On September 22, 1979, US satellite Vela 6911 detected a ‘double flash’ near the Marion and Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Ever since, there has been speculation that it was actually a nuclear weapon test carried out by Israel. According to the memoirs of then-US President Jimmy Carter, this was also the assumption of American generals who briefed him on the incident. The official position of the Israeli state is to neither confirm nor deny having a homegrown military nuclear program.
Now a new paper, published in the Science & Global Security journal, says radioactive isotope iodine-131 had been discovered in the thyroids of Australian sheep in the month following the so-called ‘Vela incident.’
Christopher Wright of the Australian Defense Force Academy and nuclear physicist Lars-Erik De Geer, who used to work for the Swedish Defense Research Agency, have analyzed thyroid samples that were sent monthly to the US in 1979. The information on test results was only recently made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
The isotope levels found in the sheep affected by rain four days after the incident, “would be consistent with them having grazed in the path of a potential radioactive fallout plume from a 22 September low-yield nuclear test in the Southern Indian Ocean,” the paper states.
The researchers said that the analysis of weather patterns suggests the fallout plume from a nuclear explosion would have carried over from the test site in the Indian Ocean to parts of Australian territory.
The assumption that a nuclear test took place in 1979 is also backed by the analysis of the declassified “hydroacoustic signal” from US underwater listening devices, the study added.
The research “removes virtually all doubt that the ‘flash’ was a nuclear explosion,” Leonard Weiss, nuclear weapons expert from the Stanford University, wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
He pinpointed Israel as the responsible party because it was “the only country that had the technical ability and policy motivation to carry out such a clandestine test.” According to Weiss, it was just one of several aerial nuclear explosions performed by the Jewish state, which was detected by the US satellite due to an unexpected change in the cloud cover.
Researchers say the Israeli test was carried out in violation of the Limited Test Ban Treaty from 1963, and urge a large-scale international probe of the incident.
Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand Itzhak Gerberg denied the findings of the research in a comment to the New Zealand Herald, calling them “simply a ridiculous assumption that does not hold water.”
Vela Incident – Questions
The Vela Incident and it’s fallout upon Australia
UPDATED as @MalcolmFraser12 and bit.ly bundles are both deceased.
- What did happen on September 22nd, 1979?
- Was it investigated by Australian Authorities independent of the Carter Administration?
- Did the Australian Government know what it was?
- What discussions ensued between Australia and the United States as outlined in Christine Dodson’s discussion paper of October 1979?
- What did the Government of Malcolm Fraser know and what did it do about it?
- Did anyone talk to Dr Roger Melick about the results of sheep thyroid samples that he sent to Dr Lester Van Middlesworth?
- Was John R Moroney or anyone else at Australian Radiation Laboratory tasked to investigate and report on fallout?
- Were civilian populations in Australian States subjected to radioactive fallout from a secret Nuclear Weapon Test?
- Are those reports or discussions available to the public?
- What was the effect on their health?
- Was anything done to mitigate the risks?
- Was the decision to bring in mandatory Cancer Reporting directly related to concerns about this event?
- Were any measurements made of radioactive contamination of civilians, pastures, livestock, food and water resources?
- Who was responsible?
- Who is liable to compensate them?
- How many Australians died prematurely?
My collection of Sites on the Vela Incident (aka: what we do know)
Nuclear Bomb Casings from South Africa
Nuclear Bomb casings from South Africa
Position of Prince Edward Island in the Roaring Forties (which would blow fallout directly to Australia
STRIPECHART “SCROLL” NO.15 1957-1983 MELBORNE, AUSTRALIA “EVERY TIME THERE WAS A NUCLEAR TEST IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IODINE-131 APPEARED IN THE ANIMAL THYROIDS FROM THAT AREA”
![Christine Dodson, Staff Secretary, National Security Council, Memorandum for: The Secretary of State [and others], Subject: South Atlantic Nuclear Event, w/att: untitled discussion paper, October 22, 1979. Secret](https://petedavo.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/viewer-1.png)
Christine Dodson, Staff Secretary, National Security Council, Memorandum for: The Secretary of State [and others], Subject: South Atlantic Nuclear Event, w/att: untitled discussion paper, October 22, 1979. Secret
![Christine Dodson, Staff Secretary, National Security Council, Memorandum for: The Secretary of State [and others], Subject: South Atlantic Nuclear Event, w/att: untitled discussion paper, October 22, 1979. Secret](https://petedavo.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/viewer-2.png)
Christine Dodson, Staff Secretary, National Security Council, Memorandum for: The Secretary of State [and others], Subject: South Atlantic Nuclear Event, w/att: untitled discussion paper, October 22, 1979. Secret
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Every one today knows that Israel may commit the uglyest crimes including nuke bombing on innocent peoples , without being bothered the least by any of the US controled peace organisations .
This is clear that the world has to find another protection from the evil states that support the grand banditry organisations ,( which makes a good definition for the state Israel ).
It is known as well that , during more than 20 years ,Israel have stolen several times radioactive nuclear stuff in the USA ! But each time , the president of the USA diverted any action . ( except JF Kennedy , who may have paid it with his life ) … And the Karen Silkwood history has been recently re-writen as a cinderella count !
The conclusion about this – and I am not the only one to think this – the time has come to edify somewhere else , in Asia for example , a new organisation to rule and fight against states that are trampling on global peace , because it is now more than clear as well that the Israeli conspiracy aims at a new world war .
Reads like a mixture of fact and fiction, with many ludicrous statements like in the second paragraph where he describes George Soros as a regime change obsessed Zionist. The author places Soros and the National Endowment for Democracy on the same side, working together, which is an inversion of the truth. I expect there was Zionist-Israeli interference in the Georgian War, in fact, I know there was as Saakashvilli was installed and he is a Russian Mafia figure and arch Zionist; however, the article is a load of crap, typical Fort Russ style disinfo where they spin a yarn and throw in just enough plausible sounding things to make it somewhat believable to the uninitiated.
Israel is a despicable illegally formed country of thugs and criminals who give their middle finger to the rules of law. They have not signed the non proliferation treaty, refuse international inspections, possess illegal nukes and are a gross danger to the world at large while they hypocritically criticize others like Iran which does not have nukes. Israel has attacked the U.S. in many ways especially on 9/11/01 but sought to blame Muslims. Naturally the pathological liars in Israel deny this but facts are difficult to dispute. They are master liars and deceivers and international destroyers of the planet and the population of the planet. Their most recent criminal act was the illegal attack on the Mercy ship from Norway. Israel must be occupied by an international armed force until it learns how to behave in a civilized world.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it
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