DIVINE STRAKE MAY KILL YOU

Divine Strake is a precursor to building larger nuclear devices designed to kill people and destroy facilities. There is a very good chance that 700 tons of fuel oil and ammonium nitrate could blow the top off the mountain if it is an underground mountain test. The Nevada Test Site grounds are contaminated with isotopes from previous nuclear testing. Many radioactive isotopes are imbedded in the desert soil of the Nevada test Site. If an accident occurs with Divine Strake and the winds are blowing in the direction of St. George, these deadly Isotopes could become airborne and contaminate our beautiful city.

Being an on site participant at the Nevada Test Site on 18 December 1970, I watched the Nuclear Test Baneberry come out of the ground and go airborne. The fallout covered l3 States and crossed the U.S. boundary into Canada, a violation of the Test Ban Treaty.

The Baneberry accident occurred at 7:30 am about 9000 feet from my work location. At that time about 600 of us construction workers were gathered around the area 12 cafeteria. We were told logo to our work locations, but no one did. Within a short time the fallout from this atomic bomb was coming down on us at the cafeteria and other locations. Only about 150 people could get inside the cafeteria which also became contaminated. The rest of us had no place to go. We were covered with fallout. I did not have a hat on that day, and my head and clothes were covered with radioactive fallout. All of us construction workers were breathing this fallout. About 9 AM that morning I breathed in a hot particle and it lodged into the nasopharyngeal region of my nose. This hot particle made my nose start to bleed. I made my way into the men's room and I used wet toilet paper to try and wash out that hot particle. Finally about 9:30, I stopped the bleeding that left me with a large nasal septal perforation I then went outside and all the busses were gone. There was a guard outside the cafeteria and he said the busses left about 9:15. The security guards confiscated between 450 and 500 of our cars as they were too radioactive to let us have. The security guard told me to wait there at the cafeteria and someone would pick us up shortly. Myself and a few others waited all day long and no one come to pick us up and take us out of the area. I might interject here that the evacuation siren never did go off that morning to leave the area.

About 2PM a co-worker from California had his car in the housing area and loaded with his personal belongings just waiting for a chance to get out of the area, as it was his idea to leave and not return to the Test Site. He waited until the guards were not at his location and started to leave. My friend saw me standing there and yelled for me to get into his car. I brushed the fallout out of my hair as much as I could and took off my winter coat and shook the fallout off of it as best I could, get into his car and we headed up to area l7 as the regular road from area 12 was blocked off. The fallout was still coming down at area 17 and the road was blocked there and we just waited. About 2:l5 a bus arrived and we went down to CP6. A radiological safety person boarded the bus with a Geiger counter and just walked down the aisle waving the Geiger counter over us. He then went to the front of the bus and told us that we pegged the meter. Then he said when we got home to take off all of our clothing winter coats and boots in our garages and burn them if we had burn barrels. In those days in Las Vegas most homes had burn barrels. Then he said to take cold showers 3 times a day for 2 weeks, in which I did. I told my wife that I was probably a walking dead man. I had a wife and 3 children at home- I had this mental strain of wondering how long it would take before this atomic bomb would kill me. Fortunately for me, I have had many good doctors. This Baneberry bomb caused Squamous Cell Carcinoma to grow on the top of my head and two more on my forehead at the hair line. Each time I have caught them in time and had very good cancer doctors remove them before they went through my scalp and into my brain. At this time I feel another one growing which I will have removed at my next doctors appointment. This fallout has caused me to have my aorta artery and left renal artery replaced, it has also left me with almost total renal failure. I have had a Fistula put into my left wrist and left elbow for dialysis and both have failed. I give many thanks to the Nephrology center here in St. George as my red blood cells are now dying off at a rapid pace and this center is saving my life with Aranesp injections about every two weeks to prolong the life of these red blood cells. I have other medical problems in which the good doctors and nurses here in St. George are taking care of.

I strongly urge every person with a computer to write a protest against the Divine Strake Test, as that will be the beginning of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site- The Government cannot guarantee that the nuclear testing will not leak radioactive fallout from leaving the boundaries of the test site. We have a beautiful city, lets keep it that way and protect our citizens from the deadly radioactive fall out from any future testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Donald J.Moore

Protest Website divinestrake@nv.doe.qov or (702-295-0625)

 

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