACTD program.

We need to cancel the Tunnel Target Defeat ACTD. Congress flatly refused (before the 2006 mid-term elections) that there will be any new nuclear weapons or development. ACTD flatly is against Congressional permission.

There were other tests in the Tunnel Target Defeat ACTD before Divine Strake such as Discrete Gemini in Indiana with two 1.5 ton tests of ANFO. These two 3,000 lb ANFO tests occured with no one been awaring of it in southern Indiana.

DTRA backed down because of the sheer attention Divine Strake was receiving. They don't want attention brought to the bigger picture behind Divine Strake: ACTD.

If you want to help fight and be better informed about our efforts to stop ACTD (the program that Divine Strake is a part of), I ask you to join the Citizens Against Divine Strake group (regional and international chapters available) @ http://www.stopdivinestrake.com/cads.html.
http://www.myspace.com/stopdivinestrake

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/01/18370860.php