Forthminder
2009-10-16 22:41:09 UTC
October 16-18, 2009 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Gearing up
for an attack on Iran -- in the Nevada desert
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20091016_3
WMR reporting from Nevada -- U.S. and Iranian diplomats
may be meeting in seven-party talks over Iran's nuclear
weapons program, all the while hoping for a diplomatic solution
to end the controversy over the Iranian program. However, here
is the high desert of Nevada, which one senior official referred to
as "looking like the Middle East."
Because of the similarity in the terrain of the Department of
Energy's
Nevada Test Site and Iran, U.S. Special Operations forces are
training
at a facility at the test site that officials say "doesn't actually
exist."
However, this editor saw where the facility is located, butting up
against a mountain range half-way between the Frenchman Flats
atomic bomb test site and the Sedan Crater, the site of the largest
underground thermonuclear test conducted by the United States.
The "non-existent" facility is where Special Forces teams are
specifically training for "counter-nuclear proliferation" operations
in Iran. The Nevada Test Site has a number of underground facilities
that fell into disuse after the United States adopted a nuclear
testing moratorium in 1992.
Specifically, U.S. Special Forces team are training in what is called
a "realistic environment" at the test site and are using the
facility's
tunnel system to test the results of the use of bunker buster bombs.
The training is highly classified but it appears that some of the
costs
are being laundered through the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction
Agency.
WMR has also learned that the Predator and Reaper remotely-piloted
vehicles used by the Air Force are soon to undergo a major refitting,
allowing the Predator to carry more than the two Hellfire missiles it
currently can carry, and the Reaper to carry additional specialized
weapons in addition to its current weapons complement, which can
match that carried by any F-16 manned fighter plane.
Sitting just south of the Nevada Test Site is Creech Air Force Base,
the location of the training program for Predator and Reaper Air
Force
pilots and sensor personnel. However, WMR has learned from a
Department of Energy source that the Nevada Test Site also
possesses a Predator aircraft that had been outfitted with
a "black box" sensor array that is capable of detecting telltale
signs
of nuclear weapons development, including traces of enriched uranium,
plutonium, and tritium, and can be flown clandestinely into Iran to
surveill Iranian nuclear installations.
Although officially, no Predator has been reported to have been
shot down, WMR learned that a few were shot down in operations
over Iraq. In addition, Iraqi insurgents cut a Predator ground
control
station communications link outside the Tallil Airbase, putting one
of the airborne Predators in jeopardy until communications could
be re-established. Predators, although flown and operated via
satellite links from the United States, must be locally piloted
for takeoffs and landings because the satellite link fractional
second
delay cannot assure the safety of the aircraft. Takeoffs and landings
are carried out by a forward ground control team that must be within
a 100-mile line-of-sight radius of the aircraft.
The National Nuclear Security Administration also operates
the "Red Storm" Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) system
that is a high-performance computer operating at 280 teraflops.
Red Storm is one of the world's fastest twelve computers and is
used for conducting nuclear simulation tests on Iran and North Korean
nuclear programs and, in the process of doing so, evaluates the
quality of intelligence provided by certain intelligence sources not
always considered reliable, including Israel.
The counter-nuclear proliferation Predator that is flown by the
Nevada
Test Site is not the only "black program" operating in the Nevada
desert.
Other programs, with possible anti-Iran objectives, are staged out of
the Tonopah Test Range, also known as "Area 52," part of northern
part of the Nellis Test Range, and Groom Dry Lake, the home of
a facility called "Area 51." Without exception, any questions asked
of Nevada Test Site personnel about Area 51 are met with, "if I don't
know the answer to a question, it is classified."
One item of note is the presence, some 40 miles southwest of
Area 51 of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository.
WMR learned that, along with the warnings posted in English
about the dangers posed by the nuclear waste, the Department
of Energy came up with an unusual hieroglyphic warning sign.
WMR learned that the hieroglyphic alphabet was developed to
warn later civilizations that may not understand any current language
about the dangers of the stored material in the event they
discover it "10,000 years or more" from now.
for an attack on Iran -- in the Nevada desert
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20091016_3
WMR reporting from Nevada -- U.S. and Iranian diplomats
may be meeting in seven-party talks over Iran's nuclear
weapons program, all the while hoping for a diplomatic solution
to end the controversy over the Iranian program. However, here
is the high desert of Nevada, which one senior official referred to
as "looking like the Middle East."
Because of the similarity in the terrain of the Department of
Energy's
Nevada Test Site and Iran, U.S. Special Operations forces are
training
at a facility at the test site that officials say "doesn't actually
exist."
However, this editor saw where the facility is located, butting up
against a mountain range half-way between the Frenchman Flats
atomic bomb test site and the Sedan Crater, the site of the largest
underground thermonuclear test conducted by the United States.
The "non-existent" facility is where Special Forces teams are
specifically training for "counter-nuclear proliferation" operations
in Iran. The Nevada Test Site has a number of underground facilities
that fell into disuse after the United States adopted a nuclear
testing moratorium in 1992.
Specifically, U.S. Special Forces team are training in what is called
a "realistic environment" at the test site and are using the
facility's
tunnel system to test the results of the use of bunker buster bombs.
The training is highly classified but it appears that some of the
costs
are being laundered through the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction
Agency.
WMR has also learned that the Predator and Reaper remotely-piloted
vehicles used by the Air Force are soon to undergo a major refitting,
allowing the Predator to carry more than the two Hellfire missiles it
currently can carry, and the Reaper to carry additional specialized
weapons in addition to its current weapons complement, which can
match that carried by any F-16 manned fighter plane.
Sitting just south of the Nevada Test Site is Creech Air Force Base,
the location of the training program for Predator and Reaper Air
Force
pilots and sensor personnel. However, WMR has learned from a
Department of Energy source that the Nevada Test Site also
possesses a Predator aircraft that had been outfitted with
a "black box" sensor array that is capable of detecting telltale
signs
of nuclear weapons development, including traces of enriched uranium,
plutonium, and tritium, and can be flown clandestinely into Iran to
surveill Iranian nuclear installations.
Although officially, no Predator has been reported to have been
shot down, WMR learned that a few were shot down in operations
over Iraq. In addition, Iraqi insurgents cut a Predator ground
control
station communications link outside the Tallil Airbase, putting one
of the airborne Predators in jeopardy until communications could
be re-established. Predators, although flown and operated via
satellite links from the United States, must be locally piloted
for takeoffs and landings because the satellite link fractional
second
delay cannot assure the safety of the aircraft. Takeoffs and landings
are carried out by a forward ground control team that must be within
a 100-mile line-of-sight radius of the aircraft.
The National Nuclear Security Administration also operates
the "Red Storm" Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) system
that is a high-performance computer operating at 280 teraflops.
Red Storm is one of the world's fastest twelve computers and is
used for conducting nuclear simulation tests on Iran and North Korean
nuclear programs and, in the process of doing so, evaluates the
quality of intelligence provided by certain intelligence sources not
always considered reliable, including Israel.
The counter-nuclear proliferation Predator that is flown by the
Nevada
Test Site is not the only "black program" operating in the Nevada
desert.
Other programs, with possible anti-Iran objectives, are staged out of
the Tonopah Test Range, also known as "Area 52," part of northern
part of the Nellis Test Range, and Groom Dry Lake, the home of
a facility called "Area 51." Without exception, any questions asked
of Nevada Test Site personnel about Area 51 are met with, "if I don't
know the answer to a question, it is classified."
One item of note is the presence, some 40 miles southwest of
Area 51 of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository.
WMR learned that, along with the warnings posted in English
about the dangers posed by the nuclear waste, the Department
of Energy came up with an unusual hieroglyphic warning sign.
WMR learned that the hieroglyphic alphabet was developed to
warn later civilizations that may not understand any current language
about the dangers of the stored material in the event they
discover it "10,000 years or more" from now.