There is now a relatively long introduction at the top of this blog, due to the present nuclear threat caused by disarmament and arms control propaganda, and the dire need to get the facts out past pro-Russian media influencers or loony mass media which has never cared about nuclear and radiation effects facts, so please scroll down to see blog posts. The text below in blue is hyperlinked (direct to reference source materials, rather than numbered and linked to reference at the end of the page) so you can right-click on it and open in a new tab to see the source. This page is not about opinions, it provides censored out facts that debunk propaganda.

Click here for the key declassified nuclear testing and capability documents compilation (EM-1 related USA research reports and various UK nuclear weapon test reports on blast and radiation), from nukegate.org

We also uploaded an online-viewable version of the full text of the 1982 edition of the UK Goverment's Domestic Nuclear Shelters - Technical Guidance, including secret UK and USA nuclear test report references and extracts proving protection against collateral damage, for credible deterrence (linked here).

https://hbr.org/1995/05/why-the-news-is-not-the-truth: "The news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize news, and government officials need to appear to be responding to crises. Too often, the crises are not really crises but joint fabrications. The two institutions have become so ensnared in a symbiotic web of lies that the news media are unable to tell the public what is true and the government is unable to govern effectively. That is the thesis advanced by Paul H. Weaver, a former political scientist (at Harvard University), journalist (at Fortune magazine), and corporate communications executive (at Ford Motor Company), in his provocative analysis entitled News and the Culture of Lying: How Journalism Really Works ... The news media and the government have created a charade that serves their own interests but misleads the public. Officials oblige the media’s need for drama by fabricating crises and stage-managing their responses, thereby enhancing their own prestige and power. Journalists dutifully report those fabrications. Both parties know the articles are self-aggrandizing manipulations and fail to inform the public about the more complex but boring issues of government policy and activity. What has emerged, Weaver argues, is a culture of lying."

This blog's url is now "www.nukegate.org". When this nuclear effects blog began in 2006, "glasstone.blogspot.com" was used to signify the key issue of Glasstone's obfuscating "Effects of Nuclear Weapons", specifically the final 1977 edition, which omitted not just the credible deterrent "use" of nuclear weapons but the key final "Principles of protection" chapter that had been present in all previous editions, and it also ignored the relatively clean neutron bombs which had been developed in the intervening years, as a credible deterrent to the concentrations of force needed for aggressive invasions, such as the 1914 invasion of Belgium and the 1939 invasion of Poland; both of which triggered world wars. Those editors themselves were not subversives, but both had nuclear weapons security clearances which constituted political groupthink censorship control, regarding which designs of nuclear weapons they could discuss and the level of technical data (they include basically zero information on their sources and the "bibliographies" are in most cases not to their classified nuclear testing sources but merely further reading); the 1977 edition had been initially drafted in 1974 solely by EM-1 editor Dolan at SRI International, and was then submitted to Glasstone who made further changes. The persistent and hypocritical Russian World Peace Council's and also hardline arms controllers propaganda tactic - supported by some arms industry loons who have a vested interest in conventional war - has been to try to promote lies on nuclear weapons effects to get rid of credible Western nuclear deterrence of provocations that start war. Naturally, the Russians have now stocked 2000+ tactical neutron weapons of the sort they get the West to disarm.

This means that they can invade territory with relative impunity, since the West won't deter such provocations by flexible response - the aim of Russia is to push the West into a policy of massive retaliation of direct attacks only, and then use smaller provocations instead - and Russia can then use its tactical nuclear weapons to "defend" its newly invaded territories by declaring them to now be part of Mother Russia and under Moscow's nuclear umbrella. Russia has repeatedly made it clear - for decades - that it expects a direct war with NATO to rapidly escalate into nuclear WWIII and it has prepared civil defense shelters and evacuation tactics to enable it. Herman Kahn's public warnings of this date back to his testimony to the June 1959 Congressional Hearings on the Biological and Environmental Effects of Nuclear War, but for decades were deliberately misrepresented by most media outlets. President Kennedy's book "Why England Slept" makes it crystal clear how exactly the same "pacifist" propaganda tactics in the 1930s (that time it was the "gas bomb knockout blow has no defense so disarm, disarm, disarm" lie) caused war, by using fear to slow credible rearmament in the face of state terrorism. By the time democracies finally decided to issue an ultimatum, Hitler had been converted - by pacifist appeasement - from a cautious tester of Western indecision, into an overconfident aggressor who simply ignored last-minute ultimatums.

Glasstone and Dolan's 1977 Effects of Nuclear Weapons (US Government) is written in a highly ambiguous fashion (negating nearly every definite statement with a deliberately obfuscating contrary statement to leave a smokescreen legacy of needless confusion, obscurity and obfuscation), omits nearly all key nuclear test data and provides instead misleading generalizations of data from generally unspecified weapon designs tested over 60 years ago which apply to freefield measurements on unobstructed radial lines in deserts and oceans. It makes ZERO analysis of the overall shielding of radiation and blast by their energy attenuation in modern steel and concrete cities, and even falsely denies such factors in its discussion of blast in cities and in its naive chart for predicting the percentage of burns types as a function of freefield outdoor thermal radiation, totally ignoring skyline shielding geometry (similar effects apply to freefield nuclear radiation exposure, despite vague attempts to dismiss this by non-quantitative talk about some scattered radiation arriving from all angles). It omits the huge variations in effects due to weapon design e.g. cleaner warhead designs and the tactical neutron bomb. It omits quantitative data on EMP as a function of burst yield, height and weapon design.

It omits most of the detailed data collected from Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the casualty rates as a function of type of building or shelter and blast pressure. It fails to analyse overall standardized casualty rates for different kinds of burst (e.g. shallow underground earth penetrators convert radiation and blast energy into ground shock and cratering against hard targets like silos or enemy bunkers). It omits a detailed analysis of blast precursor effects. It omits a detailed analysis of fallout beta and gamma spectra, fractionation, specific activity (determining the visibility of the fallout as a function of radiation hazard, and the mass of material to be removed for effective decontamination), and data which does exist on the effect of crater soil size distribution upon the fused fallout particle size distribution (e.g. tests like Small Boy in 1962 on the very fine particles at Frenchman Flats gave mean fallout particle sizes far bigger than the pre-shot soil, proving that - as for Trinitite - melted small soil particles fuse together in the fireball to produce larger fallout particles, so the pre-shot soil size distribution is irrelevant for fallout analysis).

By generally (with few exceptions) lumping "effects" of all types of bursts together into chapters dedicated to specific effects, it falsely gives the impression that all types of nuclear explosions produce similar effects with merely "quantitative differences". This is untrue because air bursts eliminate fallout casualties entirely, while slight burial (e.g. earth penetrating warheads) eliminates thermal (including fires and dust "climatic nuclear winter" BS), the initial radiation and severe blast effects, while massively increasing ground shock, and the same applies to shallow underwater bursts. So a more objective treatment to credibly deter all aggression MUST emphasise the totally different collateral damage effects, by dedicating chapters to different kinds of burst (high altitude/space bursts, free air bursts, surface bursts, underground bursts, underwater bursts), and would include bomb design implications on these effects in detail. A great deal of previously secret and limited distributed nuclear effects data has been declassified since 1977, and new research has been done. Our objectives in this review are: (a) to ensure that an objective independent analysis of the relevant nuclear weapons effects facts is placed on the record in case the currently, increasingly vicious Cold War 2.0 escalates into some kind of limited "nuclear demonstration" by aggressors to try to end a conventional war by using coercive threats, (b) to ensure the lessons of tactical nuclear weapon design for deterring large scale provocations (like the invasions of Belgium in 1914 and Poland in 1939 which triggered world wars) are re-learned in contrast to Dulles "massive retaliation" (incredible deterrent) nonsense, and finally (c) to provide some push to Western governments to "get real" with our civil defense, to try to make credible our ageing "strategic nuclear deterrent". We have also provided a detailed analysis of recently declassified Russian nuclear warhead design data, shelter data, effects data, tactical nuclear weapons employment manuals, and some suggestions for improving Western thermonuclear warheads to improve deterrence.

‘The evidence from Hiroshima indicates that blast survivors, both injured and uninjured, in buildings later consumed by fire [caused by the blast overturning charcoal braziers used for breakfast in inflammable wooden houses filled with easily ignitable bamboo furnishings and paper screens] were generally able to move to safe areas following the explosion. Of 130 major buildings studied by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey ... 107 were ultimately burned out ... Of those suffering fire, about 20 percent were burning after the first half hour. The remainder were consumed by fire spread, some as late as 15 hours after the blast. This situation is not unlike the one our computer-based fire spread model described for Detroit.’

- Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, DCPA Attack Environment Manual, Chapter 3: What the Planner Needs to Know About Fire Ignition and Spread, report CPG 2-1A3, June 1973, Panel 27.

The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, US Strategic Bombing Survey, Pacific Theatre, report 92, volume 2 (May 1947, secret):

Volume one, page 14:

“... the city lacked buildings with fire-protective features such as automatic fire doors and automatic sprinkler systems”, and pages 26-28 state the heat flash in Hiroshima was only:

“... capable of starting primary fires in exposed, easily combustible materials such as dark cloth, thin paper, or dry rotted wood exposed to direct radiation at distances usually within 4,000 feet of the point of detonation (AZ).”

Volume two examines the firestorm and the ignition of clothing by the thermal radiation flash in Hiroshima:

Page 24:

“Scores of persons throughout all sections of the city were questioned concerning the ignition of clothing by the flash from the bomb. ... Ten school boys were located during the study who had been in school yards about 6,200 feet east and 7,000 feet west, respectively, from AZ [air zero]. These boys had flash burns on the portions of their faces which had been directly exposed to rays of the bomb. The boys’ stories were consistent to the effect that their clothing, apparently of cotton materials, ‘smoked,’ but did not burst into flame. ... a boy’s coat ... started to smoulder from heat rays at 3,800 feet from AZ.” [Contrast this to the obfuscation and vagueness in Glasstone, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons!]

Page 88:

“Ignition of the City. ... Only directly exposed surfaces were flash burned. Measured from GZ, flash burns on wood poles were observed at 13,000 feet, granite was roughened or spalled by heat at 1,300 feet, and vitreous tiles on roofs were blistered at 4,000 feet. ... six persons who had been in reinforced-concrete buildings within 3,200 feet of air zero stated that black cotton blackout curtains were ignited by radiant heat ... dark clothing was scorched and, in some cases, reported to have burst into flame from flash heat [although as the 1946 unclassified USSBS report admits, most immediately beat the flames out with their hands without sustaining injury, because the clothing was not drenched in gasoline, unlike peacetime gasoline tanker road accident victims]

“... but a large proportion of over 1,000 persons questioned was in agreement that a great majority of the original fires was started by debris falling on kitchen charcoal fires, by industrial process fires, or by electric short circuits. Hundreds of fires were reported to have started in the centre of the city within 10 minutes after the explosion. Of the total number of buildings investigated [135 buildings are listed] 107 caught fire, and in 69 instances, the probable cause of initial ignition of the buildings or their contents was as follows: (1) 8 by direct radiated heat from the bomb (primary fire), (2) 8 by secondary sources, and (3) 53 by fire spread from exposed [wooden] buildings.”

ABOVE: "missile gap" propaganda debunked by secret 1970s data; Kennedy relied on US nuclear superiority. Using a flawed analysis of nuclear weapons effects on Hiroshima - based on lying unclassified propaganda reports and ignorant dismissals of civil defense shelters in Russia (again based on Hiroshima propaganda by groves in 1945) - America allowed Russian nuclear superiority in the 1970s. Increasingly, the nuclear deterrent was used by Russia to stop the West from "interfering" with its aggressive invasions and wars, precisely Hitler's 1930s strategy with gas bombing knockout-blow threats used to engineer appeasement. BELOW: H-bomb effects and design secrecy led to tragic mass media delusions, such as the 18 February 1950 Picture Post claim that the H-bomb can devastate Australia (inspiring the Shute novel and movie "On the Beach" and also other radiation scams like "Dr Strangelove" to be used by Russia to stir up anti Western disarmament movement to help Russia win WWIII). Dad was a Civil Defense Corps Instructor in the UK when this was done (the civil defense effectiveness and weapon effects facts on shelters at UK and USA nuclear tests were kept secret and not used to debunk lying political appeasement propaganda tricks in the mass media by sensationalist "journalists" and Russian "sputniks"):

Message to mass-media journalists: please don't indulge in lying "no defence" propaganda as was done by most of the media in previous pre-war crises!

Above: Edward Leader-Williams on the basis for UK civil defence shelters in SECRET 1949 Royal Society's London Symposium on physical effects of atomic weapons, a study that was kept secret by the Attlee Government and subsequent UK governments, instead of being openly published to enhance public knowledge of civil defence effectiveness against nuclear attack. Leader-Williams also produced the vital civil defence report seven years later (published below for the first time on this blog), proving civil defence sheltering and city centre evacuation is effective against 20 megaton thermonuclear weapons. Also published in the same secret symposium, which was introduced by Penney, was Penney's own Hiroshima visit analysis of the percentage volume reduction in overpressure-crushed empty petrol cans, blueprint containers, etc., which gave a blast partition yield of 7 kilotons (or 15.6 kt total yield, if taking the nuclear blast as 45% of total yield, i.e. 7/0.45 = 15.6, as done in later AWRE nuclear weapons test blast data reports). Penney in a 1970 updated paper allowed for blast reduction due to the damage done in the city bursts.

ABOVE: The 1996 Northrop EM-1 (see extracts below showing protection by modern buildings and also simple shelters very close to nuclear tests; note that Northrop's entire set of damage ranges as a function of yield for underground shelters, tunnels, silos are based on two contained deep underground nuclear tests of different yield scaled to surface burst using the assumption of 5% yield ground coupling relative to the underground shots; this 5% equivalence figure appears to be an exaggeration for compact modern warheads, e.g. the paper “Comparison of Surface and Sub-Surface Nuclear Bursts,” from Steven Hatch, Sandia National Laboratories, to Jonathan Medalia, October 30, 2000, shows a 2% equivalence, e.g. Hatch shows that 1 megaton surface burst produces identical ranges to underground targets as a 20 kt burst at >20m depth of burst, whereas Northrop would require 50kt) has not been openly published, despite such protection being used in Russia! This proves heavy bias against credible tactical nuclear deterrence of the invasions that trigger major wars that could escalate into nuclear war (Russia has 2000+ dedicated neutron bombs; we don't!) and against simple nuclear proof tested civil defence which makes such deterrence credible and of course is also of validity against conventional wars, severe weather, peacetime disasters, etc.

The basic fact is that nuclear weapons can deter/stop invasions unlike the conventional weapons that cause mass destruction, and nuclear collateral damage is eliminated easily for nuclear weapons by using them on military targets, since for high yields at collateral damage distances all the effects are sufficiently delayed in arrival to allow duck and cover to avoid radiation and blast wind/flying debris injuries (unlike the case for the smaller areas affected by smaller yield conventional weapons, where there is little time on seeing the flash to duck and cover to avoid injury), and as the original 1951 SECRET American Government "Handbook on Capabilities of Atomic Weapons" (limited report AD511880L, forerunner to today's still secret EM-1) stated in Section 10.32:

"PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM TO BE REMEMBERED WHEN ESTIMATING EFFECTS ON PERSONNEL IS THE AMOUNT OF COVER ACTUALLY INVOLVED. ... IT IS OBVIOUS THAT ONLY A FEW SECONDS WARNING IS NECESSARY UNDER MOST CONDITIONS TO TAKE FAIRLY EFFECTIVE COVER. THE LARGE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES IN JAPAN RESULTED FOR THE MOST PART FROM THE LACK OF WARNING."

As for Hitler's stockpile of 12,000 tons of tabun nerve gas, whose strategic and also tactical use was deterred by proper defences (gas masks for all civilians and soldiers, as well as UK stockpiles of fully trial-tested deliverable biological agent anthrax and mustard gas retaliation capacity), it is possible to deter strategic nuclear escalation to city bombing, even within a world war with a crazy terrorist, if all the people are protected by both defence and deterrence.

J. R. Oppenheimer (opposing Teller), February 1951: "It is clear that they can be used only as adjuncts in a military campaign which has some other components, and whose purpose is a military victory. They are not primarily weapons of totality or terror, but weapons used to give combat forces help they would otherwise lack. They are an integral part of military operations. Only when the atomic bomb is recognized as useful insofar as it is an integral part of military operations, will it really be of much help in the fighting of a war, rather than in warning all mankind to avert it." (Quotation: Samuel Cohen, Shame, 2nd ed., 2005, page 99.)

‘The Hungarian revolution of October and November 1956 demonstrated the difficulty faced even by a vastly superior army in attempting to dominate hostile territory. The [Soviet Union] Red Army finally had to concentrate twenty-two divisions in order to crush a practically unarmed population. ... With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears when we think of [World War II nuclear city bombing like Hiroshima]. The high casualty estimates for nuclear war are based on the assumption that the most suitable targets are those of conventional warfare: cities to interdict communications ... With cities no longer serving as key elements in the communications system of the military forces, the risks of initiating city bombing may outweigh the gains which can be achieved. ...

‘The elimination of area targets will place an upper limit on the size of weapons it will be profitable to use. Since fall-out becomes a serious problem [i.e. fallout contaminated areas which are so large that thousands of people would need to evacuate or shelter indoors for up to two weeks] only in the range of explosive power of 500 kilotons and above, it could be proposed that no weapon larger than 500 kilotons will be employed unless the enemy uses it first. Concurrently, the United States could take advantage of a new development which significantly reduces fall-out by eliminating the last stage of the fission-fusion-fission process.’

- Dr Henry Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, Harper, New York, 1957, pp. 180-3, 228-9. (Note that sometimes the "nuclear taboo" issue is raised against this analysis by Kissenger: if anti-nuclear lying propaganda on weapons effects makes it apparently taboo in the Western pro-Russian disarmament lobbies to escalate from conventional to tactical nuclear weapons to end war as on 6 and 9 August 1945, then this "nuclear taboo" can be relied upon to guarantee peace for our time. However, this was not only disproved by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but by the Russian tactical nuclear weapons reliance today, the Russian civil defense shelter system detailed on this blog which showed they believed a nuclear war survivable based on the results of their own nuclear tests, and the use of Russian nuclear weapons years after Kissinger's analysis was published and criticised, for example their 50 megaton test in 1961 and their supply of IRBM's capable of reaching East Coast mainland USA targets to the fanatical Cuban dictatorship in 1962. So much for the "nuclear taboo" as being any more reliable than Chamberlain's "peace for our time" document, co-signed by Hitler on 30 September 1938! We furthermore saw how Russia respected President Obama's "red line" for the "chemical weapons taboo": Russia didn't give a toss about Western disarmament thugs prattle about what they think is a "taboo", Russia used chlorine and sarin in Syria to keep Assad the dictator and they used Novichok to attack and kill in the UK in 2018, with only diplomatic expulsions in response. "Taboos" are no more valid to restrain madmen than peace treaties, disarmament agreements, Western CND books attacking civil defense or claiming that nuclear war is the new 1930s gas war bogyman, or "secret" stamps on scientific facts. In a word, they're crazy superstitions.)

(Quoted in 2006 on this blog here.)

All of this data should have been published to inform public debate on the basis for credible nuclear deterrence of war and civil defense, PREVENTING MILLIONS OF DEATHS SINCE WWII, instead of DELIBERATELY allowing enemy anti-nuclear and anti-civil defence lying propaganda from Russian supporting evil fascists to fill the public data vacuum, killing millions by allowing civil defence and war deterrence to be dismissed by ignorant "politicians" in the West, so that wars triggered by invasions with mass civilian casualties continue today for no purpose other than to promote terrorist agendas of hate and evil arrogance and lying for war, falsely labelled "arms control and disarmament for peace":

"Controlling escalation is really an exercise in deterrence, which means providing effective disincentives to unwanted enemy actions. Contrary to widely endorsed opinion, the use or threat of nuclear weapons in tactical operations seems at least as likely to check [as Hiroshima and Nagasaki] as to promote the expansion of hostilities [providing we're not in a situation of Russian biased arms control and disarmament whereby we've no tactical weapons while the enemy has over 2000 neutron bombs thanks to "peace" propaganda from Russian thugs]." - Bernard Brodie, pvi of Escalation and the nuclear option, RAND Corp memo RM-5444-PR, June 1965.

ABOVE: Example of a possible Russian 1985 1st Cold War SLBM first strike plan. The initial use of Russian SLBM launched nuclear missiles from off-coast against command and control centres (i.e. nuclear explosions to destroy warning satellite communications centres by radiation on satellites as well as EMP against ground targets, rather than missiles launched from Russia against cities, as assumed by 100% of the Cold War left-wing propaganda) is allegedly a Russian "fog of war" strategy. Such a "demonstration strike" is aimed essentially at causing confusion about what is going on, who is responsible - it is not quick or easy to finger-print high altitude bursts fired by SLBM's from submerged submarines to a particular country because you don't get fallout samples to identify isotopic plutonium composition. Russia could immediately deny the attack (implying, probably to the applause of the left-wingers that this was some kind of American training exercise or computer based nuclear weapons "accident", similar to those depicted in numerous anti-nuclear Cold War propaganda films). Thinly-veiled ultimatums and blackmail follow. America would not lose its population or even key cities in such a first strike (contrary to left-wing propaganda fiction), as with Pearl Harbor in 1941; it would lose its complacency and its sense of security through isolationism, and would either be forced into a humiliating defeat or a major war.

Before 1941, many warned of the risks but were dismissed on the basis that Japan was a smaller country with a smaller economy than the USA and war was therefore absurd (similar to the way Churchill's warnings about European dictators were dismissed by "arms-race opposing pacifists" not only in the 1930s, but even before WWI; for example Professor Cyril Joad documents in the 1939 book "Why War?" his first hand witnessing of Winston Churchill's pre-WWI warning and call for an arms-race to deter that war, as dismissed by the sneering Norman Angell who claimed an arms race would cause a war rather than avert one by bankrupting the terrorist state). It is vital to note that there is an immense pressure against warnings of Russian nuclear superiority even today, most of it contradictory. E.g. the left wing and Russian-biased "experts" whose voices are the only ones reported in the Western media (traditionally led by "Scientific American" and "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"), simultaneously claim Russia imposes such a terrible SLBM and ICBM nuclear threat that we must desperately disarm now, while also claiming that Russian tactical nuclear weapons probably won't work so aren't a threat that needs to be credibly deterred! This only makes sense as Russian siding propaganda. In similar vein, Teller-critic Hans Bethe also used to falsely "dismiss" Russian nuclear superiority by claiming (with quotes from Brezhnev about the peaceful intentions of Russia) that Russian delivery systems are "less accurate" than Western missiles (as if accuracy has anything to do with high altitude EMP strikes, where the effects cover huge areas, or large city targets. Such claims would then by repeatedly endlessly in the Western media by Russian biased "journalists" or agents of influence, and any attempt to point out the propaganda (i.e. he real world asymmetry: Russia uses cheap countervalue targetting on folk that don't have civil defense, whereas we need costly, accurate counterforce targetting because Russia has civil defense shelters that we don't have) became a "Reds under beds" argument, implying that the truth is dangerous to "peaceful coexistence"!

“Free peoples ... will make war only when driven to it by tyrants. ... there have been no wars between well-established democracies. ... the probability ... that the absence of wars between well-established democracies is a mere accident [is] less than one chance in a thousand. ... there have been more than enough to provide robust statistics ... When toleration of dissent has persisted for three years, but not until then, we can call a new republic ‘well established.’ ... Time and again we observe authoritarian leaders ... using coercion rather than seeking mutual accommodation ... Republican behaviour ... in quite a few cases ... created an ‘appeasement trap.’ The republic tried to accommodate a tyrant as if he were a fellow republican; the tyrant concluded that he could safely make an aggressive response; eventually the republic replied furiously with war. The frequency of such errors on both sides is evidence that negotiating styles are not based strictly on sound reasoning.” - Spencer Weart, Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another (Yale University Press)

The Top Secret American intelligency report NIE 11-3/8-74 "Soviet Forces for Intercontinental Conflict" warned on page 6: "the USSR has largely eliminated previous US quantitative advantages in strategic offensive forces." page 9 of the report estimated that the Russian's ICBM and SLBM launchers exceed the USAs 1,700 during 1970, while Russia's on-line missile throw weight had exceeded the USA's one thousand tons back in 1967! Because the USA had more long-range bombers which can carry high-yield bombs than Russia (bombers are more vulnerable to air defences so were not Russia's priority), it took a little longer for Russia to exceed the USA in equivalent megatons, but the 1976 Top Secret American report NIE 11-3/8-76 at page 17 shows that in 1974 Russia exceeded the 4,000 equivalent-megatons payload of USA missiles and aircraft (with less vulnerability for Russia, since most of Russia's nuclear weapons were on missiles not in SAM-vulnerable aircraft), amd by 1976 Russia could deliver 7,000 tons of payload by missiles compared to just 4,000 tons on the USA side. These reports were kept secret for decades to protect the intelligence sources, but they were based on hard evidence. For example, in August 1974 the Hughes Aircraft Company used a specially designed ship (Glomar Explorer, 618 feet long, developed under a secret CIA contract) to recover nuclear weapons and their secret manuals from a Russian submarine which sank in 16,000 feet of water, while in 1976 America was able to take apart the electronics systems in a state-of-the-art Russian MIG-25 fighter which was flown to Japan by defector Viktor Belenko, discovering that it used exclusively EMP-hard miniature vacuum tubes with no EMP-vulnerable solid state components.

There are four ways of dealing with aggressors: conquest (fight them), intimidation (deter them), fortification (shelter against their attacks; historically used as castles, walled cities and even walled countries in the case of China's 1,100 mile long Great Wall and Hadrian's Wall, while the USA has used the Pacific and Atlantic as successful moats against invasion, at least since Britain invaded Washington D.C. back in 1812), and friendship (which if you are too weak to fight, means appeasing them, as Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler for worthless peace promises). These are not mutually exclusive: you can use combinations. If you are very strong in offensive capability and also have walls to protect you while your back is turned, you can - as Teddy Roosevelt put it (quoting a West African proverb): "Speak softly and carry a big stick." But if you are weak, speaking softly makes you a target, vulnerable to coercion. This is why we don't send troops directly to Ukraine. When elected in 1960, Kennedy introduced "flexible response" to replace Dulles' "massive retaliation", by addressing the need to deter large provocations without being forced to decide between the unwelcome options of "surrender or all-out nuclear war" (Herman Kahn called this flexible response "Type 2 Deterrence"). This was eroded by both Russian civil defense and their emerging superiority in the 1970s: a real missiles and bombers gap emerged in 1972 when the USSR reached and then exceeded the 2,200 of the USA, while in 1974 the USSR achieve parity at 3,500 equivalent megatons (then exceeded the USA), and finally today Russia has over 2,000 dedicated clean enhanced neutron tactical nuclear weapons and we have none (except low-neutron output B61 multipurpose bombs). (Robert Jastrow's 1985 book How to make nuclear Weapons obsolete was the first to have graphs showing the downward trend in nuclear weapon yields created by the development of miniaturized MIRV warheads for missiles and tactical weapons: he shows that the average size of US warheads fell from 3 megatons in 1960 to 200 kilotons in 1980, and from a total of 12,000 megatons in 1960 to 3,000 megatons in 1980.)

The term "equivalent megatons" roughly takes account of the fact that the areas of cratering, blast and radiation damage scale not linearly with energy but as something like the 2/3 power of energy release; but note that close-in cratering scales as a significantly smaller power of energy than 2/3, while blast wind drag displacement of jeeps in open desert scales as a larger power of energy than 2/3. Comparisons of equivalent megatonnage shows, for example, that WWII's 2 megatons of TNT in the form of about 20,000,000 separate conventional 100 kg (0.1 ton) explosives is equivalent to 20,000,000 x (10-7)2/3 = 431 separate 1 megaton explosions! The point is, nuclear weapons are not of a different order of magnitude to conventional warfare, because: (1) devastated areas don't scale in proportion to energy release, (2) the number of nuclear weapons is very much smaller than the number of conventional bombs dropped in conventional war, (3) because of radiation effects like neutrons and intense EMP, it is possible to eliminate physical destruction by nuclear weapons by a combination of weapon design (e.g. very clean bombs like 99.9% fusion Dominic-Housatonic, or 95% fusion Redwing-Navajo) and burst altitude or depth for hard targets, and create a weapon that deters invasions credibly (without lying local fallout radiation hazards), something none of the biased "pacifist disarmament" lobbies (which attract Russian support) tell you, and (4) people at collateral damage distances have time to take cover from radiation and flying glass, blast winds, etc from nuclear explosions (which they don't in Ukraine and Gaza where similar blast pressures arrive more rapidly from smaller conventional explosions). There's a big problem with propaganda here.

(These calculations, showing that even if strategic bombing had worked in WWII - and the US Strategic Bombing Survey concluded it failed, thus the early Cold War effort to develop and test tactical nuclear weapons and train for tactical nuclear war in Nevada field exercises - you need over 400 megaton weapons to give the equivalent of WWII city destruction in Europe and Japan, are often inverted by anti-nuclear bigots to try to obfuscate the truth. What we're driving at is that nuclear weapons give you the ability to DETER the invasions that set off such wars, regardless of whether they escalate from poison gas - as feared in the 20s and 30s thus appeasement and WWII - or nuclear. Escalation was debunked in WWII where the only use of poison gases were in "peaceful" gas chambers, not dropped on cities. Rather than justifying appeasement, the "peaceful" massacre of millions in gas chambers justified war. But evil could and should have been deterred. The "anti-war" propagandarists like Lord Noel-Baker and pals who guaranteed immediate gas knockout blows in the 30s if we didn't appease evil dictators were never held to account and properly debunked by historians after the war, so they converted from gas liars to nuclear liars in the Cold War and went on winning "peace" prices for their lies, which multiplied up over the years, to keep getting news media headlines and Nobel Peace Prizes for starting and sustaining unnecessary wars and massacres by dictators. There's also a military side to this, with Field Marshall's Lord Mountbatten, lord Carver and lord Zuckerman in the 70s arguing for UK nuclear disarmament and a re-introduction of conscription instead. These guys were not pacifist CND thugs who wanted Moscow to rule the world, but they were quoted by them attacking the deterrent but not of course calling for conscription instead. The abolishment of UK conscription for national service in 1960 was due to the H-bomb, and was a political money-saving plot by Macmillan. If we disarmed our nuclear deterrent and spend the money on conscription plus underground shelters, we might well be able to resist Russia as Ukraine does, until we run out of ammunition etc. However, the cheapest and most credible deterrent is tactical nuclear weapons to prevent the concentration of aggressive force by terrorist states..)

Britain was initially in a better position with regards to civil defense than the USA, because in WWII Britain had built sufficient shelters (of various types, but all tested against blast intense enough to demolish brick houses, and later also tested them at various nuclear weapon trials in Monte Bello and Maralinga, Australia) and respirators for the entire civilian population. However, Britain also tried to keep the proof testing data secret from Russia (which tested their own shelters at their own nuclear tests anyway) and this meant it appeared that civil defense advice was unproved and would not work, an illusion exploited especially for communist propaganda in the UK via CND. To give just one example, CND and most of the UK media still rely on Duncan Campbell's pseudo-journalism book War Plan UK since it is based entirely on fake news about UK civil defense, nuclear weapons, Hiroshima, fallout, blast, etc. He takes for granted that - just because the UK Government kept the facts secret - the facts don't exist, and to him any use of nuclear weapons which spread any radioactivity whatsoever will make life totally impossible: "What matters 'freedom' or 'a way of life' in a radioactive wasteland?" (Quote from D. Campbell, War Plan UK, Paladin Books, May 1983, p387.) The problem here is the well known fallout decay rate; Trinity nuclear test ground zero was reported by Glasstone (Effects of Atomic Weapons, 1950) to be at 8,000 R/hr at 1 hour after burst, yet just 57 days later, on September 11, 1945, General Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, and a large group of journalists safely visited it and took their time inspecting the surviving tower legs, when the gamma dose rate was down to little more than 1 R/hr! So fission products decay fast: 1,000 R/hr at 1 hour decays to 100 at 7 hours, 10 at 2 days, and just 1 at 2 weeks. So the "radioactive wasteland" is just as much a myth as any other nuclear "doomsday" fictional headline in the media. Nuclear weapons effects have always been fake news in the mainstream media: editors have always regarded facts as "boring copy". Higher yield tests showed that even the ground zero crater "hot spots" were generally lower, due to dispersal by the larger mushroom cloud. If you're far downwind, you can simply walk cross-wind, or prepare an improvised shelter while the dust is blowing. But point any such errors out to fanatical bigots and they will just keep making up more nonsense.

Duncan Campbell's War Plan UK relies on the contradiction of claiming that the deliberately exaggerated UK Government worst-case civil defense "exercises" for training purposes are "realistic scenarios" (e.g. 1975 Inside Right, 1978 Scrum Half, 1980 Square Leg, 1982 Hard Rock planning), while simultaneously claiming the very opposite about reliable UK Government nuclear effects and sheltering effectiveness data, and hoping nobody would spot his contradictory tactics. He quotes extensively from these lurid worst-case scenario UK civil defense exercises ,as if they are factually defensible rather than imaginary fiction to put planners under the maximum possible stress (standard UK military policy of “Train hard to fight easy”), while ignoring the far more likely limited nuclear uses scenario of Sir John Hackett's Third World War. His real worry is the 1977 UK Government Training Manual for Scientific Advisers which War Plan UK quotes on p14: "a potential threat to the security of the United Kingdom arising from acts of sabotage by enemy agents, possibly assisted by dissident groups. ... Their aim would be to weaken the national will and ability to fight. ... Their significance should not be underestimated." On the next page, War Plan UK quotes J. B. S. Haldane's 1938 book Air Raid Precautions (ARP) on the terrible destruction Haldane witnessed on unprotected people in the Spanish civil war, without even mentioning that Haldane's point is pro-civil defense, pro-shelters, and anti-appeasement of dictatorship, the exact opposite of War Plan UK which wants Russia to run the world. On page 124 War Plan UK the false assertion is made that USA nuclear casualty data is "widely accepted" and true (declassified Hiroshima casaulty data for people in modern concrete buildings proves it to be lies) while the correct UK nuclear casualty data is "inaccurate", and on page 126, Duncan Campbell simply lies that the UK Government's Domestic Nuclear Shelters- Technical Guidance "ended up offering the public a selection of shelters half of which were invented in the Blitz ... None of the designs was ever tested." In fact, Frank Pavry (who studied similar shelters surviving near ground zero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with the British Mission to Japan_ and George R. Stanbury tested 15 Anderson shelters at the first UK nuclear explosion, Operation Hurricane in 1952, together with concrete structures, and many other improvised trench and earth-covered shelters were nuclear tested by USA and UK at trials in 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1958, and later at simulated nuclear explosions by Cresson Kearny of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA, having also earlier been exposed to early Russian nuclear tests (scroll down to see the evidence of this). Improved versions of war tested and nuclear weapons tested shelters! So war Plan UK makes no effort whatsoever to dig up the facts, and instead falsely claims the exact opposite of the plain unvarnished truth! War Plan UK shows its hypocrisy on page 383 in enthusiastically praising Russian civil defense:

"Training in elementary civil defence is given to everyone, at school, in industry or collective farms. A basic handbook of precautionary measures, Everybody must know this!, is the Russian Protect and Survive. The national civil defence corps is extensive, and is organized along military lines. Over 200,000 civil defence troops would be mobilized for rescue work in war. There are said to be extensive, dispersed and 'untouchable' food stockpiles; industrial workers are issued with kits of personal protection apparatus, said to include nerve gas counteragents such as atropine. Fallout and blast shelters are provided in the cities and in industrial complexes, and new buildings have been required to have shelters since the 1950s. ... They suggest that less than 10% - even as little as 5% - of the Soviet population would die in a major attack. [Less than Russia's loss of 12% of its population in WWII.]"

'LLNL achieved fusion ignition for the first time on Dec. 5, 2022. The second time came on July 30, 2023, when in a controlled fusion experiment, the NIF laser delivered 2.05 MJ of energy to the target, resulting in 3.88 MJ of fusion energy output, the highest yield achieved to date. On Oct. 8, 2023, the NIF laser achieved fusion ignition for the third time with 1.9 MJ of laser energy resulting in 2.4 MJ of fusion energy yield. “We’re on a steep performance curve,” said Jean-Michel Di Nicola, co-program director for the NIF and Photon Science’s Laser Science and Systems Engineering organization. “Increasing laser energy can give us more margin against issues like imperfections in the fuel capsule or asymmetry in the fuel hot spot. Higher laser energy can help achieve a more stable implosion, resulting in higher yields.” ... “The laser itself is capable of higher energy without fundamental changes to the laser,” said NIF operations manager Bruno Van Wonterghem. “It’s all about the control of the damage. Too much energy without proper protection, and your optics blow to pieces.” ' - https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/llnls-nif-delivers-record-laser-energy

NOTE: the "problem" very large lasers "required" to deliver ~2MJ (roughly 0.5 kg of TNT energy) to cause larger fusion explosions of 2mm diameter capsules of frozen D+T inside a 1 cm diameter energy reflecting hohlraum, and the "problem" of damage to the equipment caused by the explosions, is immaterial to clean nuclear deterrent development based on this technology, because in a clean nuclear weapon, whatever laser or other power ignition system is used only has to be fired once, so it needs to be less robust than the NIF lasers which are used repeatedly. Similarly, damage done to the system by the explosion is also immaterial for a clean nuclear weapon, in which the weapon is detonated once only! This is exactly the same point which finally occurred during a critical review of the first gun-type assembly nuclear weapon, in which the fact it would only ever be fired once (unlike a field artillery gun) enabled huge reductions in the size of the device, into a practical weapon, as described by General Leslie M. Groves on p163 of his 1962 book Now it can be told: the story of the Manhattan Project:

"Out of the Review Committee's work came one important technical contribution when Rose pointed out ... that the durability of the gun was quite immaterial to success, since it would be destroyed in the explosion anyway. Self-evident as this seemed once it was mentioned, it had not previously occurred to us. Now we could make drastic reductions in ... weight and size."

This principle also applies to weaponizing NIF clean fusion explosion technology. General Groves' book was reprinted in 1982 with a useful Introduction by Edward Teller on the nature of nuclear weapons history: "History in some ways resembles the relativity principle in science. What is observed depends on the observer. Only when the perspective of the observer is known, can proper corrections be made. ... The general ... very often managed to ignore complexity and arrive at a result which, if not ideal, at least worked. ... For Groves, the Manhattan project seemed a minor assignment, less significant than the construction of the Pentagon. He was deeply disappointed at being given the job of supervising the development of an atomic weapon, since it deprived him of combat duty. ... We must find ways to encourage mutual understanding and significant collaboration between those who defend their nation with their lives and those who can contribute the ideas to make that defense successful. Only by such cooperation can we hope that freedom will survive, that peace will be preserved."

General Groves similarly comments in Chapter 31, "A Final Word" of Now it can be told:

"No man can say what would have been the result if we had not taken the steps ... Yet, one thing seems certain - atomic energy would have been developed somewhere in the world ... I do not believe the United States ever would have undertaken it in time of peace. Most probably, the first developer would have been a power-hungry nation, which would then have dominated the world completely ... it is fortunate indeed for humanity that the initiative in this field was gained and kept by the United States. That we were successful was due entirely to the hard work and dedication of the more than 600,000 Americans who comprised and directly supported the Manhattan Project. ... we had the full backing of our government, combined with the nearly infinite potential of American science, engineering and industry, and an almost unlimited supply of people endowed with ingenuity and determination."

Update: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility, NIF, using ultraviolet wavelength laser beam pulses of 2MJ on to a 2mm diameter spherical beryllium shell of frozen D+T inside a 1 cm-long hollow gold cylinder "hohlraum" (which is heated to a temperature where it then re-radiates energy at much higher frequency, x-rays, on to the surface of the beryllium ablator of the central fusion capsule, which ablates causing it to recoil inward (as for the 1962 Ripple II nuclear weapon's secondary stage, the capsule is compressed efficiently, mimicking the isentropic compression mechanism of a miniature Ripple II clean nuclear weapon secondary stage), has now repeatedly achieved nuclear fusion explosions of over 3MJ, equivalent to nearly 1 kg of TNT explosive. According to a Time article (linked her) about fusion system designer Annie Kritcher, the recent breakthrough was in part due to using a ramping input energy waveform: "success that came thanks to tweaks including shifting more of the input energy to the later part of the laser shot", a feature that minimises the rise in entropy due to shock shock wave generation (which heats the capsule, causing it to expand and resist compression) and increases isentropic compression which was the principle used by LLNL's J. H. Nuckolls to achieve the 99.9% clean Ripple II 9.96 megaton nuclear test success in Dominic-Housatonic on 30 October 1962. Nuckolls in 1972 published the equation for the idealized input power waveform required for isentropic, optimized compression of fusion fuel (Nature, v239, p139): P ~ (1 - t)-1.875, where t is time in units of the transit time (the time taken for the shock to travel to the centre of the fusion capsule), and -1.875 a constant based on the specific heat of the ionized fuel (Nuckolls has provided the basic declassified principles, see extract linked here). To be clear, the energy reliably released by the 2mm diameter capsule of fusion fuel was roughly a 1 kg TNT explosion. 80% of this is in the form of 14.1 MeV neutrons (ideal for fissioning lithium-7 in LiD to yield more tritium), and 20% is the kinetic energy of fused nuclei (which is quickly converted into x-rays radiation energy by collisions). Nuckolls' 9.96 megaton Housatonic (10 kt Kinglet primary and 9.95 Mt Ripple II 100% clean isentropically compressed secondary) of 1962 proved that it is possible to use multiplicative staging whereby lower yield primary nuclear explosions trigger off a fusion stage 1,000 times more powerful than its initiator. Another key factor, as shown on our ggraph linked here, is that you can use cheap natural LiD as fuel once you have a successful D+T reaction, because naturally abundant, cheap Li-7 more readily fissions to yield tritium with the 14.1 MeV neutrons from D+T fusion, than expensively enriched Li-6, which is needed to make tritium in nuclear reactors where the fission neutron energy of around 1 MeV is too low to to fission Li-7. It should also be noted that despite an openly published paper about Nuckolls' Ripple II success being stymied in 2021 by Jon Grams, the subject is still being covered up/ignored by the anti-nuclear biased Western media! Grams article fails to contain the design details such as the isentropic power delivery curve etc from Nuckolls' declassified articles that we include in the latest blog post here. One problem regarding "data" causing continuing confusion about the Dominic-Housatonic 30 October 1962 Ripple II test at Christmas Island, is made clear in the DASA-1211 report's declassified summary of the sizes, weights and yields of those tests: Housatonic was Nuckolls' fourth and final isentropic test, with the nuclear system inserted into a heavy steel Mk36 drop case, making the overall size 57.2 inches in diameter, 147.9 long and 7,139.55 lb mass, i.e. 1.4 kt/lb or 3.0 kt/kg yield-to-mass ratio for 9.96 Mt yield, which is not impressive for that yield range until you consider (a) that it was 99.9% fusion and (b) the isentropic design required a heavy holhraum around the large Ripple II fusion secondary stage to confine x-rays for relatively long time during which a slowly rising pulse of x-rays were delivered from the primary to secondary via a very large areas of foam elsewhere in the weapon, to produce isentropic compression.

Additionally, the test was made in a hurry before an atmospheric teat ban treaty, and this rushed use of a standard air drop steel casing made the tested weapon much heavier than a properly weaponized Ripple II. The key point is that a 10 kt fission device set off a ~10 Mt fusion explosion, a very clean deterrent. Applying this Ripple II 1,000-factor multiplicative staging figure directly to this technology for clean nuclear warheads, a 0.5 kg TNT D+T fusion capsule would set off a 0.5 ton TNT 2nd stage of LiD, which would then set off a 0.5 kt 3rd stage "neutron bomb", which could then be used to set off a 500 kt 4th stage or "strategic nuclear weapon". In practice, this multiplication factor of 1,000 given by Ripple II in 1962 from 10 kt to 10 Mt may not be immediately achievable to get from ~1 kg TNT yield to 1 ton TNT, so a few more tiny stages may be needed for the lower yield. But there is every reason to forecast that with enough research, improvements will be possible and the device will become a reality. It is therefore now possible not just in "theory" or in principle, but with evidence obtained from practical experimentation, using suitable already-proved technical staging systems used in 1960s nuclear weapon tests successfully, to design 100% clean fusion nuclear warheads! Yes, the details have been worked out, yes the technology has been tested in piecemeal fashion. All that is now needed is a new, but quicker and cheaper, Star Wars program or Manhattan Project style effort to pull the components together. This will constitute a major leap forward in the credibility of the deterrence of aggressors.

ABOVE: as predicted, the higher the input laser pulse for the D+T initiator of a clean multiplicatively-staged nuclear deterrent, the lower the effect of plasma instabilities and asymmetries and the greater the fusion burn. To get ignition (where the x-ray energy injected into the fusion hohlraum by the laser is less than the energy released in the D+T fusion burn) they have had to use about 2 MJ delivered in 10 ns or so, equivalent to 0.5 kg of TNT equivalent. But for deterrent use, why use such expensive, delicate lasers? Why not just use one-shot miniaturised x-ray tubes with megavolt electron acceleration, powered a suitably ramped pulse from a chemical explosion for magnetic flux compression current generation? At 10% efficiency, you need 0.5 x 10 = 5 kg of TNT! Even at 1% efficiency, 50 kg of TNT will do. Once the D+T gas capsule's hohlraum is well over 1 cm in size, to minimise the risk of imperfections that cause asymmetries, you don't any longer need focussed laser beams to enter tiny apertures. You might even be able to integrate many miniature flash x-ray tubes (each designed to burn out when firing one pulse of a MJ or so) into a special hohlraum. Humanity urgently needs a technological arms race akin to Reagan's Star Wars project, to deter the dictators from invasions and WWIII. In the conference video above, a question was asked about the real efficiency of the enormous repeat-pulse capable laser system's efficiency (not required for a nuclear weapon whose components only require the capability to be used once, unlike lab equipment): the answer is that 300 MJ was required by the lab lasers to fire a 2 MJ pulse into the D+T capsule's x-ray hohlraum, i.e. their lasers are only 0.7% efficient! So why bother? We know - from the practical use of incoherent fission primary stage x-rays to compress and ignite fusion capsules in nuclear weapons - that you simply don't need coherent photons from a laser for this purpose. The sole reason they are approaching the problem with lasers is that they began their lab experiments decades ago with microscopic sized fusion capsules and for those you need a tightly focussed beam to insert energy through a tiny hohlraum aperture. But now they are finally achieving success with much larger fusion capsules (to minimise instabilities that caused the early failures), it may be time to change direction. A whole array of false "no-go theorems" can and will be raised by ignorant charlatan "authorities" against any innovation; this is the nature of the political world. There is some interesting discussion of why clean bombs aren't in existence today, basically the idealized theory (which works fine for big H-bombs but ignores small-scale asymmetry problems which are important only at low ignition energy) understimated the input energy required for fusion ignition by a factor of 2000:

"The early calculations on ICF (inertial-confinement fusion) by John Nuckolls in 1972 had estimated that ICF might be achieved with a driver energy as low as 1 kJ. ... In order to provide reliable experimental data on the minimum energy required for ignition, a series of secret experiments—known as Halite at Livermore and Centurion at Los Alamos—was carried out at the nuclear weapons test site in Nevada between 1978 and 1988. The experiments used small underground nuclear explosions to provide X-rays of sufficiently high intensity to implode ICF capsules, simulating the manner in which they would be compressed in a hohlraum. ... the Halite/Centurion results predicted values for the required laser energy in the range 20 to 100MJ—higher than the predictions ..." - Garry McCracken and Peter Stott, Fusion, Elsevier, 2nd ed., p149.

In the final diagram above, we illustrate an example of what could very well occur in the near future, just to really poke a stick into the wheels of "orthodoxy" in nuclear weapons design: is it possible to just use a lot of (perhaps hardened for higher currents, perhaps no) pulsed current driven microwave tubes from kitchen microwave ovens, channelling their energy using waveguides (simply metal tubes, i.e. electrical Faraday cages, which reflect and thus contain microwaves) into the hohlraum, and make the pusher of dipole molecules (like common salt, NaCl) which is a good absorber of microwaves (as everybody knows from cooking in microwave ovens)? It would be extremely dangerous, not to mention embarrassing, if this worked, but nobody had done any detailed research into the possibility due to groupthink orthodoxy and conventional boxed in thinking! Remember, the D+T capsule just needs extreme compression and this can be done by any means that works. Microwave technology is now very well-established. It's no good trying to keep anything of this sort "secret" (either officially or unofficially) since as history shows, dictatorships are the places where "crackpot"-sounding ideas (such as douple-primary Project "49" Russian thermonuclear weapon designs, Russian Sputnik satellites, Russian Novichok nerve agent, Nazi V1 cruise missiles, Nazi V2 IRBM's, etc.) can be given priority by loony dictators. We have to avoid, as Edward Teller put it (in his secret commentary debunking Bethe's false history of the H-bomb, written AFTER the Teller-Ulam breakthrough), "too-narrow" thinking (which Teller said was still in force on H-bomb design even then). Fashionable hardened orthodoxy is the soft underbelly of "democracy" (a dictatorship by the majority, which is always too focussed on fashionable ideas and dismissive of alternative approaches in science and technology). Dictatorships (minorities against majorities) have repeatedly demonstrated a lack of concern for the fake "no-go theorems" used by Western anti-nuclear "authorities" to ban anything but fashionable groupthink science.

ABOVE: 1944-dated film of the Head of the British Mission to Los Alamos, neutron discoverer James Chadwick, explaining in detail to American how hard it was for him to discover the neutron, taking 10 years on a shoe-string budget, mostly due to having insufficiently strong sources of alpha particles to bombard nuclei in a cloud chamber! The idea of the neutron came from his colleague Rutherford. Chadwick reads his explanation while rapidly rotating a pencil in his right hand, perhaps indicating the stress he was under in 1944. In 1946, when British participation at Los Alamos ended, Chadwick wrote the first detailed secret British report on the design of a three-stage hydrogen bomb, another project that took over a decade. In the diagram below, it appears that the American Mk17 only had a single secondary stage like the similar yield 1952 Mike design. The point here is that popular misunderstanding of the simple mechanism of x-ray energy transfer for higher yield weapons may be creating a dogmatic attitude even in secret nuclear weaponeer design labs, where orthodoxy is followed too rigorously. The Russians (see quotes on the latest blog post here) state they used two entire two-stage thermonuclear weapons with a combined yield of 1 megaton to set off their 50 megaton test in 1961. If true, you can indeed use two-stage hydrogen bombs as an "effective primary" to set off another secondary stage, of much higher yield. Can this be reversed in the sense of scaling it down so you have several bombs-within-bombs, all triggered by a really tiny first stage? In other words, can it be applied to neutron bomb design?

ABOVE: 16 kt at 600m altitude nuclear explosion on a city, Hiroshima ground zero (in foreground) showing modern concrete buildings surviving nearby (unlike the wooden ones that mostly burned at the peak of the firestorm 2-3 hours after survivors had evacuated), in which people were shielded from most of the radiation and blast winds, as they were in simple shelters.

The 1946 Report of the British Mission to Japan, The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, compiled by a team of 16 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during November 1945, which included 10 UK Home Office civil defence experts (W. N. Thomas, J. Bronowski, D. C. Burn, J. B. Hawker, H. Elder, P. A. Badland, R. W. Bevan, F. H. Pavry, F. Walley, O. C. Young, S. Parthasarathy, A. D. Evans, O. M. Solandt, A. E. Dark, R. G. Whitehead and F. G. S. Mitchell) found: "Para. 26. Reinforced concrete buildings of very heavy construction in Hiroshima, even when within 200 yards of the centre of damage, remained structurally undamaged. ... Para 28. These observations make it plain that reinforced concrete framed buildings can resist a bomb of the same power detonated at these heights, without employing fantastic thicknesses of concrete. ... Para 40. The provision of air raid shelters throughout Japan was much below European standards. ... in Hiroshima ... they were semi-sunk, about 20 feet long, had wooden frames, and 1.5-2 feet of earth cover. ... Exploding so high above them, the bomb damaged none of these shelters. ... Para 42. These observations show that the standard British shelters would have performed well against a bomb of the same power exploded at such a height. Anderson shelters, properly erected and covered, would have given protection. Brick or concrete surfac shelters with adequate reinforcement would have remained safe from collapse. The Morrison shelter is designed only to protect its occupants from the refuge load of a house, and this it would have done. Deep shelters such as the refuge provided by the London Underground would have given complete protection. ... Para 60. Buildings and walls gave complete protection from flashburn."

Glasstone and Dolan's 1977 Effects of Nuclear Weapons in Table 12.21 on p547 flunks making this point by giving data without citing its source to make it credible to readers: it correlated 14% mortality (106 killed out of 775 people in Hiroshima's Telegraph Office) to "moderate damage" at 500m in Hiroshima (the uncited "secret" source was NP-3041, Table 12, applying to unwarned people inside modern concrete buildings).

"A weapon whose basic design would seem to provide the essence of what Western morality has long sought for waging classical battlefield warfare - to keep the war to a struggle between the warriors and exclude the non-combatants and their physical assets - has been violently denounced, precisely because it achieves this objective." - Samuel T. Cohen (quoted in Chapman Pincher, The secret offensive, Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1985, Chapter 15: The Neutron Bomb Offensive, p210).

The reality is, dedicated enhanced neutron tactical nuclear weapons were used to credibly deter the concentrations of force required for triggering of WWIII during the 1st Cold War, and the thugs who support Russian propaganda for Western disarmament got rid of them on our side, but not on the Russian side. Air burst neutron bombs or even as subsurface earth penetrators of relatively low fission yield (where the soil converts energy that would otherwise escape as blast and radiation into ground shock for destroying buried tunnels - new research on cratering shows that a 20 kt subsurface burst creates similar effects on buried hard targets as a 1 Mt surface burst), they cause none of the vast collateral damage to civilians that we see now in Ukraine and Gaza, or that we saw in WWII and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. This is 100% contrary to CND propaganda which is a mixture of lying on nuclear explosion collateral damage, escalation/knockout blow propaganda (of the type used to start WWII by appeasers) and lying on the designs of nuclear weapons in order to ensure the Western side (but not the thugs) gets only incredible "strategic deterrence" that can't deter the invasions that start world wars (e.g. Belgium in 1914 and Poland in 1939.) "Our country entered into an agreement in Budapest, Hungary when the Soviet Union was breaking up that we would guarantee the independence of Ukraine." - Tom Ramos. There really is phoney nuclear groupthink left agenda politics at work here: credible relatively clean tactical nuclear weapons are banned in the West but stocked by Russia, which has civil defense shelters to make its threats far more credible than ours! We need low-collateral damage enhanced-neutron and earth-penetrator options for the new Western W93 warhead, or we remain vulnerable to aggressive coercion by thugs, and invite invasions. Ambiguity, the current policy ("justifying" secrecy on just what we would do in any scenario) actually encourages experimental provocations by enemies to test what we are prepared to do (if anything), just as it did in 1914 and the 1930s.

ABOVE: 0.2 kt (tactical yield range) Ruth nuclear test debris, with lower 200 feet of the 300 ft steel tower surviving in Nevada, 1953. Note that the yield of the tactical invasion-deterrent Mk54 Davy Crockett was only 0.02 kt, 10 times less than than 0.2 kt Ruth.

It should be noted that cheap and naive "alternatives" to credible deterrence of war were tried in the 1930s and during the Cold War and afterwards, with disastrous consequences. Heavy "peaceful" oil sanctions and other embargoes against Japan for its invasion of China between 1931-7 resulted in the plan for the Pearl Harbor surprise attack of 7 December 1941, with subsequent escalation to incendiary city bombing followed nuclear warfare against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Attlee's pressure on Truman to guarantee no use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Korean War (leaked straight to Stalin by the Cambridge Spy Ring), led to an escalation of that war causing the total devastation of the cities of that country by conventional bombing (a sight witnessed by Sam Cohen, that motivated his neutron bomb deterrent of invasions), until Eisenhower was elected and reversed Truman's decision, leading not to the "escalatory Armageddon" assertions of Attlee, but to instead to a peaceful armistice! Similarly, as Tom Ramos argues in From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War, Kennedy's advisers who convinced him to go ahead with the moonlit 17 April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba without any USAF air support, which led to precisely what they claimed they would avoid: an escalation of aggression from Russia in Berlin, with the Berlin Wall going up on 17 August 1961 because any showing weakness to an enemy, as in the bungled invasion of Cuba, is always a green light to dictators to go ahead with revolutions, invasions and provocations everywhere else. Rather than the widely hyped autistic claims from disarmers and appeasers about "weakness bringing peace by demonstrating to the enemy that they have nothing to fear from you", the opposite result always occurs. The paranoid dictator seizes the opportunity to strike first. Similarly, withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021 was a clear green light to Russia to go ahead with a full scale invasion of Ukraine, reigniting the Cold War. von Neumann and Morgenstein's Minimax theorem for winning games - minimise the maximum possible loss - fails with offensive action in war because it sends a signal of weakness to the enemy, which does not treat war as a game with rules to be obeyed. Minimax is only valid for defense, such as civil defense shelters used by Russia to make their threats more credible than ours. The sad truth is that cheap fixes don't work, no matter how much propaganda is behind them. You either need to militarily defeat the enemy or at least economically defeat them using proven Cold War arms race techniques (not merely ineffective sanctions, which they can bypass by making alliances with Iran, North Korea, and China). Otherwise, you are negotiating peace from a position of weakness, which is called appeasement, or collaboration with terrorism.

"Following the war, the Navy Department was intent to see the effects of an atomic blast on naval warships ... the press was invited to witness this one [Crossroads-Able, 23.5 kt at 520 feet altitude, 1 July 1946, Bikini Atoll]. ... The buildup had been too extravagant. Goats that had been tethered on warship decks were still munching their feed, and the atoll's palm trees remained standing, unscathed. The Bikini test changed public attitudes. Before July 1, the world stood in awe of a weapon that had devastated two cities and forced the Japanese Empire to surrender. After that date, the bomb was still a terrible weapon, but a limited one." - Tom Ramos (LLNL nuclear weaponeer and nuclear pumped X-ray laser developer), From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Prevent Nuclear War, Naval Institute Press, 2022, pp43-4.

ABOVE: 16 February 1950 Daily Express editorial on H Bomb problem due to the fact that the UN is another virtue signalling but really war mongering League of Nations (which oversaw Nazi appeasement and the outbreak of WWII); however Fuchs had attended the April 1946 Super Conference during which the Russian version of the H-bomb involving isentropic radiation implosion of a separate low-density fusion stage (unlike Teller's later dense metal ablation rocket implosion secondary TX14 Alarm Clock and Sausage designs) were discussed and then given to Russia. The media was made aware only that Fuchs hade given the fission bomb to Russia. The FBI later visited Fuchs in British jail, showed him a film of Harry Gold (whom Fuchs identified as his contact while at Los Alamos) and also gave Fuchs a long list of secret reports to mark off individually so that they knew precisely what Stalin had been given. Truman didn't order H-bomb research and development because Fuchs gave Stalin the A-bomb, but because he gave them the H-bomb. The details of the Russian H-bomb are still being covered up by those who want a repetition of 1930s appeasement, or indeed the deliberate ambiguity of the UK Cabinet in 1914 which made it unclear what the UK would do if Germany invaded Belgium, allowing the enemy to exploit that ambiguity, starting a world war. The key fact usually covered up (Richard Rhodes, Chuck Hansen, and the whole American "expert nuclear arms community" all misleadingly claim that Teller's Sausage H-bomb design with a single primary and a dense ablator around a cylindrical secondary stage - uranium, lead or tungsten - is the "hydrogen bomb design") here is that two attendees of the April 1946 Super Conference, the report author Egon Bretscher and the radiation implosion discoverer Klaus Fuchs - were British, and both contributed key H-bomb design principles to the Russian and British weapons (discarded for years by America). Egon Bretscher for example wrote up the Super Conference report, during which attendees suggested various ways to try to achieve isentropic compression of low-density fusion fuel (a concept discarded by Teller's 1951 Sausage design, but used by Russia and re-developed in America on Nuckolls 1962 Ripple tests), and after Teller left Los Alamos, Bretscher took over work on Teller's Alarm Clock layered fission-fusion spherical hybrid device before Bretscher himself left Los Alamos and became head of nuclear physics at Harwell, UK,, submitting UK report together with Fuchs (head of theoretical physics at Harwell) which led to Sir James Chadwick's UK paper on a three-stage thermonuclear Super bomb which formed the basis of Penney's work at the UK Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. While Bretscher had worked on Teller's hybrid Alarm Clock (which originated two months after Fuchs left Los Alamos), Fuchs co-authored a hydrogen bomb patent with John von Neumann, in which radiation implosion and ionization implosion was used. Between them, Bretscher and Fuchs had all the key ingredients. Fuchs leaked them to Russia and the problem persists today in international relations.

ILLUSTRATION: the threat of WWII and the need to deter it was massively derided by popular pacifism which tended to make "jokes" of the Nazi threat until too late (example of 1938 UK fiction on this above; Charlie Chaplin's film "The Great Dictator" is another example), so three years after the Nuremberg Laws and five years after illegal rearmament was begun by the Nazis, in the UK crowds of "pacifists" in Downing Street, London, support friendship with the top racist, dictatorial Nazis in the name of "world peace". The Prime Minister used underhand techniques to try to undermine appeasement critics like Churchill and also later to get W. E. Johns fired from both editorships of Flying (weekly) and Popular Flying (monthly) to make it appear everybody "in the know" agreed with his actions, hence the contrived "popular support" for collaborating with terrorists depicted in these photos. The same thing persists today; the 1920s and 1930s "pacifist" was also driven by "escalation" and "annihilation" claims explosions, fire and WMD poison gas will kill everybody in a "knockout blow", immediately any war breaks out.

Update (4 January 2024): on the important world crisis, https://vixra.org/abs/2312.0155 gives a detailed review of "Britain and the H-bomb" (linked here), and why the "nuclear deterrence issue" isn't about "whether we should deter evil", but precisely what design of nuclear warhead we should have in order to do that cheaply, credibly, safely, and efficiently without guaranteeing either escalation or the failure of deterrence. When we disarmed our chemical and biological weapons, it was claimed that the West could easily deter those weapons using strategic nuclear weapons to bomb Moscow (which has shelters, unlike us). That failed when Putin used sarin and chlorine to prop up Assad in Syria, and Novichok in the UK to kill Dawn Sturgess in 2018. So it's just not a credible deterrent to say you will bomb Moscow if Putin invades Europe or uses his 2000 tactical nuclear weapons. An even more advanced deterrent, the 100% clean very low yield (or any yield) multiplicative staged design without any fissile material whatsoever, just around the corner. Clean secondary stages have been proof-tested successfully for example in the 100% clean Los Alamos Redwing Navajo secondary, and the 100% clean Ripple II secondary tested 30 October 1962, and the laser ignition of very tiny fusion capsules to yield more energy than supplied has been done on 5 December 2022 when a NIF test delivered 2.05 MJ (the energy of about 0.5 kg of TNT) to a fusion capsule which yielded 3.15 MJ, so all that is needed is to combine both ideas in a system whereby suitably sized second stages - ignited in the first place by a capacitative charged circuit sending a pulse of energy to a suitable laser system (the schematic shown is just a sketch of principle - more than one laser would possibly be required for reliability of fusion ignition) acting on tiny fusion capsule as shown - are encased to two-stage "effective primaries" which each become effective primaries of bigger systems, thus a geometric series of multiplicative staging until the desired yield is reached. Note that the actual tiny first T+D capsule can be compressed by one-shot lasers - compact lasers used way beyond their traditional upper power limit and burned out in a firing a single pulse - in the same way the gun assembly of the Hiroshima bomb was based on a one-shot gun. In other words, forget all about textbook gun design. The Hiroshima bomb gun assembly system only had to be fired once, unlike a field artillery piece which has to be ready to be fired many thousands of times (before metal fatigue/cracks set in). Thus, by analogy, the lasers - which can be powered by ramping current pulses from magnetic flux compressor systems - for use in a clean bomb will be much smaller and lighter than current lab gear which is designed to be used thousands of times in repeated experiments. The diagram below shows cylindrical Li6D stages throughout for a compact bomb shape, but spherical stages can be used, and once a few stages get fired, the flux of 14 MeV neutrons is sufficient to go to cheap natural LiD. To fit it into a MIRV warhead, the low density of LiD constrains such a clean warhead will have a low nuclear yield, which means a tactical neutron deterrent of the invasions that cause big wars; a conversion of incredible strategic deterrence into a more credible combined strategic-tactical deterrent of major provocations, not just direct attacks. It should also be noted that in 1944 von Neumann suggested that T + D inside the core of the fission weapon would be compressed by "ionization compression" during fission (where a higher density ionized plasma compresses a lower density ionized plasma, i.e. the D + T plasma), an idea that was - years later - named the Internal Booster principle by Teller; see Frank Close, "Trinity", Allen Lane, London, 2019, pp158-159 where Close argues that during the April 1946 Superbomb Conference, Fuchs extended von Neumann's 1944 internal fusion boosting idea to an external D + T filled BeO walled capsule:

"Fuchs reasoned that [the very low energy, 1-10 kev, approximately 10-100 lower energy than medical] x-rays from the [physically separated] uranium explosion would reach the tamper of beryllium oxide, heat it, ionize the constituents and cause them to implode - the 'ionization implosion' concept of von Neumann but now applied to deuterium and tritium contained within beryllium oxide. To keep the radiation inside the tamper, Fuchs proposed to enclose the device inside a casing impervious to radiation. The implosion induced by the radiation would amplify the compression ... and increase the chance of the fusion bomb igniting. The key here is 'separation of the atomic charge and thermonuclear fuel, and compression of the latter by radiation travelling from the former', which constitutes 'radiation implosion'." (This distinction between von Neumann's "ionization implosion" INSIDE the tamper, of denser tamper expanding and thus compressing lower density fusion fuel inside, and Fuchs' OUTSIDE capsule "radiation implosion", is key even today for isentropic H-bomb design; it seems Teller's key breakthroughs were not separate stages or implosion but rather radiation mirrors and ablative recoil shock compression, where radiation is used to ablate a dense pusher of Sausage designs like Mike in 1952 etc., a distinction not to be confused for the 1944 von Neumann and 1946 Fuchs implosion mechanisms!

It appears Russian H-bombs used von Neumann's "ionization implosion" and Fuchs's "radiation implosion" for RDS-37 on 22 November 1955 and also in their double-primary 23 February 1958 test and subsequently, where their fusion capsules reportedly contained a BeO or other low-density outer coating, which would lead to quasi-isentropic compression, more effective for low density secondary stages than purely ablative recoil shock compression. This accounts for the continuing classification of the April 1946 Superbomb Conference (the extract of 32 pages linked here is so severely redacted that it is less helpful than the brief but very lucid summary of its technical content, in the declassified FBI compilation of reports concerning data Klaus Fuchs sent to Stalin, linked here!). Teller had all the knowledge he needed in 1946, but didn't go ahead because he made the stupid error of killing progress off by his own "no-go theorem" against compression of fusion fuel. Teller did a "theoretical" calculation in which he claimed that compression has no effect on the amount of fusion burn because the compressed system is simply scaled down in size so that the same efficiency of fusion burn occurs, albeit faster, and then stops as the fuel thermally expands. This was wrong. Teller discusses the reason for his great error in technical detail during his tape-recorded interview by Chuck Hansen at Los Alamos on 7 June 1993 (C. Hansen, Swords of Armageddon, 2nd ed., pp. II-176-7):

"Now every one of these [fusion] processes varied with the square of density. If you compress the thing, then in one unit's volume, each of the 3 important processes increased by the same factor ... Therefore, compression (seemed to be) useless. Now when ... it seemed clear that we were in trouble, then I wanted very badly to find a way out. And it occurred to be than an unprecedentedly strong compression will just not allow much energy to go into radiation. Therefore, something had to be wrong with my argument and then, you know, within minutes, I knew what must be wrong ... [energy] emission occurs when an electron and a nucleus collide. Absorption does not occur when a light quantum and a nucleus ... or ... electron collide; it occurs when a light quantum finds an electron and a nucleus together ... it does not go with the square of the density, it goes with the cube of the density." (This very costly theoretical error, wasting five years 1946-51, could have been resolved by experimental nuclear testing. There is always a risk of this in theoretical physics, which is why experiments are done to check calculations before prizes are handed out. The ban on nuclear testing is a luddite opposition to technological progress in improving deterrence.)

(This 1946-51 theoretical "no-go theorem" anti-compression error of Teller's, which was contrary to the suggestion of compression at the April 1946 superbomb conference as Teller himself refers to on 14 August 1952, and which was corrected only by comparison of the facts about compression validity in pure fission cores in Feb '51 after Ulam's argument that month for fission core compression by lens focussed primary stage shock waves, did not merely lead to Teller's dismissal of vital compression ideas. It also led to his false equations - exaggerating the cooling effect of radiation emission - causing underestimates of fusion efficiency in all theoretical calculations done of fusion until 1951! For this reason, Teller later repudiated the calculations that allegedly showed his Superbomb would fizzle; he argued that if it had been tested in 1946, the detailed data obtained - regardless of whatever happened - would have at least tested the theory which would have led to rapid progress, because the theory was wrong. The entire basis of the cooling of fusion fuel by radiation leaking out was massively exaggerated until Lawrence Livermore weaponeer John Nuckolls showed that there is a very simple solution: use baffle re-radiated, softened x-rays for isentropic compression of low-density fusion fuel, e.g. very cold 0.3 kev x-rays rather than the usual 1-10 kev cold-warm x-rays emitted directly from the fission primary. Since the radiation losses are proportional to the fourth-power of the x-ray energy or temperature, losses are virtually eliminated, allowing very efficient staging as for Nuckolls' 99.9% 10 Mt clean Ripple II, detonated on 30 October 1962 at Christmas Island. Teller's classical Superbomb was actually analyzed by John C. Solem in a 15 December 1978 report, A modern analysis of Classical Super, LA-07615, according to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by mainstream historian Alex Wellerstein, FOIA 17-00131-H, 12 June 2017; according to a list of FOIA requests at https://www.governmentattic.org/46docs/NNSAfoiaLogs_2016-2020.pdf. However, a google search for the documents Dr Wellerstein requested shows only a few at the US Gov DOE Opennet OSTI database or otherwise online yet e.g. LA-643 by Teller, On the development of Thermonuclear Bombs dated 16 Feb. 1950. The page linked here stating that report was "never classified" is mistaken! One oddity about Teller's anti-compression "no-go theorem" is that the even if fusion rates were independent of density, you would still want compression of fissile material in a secondary stage such as a radiation imploded Alarm Clock, because the whole basis of implosion fission bombs is the benefit of compression; another issue is that even if fusion rates are unaffected by density, inward compression would still help to delay the expansion of the fusion system which leads to cooling and quenching of the fusion burn.)

ABOVE: the FBI file on Klaus Fuchs contains a brief summary of the secret April 1946 Super Conference at Los Alamos which Fuchs attended, noting that compression of fusion fuel was discussed by Lansdorf during the morning session on 19 April, attended by Fuchs, and that: "Suggestions were made by various people in attendance as to the manner of minimizing the rise in entropy during compression." This fact is vitally interesting, since it proves that an effort was being made then to secure isentropic compression of low-density fusion fuel in April 1946, sixteen years before John H. Nuckolls tested the isentropically compressed Ripple II device on 30 October 1962, giving a 99.9% clean 10 megaton real H-bomb! So the Russians were given a massive head start on this isentropic compression of low-density fusion fuel for hydrogen bombs, used (according to Trutnev) in both the single primary tests like RDS-37 in November 1955 and also in the double-primary designs which were 2.5 times more efficient on a yield-to-mass basis, tested first on 23 February 1958! According to the FBI report, the key documents Fuchs gave to Russia were LA-551, Prima facie proof of the feasibility of the Super, 15 Apr 1946 and the LA-575 Report of conference on the Super, 12 June 1946. Fuchs also handed over to Russia his own secret Los Alamos reports, such as LA-325, Initiator Theory, III. Jet Formation by the Collision of Two Surfaces, 11 July 1945, Jet Formation in Cylindrical lmplosion with 16 Detonation Points, Secret, 6 February 1945, and Theory of Initiators II, Melon Seed, Secret, 6 January 1945. Note the reference to Bretscher attending the Super Conference with Fuchs; Teller in a classified 50th anniversary conference at Los Alamos on the H-bomb claimed that after he (Teller) left Los Alamos for Chicago Uni in 1946, Bretscher continued work on Teller's 31 August 1946 "Alarm Clock" nuclear weapon (precursor of the Mike sausage concept etc) at Los Alamos; it was this layered uranium and fusion fuel "Alarm Clock" concept which led to the departure of Russian H-bomb design from American H-bomb design, simply because Fuchs left Los Alamos in June 1946, well before Teller invented the Alarm Clock concept on 31 August 1946 (Teller remembered the date precisely simply because he invented the Alarm Clock on the day his daughter was born, 31 August 1946! Teller and Richtmyer also developed a variant called "Swiss Cheese", with small pockets or bubbles of expensive fusion fuels, dispersed throughout cheaper fuel, in order to kinder a more cost-effective thermonuclear reaction; this later inspired the fission and fusion boosted "spark plug" ideas in later Sausage designs; e.g. security cleared Los Alamos historian Anne Fitzpatrick stated during her 4 March 1997 interview with Robert Richtmyer, who co-invented the Alarm Clock with Teller, that the Alarm Clock evolved into the spherical secondary stage of the 6.9 megaton Castle-Union TX-14 nuclear weapon!).

In fact (see Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear warhead designer Nuckolls' explanation in report UCRL-74345): "The rates of burn, energy deposition by charged reaction products, and electron-ion heating are proportional to the density, and the inertial confinement time is proportional to the radius. ... The burn efficiency is proportional to the product of the burn rate and the inertial confinement time ...", i.e. the fusion burn rate is directly proportional to the fuel density, which in turn is of course inversely proportional to the cube of its radius. But the inertial confinement time for fusion to occur is proportional to the radius, so the fusion stage efficiency in a nuclear weapon is the product of the burn rate (i.e., 1/radius^3) and time (i.e., radius), so efficiency ~ radius/(radius^3) ~ 1/radius^2. Therefore, for a given fuel temperature, the total fusion burn, or the efficiency of the fusion stage, is inversely proportional to the square of the compressed radius of the fuel! (Those condemning Teller's theoretical errors or "arrogance" should be aware that he pushed hard all the time for experimental nuclear tests of his ideas, to check if they were correct, exactly the right thing to do scientifically and others who read his papers had the opportunity to point out any theoretical errors, but was rebuffed by those in power, who used a series of contrived arguments to deny progress, based upon what Harry would call "subconscious bias", if not arrogant, damning, overt bigotry against the kind of credible, overwhelming deterrence which had proved lacking a decade earlier, leading to WWII. This callousness towards human suffering in war and under dictatorship existed in some UK physicists too: Joseph Rotblat's hatred of anything to deter Russia be it civil defense or tactical neutron bombs of the West - he had no problem smiling and patting Russia's neutron bomb when visiting their labs during cosy groupthink deluded Pugwash campaigns for Russian-style "peaceful collaboration" - came from deep family communist convictions, since his brother was serving in the Red Army in 1944 when he alleged he heard General Groves declare that the bomb must deter Russia! Rotblat stated he left Los Alamos as a result. The actions of these groups are analogous to the "Cambridge Scientists Anti-War Group" in the 1930s. After Truman ordered a H-bomb, Bradbury at Los Alamos had to start a "Family Committee" because Teller had a whole "family" of H-bomb designs, ranging from the biggest, "Daddy", through various "Alarm Clocks", all the way down to small internally-boosted fission tactical weapons. From Teller's perspective, he wasn't putting all eggs in one basket.)

Above: declassified illustration from a January 1949 secret report by the popular physics author and Los Alamos nuclear weapons design consultant George Gamow, showing his suggestion of using x-rays from both sides of a cylindrically imploded fission device to expose two fusion capsules to x-rays to test whether compression (fusion in BeO box on right side) helps, or is unnecessary (capsule on left side). Neutron counters detect 14.1 Mev T+D neutrons using time-of-flight method (higher energy neutrons traver faster than ~1 Mev fission stage neutrons, arriving at detectors first, allowing discrimination of the neutron energy spectrum by time of arrival). It took over two years to actually fire this 225 kt shot (8 May 1951)! No wonder Teller was outraged. A few interesting reports by Teller and also Oppenheimer's secret 1949 report opposing the H bomb project as it then stood on the grounds of low damage per dollar - precisely the exact opposite of the "interpretation" the media and gormless fools will assert until the cows come home - are linked here. The most interesting is Teller's 14 August 1952 Top Secret paper debunking Hans Bethe's propaganda, by explaining that contrary to Bethe's claims, Stalin's spy Klaus Fuch had the key "radiation implosion"- see second para on p2 - secret of the H-bomb because he attended the April 1946 Superbomb Conference which was not even attended by Bethe!  It was this very fact in April 1946, noted by two British attendees of the 1946 Superbomb Conference before collaboration was ended later in the year by the 1946 Atomic Energy Act, statement that led to Sir James Cladwick's secret use of "radiation implosion" for stages 2 and 3 of his triple staged H-bomb report the next month, "The Superbomb", a still secret document that inspired Penney's original Tom/Dick/Harry staged and radiation imploded H-bomb thinking, which is summarized by security cleared official historian Arnold's Britain and the H-Bomb.  Teller's 24 March 1951 letter to Los Alamos director Bradbury was written just 15 days after his historic Teller-Ulam 9 March 1951 report on radiation coupling and "radiation mirrors" (i.e. plastic casing lining to re-radiate soft x-rays on to the thermonuclear stage to ablate and thus compress it), and states: "Among the tests which seem to be of importance at the present time are those concerned with boosted weapons. Another is connected vith the possibility of a heterocatalytic explosion, that is, implosion of a bomb using the energy from another, auxiliary bomb. A third concerns itself with tests on mixing during atomic explosions, which question is of particular importance in connection with the Alarm Clock."

There is more to Fuchs' influence on the UK H-bomb than I go into that paper; Chapman Pincher alleged that Fuchs was treated with special leniency at his trial and later he was given early release in 1959 because of his contributions and help with the UK H-bomb as author of the key Fuchs-von Neumann x-ray compression mechanism patent. For example, Penney visited Fuchs in June 1952 in Stafford Prison; see pp309-310 of Frank Close's 2019 book "Trinity". Close argues that Fuchs gave Penney a vital tutorial on the H-bomb mechanism during that prison visit. That wasn't the last help, either, since the UK Controller for Atomic Energy Sir Freddie Morgan wrote Penney on 9 February 1953 that Fuchs was continuing to help. Another gem: Close gives, on p396, the story of how the FBI became suspicious of Edward Teller, after finding a man of his name teaching at the NY Communist Workers School in 1941 - the wrong Edward Teller, of course - yet Teller's wife was indeed a member of the Communist-front "League of women shoppers" in Washington, DC.

Chapman Pincher, who attended the Fuchs trial, writes about Fuchs hydrogen bomb lectures to prisoners in chapter 19 of his 2014 autobiography, Dangerous to know (Biteback, London, pp217-8): "... Donald Hume ... in prison had become a close friend of Fuchs ... Hume had repaid Fuchs' friendship by organising the smuggling in of new scientific books ... Hume had a mass of notes ... I secured Fuchs's copious notes for a course of 17 lectures ... including how the H-bomb works, which he had given to his fellow prisoners ... My editor agreed to buy Hume's story so long as we could keep the papers as proof of its authenticity ... Fuchs was soon due for release ..."

Chapman Pincher wrote about this as the front page exclusive of the 11 June 1952 Daily Express, "Fuchs: New Sensation", the very month Penney visited Fuchs in prison to receive his H-bomb tutorial! UK media insisted this was evidence that UK security still wasn't really serious about deterring further nuclear spies, and the revelations finally culminated in the allegations that the MI5 chief 1956-65 Roger Hollis was a Russian fellow-traveller (Hollis was descended from Peter the Great, according to his elder brother Chris Hollis' 1958 book Along the Road to Frome) and GRU agent of influence, codenamed "Elli". Pincher's 2014 book, written aged 100, explains that former MI5 agent Peter Wright suspected Hollis was Elli after evidence collected by MI6 agent Stephen de Mowbray was reported to the Cabinet Secretary. Hollis is alleged to have deliberately fiddled his report of interviewing GRU defector Igor Gouzenko on 21 November 1945 in Canada. Gouzenko had exposed the spy and Groucho Marx lookalike Dr Alan Nunn May (photo below), and also a GRU spy in MI5 codenamed Elli, who used only duboks (dead letter boxes), but Gouzenko told Pincher that when Hollis interviewed him in 1945 he wrote up a lengthy false report claiming to discredit many statements by Gouzenko: "I could not understand how Hollis had written so much when he had asked me so little. The report was full of nonsense and lies. As [MI5 agent Patrick] Stewart read the report to me [during the 1972 investigation of Hollis], it became clear that it had been faked to destroy my credibility so that my information about the spy in MI5 called Elli could be ignored. I suspect that Hollis was Elli." (Source: Pincher, 2014, p320.) Christopher Andrew claimed Hollis couldn't have been GRU spy Elli because KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky suggested it was the KGB spy Leo Long (sub-agent of KGB spy Anthony Blunt). However, Gouzenko was GRU, not KGB like Long and Gordievsky! Gordievsky's claim that "Elli" was on the cover of Long's KGB file was debunked by KGB officer Oleg Tsarev, who found that Long's codename was actually Ralph! Another declassified Russian document, from General V. Merkulov to Stalin dated 24 Nov 1945, confirmed Elli was a GRU agent inside british intelligence, whose existence was betrayed by Gouzenko. In Chapter 30 of Dangerous to Know, Pincher related how he was given a Russian suitcase sized microfilm enlarger by 1959 Hollis spying eyewitness Michael J. Butt, doorman for secret communist meetings in London. According to Butt, Hollis delivered documents to Brigitte Kuczynski, younger sister of Klaus Fuchs' original handler, the notorious Sonia aka Ursula. Hollis allegedly provided Minox films to Brigitte discretely when walking through Hyde Park at 8pm after work. Brigitte gave her Russian made Minox film enlarger to Butt to dispose of, but he kept it in his loft as evidence. (Pincher later donated it to King's College.) Other more circumstantial evidence is that Hollis recruited the spy Philby, Hollis secured spy Blunt immunity from prosecution, Hollis cleared Fuchs in 1943, and MI5 allegedly destroyed Hollis' 1945 interrogation report on Gouzenko, to prevent the airing of the scandal that it was fake after checking it with Gouzenko in 1972.

It should be noted that the very small number of Russian GRU illegal agents in the UK and the very small communist party membership had a relatively large influence on nuclear policy via infiltration of unions which had block votes in the Labour Party, as well the indirect CND and "peace movement" lobbies saturating the popular press with anti-civil defence propaganda to make the nuclear deterrent totally incredible for any provocation short of a direct all-out countervalue attack. Under such pressure, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government abolished the UK Civil Defence Corps, making the UK nuclear deterrent totally incredible against major provocations, in March 1968. While there was some opposition to Wilson, it was focussed on his profligate nationalisation policies which were undermining the economy and thus destabilizing military expenditure for national security. Peter Wright’s 1987 book Spycatcher and various other sources, including Daily Mirror editor Hugh Cudlipp's book Walking on Water, documented that on 8 May 1968, the Bank of England's director Cecil King, who was also Chairman of Daily Mirror newspapers, Mirror editor Cudlipp and the UK Ministry of Defence's anti-nuclear Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Solly Zuckerman, met at Lord Mountbatten's house in Kinnerton Street, London, to discuss a coup e'tat to overthrow Wilson and make Mountbatten the UK President, a new position. King's position, according to Cudlipp - quite correctly as revealed by the UK economic crises of the 1970s when the UK was effectively bankrupt - was that Wilson was setting the UK on the road to financial ruin and thus military decay. Zuckerman and Mountbatten refused to take part in a revolution, however Wilson's government was attacked by the Daily Mirror in a front page editorial by Cecil King two days later, on 10 May 1968, headlined "Enough is enough ... Mr Wilson and his Government have lost all credibility, all authority." According to Wilson's secretary Lady Falkender, Wilson was only told of the coup discussions in March 1976.

CND and the UK communist party alternatively tried to claim, in a contradictory way, that they were (a) too small in numbers to have any influence on politics, and (b) they were leading the country towards utopia via unilateral nuclear disarmament saturation propaganda about nuclear weapons annihilation (totally ignoring essential data on different nuclear weapon designs, yields, heights of burst, the "use" of a weapon as a deterrent to PREVENT an invasion of concentrated force, etc.) via the infiltrated BBC and most other media. Critics pointed out that Nazi Party membership in Germany was only 5% when Hitler became dictator in 1933, while in Russia there were only 200,000 Bolsheviks in September 1917, out of 125 million, i.e. 0.16%. Therefore, the whole threat of such dictatorships is a minority seizing power beyond it justifiable numbers, and controlling a majority which has different views. Traditional democracy itself is a dictatorship of the majority (via the ballot box, a popularity contest); minority-dictatorship by contrast is a dictatorship by the fanatically motivated minority by force and fear (coercion) to control the majority. The coercion tactics used by foreign dictators to control the press in free countries are well documented, but never publicised widely. Hitler put pressure on Nazi-critics in the UK "free press" via UK Government appeasers Halifax, Chamberlain and particularly the loathsome UK ambassador to Nazi Germany, Sir Neville Henderson, for example trying to censor or ridicule appeasement critics David Low, to fire Captain W. E. Johns (editor of both Flying and Popular Flying, which had huge circulations and attacked appeasement as a threat to national security in order to reduce rearmament expenditure), and to try to get Winston Churchill deselected. These were all sneaky "back door" pressure-on-publishers tactics, dressed up as efforts to "ease international tensions"! The same occurred during the Cold War, with personal attacks in Scientific American and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and by fellow travellers on Herman Kahn, Eugene Wigner, and others who warned we need civil defence to make a deterrent of large provocations credible in the eyes of an aggressor.

Chapman Pincher summarises the vast hypocritical Russian expenditure on anti-Western propaganda against the neutron bomb in Chapter 15, "The Neutron Bomb Offensive" of his 1985 book The Secret Offensive: "Such a device ... carries three major advantages over Hiroshima-type weapons, particularly for civilians caught up in a battle ... against the massed tanks which the Soviet Union would undoubtedly use ... by exploding these warheads some 100 feet or so above the massed tanks, the blast and fire ... would be greatly reduced ... the neutron weapon produces little radioactive fall-out so the long-term danger to civilians would be very much lower ... the weapon was of no value for attacking cities and the avoidance of damage to property can hardly be rated as of interest only to 'capitalists' ... As so often happens, the constant repetition of the lie had its effects on the gullible ... In August 1977, the [Russian] World Peace Council ... declared an international 'Week of action' against the neutron bomb. ... Under this propaganda Carter delayed his decision, in September ... a Sunday service being attended by Carter and his family on 16 October 1977 was disrupted by American demonstrators shouting slogans against the neutron bomb [see the 17 October 1977 Washington Post] ... Lawrence Eagleburger, when US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, remarked, 'We consider it probably that the Soviet campaign against the 'neutron bomb cost some $100 million'. ... Even the Politburo must have been surprised at the size of what it could regard as a Fifth Column in almost every country." [Unfortunately, Pincher himself had contributed to the anti-nuclear nonsense in his 1965 novel "Not with a bang" in which small amounts of radioactivity from nuclear fallout combine with medicine to exterminate humanity! The allure of anti-nuclear propaganda extends to all who which to sell "doomsday fiction", not just Russian dictators but mainstream media story tellers in the West. By contrast, Glasstone and Dolan's 1977 Effects of Nuclear Weapons doesn't even mention the neutron bomb, so there was no scientific and technical effort whatsoever by the West to make it a credible deterrent even in the minds of the public it had to protect from WWIII!]

"The Lance warhead is the first in a new generation of tactical mini-nukes that have been sought by Army field leading advocates: the series of American generals who have commanded the North Atlantic Treaty organization theater. They have argued that the 7,000 unclear warheads now in Europe are old, have too large a nuclear yield and thus would not be used in a war. With lower yields and therefore less possible collateral damage to civilian populated areas, these commanders have argued, the new mini-nukes are more credible as deterrents because they just might be used on the battlefield without leading to automatic nuclear escalation. Under the nuclear warhead production system, a President must personally give the production order. President Ford, according to informed sources, signed the order for the enhanced-radiation Lance warhead. The Lance already has regular nuclear warheads and it deployed with NATO forces in Europe. In addition to the Lance warhead, other new production starts include: An 8-inch artillery-fired nuclear warhead to replace those now in Europe. This shell had been blocked for almost eight years by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), who had argued that it was not needed. Symington retired last year. The Pentagon and ERDA say the new nuclear 8-inch warhead would be safer from stealing by terrorists. Starbird testified. It will be "a command disable system" to melt its inner workings if necessary. ... In longer-term research, the bill contains money to finance an enhanced-radiational bomb to the dropped from aircraft." - Washington post, 5 June 1977.

This debunks fake news that Teller's and Ulam's 9 March 1951 report LAMS-1225 itself gave Los Alamos the Mike H-bomb design, ready for testing! Teller was proposing a series of nuclear tests of the basic principles, not 10Mt Ivy-Mike which was based on a report the next month by Teller alone, LA-1230, "The Sausage: a New Thermonuclear System". When you figure that, what did Ulam actually contribute to the hydrogen bomb? Nothing about implosion, compression or separate stages - all already done by von Neumann and Fuchs five years earlier - and just a lot of drivel about trying to channel material shock waves from a primary to compress another fissile core, a real dead end. What Ulam did was to kick Teller out of his self-imposed mental objection to compression devices. Everything else was Teller's; the radiation mirrors, the Sausage with its outer ablation pusher and its inner spark plug. Note also that contrary to official historian Arnold's book (which claims due to a misleading statement by Dr Corner that all the original 1946 UK copies of Superbomb Conference documentation were destroyed after being sent from AWRE Aldermaston to London between 1955-63), all the documents did exist in the AWRE TPN (theoretical physics notes, 100% of which have been perserved) and are at the UK National Archives, e.g. AWRE-TPN 5/54 is listed in National Archives discovery catalogue ref ES 10/5: "Miscellaneous super bomb notes by Klaus Fuchs", see also the 1954 report AWRE-TPN 6/54, "Implosion super bomb: substitution of U235 for plutonium" ES 10/6, the 1954 report AWRE-TPN 39/54 is "Development of the American thermonuclear bomb: implosion super bomb" ES 10/39, see also ES 10/21 "Collected notes on Fermi's super bomb lectures", ES 10/51 "Revised reconstruction of the development of the American thermonuclear bombs", ES 1/548 and ES 1/461 "Superbomb Papers", etc. Many reports are secret and retained, despite containing "obsolete" designs (although UK report titles are generally unredacted, such as: "Storage of 6kg Delta (Phase) -Plutonium Red Beard (tactical bomb) cores in ships")! It should also be noted that the Livermore Laboatory's 1958 TUBA spherical secondary with an oralloy (enriched U235) outer pusher was just a reversion from Teller's 1951 core spark plug idea in the middle of the fusion fuel, back to the 1944 von Neumann scheme of having fission material surrounding the fusion fuel. In other words, the TUBA was just a radiation and ionization imploded, internally fusion-boosted, second fission stage which could have been accomplished a decade earlier if the will existed, when all of the relevant ideas were already known. The declassified UK spherical secondary-stage alternatives linked here (tested as Grapple X, Y and Z with varying yields but similar size, since all used the 5 ft diameter Blue Danube drop casing) clearly show that a far more efficient fusion burn occurs by minimising the mass of hard-to-compress U235 (oralloy) sparkplug/pusher, but maximising the amount of lithium-7, not lithium-6. Such a secondary with minimal fissionable material also automatically has minimal neutron ABM vulnerability (i.e., "Radiation Immunity", RI). This is the current cheap Russian neutron weapon design, but not the current Western design of warheads like the W78, W88 and bomb B61.

So why on earth doesn't the West take the cheap efficient option of cutting expensive oralloy and maximising cheap natural (mostly lithium-7) LiD in the secondary? Even Glasstone's 1957 Effects of Nuclear Weapons on p17 (para 1.55) states that "Weight for weight ... fusion of deuterium nuclei would produce nearly 3 times as much energy as the fission of uranium or plutonium"! The sad answer is "density"! Natural LiD (containing 7.42% Li6 abundance) is a low density white/grey crystalline solid like salt that actually floats on water (lithium deuteroxide would be formed on exposure to water), since its density is just 820 kg/m^3. Since the ratio of mass of Li6D to Li7D is 8/9, it would be expected that the density of highly enriched 95% Li6D is 739 kg/m^3, while for 36% enriched Li6D it is 793 kg/m^3. Uranium metal has a density of 19,000 kg/m^3, i.e. 25.7 times greater than 95% enriched li6D or 24 times greater than 36% enriched Li6D. Compactness, i.e. volume is more important in a Western MIRV warhead than mass/weight! In the West, it's best to have a tiny-volume, very heavy, very expensive warhead. In Russia, cheapness outweights volume considerations. The Russians in some cases simply allowed their more bulky warheads to protrude from the missile bus (see photo below), or compensated for lower yields at the same volume using clean LiD by using the savings in costs to build more warheads. (The West doubles the fission yield/mass ratio of some warheads by using U235/oralloy pushers in place of U238, which suffers from the problem that about half the neutrons it interacts with result in non-fission capture, as explained below. Note that the 720 kiloton UK nuclear test Orange Herald device contained a hollow shell of 117 kg of U235 surrounded by a what Lorna Arnold's book quotes John Corner referring to a "very thin" layer of high explosive, and was compact, unboosted - the boosted failed to work - and gave 6.2 kt/kg of U235, whereas the first version of the 2-stage W47 Polaris warhead contained 60 kg of U235 which produced most of the secondary stage yield of about 400 kt, i.e. 6.7 kt/kg of U235. Little difference - but because perhaps 50% of the total yield of the W47 was fusion, its efficiency of use of U235 must have actually been less than the Orange Herald device, around 3 kt/kg of U235 which indicates design efficiency limits to "hydrogen bombs"! Yet anti-nuclear charlatans claimed that the Orange Herald bomb was a con!)

ABOVE: USA nuclear weapons data declassified by UK Government in 2010 (the information was originally acquired due to the 1958 UK-USA Act for Cooperation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes, in exchange for UK nuclear weapons data) as published at http://nuclear-weapons.info/images/tna-ab16-4675p63.jpg. This single table summarizes all key tactical and strategic nuclear weapons secret results from 1950s testing! (In order to analyze the warhead pusher thicknesses and very basic schematics from this table it is necessary to supplement it with the 1950s warhead design data declassified in other documents, particularly some of the data from Tom Ramos and Chuck Hansen, as quoted in some detail below.) The data on the mass of special nuclear materials in each of the different weapons argues strongly that the entire load of Pu239 and U235 in the 1.1 megaton B28 was in the primary stage, so that weapon could not have had a fissile spark plug in the centre let alone a fissile ablator (unlike Teller's Sausage design of 1951), and so the B28 it appears had no need whatsoever of a beryllium neutron radiation shield to prevent pre-initiation of the secondary stage prior to its compression (on the contrary, such neutron exposure of the lithium deuteride in the secondary stage would be VITAL to produce some tritium in it prior to compression, to spark fusion when it was compressed). Arnold's book indeed explains that UK AWE physicists found the B28 to be an excellent, highly optimised, cheap design, unlike the later W47 which was extremely costly. The masses of U235 and Li6 in the W47 shows the difficulties of trying to maintain efficiency while scaling down the mass of a two-stage warhead for SLBM delivery: much larger quantities of Li6 and U235 must be used to achieve a LOWER yield! To achieve thermonuclear warheads of low mass at sub-megaton yields, both the outer bomb casing and the pusher around the the fusion fuel must be reduced:

"York ... studied the Los Alamos tests in Castle and noted most of the weight in thermonuclear devices was in their massive cases. Get rid of the case .... On June 12, 1953, York had presented a novel concept ... It radically altered the way radiative transport was used to ignite a secondary - and his concept did not require a weighty case ... they had taken the Teller-Ulam concept and turned it on its head ... the collapse time for the new device - that is, the amount of time it took for an atomic blast to compress the secondary - was favorable compared to older ones tested in Castle. Brown ... gave a female name to the new device, calling it the Linda." - Dr Tom Ramos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear weapon designer), From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War, Naval Institute press, 2022, pp137-8. (So if you reduce the outer casing thickness to reduce warhead weight, you must complete the pusher ablation/compression faster, before the thinner outer casing is blown off, and stops reflecting/channelling x-rays on the secondary stage. Making the radiation channel smaller and ablative pusher thinner helps to speed up the process. Because the ablative pusher is thinner, there is relatively less blown-off debris to block the narrower radiation channel before the burn ends.)

"Brown's third warhead, the Flute, brought the Linda concept down to a smaller size. The Linda had done away with a lot of material in a standard thermonuclear warhead. Now the Flute tested how well designers could take the Linda's conceptual design to substantially reduce not only the weight but also the size of a thermonuclear warhead. ... The Flute's small size - it was the smallest thermonuclear device yet tested - became an incentive to improve codes. Characteristics marginally important in a larger device were now crucially important. For instance, the reduced size of the Flute's radiation channel could cause it to close early [with ablation blow-off debris], which would prematurely shut off the radiation flow. The code had to accurately predict if such a disaster would occur before the device was even tested ... the calculations showed changes had to be made from the Linda's design for the Flute to perform correctly." - Dr Tom Ramos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear weapon designer), From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War, Naval Institute press, 2022, pp153-4. Note that the piccolo (the W47 secondary) is a half-sized flute, so it appears that the W47's secondary stage design miniaturization history was: Linda -> Flute -> Piccolo:

"A Division's third challenge was a small thermonuclear warhead for Polaris [the nuclear SLBM submarine that preceeded today's Trident system]. The starting point was the Flute, that revolutionary secondary that had performed so well the previous year. Its successor was called the Piccolo. For Plumbbob [Nevada, 1957], the design team tested three variations of the Piccolo as a parameter test. One of the variants outperformed the others ... which set the stage for the Hardtack [Nevada and Pacific, 1958] tests. Three additional variations for the Piccolo ... were tested then, and again an optimum candidate was selected. ... Human intuition as well as computer calculations played crucial roles ... Finally, a revolutionary device was completed and tested ... the Navy now had a viable warhead for its Polaris missile. From the time Brown gave Haussmann the assignment to develop this secondary until the time they tested the device in the Pacific, only 90 days had passed. As a parallel to the Robin atomic device, this secondary for Polaris laid the foundation for modern thermonuclear weapons in the United States." - Dr Tom Ramos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear weapon designer), From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War, Naval Institute press, 2022, pp177-8. (Ramos is very useful in explaining that many of the 1950s weapons with complex non-spherical, non-cylindrical shaped primaries and secondaries were simply far too complex to fully simulate on the really pathetic computers they had - Livermore got a 4,000 vacuum tubes-based IBM 701 with 2 kB memory in 1956, AWRE Aldermaston in the Uk had to wait another year for theirs - so they instead did huge numbers of experimental explosive tests. For instance, on p173, Ramos discloses that the Swan primary which developed into the 155mm tactical shell, "went through over 100 hydrotests", non-nuclear tests in which fissile material is replaced with U238 or other substitutes, and the implosion is filmed with flash x-ray camera systems.)

"An integral feature of the W47, from the very start of the program, was the use of an enriched uranium-235 pusher around the cylindrical secondary." - Chuck Hansen, Swords 2.0, p. VI-375 (Hansen's source is his own notes taken during a 19-21 February 1992 nuclear weapons history conference he attended; if you remember the context, "Nuclear Glasnost" became fashionable after the Cold War ended, enabling Hansen to acquire almost unredacted historical materials for a few years until nuclear proliferation became a concern in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea). The key test of the original (Robin primary and Piccolo secondary) Livermore W47 was 412 kt Hardtack-Redwood on 28 June 1958. Since Li6D utilized at 100% efficiency would yield 66 kt/kg, the W47 fusion efficiency was only about 6%; since 100% fission of u235 yields 17 kt/kg, the W47's Piccolo fission (the u235 pusher) efficiency was about 20%; the comparable figures for secondary stage fission and fusion fuel burn efficiencies in the heavy B28 are about 7% and 15%, respectively:

ABOVE: the heavy B28 gave a very "big bang for the buck": it was cheap in terms of expensive Pu, U235 and Li6, and this was the sort of deterrent which was wanted by General LeMay for the USAF, which wanted as many weapons as possible, within the context of Eisenhower's budgetary concerns. But its weight (not its physical size) made it unsuitable for SLBM Polaris warheads. The first SLBM warhead, the W47, was almost the same size as the B28 weapon package, but much lighter due to having a much thinner "pusher" on the secondary, and casing. But this came at a large financial cost in terms of the quantities of special nuclear materials required to get such a lightweight design to work, and also a large loss of total yield. The fusion fuel burn efficiency ranges from 6% for the 400 kt W47 to 15% for the 1.1 megaton B28 (note that for very heavy cased 11-15 megaton yield tests at Castle, up to 40% fusion fuel burn efficiency was achieved), whereas the secondary stage ablative pusher fission efficiency ranged from 7% for a 1.1 inch thick natural uranium (99.3% U238) ablator to 20% for a 0.15 inch thick highly enriched oralloy (U235) ablator. From the brief description of the design evolution given by Dr Tom Ramos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), it appears that when the x-ray channelling outer case thickness of the weapon is reduced to save weight, the duration of the x-ray coupling is reduced, so the dense metal pusher thickness must be reduced if the same compression factor (approximately 20) for the secondary stage is to be accomplished (lithium deuteride, being of low density, is far more compressable by a given pressure, than dense metal). In both examples, the secondary stage is physically a boosted fission stage. (If you are wondering why the hell the designers don't simply use a hollow core U235 bomb like Orange Herald instead of bothering with such inefficient x-ray coupled two-stage designs as these, the answer is straightforward: the risk of large fissile core meltdown by neutrons Moscow ABM defensive nuclear warheads, neutron bombs.)

The overall weight of the W47 was minimized by replacing the usual thick layer of U238 pusher with a very thin layer of fissile U235 (supposedly Teller's suggestion), which is more efficient for fission, but is limited by critical mass issues. The W47 used a 95% enriched Li6D cylinder with a 3.8mm thick U235 pusher; the B28 secondary was 36% enriched Li6D, with a very heavy 3cm thick U238 pusher. As shown below, it appears the B28 was related to the Los Alamos clean design of the TX21C tested as 95% clean 4.5 megatons Redwing-Navajo in 1956 and did not have a central fissile spark plug. From the declassified fallout composition, it is known the Los Alamos designers replaced the outer U238 pusher of Castle secondaries with lead in Navajo. Livermore did the same for their 85% clean 3.53 megatons Redwing-Zuni test, but Livermore left the central fission spark plug, which contributed 10% of its 15% fission yield, instead of removing the neutron shield, using foam channel filler for slowing down the x-ray compression, and thereby using primary stage neutrons to split lithium-6 giving tritium prior to compression. Our point is that Los Alamos got it wrong in sticking too conservatively to ideology: for clean weapons they should have got rid of the dense lead pusher and gone for John H. Nuckolls idea (also used by Fuchs in 1946 and the Russians in 1955 and 1958) of a low-density pusher for isentropic compression of low-density fusion fuel. This error is the reason why those early cleaner weapons were extremely heavy due to unnecessary 2" thick lead or tungsten pushers around the fusion fuel, which massively reduced their yield-to-weight ratios, so that LeMay rejected them!

Compare these data for the 20 inch diameter, 49 inch, 1600 lb, 1.1 megaton bomb B28 to the 18 inch diameter, 47 inch, 700 lb, 400 kt Mk47/W47 Polaris SLBM warhead (this is the correct yield for the first version of the W47 confirmed by UK data in Lorna Arnold Britain and the H-bomb 2001 and AB 16/3240; Wikipedia wrongly gives the 600 kt figure in Hansen, which was a speculation or a later upgrade). The key difference is that the W47 is much lighter, and thus suitable for the Polaris SLBM unlike the heavier, higher yield B28. Both B28 and W47 used cylindrical sausages, but they are very different in composition; the B28 used a huge mass of U238 in its ablative sausage outer shell or pusher, while the W47 used oralloy/U235 in the pusher. The table shows the total amounts of Pu, Oralloy (U235), Lithium-6 (excluding cheaper lithium-7, which is also present in varying amounts in different thermonuclear weapons), and tritium (which is used for boosting inside fissile material, essentially to reduce the amount of Pu and therefore the vulnerability of the weapon to Russian enhanced neutron ABM warhead meltdown). The B28 also has an external dense natural U (99.3% U238) "ablative pusher shell" whose mass is not listed in this table. The table shows that the 400 kt W47 Polaris SLBM warhead contains 60 kg of U235 (nearly as much as the 500 kt pure fission Mk18), which is in an ablative pusher shell around the lithium deuteride, so that the cylinder of neutron-absorbing lithium-6 deuteride within it keeps that mass of U235 subcritical, until compressed. So the 400 kt W47 contains far more Pu, U235, Li6 and T than the higher yield 1.1 megaton B28: this is the big $ price you pay for reducing the mass of the warhead; the total mass of the W47 is reduced to 44% of the mass of the B28, since the huge mass of cheap U238 pusher in the B28 is replaced by a smaller mass of U235, which is more efficient because (as Dr Carl F. Miller reveals in USNRDL-466, Table 6), about half of the neutrons hitting U238 don't cause fission but instead non-fission capture reactions which produce U239, plus the n,2n reaction that produces U237, emitting a lot of very low energy gamma rays in the fallout. For example, in the 1954 Romeo nuclear test (which, for simplicity, we quote since it used entirely natural LiD, with no expensive enrichment of the Li6 isotope whatsoever), the U238 jacket fission efficiency was reduced by capture as follows: 0.66 atom/fission of U239, 0.10 atom/fission of U237 and 0.23 atom/fission of U240 produced by fission, a total of 0.66 + 0.10 + 0.23 ~ 1 atom/fission, i.e. 50% fission in the U238 pusher, versus 50% non-fission neutron captures. So by using U235 in place of U238, you virtually eliminate the non-fission capture (see UK Atomic Weapons Establishment graph of fission and capture cross-sections for U235, shown below), which roughly halves the mass of the warhead, for a given fission yield. This same principle of using an outer U235/oralloy pusher instead of U238 to reduce mass - albeit with the secondary cylindrical "Sausage" shape now changed to a sphere - applies to today's miniaturised, high yield, low mass "MIRV" warheads. Just as the lower-yield W47 counter-intuitively used more expensive ingredients than the bulkier higher-yield B28, modern compact, high-yield oralloy-loaded warheads literally cost a bomb, just to keep the mass down! There is evidence Russia uses alternative ideas.

This is justified by the data given for a total U238 capture-to-fission ratio of 1 in the 11 megaton Romeo test and also the cross-sections for U235 capture and fission on the AWE graph for relevant neutron energy range of about 1-14 Mev. If half the neutrons are captured in U238 without fission, then the maximum fission yield you can possibly get from "x" kg of U238 pusher is HALF the energy obtained from 100% fission of "x" kg of U238. Since with U238 only about half the atoms can undergo fission by thermonuclear neutrons (because the other half undergo non-fission capture), the energy density (i.e., the Joules/kg produced by the fission explosion of the pusher) reached by an exploding U238 pusher is only half that reached by U235 (in which there is less non-fission capture of neutrons, which doubles the pusher mass without doubling the fission energy release). So a U235 pusher will reach twice the temperature of a U238 pusher, doubling its material heating of fusion fuel within, prolonging the fusion burn and thus increasing fusion burn efficiency. 10 MeV neutron energy is important since it allows for likely average scattering of 14.1 MeV D+T fusion neutrons and it is also the energy at which the most important capture reaction, the (n,2n) cross-section peaks for both U235 (peak of 0.88 barn at 10 Mev) and U238 (peak of 1.4 barns at 10 Mev). For 10 Mev neutrons, U235 and U238 have fission cross-sections of 1.8 and 1 barn, respectively. For 14 Mev neutrons, U238 has a (n,2n) cross section of 0.97 barn for U237 production. So ignoring non-fission captures, you need 1.8/1 = 1.8 times greater thickness of pusher for U238 than for U235, to achieve the same amount of fission. But this simple consideration ignores the x-ray ablation requirement of the explosing pusher, so there are several factors requiring detailed computer calculations, and/or nuclear testing.

Note: there is an extensive collection of declassified documents released after Chuck Hansen's final edition, Swords 2.0, which are now available at https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/foiareadingroom/*, being an internet-archive back-up of a now-removed US Government Freedom of Information Act Reading Room. Unfortunately they were only identified by number sequence, not by report title or content, in that reeding room, and so failed to achieve wide attention when originally released! (This includes extensive "Family Committee" H-bomb documentation and many long-delayed FOIA requests submitted originally by Hansen, but not released in time for inclusion in Swords 2.0.) As the extract below - from declassified document RR00132 - shows, some declassified documents contained very detailed information or typewriter spaces that could only be filled by a single specific secret word (in this example, details of the W48 linear implosion tactical nuclear warhead, including the fact that it used PBX9404 plastic bonded explosive glued to the brittle beryllium neutron reflector around the plutonium core using Adiprene L100 adhesive!).

ABOVE: Declassified data on the radiation flow analysis for the 10 megaton Mike sausage: http://nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/foiareadingroom/RR00198.pdf Note that the simplistic "no-go theorem" given in this extract, against any effect from varying the temperature to help the radiation channelling, was later proved false by John H. Nuckolls (like Teller's anti-compression "no-go theorem" was later proved false), since lowered temperature delivers energy where it is needed while massively reducing radiation losses (which go as the fourth power of temperature/x-ray energy in kev).

ABOVE: Hans A. Bethe's disastrous back-of-the-envelope nonsense "non-go theorem" against lithium-7 fission into tritium by 14.1 Mev D+T neutrons in Bravo (which contained 40% lithium-6 and 60% lithium-7; unnecessarily enriched - at great expense and effort - from the natural 7.42% lithum-6 abundance). It was Bethe's nonsense "physics" speculation, unbacked by serious calculation, who caused Bravo to go off at 2.5 times the expected 6 megatons and therefore for the Japanese Lucky Dragon tuna trawler crew in the maximum fallout hotspot area 80 miles downwind to be contaminated by fallout, and also for Rongelap's people to be contaminated ("accidents" that inevitably kickstarted the originally limited early 1950s USSR funded Communist Party anti-nuclear deterrence movements in the West into mainstream media and thus politics). There was simply no solid basis for assuming that the highly penetrating 14.1 Mev neutrons would be significantly slowed by scattering in the fuel before hitting lithium-7 nuclei. Even teller's 1950 report LA-643 at page 17 estimated that in a fission-fusion Alarm Clock, the ratio of 14 Mev to 2.5 Mev neutrons was 0.7/0.2 = 3.5. Bethe's complacently bad guesswork-based physics also led to the EMP fiasco for high altitude bursts, after he failed to predict the geomagnetic field deflection of Compton electrons at high altitude in his secret report “Electromagnetic Signal Expected from High-Altitude Test”, Los Alamos report LA-2173, October 1957, Secret. He repeatedly caused nuclear weapons effects study disasters. For the true utility of lithium-7, which is actually BETTER than lithum-6 at tritium production when struck by 14.1 Mev D+T fusion neutrons, and its consequences for cheap isentropically compressed fusion capsules in Russian neutron bombs, please see my paper here which gives a graph of lithium isotopic cross section versus neutron energy, plus the results when Britain used cheap lithium-7 in Grapple Y to yield 3 megatons (having got lower yields with costly lithium-6 in previous tests!).

Update (15 Dec 2023): PDF uploaded of UK DAMAGE BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS (linked here on Internet Archive) - secret 1000 pages UK and USA nuclear weapon test effects analysis, and protective measures determined at those tests (not guesswork) relevant to escalation threats by Russia for EU invasion (linked here at wordpress) in response to Ukraine potentially joining the EU (this is now fully declassified without deletions, and in the UK National Archives at Kew):

Hiroshima and Nagasaki terrorist liars debunked by secret American government evidence that simple shelters worked, REPORT LINKED HERE (this was restricted from public view and never published by the American government, and Glasstone's lying Effects of Nuclear Weapons book reversed its evidence for propaganda purposes, a fact still covered by all the lying cold war pseudo "historians" today), Operation Hurricane 1952 declassified nuclear weapon test data (here), declassified UK nuclear tested shelter research reports (here), declassified EMP nuclear test research data (here), declassified clandestine nuclear bombs in ships attack on Liverpool study (here), declassified fallout decontamination study for UK recovery from nuclear attack (here), declassified Operation Buffalo surface burst and near surface burst fallout patterns, water decontamination, initial radiation shielding at Antler nuclear tests, and resuspension of deposited fallout dust into the air (inhalation hazard) at different British nuclear tests, plus Operation Totem nuclear tests crater region radiation surveys (here), declassified Operation Antler nuclear blast precursor waveforms (here), declassified Operation Buffalo nuclear blast precursor waveforms (here), declassified UK Atomic Weapons Establishment nuclear weapons effects symposium (here), and declassified UK Atomic Weapons Establishment paper on the gamma radiation versus time at Crossroads tests Able and Baker (here, paper by inventor of lenses in implosion weapons, James L. Tuck of the British Mission to Los Alamos and Operation Crossroads, clearly showing how initial gamma shielding in an air burst can be achieved with a few seconds warning and giving the much greater escape times available for residual radiation dose accumulations in an underwater burst; key anti-nuclear hysteria data kept covered up by Glasstone and the USA book Effects of Nuclear Weapons), and Penney and Hicks paper on the base surge contamination mechanism (here), and Russian nuclear warhead design evidence covered-up by both America and the so-called arms control and disarmament "experts" who always lie and distort the facts to suit their own agenda to try to start a nuclear war (linked here). If they wanted "peace" they'd support the proved facts, available on this blog nukegate.org since 2006, and seek international agreement to replace the incredible, NON-war deterring strategic nuclear weapons with safe tactical neutron warheads which collateral damage averting and invasion-deterring (thus war deterring in all its forms, not only nuclear), plus civil defence against all forms of collateral damage from war, which reduces escalation risks during terrorist actions, as proved in wars which don't escalate because of effective civil defence and credible deterrence (see below). Instead, they support policies designed to maximise civilian casualties and to deliberately escalate war, to profit "politically" from the disasters caused which they blame falsely on nuclear weapons, as if deterrence causes war! (Another lie believed by mad/evil/gullible mainstream media/political loons in "authority".) A good summary of the fake news basis of "escalation" blather against credible tactical nuclear deterrence of the invasions that set off wars is inadvertently provided by Lord David Owen's 2009 "Nuclear Papers" (Liverpool Uni Press), compiling his declassified nuclear disarmament propaganda reports written while he was UK Foreign Secretary 1977-9. It's all Carter era appeasement nonsense. For example, on pp158-8 he reprints his Top Secret 19 Dec 1978 "Future of the British Deterrent" report to the Prime Minister which states that "I am not convinced by the contention ... that the ability to destroy at least 10 major cities, or inflict damage on 30 major targets ... is the minimum criterion for a British deterrent." (He actually thinks this is too strong a deterrent, despite the fact it is incredible for the realpolitik tactics of dictators who make indirect provocations like invading their neighbours!) The reality Owens ignores is that Russia had and still has civil defence shelters and evacuation plans, so threatening some damage in retaliation is not a credible deterrent against the invasions that set off both world wars. On page 196, he gives a Secret 18 April 1978 paper stating that NATO then had 1000 nuclear artillery pieces (8" and 155mm), 200 Lance and Honest John tactical nuclear missile systems, 135 Pershing; all now long ago disarmed and destroyed while Russian now has over 2000 dedicated tactical nuclear weapons of high neutron output (unlike EM1's data for the low yield option of the multipurpose NATO B61). Owen proudly self-congratulates on his Brezhnev supporting anti-neutron bomb ranting 1978 book, "Human Rights", pp. 136-7. If Owen really wants "Human Rights", he needs to back the neutron bomb now to deter the dictatorships which destroy human rights! His 2009 "Nuclear Papers" at p287 gives the usual completely distorted analysis of the Cuban missiles crisis, claiming that despite the overwhelming American tactical and strategic nuclear superiority for credible deterrence in 1962, the world came "close" to a nuclear war. It's closer now, mate, when thanks to your propaganda we no longer have a credible deterrent, civil defence, tactical neutron warheads. Pathetic.

ABOVE secret reports on Australian-British nuclear test operations at Maralinga in 1956 and 1957, Buffalo and Antler, proved that even at 10 psi peak overpressure for the 15 kt Buffalo-1 shot, the dummy lying prone facing the blast was hardly moved due to the low cross-sectional area exposed to the blast winds, relative to standing dummies which were severely displaced and damaged. The value of trenches in protecting personnel against blast winds and radiation was also proved in tests (gamma radiation shielding of trenches had been proved at an earlier nuclear test in Australia, Operation Hurricane in 1952). (Antler report linked here; Buffalo report linked here.) This debunks the US Department of Defense models claiming that people will automatically be blown out of the upper floors of modern city buildings at very low pressures, and killed by the gravitational impact with the pavement below! In reality, tall buildings mutually shield one another from the blast winds, not to mention the radiation (proven in the latest post on this blog), and on seeing the flash most people will have time to lie down on typical surfaces like carpet which give a frictional resistance to displacement, ignored in fiddled models which assume surfaces have less friction than a skating rink; all of this was omitted from the American 1977 Glasstone and Dolan book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons". As Tuck's paper below on the gamma radiation dose rate measurements on ships at Operation Crossroads, July 1946 nuclear tests proved, contrary to Glasstone and Dolan, scattered radiation contributions are small, so buildings or ships gun turrets provided excellent radiation "shadows" to protect personnel. This effect was then calculated by UK civil defence weapons effects expert Edward Leader-Williams in his paper presented at the UK's secret London Royal Society Symposium on the Physical Effects of Atomic Weapons, but the nuclear test data as always was excluded from the American Glasstone book published the next year, The Effects of Atomic Weapons in deference to lies about the effects in Hiroshima, including an "average" casualty curve which deliberately obfuscated huge differences in survival rates in different types of buildings and shelters, or simply in shadows!

Note: the DELFIC, SIMFIC and other computer predicted fallout area comparisons for the 110 kt Bikini Atoll Castle-Koon land surface burst nuclear test are false since the distance scale of Bikini Atoll is massively exaggerated on many maps, e.g. in the Secret January 1955 AFSWP "Fall-out Symposium", the Castle fallout report WT-915, and the fallout patterns compendium DASA-1251! The Western side of the Bikini Atoll reef is at 165.2 degrees East, while the most eastern island in the Bikini Atoll, Enyu, is at 165.567 degrees East: since there are 60 nautical miles per degree by definition, the width of Bikini Atoll is therefore (165.567-165.2)(60) = 22 nautical miles, approximately half the distance shown in the Castle-Koon fallout patterns. Since area is proportional to the square of the distance scale, this constitutes a serious exaggeration in fallout casualty calculations, before you get into the issue of the low energy (0.1-0.2 MeV) gamma rays from neutron induced Np239 and U237 in the fallout enhancing the protection factor of shelters (usually calculated assuming hard 1.17 and 1.33 MeV gamma rads from Co60), during the sheltering period of approximately 1-14 days after detonation.

"Since the nuclear stalemate became apparent, the Governments of East and West have adopted the policy which Mr Dulles calls 'brinkmanship'. This is a policy adopted from a sport ... called 'Chicken!' ... If one side is unwilling to risk global war, while the other side is willing to risk it, the side which is willing to run the risk will be victorious in all negotiations and will ultimately reduce the other side to complete impotence. 'Perhaps' - so the practical politician will argue - 'it might be ideally wise for the sane party to yield to the insane party in view of the dreadful nature of the alternative, but, whether wise or not, no proud nation will long acquiesce in such an ignominious role. We are, therefore, faced, quite inevitably, with the choice between brinkmanship and surrender." - Bertrand Russell, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1959, pp30-31.

Emphasis added. Note that Russell accepts lying about nuclear weapons just as gas weapons had been lied about in the 1920s-30s by "arms controllers" to start WWII, then he simply falls into the 1930s Cambridge Scientists Antiwar Group delusional propaganda fraud of assuming that any attempt to credibly deter fascism is immoral because it will automatically result in escalatory retaliation with Herman Goering's Luftwaffe drenching London with "overkill" by poison gas WMDs etc. In particular, he forgets that general disarmament pursued in the West until 1935 - when Baldwin suddenly announced that the Nazis had secretly produced a massive, unstoppable warmachine in two years - encouraged aggressors to first secretly rearm, then coerce and invade their neighbours while signing peace promises purely to buy more time for rearmament, until a world war resulted. Not exactly a great result for disarmament propaganda. So after obliterating what Reagan used to call (to the horror of commie "historians") the "true facts of history" from his mind, he advocates some compromise with the aggressors of the 30 September 1938 Munich Agreement peace-in-our-time sort, the historically proved sure fire way to really escalate a crisis into a major war by showing the green lamp to a loon to popular media acclaim and applause for a fairy tale utopian fantasy; just as the "principled" weak, rushed, imbecile withdrawl from Afghanistan in 2021 encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine in 2022, and also the green lamp for Hamas to invade Israel in 2023.

"... deterrence ... consists of threatening the enemy with thermonuclear retaliation should he act provocatively. ... If war is 'impossible', how can one threaten a possible aggressor with war? ... The danger, evoked by numerous critics, that such research will result in a sort of resigned expectation of the holocaust, seems a weak argument ... The classic theory of Clausewitz defines absolute victory in terms of disarmament of the enemy ... Today ... it will suffice to take away his means of retaliation to hold him at your mercy." - Raymond Aron, Introduction to Herman Kahn's 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable, Weidenfield and Nicholson, London, pp. 9-12. (This is the commie support for arms control and disarmament has achieved, precisely the weakening of the West to take away credible deterrence.)

"75 years ago, white slavery was rampant in England. ... it could not be talked about openly in Victorian England, moral standards as to the subjects of discussion made it difficult to arouse the community to necessary action. ... Victorian standards, besides perpetuating the white slave trade, intensified the damage ... Social inhibitions which reinforce natural tendencies to avoid thinking about unpleasant subjects are hardly uncommon. ... But when our reluctance to consider danger brings danger nearer, repression has gone too far. In 1960, I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war ... people are willing to argue that it is immoral to think and even more immoral to write in detail about having to fight ... like those ancient kings who punished messengers who brought them bad news. That did not change the news; it simply slowed up its delivery. On occasion it meant that the kings were ill informed and, lacking truth, made serious errors in judgement and strategy. ... We cannot wish them away. Nor should we overestimate and assume the worst is inevitable. This leads only to defeatism, inadequate preparations (because they seem useless), and pressures toward either preventative war or undue accommodation." - Herman Kahn's 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable, Weidenfield and Nicholson, London, pp. 17-19. (In the footnote on page 35, Kahn notes that original nuclear bullshitter, the 1950 creator of fake cobalt-60 doomsday bomb propaganda, Leo Szilard, was in the usual physics groupthink nutters club: "Szilard is probably being too respectful of his scientific colleagues who also seem to indulge in ad hominem arguments - especially when they are out of their technical specialty.")

"Ever since the catastropic and disillusioning experience of 1914-18, war has been unthinkable to most people in the West ... In December 1938, only 3 months after Munich, Lloyd's of London gave odds of 32 to 1 that there would be no war in 1939. On August 7, 1939, the London Daily Express reported the result of a poll of its European reporters. 10 out of 12 said, 'No war this year'. Hitler invaded Poland 3 weeks later." - Herman Kahn's 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable, Weidenfield and Nicholson, London, p. 39. (But as the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 proved, even the label "war" is now "controversial": the aggressor now simply declares they are on a special operation of unifying people under one flag to ensure peace! So the reason why there is war in Ukraine is that Ukraine is resisting. If it waved a white flag, as the entire arms control and disarmament lobby insists is the only sane response to a nuclear-armed aggressor, there would be "peace," albeit on Russia's terms: that's why they disarmed Ukraine in 1994. "Peace propaganda" of "disarmers"! Free decent people prefer to fight tyranny. But as Kahn states on pp. 7-9:

"Some, most notably [CND's pseudo-historian of arms race lying] A. J. P. Taylor, have even said that Hitler was not like Hitler, that further appeasement [not an all-out arms race as was needed but repeatedly rejected by Baldwin and Chamberlain until far too late; see discussion of this fact which is still deliberately ignored or onfuscated by "historians" of the A. J. P. Taylor biased anti-deterrence left wing type, in Slessor's The Central Blue, quoted on this blog] would have prevented World War II ... If someone says to you, 'One of us has to be reasonable and it is not going to be me, so it has to be you', he has a very effective bargaining advantage, particularly if he is armed with thermonuclear bombs [and you have damn all civil defense, ABM, or credible tactical deterrent]. If he can convince you he is stark, staring mad and if he has enough destructive power ... deterrence alone will not work. You must then give in or accept the possibility of being annihilated ... in the first instance if we fight and lose; in the second if we capitulate without fighting. ... We could still resist by other means ranging from passive resistance of the Gandhi type to the use of underground fighting and sabotage. All of these alternatives might be of doubtful effectiveness against [the Gulag system, KGB/FSB torture camps or Siberian salt mines of] a ruthless dictatorship."

Sometimes people complain that Hitler and the most destructive and costly war and only nuclear war of history, WWII, is given undue attention. But WWII is a good analogy to the danger precisely because of the lying WMD gas war propaganda-based disarmament of the West which allowed the war, because of the attacks by Hitler's fans on civil defense in the West to make even the token rearmament after 1935 ineffective as a credible deterrent, and because Hitler has mirrors in Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Tamerlane, Napoleon and Stalin. Kahn explains on p. 173: "Because history has a way of being more imaginative and complex than even the most imaginative and intelligent analysts, historical examples often provide better scenarios than artificial ones, even though they may be no more directly applicable to current equipment, postures, and political situations than the fictional plot of the scenario. Recent history can be especially useful.")

"One type of war resulting at least partly from deliberate calculation could occur in the process of escalation. For example, suppose the Soviets attacked Europe, relying upon our fear of their reprisal to deter a strategic attack by us; we might be deterred enough to pause, but we might evacuate our cities during this pause in the hope we could thereby convince the Soviets we meant business. If the Soviets did not back down, but continued their attack upon Europe, we might decide that we would be less badly off if we proceeded ... The damage we would receive in return would then be considerably reduced, compared with what we would have suffered had we not evacuated. We might well decide at such a time that we would be better off to attack the Soviets and accept a retalitory blow at our dispersed population, rather than let Europe be occupied, and so be forced to accept the penalty of living in the hostile and dangerous world that would follow." - Herman Kahn's 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable, Weidenfield and Nicholson, London, pp. 51-2.

"We must recognise that the stability we want in a system is more than just stability against accidental war or even against an attack by the enemy. We also want stability against extreme provocation [e.g. invasion of allies, which then escalates as per invasion of Belgium 1914, or Poland 1939]." - Herman Kahn's 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable, Weidenfield and Nicholson, London, p. 53(footnote).

Note: this 1962 book should not be confused with Kahn's 1984 "updated" Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, which omits the best material in the 1962 edition (in the same way that the 1977 edition of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons omits the entire civil defense chapter which was the one decent thing in the 1957 and 1962/4 editions!) and thus shows a reversion to the less readable and less helpful style of his 1960 On Thermonuclear War, which severely fragmented and jumbled up all the key arguments making it easy for critics to misquote or quote out of context. For example, Kahn's 1984 "updated" book starts on the first page of the first chapter with the correct assertion that Johnathan Schell's Fate of the Earth is nonsense, but doesn't say why it's nonsense, and you have to read through to the final chapter - pages 207-8 of chapter 10 - to find Kahn writing in the most vague way possible, without a single specific example, that Schell is wrong because of "substantive inadequacies and inaccuracies", without listing a single example such as Schell's lying that the 1954 Bravo nuclear test blinded everyone well beyond the range of Rongelap, and that it was impossible to easily shield the radiation from the fallout or evacuate the area until it decays, which Schell falsely attributed to Glasstone and Dolan's nonsense in the 1977 Effects of Nuclear Weapons! Kahn eventually in the footnote on page 208 refers readers to an out-of-print article for facts: "These criticisms are elaborated in my review of The Fate of the Earth, see 'Refusing to Think About the Unthinkable', Fortune, June 28, 1982, pp. 113-6. Kahn does the same for civil defense in the 1984 book, referring in such general, imprecise and vague terms to Russian civil defence, with no specific data, that it is a waste of time, apart possibly one half-baked sentence on page 177: "Variations in the total megatonnage, somewhat surprisingly, do not seem to affect the toll nearly as much as variations in the targetting or the type of weapon bursts." Kahn on page 71 quotes an exchange between himself and Senator Proxmire during the US Congressional Hearings of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Civil preparedness and limited nuclear war where on page 55 of the hearings, Senator Proxmire alleges America would escalate a limited conflict to an all-out war because: "The strategic value and military value of destroying cities in the Soviet Union would be very great." Kahn responded: "No American President is likely to do that, no matter what the provocation." Nuclear war will be limited, according to Herman Kahn's analysis, despite the bullshit fron nutters to the contrary.

Kahn on page 101 of Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s correctly and accurately condemns President Carter's 1979 State of the Union Address, which claimed falsely that just a single American nuclear submarine is required by America and has an "overwhelming" deterrent against "every large and medium-sized city in the Soviet Union". Carter ignored Russian retaliation on cities if you bomb theirs: America has avoided the intense Russian protection efforts that make the Russian nuclear threat credible, namely civil defense shelters and evacuation plans, and also the realpolitik of deterrence of world wars, which so far have only been triggered due to invasions of third parties (Belgium '14, Poland '39). Did America strategically nuke every city in Russia when it invaded Ukraine in 2022? No, debunking Proxmire and the entire Western pro-Russian "automatic escalation" propaganda lobby, and it didn't even have tactical neutron bombs to help deter the Russians like Reagan in the 1980s, because in the 1990s America had ignored Kahn's argument, and went in for MINIMAL deterrence of the least credible sort (abolishing the invasion-deterring dedicated neutron tactical nuclear stockpile entirely; the following quotation is from p101 of Kahn's Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s):

"Minimum deterrence, or any predicated on an escessive emphasis on the inevitably of mutual homocide, is both misleading and dangerous. ... MAD principles can promote provocation - e.g. Munich-type blackmail on an ally. Hitler, for example, did not threaten to attack France or England - only Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. It was the French and the British who finally had to threaten all-out war [they could only do this after rearmament and building shelters and gas masks to reduce the risk of reprisals in city bombing, which gave more time for Germany to prepare since it was rearming faster than France and Britain which still desperately counted on appeasement and peace treaties and feared provoking a war by an arms-race due to endless lying propaganda from Lord Grey that his failure to deter war in 1914 had been due to an arms-race rather than the incompetence of the procrastination of his anti-war Liberal Party colleagues in the Cabinet] - a move they would not and could not have made if the notion of a balance of terror between themselves and Germany had been completely accepted. As it was, the British and French were most reluctant to go to war; from 1933 to 1939 Hitler exploited that reluctance. Both nations [France and Britain] were terrified by the so-called 'knockout blow', a German maneuver that would blanket their capitals with poison gas ... The paralyzing effect of this fear prevented them from going to war ... and gave the Germans the freedom to march into the Ruhr, to form the Anschluss with Austria, to force the humiliating Munich appeasement (with the justification of 'peace in our time'), and to take other aggressive actions [e.g. against the Jews in the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, etc.] ... If the USSR were sufficiently prepared in the event a war did occur, only the capitalists would be destroyed. The Soviets would survive ... that would more than justify whatever sacrifice and destruction had taken place.

"This view seems to prevail in the Soviet military and the Politburo even to the present day. It is almost certain, despite several public denials, that Soviet military preparations are based on war-fighting, rather than on deterrence-only concepts and doctrines..." - Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s, 1984, pages 101-102.

Kahn adds, in his footnote on p111, that "Richard Betts has documented numerous historical cases in which attackers weakened their opponents defenses through the employment of unanticipated tactics. These include: rapid changes in tactics per se, false alarms and fluctuating preparations for war ... doctrinal innovations to gain surprise. ... This is exactly the kind of thing which is likely to surprise those who subscribe to MAD theories. Those who see a need for war-fighting capabilities expect the other side to try to be creative and use tactical innovations such as coercion and blackmail, technological surprises, or clever tactics on 'leverage' targets, such as command and control installations. If he is to adhere to a total reliance on MAD, the MADvocate has to ignore these possibilities." See Richard Betts, "Surprise Despite Warning: Why Sudden Attacks Succeed", Political Science Quarterly, Winter 1980-81, pp. 551-572.)

Compare two situations: (1) Putin explodes a 50 megaton nuclear "test" of the warhead for his new nuclear reactor powered torpedo, Poseidon, a revamped 1961 Tsar Bomba, or detonates a high-altitude nuclear EMP "test" over neutral waters but within the thousands of miles range of USA or UK territory; (2) Putin invades Poland using purely conventional weapons. Our point here is that both nuclear AND conventional weapons trigger nuclear threats and the risk of nuclear escalation, as indeed they have done (for Putin's nuclear threats scroll down to videos with translations below). So the fashionable CND style concept that only nuclear weapons can trigger nuclear escalation is bullshit, and is designed to help Russia start and win WWIII to produce a world government, by getting us to undertake further unilateral (not multilateral) disarmament, just as evolved in the 1930s, setting the scene for WWII. Japan for example did not have nuclear weapons in August 1945, yet triggered not just tactical nuclear war (both cities had some military bases and munitions factories, as well as enormous numbers of civilians), and the decision to attack cities rather than just "test" weapons obove Tokyo bay as Teller demanded but Oppenheimer rejected (for maximum impact with a very small supply of nuclear weapons) showed some strategic nuclear war thinking. Truman was escalating to try to shock Japan into rapid surrender emotionally (many cities in Japan had already been burned out in conventional incendiary air raids, and the two nuclear attacks while horrible for civilians in those cities contributed only a fraction of the millions killed in WWII, despite anti-nuclear propaganda lies to the contrary). Truman's approach escalating to win is the opposite of the "Minimax game theory" (von Neumann's maths and Thomas Schelling's propaganda) gradual escalation approach that's currently the basis of nuclear deterrence planning despite its failure wherever it has been tried (Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc). Gradual escalation is supposed to minimise the maximum possible risk (hence "minimax" name), but it guarantees failure in the real world (unlike rule abided games) by maximising the build up of resentment. E.g. Schelling/Minimax say that if you gradually napalm civilians day after day (because they are the unprotected human shields used by terrorists/insurgents; the Vietcong are hiding in underground tunnels, exactly like Hamas today, and the Putin regime's metro 2 shelter tunnels under Russia) you somehow "punish the enemy" (although they don't give a toss about the lives of kids which is why you're fighting them!) and force them to negotiate for peace in good faith, then you can pose for photos with them sharing a glass of champagne and there is "world peace". That's a popular fairy tale, like Marxist mythology.

Once you grasp this fact, that nuclear weapons have been and will again be "used" explosively without automatic escalation, for example provocative testing as per the 1961 Russian 50 megaton bomb test, or the 1962 high altitude EMP bursts, you should be able to grasp the fact that the "escalation" deception used to dismiss civil defense and tactical nuclear deterrence against limited nuclear war, is fake news from Russian fellow-travellers like Corbyn. Once you assign a non-unity probability to "escalation", you're into conventional war territory: if you fight a conventional war, it can "escalate" to nuclear war as on 6 August 1945. Japan did not avoid nuclear attack by not having nuclear weapons on 6 August 1945. If it had nuclear weapons ready to be delivered, a very persuasive argument could be made that unless Truman wanted to invite retaliation, World War II would have remained strategically non-nuclear: no net strategic advantage would have been achieved by nuclear city bombing so only war-ending tactical nuclear threats could have prevailed in practice. But try explaining this to the groupthink pseudosocialist bigoted mass murderers who permeate fake physics with crap; it's no easier to explain to them the origins of particle masses or even dark energy/gravitation; in both cases groupthink lying hogwash persists because statements of proved facts are hated and rejected if them debunk religious style fairy tales the mass media loves. There were plenty of people warning that mass media gas war fear mongering was disguised Nazi supporting propaganda in the 1930s, but the public listened to that crap then just as it accepted the "eugenics" (anti-diversity evolution crap of Sir Galton, cousin of Darwin) basis for Hitler's Mein Kampf without question, just as they accepted the lying propaganda from the UK "Cambridge Scientists Anti-War Group" which like CND and all other arms control and disarmament lobbies supporting terrorist states today, did more than even Hitler to deliberately lay the foundations for the Holocaust and World War II, while never being criticised in the UK media! Thus, it's surely time for people to oppose evil lying on civil defence to save lives in all disasters from storms to conventional war, to collateral damage risks in nuclear terrorism by mad enemies. At some point, the majority has to decide to either defend itself honestly and decently against barbarism, or be consumed by it as a price for believing bullshit. It's time for decent people to oppose lying evil regarding the necessity to have credible tactical (not incredible strategic) nuclear weapons, as Oppenheimer called for in his 1951 speech, to deter invasions.

Democracy can't function when secrecy is used to deliberately cover-up vital data from viewing by Joe Public. Secrecy doesn't protect you from enemies who independently develop weapons in secret, or who spy from inside your laboratories:

"The United States and Great Britain resumed testing in 1962, and we spared no effort trying to find out what they were up to. I attended several meetings on that subject. An episode related to those meetings comes to mind ... Once we were shown photographs of some documents ... the photographer had been rushed. Mixed in with the photocopies was a single, terribly crumpled original. I innocently asked why, and was told that it had been concealed in panties. Another time ... questions were asked along the following lines: What data about American weapons would be most useful for your work and for planning military technology in general?"

- Andrei Sakharov, Memoirs, Hutchinson, London, 1990, pp225-6.

ABOVE: The British government has now declassified detailed summary reports giving secret original nuclear test data on the EMP (electromagnetic pulse) damage due to numerous nuclear weapons, data which is still being kept under wraps in America since it hasn't been superseded because Western atmospheric nuclear tests were stopped late in 1962 and never resumed - even though the Russians have even more extensive data - completely debunking Glasstone and Dolan's disarmament propaganda nonsense in the 1962, 1964 and 1977 Effects of Nuclear Weapons which ignores EMP piped far away from low altitude nuclear tests by power and communications cables and falsely claims instead that such detonations don't produce EMP damage outside the 2psi blast radius! For a discussion of the new data and also a link to the full 200+ pages version (in addition to useful data, inevitably like all official reports it also contains a lot of "fluff" padding), please see the other (physics) site: https://nige.wordpress.com/2023/09/12/secret-emp-effects-of-american-nuclear-tests-finally-declassified-by-the-uk-and-at-uk-national-archives/ (by contrast, this "blogspot" uses old non-smartphone proof coding, no longer properly indexed any long longer by "google's smartphone bot"). As long ago as 1984, Herman Kahn argued on page 112 of his book Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s: "The effects of an EMP attack are simply not well understood [in the West, where long powerlines were never exposed on high altitude nuclear tests, unlike the Russian's 1962 Operation K, so MHD-EMP or E3 damage wasn't even mentioned in the 1977 Glasstone and Dolan Effects of Nuclear Weapons], but the Soviets seem to know - or think they know - more than we do."

BELOW: declassified British nuclear war planning blast survival data showing that even without special Morrison table shelters, the American assumption that nobody can survive in a demolished house is false, based on detailed WWII British data (the majority of people in houses flattened within 77 ft from V1 Nazi cruise missiles survived!), and secret American reports (contradicting their unclassified propaganda) proved that blast survival occurred at 16 psi overpressure in Hiroshima's houses, e.g. see limited distribution Dirkwood corp DC-P-1060 for Hiroshima, also the secret 1972 Capabilities of Nuclear Weapons DNA-EM-1 table 10-1, and WWII report RC-450 table 8.2, p145 (for determining survival of people sheltered in brick houses, the WWII A, B, C, and D damage versus casualty data from V1 blast was correlated to similar damage from nuclear blast as given Glasstone's 1957 Effects of Nuclear Weapons page 249, Fig. 6.41a, and page 109 Fig. 3.94a, which show that A, B, C, and D damage to brick houses from nuclear weapons occur at peak overpressures of 9, 6, 3 and 0.5 psi, respectively; the longer blast from higher yields blows the debris over a wider area, reducing the load per unit area falling on to people sheltered under tables etc), and the declassified UK government assessment of nuclear terrorist attack on a port or harbour, as well as the confidential classified UK Government analysis of the economic and social effects from WWII bombing (e.g. the recovery times for areas as a function of percentage of houses destroyed):

Unofficial Russian video on the secret Russian nuclear shelters from Russian Urban Exploration, titled "Проникли на секретный Спецобъект Метро!" = "We infiltrated a secret special facility of the Metro!":

ABOVE: Moscow Metro and Metro-2 (secret nuclear subway) horizonially swinging blast doors take only 70 seconds to shut, whereas their vertically rising blast doors take 160 seconds to shut; both times are however far shorter than the arrival time of Western ICBMs or even SLBMs which take 15-30 minutes by which time the Russian shelters are sealed from blast and radiation! In times of nuclear crisis, Russia planned to evacuate from cities those who could not be sheltered, and for the remainder to be based in shelters (similarly to the WWII British situation, when people slept in shelters of one kind or another when there was a large risk of being bombed without notice, particularly in supersonic V2 missile attacks where little warning time was available).

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ABOVE: originally SECRET diagrams showing the immense casualty reductions for simple shelters and local (not long distance as in 1939) evacuation, from a UK Home Office Scientific Advisers’ Branch report CD/SA 72 (UK National Archives document reference HO 225/72), “Casualty estimates for ground burst 10 megaton bombs”, which exposed the truth behind UK Cold War civil defence (contrary to Russian propaganda against UK defence, which still falsely claims there was no scientific basis for anything, playing on the fact the data was classified SECRET). Evacuation plus shelter eliminates huge casualties for limited attacks; notice that for the 10 megaton bombs (more than 20 times the typical yield of today’s MIRV compact warheads!), you need 20 weapons, i.e. a total of 10 x 20 = 200 megatons, for 1 million killed, if civil defence is in place for 45% of people to evacuate a city and the rest to take shelter. Under civil defence, therefore, you get 1 million killed per 200 megatons. This proves that civil defence work to make deterrence more credible in Russian eyes. For a discussion of the anti-civil defence propaganda scam in the West led by Russian agents for Russian advantage in the new cold war, just read posts on this blog started in 2006 when Putin's influence became clear. You can read the full PDF by clicking the link here. Or see the files here.

ABOVE: the originally CONFIDENTIAL classified document chapters of Dr D.G. Christopherson’s “Structural Defence 1945, RC450”, giving low cost UK WWII shelter effectiveness data, which should also have been published to prove the validity of civil defence countermeasures in making deterrence of future war more credible by allowing survival of “demonstration” strikes and “nuclear accidents / limited wars” (it’s no use having weapons and no civil defence, so you can’t deter aggressors, the disaster of Munich appeasement giving Hitler a green light on 30 September 1938, when Anderson shelters were only issued the next year, 1939!). For the original WWII UK Government low cost sheltering instruction books issued to the public (for a small charge!) please click here (we have uploaded them to internet archive), and please click here for further evidence for the effectiveness of indoor shelters during WWII from Morrison shelter inventor Baker's analysis, please click here (he titled his book about WWII shelters "Enterprise versus Bureaucracy" which tells you all you need to know about the problems his successful innovations in shelter design experienced; his revolutionary concept was that the shelter should be damaged to protect the people inside because of the vast energy absorption soaked up in the plastic deformation of steel - something which naive fools can never appreciate - by analogy, if your car bumper is perfectly intact after impact you're unlikely to be because it has not absorbed the impact energy which has been passed on to you!). We have also placed useful declassified UK government nuclear war survival information on internet archive here and here. There is also a demonstration of how proof-tested WWII shelters were tested in 1950s nuclear weapon trials and adapted for use in Cold War nuclear civil defence, here, thus permanently debunking the somewhat pro-dictatorship/anti-deterrence Jeremy Corbyn/Matthew Grant/Duncan Campbell anti-civil defence propaganda rants which pretend to to based on reality, but obviously just ignore the hard, yet secret, nuclear testing facts upon which UK government civil defence was based as my father (a Civil Defence Corps instructor) explained here back in 2006. The reality is that the media follows herd fashion to sell paper/airtime; it doesn't lead it. This is why it backed Nazi appeasement (cheering Chamberlain's 1938 handshakes with Hitler for instance) and only switched tune when it was too late to deter Nazi aggression in 1939; it made the most money that way. We have to face the facts!

NUKEGATE - Western tactical neutron bombs were disarmed after Russian propaganda lie. Russia now has over 2000... "Disarmament and arms control" charlatans, quacks, cranks, liars, mass murdering Russian affiliates, and evil genocidal Marxist media exposed for what it is, what it was in the 1930s when it enabled Hitler to murder tens of millions in war. Glasstone's and Dolan's 1977 Effects of Nuclear Weapons deceptions totally disproved. Professor Brian Martin, TRUTH TACTICS, 2021 (pp45-50): "In trying to learn from scientific publications, trust remains crucial. The role of trust is epitomised by Glasstone’s book The Effects of Atomic Weapons. Glasstone was not the author; he was the editor. The book is a compilation of information based on the work of numerous contributors. For me, the question was, should I trust this information? Was there some reason why the editors or authors would present fraudulent information, be subject to conflicts of interest or otherwise be biased? ... if anything, the authors would presumably want to overestimate rather than underestimate the dangers ... Of special interest would be anyone who disagreed with the data, calculations or findings in Glasstone. But I couldn’t find any criticisms. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons was treated as the definitive source, and other treatments were compatible with it. ... One potent influence is called confirmation bias, which is the tendency to look for information that supports current beliefs and dismiss or counter contrary information. The implication is that changing one’s views can be difficult due to mental commitments. To this can be added various forms of bias, interpersonal influences such as wanting to maintain relationships, overconfidence in one’s knowledge, desires to appear smart, not wanting to admit being mistaken, and career impacts of having particular beliefs. It is difficult to assess the role of these influences on yourself. "

Honest Effects of Nuclear Weapons!

ABOVE (VIDEO CLIP): Russian State TV Channel 1 war inurer and enabler, NOT MERELY MAKING "INCREDIBLE BLUFF THREATS THAT WE MUST ALL LAUGH AT AND IGNORE LIKE DR GOEBBELS THREATS TO GAS JEWS AND START A WORLD WAR" AS ALMOST ALL THE BBC SCHOOL OF "JOURNALISM" (to which we don't exactly belong!) LIARS CLAIM, but instead preparing Russians mentally for nuclear war (they already have nuclear shelters and a new Putin-era tactical nuclear war civil defense manual from 2014, linked and discussed in blog posts on the archive above), arguing for use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine war in 2023: "We should not be afraid of what it is unnecessary to be afraid of. We need to win. That is all. We have to achieve this with the means we have, with the weapons we have. I would like to remind you that a nuclear weapon is not just a bomb; it is the heritage of the whole Russian people, suffered through the hardest times. It is our heritage. And we have the right to use it to defend our homeland [does he mean the liberated components of the USSR that gained freedom in 1992?]. Changing the [nuclear use] doctrine is just a piece of paper, but it is worth making a decision."

NOTE: THIS IS NOT ENGLISH LANGUAGE "PROPAGANDA" SOLELY ADDRESSED AS A "BLUFF" TO UK AND USA GOV BIGOTED CHARLATANS (those who have framed photos of hitler, stalin, chamberlain, baldwin, lloyd george, eisenhower, et al., on their office walls), BUT ADDRESSED AT MAKING RUSSIAN FOLK PARTY TO THE NEED FOR PUTIN TO START A THIRD WORLD WAR! Duh!!!!! SURE, PUTIN COULD PRESS THE BUTTON NOW, BUT THAT IS NOT THE RUSSIAN WAY, ANY MORE THAN HITLER SET OFF WWII BY DIRECTLY BOMBING LONDON! HE DIDN'T. THESE PEOPLE WANT TO CONTROL HISTORY, TO GO DOWN THE NEXT "PUTIN THE GREAT". THEY WANT TO GET THEIR PEOPLE, AND CHINA, NORTH KOREA, IRAN, ET Al. AS ALLIES, BY APPEARING TO BE DEFENDING RATIONALITY AND LIBERTY AGAINST WAR MONGERING WESTERN IMPERIALISM. For the KGB mindset here, please read Chapman Pincher's book "The Secret offensive" and Paul Mercer's "Peace of the Dead - The Truth Behind the Nuclear Disarmers". Please note that the link to the analysis of the secret USSBS report 92, The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (which google fails to appreciate is a report with the OPPOSITE conclusions to the lying unclassified reports and Glasstone's book on fire, is on internet archive in the PDF documents list at the page "The effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan" (the secret report 92 of the USSBS, not the lying unclassified version or the Glasstone book series). If you don't like the plain layout of this blog, you can change it into a "fashionable" one with smaller photos you can't read by adding ?m=1 to the end of the URL, e.g. https://glasstone.blogspot.com/2022/02/analogy-of-1938-munich-crisis-and.html?m=1

PLEASE BEAR WITH US - THIS SITE WAS DEVELOPED IN 2006 BEFORE GOOGLE SMARTPHONE BOT CACHING (GOOGLE BOTS CAN'T INDEX THIS FORMAT ANYMORE AS IT IS SIMPLY UNSUITABLE TO SMARTPHONES WHICH DIDN'T EXIST BACK IN 2006 - WILL MOVE TO A NEW DOMAIN SOON TO OVERCOME THIS. (HOPEFULLY THE TEXT WILL ALSO BE EDITED AND RE-WRITTEN TO TAKE OUT TYPING ERRORS AND DEAD LINKS DATING BACK TO 2006 WHEN THE BLOG BEGAN - A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN!)

Glasstone's Effects of Nuclear Weapons exaggerations completely undermine credible deterrence of war: Glasstone exaggerates urban "strategic" nuclear weapons effects by using effects data taken from unobstructed terrain (without the concrete jungle shielding of blast winds and radiation by cities!), and omits the most vital uses and most vital effects of nuclear weapons: to DETER world war credibly by negating the concentrations of force used to invade Belgium, 1914 (thus WWI) and Poland (WWII). The facts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the shielding of blast and radiation effects by modern concrete buildings in the credible nuclear deterrence of invasions (click here for data) which - unlike the countervalue drivel that failed to prevent WW2 costing millions of human lives - worked in the Cold War despite the Western media's obsession with treating as Gospel truth the lying anti-nuclear propaganda from Russia's World Peace Council and its allies (intended to make the West disarm to allow Russian invasions without opposition, as worked in Ukraine recently)! If we have credible W54's and W79's tactical nukes to deter invasions as used to Cold War, pro Russian World Peace Council inspired propaganda says: "if you use those, we'll bomb your cities", but they can bomb our cities with nuclear if we use conventional weapons, or even if we fart, if they want - we don't actually control what thugs in dictatorships - it is like saying Hitler had 12,000 tons of tabun nerve agent by 1945, so lying we had to surrender for fear of it. Actually, he had to blow his brains out because he had an incredible deterrent, as retaliation risk plus defence (masks) negated it!

Credible deterrence necessitates simple, effective protection against concentrated and dispersed invasions and bombing. The facts can debunk massively inaccurate, deliberately misleading CND "disarm or be annihilated" pro-dictatorship ("communism" scam) political anti-nuclear deterrence dogma. Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda effects lies on blast and radiation for modern concrete cities is debunked by solid factual evidence kept from public sight for political reasons by the Marx-media which is not opposed by the remainder of the media, and the completely fake "nuclear effects data" sneaks into "established pseudo-wisdom" by the back-door. Another trick is hate attacks on anyone telling the truth: this is a repeat of lies from Nobel Peace Prize winner Angell and pals before WWI (when long-"outlawed" gas was used by all sides, contrary to claims that paper agreements had "banned" it somehow) and WWII (when gas bombing lies prior to the war by Angell, Noel-Baker, Joad and others were used as an excuse to "make peace deals" with the Nazis, again, not worth the paper they were printed on). Mathematically, the subset of all States which keep agreements (disarmament and arms control, for instance) is identical to the subset of all States which are stable Democracies (i.e., tolerating dissent for the past several years), but this subset is - as Dr Spencer Weart's statistical evidence of war proves in his book Never at War: Why Democracies Won't Fight One Another - not the bloody war problem! Because none of the disarmaments grasp set theory, or bother to read Dr Weart's book, they can never understand that disarmament of Democracies doesn't cause peace but causes millions of deaths.

PLEASE CLICK HERE for the truth from Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the shielding of blast and radiation effects by modern concrete buildings in the credible nuclear deterrence of invasions which - unlike the countervalue drivel that failed to prevent WW2 costing millions of human lives - worked in the Cold War despite the Western media's obsession with treating as Gospel truth the lying anti-nuclear propaganda from Russia's World Peace Council and its allies (intended to make the West disarm to allow Russian invasions without opposition, as worked in Ukraine recently)! Realistic effects and credible nuclear weapon capabilities are needed for deterring or stopping aggressive invasions and attacks which could escalate into major conventional or nuclear wars. Credible deterrence is through simple, effective protection against concentrated and dispersed invasions and aerial attacks, debunking inaccurate, misleading CND "disarm or be annihilated" left political anti-nuclear deterrence dogma. Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda effects lies on blast and radiation for modern concrete cities is debunked by solid factual evidence kept from public sight for political reasons by the Marx-media.

Glasstone's and Nukemap's fake Effects of Nuclear Weapons effects data for unobstructed deserts, rather than realistic blast and radiation shielding concrete jungles which mitigate countervalue damage as proved in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Penney and Stanbury, undermine credible world war deterrence just as Philip Noel-Baker's 1927 BBC radio propaganda on gas war knock-out blow lies were used by Nazi propaganda distributing "pacifist disarmers" to undermine deterrence of Hitler's war, murdering tens of millions deliberately through lies (e.g. effective gas masks don't exist) that were easy to disprove, but supported by the mainstream fascist leaning press in the UK. There is not just one country, Russia, which could trigger WW3, because we know from history that the world forms alliances once a major war breaks out, apart from a few traditional neutral countries like Ireland and Switzerland, so a major US-China war over Taiwan could draw in support from Russia and North Korea, just as the present Russian invasion and war against Ukraine has drawn in Iranian munitions support for Russia. So it is almost certain that a future East-vs-West world war will involve an alliance of Russia-China-North Korea-Iran fighting on multiple fronts, with nuclear weapons being used carefully for military purposes (not in the imaginary 1930s massive "knockout blow" gas/incendiary/high explosive raids against cities that was used by the UK media to scare the public into appeasing Hitler and thus enabling him to trigger world war; Chamberlain had read Mein Kampf and crazily approved Hitler's plans to exterminate Jews and invade Russia starting a major war, a fact censored out of biased propaganda hailing Chamberlain as a peacemaker).

Realistic effects and credible nuclear weapons capabilities are VITAL for deterring or stopping aggressive invasions and attacks which could escalate into major conventional or nuclear wars debunk Marx media propagandarists who obfuscate because they don't want you to know the truth, so activism is needed to get the message out against lying frauds and open fascists in the Russian supporting Marx mass media, which sadly includes government officialdom (still infiltrated by reds under beds, sorry to Joe MaCarthy haters, but admit it as a hard fact that nuclear bomb labs in the West openly support Russian fascist mass murders; I PRAY THIS WILL SOON CHANGE!).

ABOVE: Tom Ramos at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (quoted at length on the development details of compact MIRV nuclear warhead designs in the latest post on this blog) explains how the brilliant small size primary stage, the Robin, was developed and properly proof-tested in time to act as the primary stage for a compact thermonuclear warhead to deter Russia in the 1st Cold War, something now made impossible due to Russia's World Peace Council propaganda campaigns. (Note that Ramos has a new book published, called From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War which describes in detail in chapter 13, "First the Flute and Then the Robin", how caring, dedicated nuclear weapons physicists in the 1950s and 1960s actually remembered the lesson of disarmament disaster in the 1930s, and so WORKED HARD to develop the "Flute" secondary and the "Robin" primary to enable a compact, light thermonuclear warhead to help deter WWIII! What a difference to today, when all we hear from such "weaponeers" now is evil lying about nuclear weapons effects on cities and against Western civil defence and against credible deterrence on behalf of the enemy.)

ABOVE: Star Wars filmmaker Peter Kuran has at last released his lengthy (90 minutes) documentary on The neutron bomb. Unfortunately, it is not yet being widely screened in cinemas or on DVD Blu Ray disc, so you have to stream it (if you have fast broadband internet hooked up to a decent telly). At least Peter managed to interview Samuel Cohen, who developed the neutron bomb out of the cleaner Livermore devices Dove and Starling in 1958 (Ramos says Livermore's director, who invented a wetsuit, is now trying to say Cohen stole the neutron bomb idea from him! Not so, as RAND colleague and 1993 Effects Manual EM-1 editor Dr Harold L. Brode explains in his recent brilliant book on the history of nuclear weapons in the 1st Cold War (reviewed in a post on this blog in detail) that Cohen was after the neutron bomb for many years before Livermore was even built as a rival to Los Alamos. Cohen had been into neutrons when working in the Los Alamos Efficiency Group of the Manhattan project on the very first nuclear weapons, used with neutron effects on people by Truman, back in 1945 to end a bloody war while the Livermore director was in short pants.)

For the true effects in modern city concrete buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, disproving the popular lies for nudes in open deserts used as the basis for blast and radiation calculations by Glasstone and Nukemap, please click here The deceptive bigots protraying themselves as Federation of American Scientists genuine communist disarmers in the Marx media including TV scammers have been suppressing the truth to sell fake news since 1945 and in a repetition of the 1920s and 1930s gas war media lying for disarmament and horror news scams that caused disarmament and thus encouraged Hitler to initiate the invasions that set off WWII!

Glasstone's Effects of Nuclear Weapons exaggerations completely undermine credible deterrence of war: Glasstone exaggerates urban "strategic" nuclear weapons effects by using effects data taken from unobstructed terrain (without the concrete jungle shielding of blast winds and radiation by cities!), and omits the most vital uses and most vital effects of nuclear weapons: to DETER world war credibly by negating the concentrations of force used to invade Belgium, 1914 (thus WWI) and Poland (WWII). Disarmament and arms control funded propaganda lying says any deterrent which is not actually exploded in anger is a waste of money since it isn't being "used", a fraud apparently due to the title and content of Glasstone's book which omits the key use and effect of nuclear weapons, to prevent world wars: this is because Glasstone and Dolan don't even bother to mention the neutron bomb or 10-fold reduced fallout in the the Los Alamos 95% clean Redwing-Navajo test of 1956, despite the neutron bomb effects being analysed for its enhanced radiation and reduced thermal and blast yield in detail in the 1972 edition of Dolan's edited secret U.S. Department of Defense Effects Manual EM-1, "Capabilities of Nuclear Weapons", data now declassified yet still being covered-up by "arms control and disarmament" liars today to try to destroy credible deterrence of war in order to bolster their obviously pro-Russian political anti-peace agenda. "Disarmament and arms control" charlatans, quacks, cranks, liars, mass murdering Russian affiliates, and evil genocidal Marxist media exposed for what it is, what it was in the 1930s when it enabled Hitler to murder tens of millions in war .

ABOVE: 11 May 2023 Russian state TV channel 1 loon openly threatens nuclear tests and bombing UK. Seeing how the Russian media is under control of Putin, this is like Dr Goebbels rantings, 80 years past. But this doesn't disprove the world war threat any more than it did with Dr Goebbels. These people, like the BBC here, don't just communicate "news" but attempt to do so selectively and with interpretations and opinions that set the stage for a pretty obviously hate based political agenda with their millions of viewers, a trick that worked in the 1st Cold War despite Orwell's attempts to lampoon it in books about big brother like "1984" and "Animal Farm". When in October 1962 the Russians put nuclear weapons into Cuba in secret without any open "threats", and with a MASSIVELY inferior overall nuclear stockpile to the USA (the USA had MORE nuclear weapons, more ICBMs, etc.), the media made a big fuss, even when Kennedy went on TV on 22 October and ensured no nuclear "accidents" in Cuba by telling Russia that any single accidentally launched missile from Cuba against any Western city would result in a FULL RETALITORY STRIKE ON RUSSIA. There was no risk of nuclear war then except by accident, and Kennedy had in his 25 May 1961 speech on "Urgent National Needs" a year and a half before instigated NUCLEAR SHELTERS in public basement buildings to help people in cities survive (modern concrete buildings survive near ground zero Hiroshima, as proved by declassified USSBS reports kept covered up by Uncle Sam). NOE THAT THERE IS A CREDIBLE THREAT OF NUCLEAR TESTS AND HIROSHIMA TYPE INTIMIDATION STRIKES, THE BBC FINALLY DECIDES TO SUPPRESS NUCLEAR NEWS SUPPOSEDLY TO HELP "ANTI-NUCLEAR" RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA TRYING TO PREVENT US FROM GETTING CREDIBLE DETERRENCE OF INVASIONS, AS WE HAD WITH THE W79 UNTIL DISARMERS REMOVED IT IN THE 90s! This stinks of prejudice, the usual sort of hypocrisy from the 1930s "disarmament heroes" who lied their way to Nobel peace prizes by starting a world war!

The facts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the shielding of blast and radiation effects by modern concrete buildings in the credible nuclear deterrence of invasions (click here for data) which - unlike the countervalue drivel that failed to prevent WW2 costing millions of human lives - worked in the Cold War despite the Western media's obsession with treating as Gospel truth the lying anti-nuclear propaganda from Russia's World Peace Council and its allies (intended to make the West disarm to allow Russian invasions without overwhelming, effective deterrence or opposition, as worked in Ukraine recently)!

Realistic effects and credible nuclear weapon capabilities are required now for deterring or stopping aggressive invasions and attacks which could escalate into major conventional or nuclear wars. Credible deterrence necessitates simple, effective protection against concentrated and dispersed invasions and bombing. The facts can debunk massively inaccurate, deliberately misleading CND "disarm or be annihilated" pro-dictatorship ("communism" scam) political anti-nuclear deterrence dogma. Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda effects lies on blast and radiation for modern concrete cities is debunked by solid factual evidence kept from public sight for political reasons by the Marx-media, which is not opposed by the fashion-obsessed remainder of the media, and so myths sneak into "established pseudo-wisdom" by the back-door.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Who is really behind this nuclear weapons effects blog? The story of John Bryan Cook, 87 - "secret" info about the real founder of this blog (updated 15 May with news of John's problems with Colchester Hospital's law breaking palliative "care" discharge & do not resuscitate orders)

 

From: nigel cook Sent: 15 May 2021 18:28 To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Chief Constable; phillippa.mills@essex.police.uk Subject: Murder evidence in lying Do not Resuscitate form signed by Dr Rasool of Colchester Hospital to Woodland View Nursing Home on 9 April 2021 which false claims John Cook, Ann and Nigel Cook had agreed/been consulted when in fact we have proof of the opposite RE: John Bryan Cook, b. 30 June 1933, home address 42 Pampas Close, Colchester, CO4 9ST. On Friday 14 May 2021 John Cook’s new GP (Mill Road Surgery, Colchester) showed me in Room 19 at Woodland View Nursing Home, Turner Road, Colchester, additional murder evidence in lying Do not Resuscitate form signed by Dr Rasool of Colchester Hospital to Woodland View Nursing Home on 9 April 2021 which false claims John, Ann and Nigel Cook had agreed/been consulted when in fact we have proof of the opposite. I was shown the form yesterday which is in John Cook’s folder at the nurses’ station, Woodland View Nursing Home, Turner Road, Colchester. I repeatedly tape recorded conversations with John Cook last month, including one on his Essex Council social worker Joanna Seraphin’s voicemail as she requested, in which he freely stated he wanted to live not to die (ward manager Mark Smith and Dr Rasool then abused me for doing what Joanna asked. He wanted resuscitation. I was never consulted nor was Ann Cook RGN but Dr Rasool signed a form stating the opposite, I.e. deliberately lying and placing John Cook’s life in imminent danger to cover-up attempted murder, after refusing to give blood tests or differential diagnosis information. I request that this evidence is photocopied by Essex Police for CID as murder attempt evidence. Thank you for your cooperation. Nigel Cook Sent from Mail for Windows 10

John Bryan Cook (Radio Engineer St John Ambulance SouthWest Area ID card number S20 from 3 May 1988; note that first aid CPR advice has now evolved to double the number of chest compressions per two rescue breaths than was the case in 1988 when it was 15 chest compressions then two rescue breaths, general advice now is 30 chest compressions the two rescue breaths, although obviously the best advice is tailored to the situation, so you may need to do far more to put air/oxygen into the lungs of someone who has inhaled water, smoke or gas for a long time, before chest compressions can pump oxygen around the body, than in the case of someone who simply has heart failure due to another reason like electric shock; a defibrillator is useful to diagnose fibrillator - rapid inefficient heart quivers - and to try to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm, but a few shocks from a defibrillator are definitely NOT a complete alternative to the large number of chest compressions, whose role is to manually operate pump blood around the body to re-oxygenate tissue prior to resumption of normal heart function)

"I wouldn't know, sir! I'm from Alabama!"

- the hilarious reply that Vice-President Richard Nixon received during his visit to Accra, Ghana, in 1957, after Nixon foolishly asked a gentleman the ignorant question:

"What does it feel like to finally be free from the yoke of slavery?"


Photo above: 
"Nixon is in Accra for Ghana Fetes", New York Times, 4 March 1957: "ACCRA, Gold Coast, March 3 --Vice President Richard M. Nixon arrived today to represent the United States at the birth of Ghana as an independent nation Wednesday."

But you never quite get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from certain Yankie Doodle papers, and the truth is stranger and funnier than the fiction you do read in the papers...

 (For a version of this Nixon blunder, please see Martin Meredith's Fate of Africa.)

Ghana achieved independence on 6 March 1957, when John Bryan Cook arrived. Ghana was previously called The Gold Coast, by the British Empire.  Nixon attended to kick the hell out of colonist slave trading hell home Britain, but found a fellow Yank sticking his own conceit straight back into his crooked pipe, to be smoked at leisure.

The Queen and the late great Prince Philip's 1961 visit to Accra, Ghana was attended by John Bryan Cook ,who was working as Accountant for Travel Services Limited in Accra, where he had been stationed by the London accountancy firm Midgley Snelling and Co. since 1957.  When the beer put out hours earlier in ice buckets turned warm, John personally ran to get Philip a cold beer from the fridge, sticking to Philip who was funnier and had fewer people around him than the Queen, who was constantly surrounded by a huge crowd, John recalls.


Photos above: Queen Elizabeth II dances with the first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah, in Accra, Ghana, in 1961.  John Bryan Cook was invited, being Accountant for Travel Services Limited in Accra, Ghana, and stuck to the late Prince Philip rather than the poor crowded in Queen Elizabeth II, running to get him a cold beer when he was thirsty, he recalls.

Photo above: John Bryan Cook on left in 1961 in the Ghanaian jungle at the traditional tribal village wedding ceremony of his colleague outdoors where he caught malaria from mosquitoes and was seriously ill with hot-cold fever and then malarial relapse jaundice and anaemia.  He had only accepted this commission to go to Accra, Ghana in 1957 in the first place (Travel Services Limited, Ghana, was the company privately owned "for fun" by the partners of London accountancy firm Midgeley Snelling and Co) because he had poor lung health, having caught TB in 1945 like George Orwell, and barely survived as a living skeleton with damaged lungs, requiring constant warmth to avoid pneumonia (easier in Ghana than in cold London winters).


Photo above: John's 1960-61 Ghanaian (Accra) driving licence photo (the name written in jumbled form as "Bryan John Cook" is an error by the Ghanaian authorities!).  The next page after this shows it was renewed also from 23 August 1961 to 22 August 1962.  After 1962, John moved from Accra, Ghana, to Lagos, Nigeria, taking up the position of accountant for the old Cornish mining equipment firm, Holman Brothers Ltd, who were supplying road building equipment to the newly independent country of Nigeria, which became independent of the horrid British colony slave trading empire on the glorious day of 1 October 1960.  John worked for that firm in Lagos until his third and worst bout of malaria in 1969, during the inter-tribal Nigerian-Biafra Civil War.  When on his travels in the country to distant company branch offices, during this Biafran War, John chanced to encounter a writer, Frederick Forsyth, BBC/Reuters correspondent (later fired from the BBC, now an author) at a hotel bar, sympathising with him on Harold Wilson's terribly murderous hypocritical decision to sell arms to Federal Nigeria to fuel genocide of the poor Biafrans, who only asked for a fair share of the Niger Delta oil profits which Federal Nigeria was sucking out of the local Biafran's lands around the oil fields (the Federal Government was then based in Lagos, before Abuja became the capital in 1991).  This encounter, together with John's startling 1950s nuclear weapons secrets training experiences as a UK Civil Defence Corps Intelligence Section Advanced (red-badge) Instructor (which he did in lieu of National Service, having been rejected due to his tuberculosis (TB) ill health) trained at the Easingwold Civil Defence Staff College in Yorkshire (where he met Britain's leading Home Office Scientific Advisory Branch nuclear weapons testing effects experts), led to this blog as explained on the previous post where John pointed out that the 55,000,000 British C7 gas/biological virus general purpose civil defence masks stockpiled until 1968 would prevent the pandemic if worn where covid transmission was possible for two weeks, since the virus as a surface contaminant only survives a few days!

Photo above: John Bryan Cook proudly wearing a UK Civil Defence Corps Instructor's Enamel Lapel Badge on his jacket in his 1962 Nigerian driving licence photo (you can even see from the driving licence that he was then living at 14 Marine Road, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria), and his less fancy 1951 UK driving licence showing the extra driving test he needed for special Civil Defence Corps vehicles!  The Instructor badges came in two colours, basic (blue, from the local instructor course) and advanced (red, from the Easingwold Staff College graduation in Yorkshire). See photos of badges below (also his father Harold Cook's silver medal from his finals in the 1931 Certified Accountants exams, which he was proud of, having been raised by a poor bricklayer and studied while working as a clerk; note Harold had heart failure and died aged 48 in 1954, a condition diagnosed during his 1939 RAF medical examination; in WWII he worked in the Essex Police War Reserve in Colchester as a Special Constable during the heavy air raids in Paxman's engine factories and military clothing factories in heavily-defended Colchester as German bombers dumped bombs enroute to London when missions were aborted, damaging 275 houses north of Colchester’s Army Garrison in October 1942 and demolishing a hospital at Severalls, Colchester in August 1942 causing 63 casualties, and many other raids which have yet to be compiled from diaries and newspaper clippings for the shamefully disregarded war history of the town: "In no particular order, bombs hit the areas of Chapel Street, South Street, St Botolph’s Corner, Scarletts Road, Old Heath Laundry, the Sewage Works, Ipswich Road, Vint Crescent, the Wash House of the Maternity Hospital, Park Road etc. There were many fatalities ... my great aunt and her daughter survived, luckily, by sheltering under their kitchen table." - Heather Johnson, Capel Road, Colchester; "On 26 August [1940] Eric Rudsdale saw a large-scale dogfight above Colchester ... On 24 August 1940 German bombers dropped several bombs on London and Churchill ordered retaliatory attacks on Berlin. Hitler was enraged and authorised a massive bombing campaign against London, promising to raze it to the ground." - Paul Rusiecki, Under Fire: Essex and the Second World War, pp. 38-40; there were also deliberate air raids on Colchester on 28 and 30 September 1942, by German bombers, as listed in the WWII database). John was also a member of the Handlebar Club for his moustache, which Ann forced him to shave off as a condition to marriage! (See handlebar cuff links!). Also Holman Brothers lapel badge from his firm in Nigeria. Below the Civil Defence badges is a typical Picture Post 18 February 1950 anti-nuclear H-bomb media scare story - completely wrong in every detail (claiming that Szilard's gigaton bomb, which is mythology, would blow up Australia!), showing the kind of propaganda John Cook had to debunk to new recruits to the Civil Defence Corps (see also posts here, here, here, here, here, here and here, plus the PDF linked here): -


Photo above: John helped with radio communications for the Kingston-upon-Thames branch of the St Johns Ambulance Association and is a Serving Brother of the Order of St John in consequence. This was because, as well as sending weapons to Lagos in the Nigerian civil war to enable the government to butcher the poor Biafran rebels who wanted their share of the profits from the oil being pumped out of their local Niger river Delta, hard left wing Harold Wilson had also listened to lying propaganda from CND about civil defence and so closed the UK Civil Defence Corps in March 1968.  So instead of re-joining that on returning to the UK in July 1969, John helped the St Johns Ambulance Brigade, having already done advanced first aid and advanced driving in the UK Civil Defence Corps.  He had also a passion for electronics since a boy, when he had built his own radio and TV set from scratch, so he was able to repair and recycle broken two-way radios for the St John Ambulance Brigade, saving money.






Photos above: why John was fit enough to lead an active life despite having his lungs and body ravaged by TB at the age of twelve in England, namely his seven years of regular, healthy sea sailing as founder member number 61 of the Apapa Boat Club, Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria (he lived a short distance away at 14 Marine Road, Apapa, for the years 1962-9).  He kept the plastic member's pass (in photos above), which looks as new and modern as if it had been made yesterday!  Their logo is still a mermaid, over fifty years after he left in June 1969, to get married in England the next month.



Photos above: the girl who stole John's heart, Annie Cook (who prefers the shorter word "Ann") nee Shanley with her best friend Kitty, both RGNs (State Registered Nurses, then called SRNs, but now called RGNs, Registered General Nurses), at the London Clinic in 1966.  Ann, now 88, one of ten kids in the farming Shanley family, arrived in London in September 1951, having applied successfully by letter from her home town Roosky, County Leitrim, Republic of Ireland, to train for the newly created NHS at St Anthony's Hospital, Cheam, Surrey, to become a State Registered Nurse.  Cheam is a small place beside the large town of Kingston-upon-Thames, which she loved.  St Anthony's Hospital is affiliated with St Michael's Hospital, Hayle, Cornwall.  Ann spent her first year training at St Michael's in Cornwall, which she loved, then three years at St Anthony's, Cheam. She then did a year long course in general hospital ward nursing at the Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere, Surrey.  Finally, she went to the Hammersmith Hospital, Ducane Road, London for a long experience-led course in intensive care, used then mostly for heart operation patients and others having major surgery.  But how did they meet? Dad had a malaria relapse on leave in England in 1968, and says Ann was his malaria nurse at the London Clinic!  (So even illness may have a small silver lining, somewhere, if you are lucky enough.)  Kitty and Ann, both pictured above, lived in London Clinic nurses quarters at 5 St Marks Square, Regents Park, London, NW1.  They would walk across Regents Park to the London Clinic in Devonshire Place.  Ann spent three years, 1966-9, working at the private London Clinic for cases such as malaria and also celebrity facelifts such as that for Wallis Simpson, wife of the former King Edward VIII.  (Edward, a frail elderly gentleman, popped in with a nightdress in Marks and Spencer's bag for Wallis, after she had to be returned to surgery for additional stitches, when a wound opened in post-surgical recovery.)  Another celebrity patient she nursed was the last king of Italy, Umberto II, who was exiled to Portugal and his entourage invited her and other nurses back (Ann and another London Clinic nurse, Helen Barry, were invited to visit his exile in Italy by Umberto II's private doctor, who visited Umberto II at the London Clinic; the leggy photo above on the beach was taken during their trip to Umberto II's doctor in Portugal, with Helen cut off the left side of the photo in this enlargement!). After marriage in 1969, Ann moved first to North London, then to Twickenham from 1970-2, and finally to Chertsey, where she worked part-time as ward manager at St Peter's Hospital on geriatric, urology, pediatrics, and others until retirement from the NHS in 1991.  It was a different ward each shift, so she sharpened her memory for names and extended her experience of different areas of specialised nursing.  After retirement from the NHS in 1991, she continued nursing for the agency Inter-County Nursing Services, Burnham, Slough until 1993, and then worked from 1993-1998 for Friends of the Elderly, Victoria, London, providing qualified RGN nursing care in their homes in North West Surrey.  For putting off her retirement, she was on 5 June 1998 awarded extra pension funds by the govermnent's DHSS for putting off her retirement to provide extra help to those in need at a time of overload crisis for the NHS.  She moved with her husband to his home town of Colchester in 1999, after his retirement.  Altogether she has 48 years of hospital ward and geriatrics nursing experience.

Photo above:John Bryan Cook at Colchester Hospital on 5 September 2020, 1724hrs. They refused to give him adequate sodium ot to work out amount needed to avoid hyponatremia, which causes collapse and hospitalisation according to NICE guidelines at 125mEq/L of blood, while the normal is 140+/-5mEq/L units! John was discharged unable to safely climb the stairs at home, with just 127 mEq/L showing on his Discharge Summary from Colchester Hospital, causing collapse and injuries to his wife and son!


Photo above: Ann in April 2021 after major injury to both hips caused directly by Johns illegal discharge unfit from Colchester General Hospital in Turner Road and three subsequent re-collapses due to Dr Suresh and Colchester Hospital's alleged criminal abuse.

We will publish all the evidence on this blog post for the media (permitted under the "Fair Trading" Clauses in the Copyright Acts for investigative journalism, criticism, and objective reporting):

I mis-typed Pippa Mills’ email address, it is actually phillippa.mills @ essex.police.uk so will re-send with the correct email address so she can handle this very urgent complaint if Chief BJ is away.  Cheers.

 

 

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From: nigel cook>
Sent: 18 April 2021 06:58
To: john cook; Jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr; jill@e-v-a-n-s.net; Joanna.Seraphin@essex.gov.uk>Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; mailto:nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org">Nigel Cook; mailto:Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk>Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk>; mailto:allport.comms@gmail.com>Richard Allport>
Cc: pippa.mills@essex.police.uk>; Jill Evans>; Jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: RE: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

 

ALL - Just a quick update. I have just spent the whole night sorting through approximately 97 voice tape recordings, photos, emails and videos of wilful attempted murder of my father by Colchester Hospital since August 2000, which caused severe injuries to myself and my mother.

 

Action is urgently needed since my mother, dad’s retired Registered General Nurse with 48 years NHS hospital ward experience herself, was injured severely as a result of dad’s illegal discharge home in an unfit state on 10 September 2020 and is due to have hip surgery at 7am 22 April 2021 (this coming Thursday morning) at the same hospital that abused dad.

 

She feels threatened by the abuse.  Dad has just been illegally discharged as a bed blocker using the “palliative discharge mechanism”, only permissible for severe dementia or terminal cancer, whereas dad just has wax blocked ears and anaemia (the anaemia due to Dr Suresh refusing to take him off Apixaban to which he had a strong allergy and which caused anaemia through massive blood loss).  This palliative discharge route is illegal as it bans dad from receiving any life saving treatment, just painkillers. 

 

I will inform all news outlets once I have prepared the evidence for attempted murder under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 section 1(1) since this so far seems to mum Registered General Nurse (retired) and myself (physicist and technical author for Electronics World magazine and other publications, and for the past year now full time carer for parents, while programming for retired police officer Richard Allport who runs an auction site).

 

I will be informing everybody I can in Essex Police about this outrage as well.  My client Richard Allport, retired police officer, informs me that under fair trading Copyright Act clauses I am able to publish the evidence, and he suggested at 6.30 am this morning (18 April 2021) that I hire a barrister urgently, namely Basil Hillman of the London legal firm Inn on the Greys to prosecute in the event that Essex Police continue to be hoodwinked by lying abusers of dad in the hospital where mum has surgery on Thursday!

 

Essex Police Colchester officer Rub Huddleston has failed to investigate this since it was reported to him last year, allowing Colchester Hospital to continue to abuse patients in its efforts to meet Government targets for discharge and bed blocking elimination “performance”, irrespective of killing patients.  This is a repeat of the Dr Harold Shipman scandal from twenty years ago, where another police force failed to prevent numerous deaths by refusing to investigate evidence of attempted murder.

 

Please help me and my family by reviewing all of the evidence I have collected.  I am prepared to pay personally £10,000 to Essex Police immediately to help finance a major investigation to save lives.

 

Regards,

Nigel Cook

Son of John cook

 

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From: john cook>
Sent: 17 April 2021 11:37
To: Jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr>; Jill Evans>; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker>; Nigel Cook>
Subject: Fw: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

 

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 17 April 2021 11:37
To: Aaron Pottle <apottle@fjg.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

 

CC. of emails (bwlow) sent to both Essex Police Chief Constable BJ Harrington and Colchester's pen pushing bureaucrat Chief Inspector Rub Huddleston. We do need a barrister in criminal law very urgently for public relations (press and TV releases) then High Court action. May need a very rare (costly) private Criminal Prosecution if police are time-wasters.

 

I can help a little with evidence transcription/proof-reading etc after Thursday morning, when both parents will be in care.

 

Fortunately mum is going to a ward, Great Tey, the other end of the hospital to D'Arcy so hopefully won't be interferred with by culprits, but I'd prefer them suspended/banned from the hospital PRIOR to mum being admitted to Colchester Hospital 7am 22 April.

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 17 April 2021 10:32
To: Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk <Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk>
Subject: Fw: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

 

 

 

Just keeping you informed subsequent to my letter to the Chief Constable of Essex Police which went unanswered last year concerning attempted murder:

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 17 April 2021 10:26
To: rob.huddleston@essex.police.uk <rob.huddleston@essex.police.uk>
Subject: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

 

Dear Chief Rob Huddleston,

 

Just keeping you informed that we have no reply regarding attempted murder under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 section 1(1) so will be writing with full video and audio taped evidence.

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 13 April 2021 15:48
To: 73469@essex.police.uk <73469@essex.police.uk>
Subject: Fw: FORCED TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL TOMORROW

 

 

Recordings 34 attached is where dad and myself are abused by Mark Smith and later Dr Rasool standing blocking my way again, spoiling my booked visit to my dad just as Mark Smith did on Easter Sunday, just for calling Joanna's voicemail as she requested (near end of recording 32, also attached) to get dad to prove that dad could make a decision to live or die.  This was stressful enough without the abuse of Mark Smith shouting at me that he doesn't want his voice to be recorded on Joanna's Essex council social services voicemail, when he had no need to enter room during my visit to start objecting.  If this isn't a public order offence, please let me know.

 

Please also let me know what actions if any have been done against ECL regarding dad's complaint about their coercion of me into bringing a bed downstairs by myself for dad to sleep in (as proved even in the ECL log book by the person responsible for this abuse of me), on 10 September 2020 when dad was discharged before a stairlift could be installed and when his blood sodium was at the NICE threshold for collapse and without enough physiotherapy to climb the stairs.  I had curvature of the spine in a 2008 x-ray and my back still hurts badly, the GP won't do anything.  This kind of coercive blackmail of me by ECL, which when I complained led to lies about me installing dangerous bathlifts and stairlifts when they were installed by reputable companies not me, is surely also a police matter?

 

Thank you for your help.  I know you have lots to do.

 

Kind regards,

nigel cook on  on behalf of dad, John Cook

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 09 April 2021 05:32
To: England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>; Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>; PALS <PALS@esneft.nhs.uk>; nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org <nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org>; express.expressletters@reachplc.com <express.expressletters@reachplc.com>; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker <Joanna.Seraphin@essex.gov.uk>; SURGERY, Highwoods (HIGHWOODS SURGERY) <highwoodssurgery@nhs.net>
Subject: Re: FORCED TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL TOMORROW

 

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 09 April 2021 05:17
To: Maheshwar, Arcot <Arcot.Maheshwar@esneft.nhs.uk>; England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>; Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>; PALS <PALS@esneft.nhs.uk>; nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org <nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org>; express.expressletters@reachplc.com <express.expressletters@reachplc.com>; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker <Joanna.Seraphin@essex.gov.uk>
Subject: Re: FORCED TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL TOMORROW

 

Dear Everybody in Field Boxes Above,

 

We have received no answers to any of my specific information requesting emails whatsoever for over a week (the last email reply we received was on Thursday of last week, from Dr Rasool and Sister Alyce England).

 

John Cook had childhood TB (tuberculosis) in 1945 which affected his lungs and makes him vulnerable to severe flu requiring amoxicillin or other treatment if the inhaled air temperature (regardless of blankets over him) is below 23C.  His hands become cold as a first symptom.  I had to place my own woolen hat and coat over him when he had a relapse on Easter Saturday, requiring oxygen, this can be followed by malarial relapse of serious flu (at home he always has the house at 25C, wears a jumper, bodywarmer, and a woollen hat - only removing the woolen hat if he starts sweating).  He is not "frail" in the old-age sense of likely to imminently die in Dr Rasool's sense, if well loved and cared for, for HE HAS HAD THIS PROBLEM SINCE AGED 12, due to lung damage then by TB infection.  After the pneumonia and sepsis of three weeks ago, we feel that any deviation from this is a deliberate act of harm against John, since it threatens his life.

 

In Woodlands View nursing home, Turner Road, Colchester, this is easily arranged, as it was successfully when he stayed there for a week in March 2020 (a year ago).  He feels safer there also because his family can visit him as it is right beside his home, under 1 mile away (walking through Highwoods Country Park from his home, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester, CO4 9ST).

 

He is now being forceably, against his fully-informed choice of expressed wishes, which we have recorded. After being given full information on how the family have underwritten the costs (£55,000) for him to stay in Woodlands View Nursing Home, Turner Road, Colchester, for one year's recover, and after being fully informed by being read all Google views of both Oaks Care Home and Woodlands View, when freely asked where he would prefer to go, he replied decisively "Woodlands View".

 

I was pressurised and coerced myself (taping the conversation) by the Director of Nursing and Sister Alyce England (two people against one) in the waiting room into accepting their poor decision to go to Oaks Nursing Home instead.  I feel personally, as does John Cook and my mother, retired qualified nurse (RGN with postgraduate qualifications), and particularly with a lifetime of experience in coping with John Cook's medical problems, that the conversation was unsatisfactory and that we needed yet again to contact the police.  They kindly listened to the tape recording of John Cook stating he, after being fully informed by myself of all the vital information, prefers to go to Woodlands View to survive and prosper, where he can better control his room temperature to avoid early death from a respiratory infection or other illness.  

 

The police accepted the voice recording of John Cook expressing his informed wish to go to Woodlands View nursing home, not the Oaks Care Home.  They instructed me to take John Cook's complains to the Quality and Care Commission immediately.

 

I have also this evening phoned Joanna Seraphin, whom I personally trust, and who helped us last year when we had issues over getting reliable physiotherapy for John Cook (it was a very similar situation to this one) for her opinion of the Oaks Care Home in Lexden (which is currently not accepting any visits whatsoever, according to its website) and she points out that it is approved by Essex Council and that she has visited it and personally feels it may be OK for John.  However, John himself, now fully informed with the information required to make an informed decision, has chosen Woodlands View. I agree with John.

 

Kind regards,

Ann Cook RGN (retired), wife and next of kin of John Cook, Serving Brother of the Order of St John (St John's Ambulance Association)

and Nigel Cook (son)

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 07 April 2021 03:43
To: Maheshwar, Arcot <Arcot.Maheshwar@esneft.nhs.uk>; England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>; Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>; PALS <PALS@esneft.nhs.uk>; nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org <nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org>; express.expressletters@reachplc.com <express.expressletters@reachplc.com>
Subject: Re: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

Here is the first report my son wrote for me (I can't walk, have two replacement hips that are dislocated).  This is detailing abuse on D'Arcy Ward by Sister England and I copy and paste from Microsoft Word:

 

1.30-2.30pm Friday 26 March 2021 visit to John Cook, D’Arcy Ward, Colchester Hospital

 

1.

 

When I arrived, a nurse took me aside and abusively started to tell me John Cook needs to go to a hospice because he is not eating or drinking and has in declining health this way for a long time.  She eventually said that I was welcome to try to get him to eat and drink. She declined to state whether he has had iron injections for low haemoglobin, and she declined to say whether he was still on antibiotics or not.  No useful information, she treated me like an idiot which is in my opinion abusive behaviour, seeing the condition of dad.  But I politely thanked her to avoid problems.

 

2.

 

I changed his over-ear hearing aid batteries (his right ear one was finished) and explained to him that the doctor called this morning and spoke to mum about his refusal to eat and drink.  I asked him to try to drink and he took a sip and then had a coughing fit as the water hit the dry epiglottis at the back of his mouth and moisturised it.  After a relatively long delay of about 20 seconds (no sooner!) later he was able to finish the plastic child’s cup of water in sips, being reminded constantly by me (speaking near his ear so he could actually hear me – which is impossible w2ithout shouting even 1 foot away due to hardened wax in ears which Dr Mashewar has not microsuctioned since July 2020!).  He then had a 200ml strawberry protein/energy milkshake in the same way, but drinking in small sips from the bottle.  Finally, I refilled the water cup and he drank that as well.  Total fluid intake approx .5 litre.  Conclusion: dad’s “difficulty swallowing” is ONLY FOR THE FIRST SIP, and if you have the time to persevere you can get him to drink plenty of water and nutrition!

 

3.

 

A nurse came to take dad’s blood pressure and pulse during the visit: 129/70 pressure (fine for him) but high pulse of 89.  I politely asked whether he was on digoxin to slow his high pulse, but the nurse declined to give any answer.

 

 

We need to competently get basic questions clearly answered in “yes” or “no” way, but vague patronising incompetence

 

From: Maheshwar, Arcot <Arcot.Maheshwar@esneft.nhs.uk>
Sent: 06 April 2021 21:03
To: johnbryancook@hotmail.com <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>; England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>; Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>; PALS <PALS@esneft.nhs.uk>; nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org <nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org>
Subject: FW: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

 

Dear Mr Cook

 

As we discussed over the phone this evening, Mr John Cook has been my NHS “choose and Book” patient at Oaks hospital  since October 2017 for microsuction of wax in his ears

 

As he is currently admitted at Colchester General Hospital, he was unable to come to my clinic last week at Oaks hospital for his regular microsuction

 

My registrar, Ms Munira Ally, visited Mr Cook at Darcy ward yesterday (Bank holiday Monday) with a view to perform microsuction.

 

As our microsuction equipment is on Mersea ward,  Mr Cook would have needed to be transported from Darcy ward  to Mersea ward.

 

I believe Ms Ally was informed that Mr Cook was too unwell for this and hence she couldn’t perform microsuction


As I also mentioned, Mr Cook’s treatment will be under the present team of specialists.

 

The ENT team will perform microsuction when it is feasible to do so.

 

Kind regards,

Mahesh

Mr A Maheshwar

Consultant ENT and Head & Neck Surgeon

Sec: 01206 487126

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 06 April 2021 16:03
To: Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>; England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>; maheshwar_arcot@hotmail.com <maheshwar_arcot@hotmail.com>; Nigel Cook <nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org>; PALS <PALS@esneft.nhs.uk>
Subject: Re: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 06 April 2021 16:02
To: Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>; England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>
Subject: Re: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

 

Because the malarial relapse parasites P. ovale can reside in the liver and cause serious disease in low blood concentrations, it is not always easy to detect them, which is why myself as well as John Cook himself and John Cook’s Highwoods Surgery GP Dr Ashok Kumar (who has experience first hand from his regular work in India, where I believe he is today) have never managed to detect recurrent malaria in a blood test on John, although Dr Kumar’s prescription anti-malarial proved effective.  See some of the problems here:

 

“The challenge of diagnosing Plasmodium ovale malaria in travellers: report of six clustered cases in french soldiers returning from West Africa”

 

by

 

Franck de Laval, Manuela Oliver, Christophe Rapp, Vincent Pommier de Santi, Alexandre Mendibil, Xavier Deparis & Fabrice Simon

Malaria Journal volume 9, Article number: 358 (2010)

 

- https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2875-9-358

states:

 

 

“… Unfortunately, all available rapid antigenic tests currently lack sensitivity to P. ovale…

 

“…When the diagnosis of imported P. ovale malaria is suspected, routine microscopic searches with thick and thin blood smears should be repeated, up to three times and in an expert laboratory, if possible [9]. Considering the high sensitivity and specificity of molecular detection of P. ovale using PCR [Polymerase Chain Reaction to multiply small samples of Malarial parasite DNA, invented by Kary Mullis in the 80s and used  for the most reliable covid tests], this tool marks real progress in confirming the diagnosis, although it is still not routinely available [5, 7, 16]. It can be used as a second-line diagnosis tool to identify infra-microscopic parasitaemia, especially for unexplained relapsing fever in travellers.

 

“The treatment for proven attacks is based on chloroquine (25 mg/kg for three days). The treatment against dormant stages in the liver consists of a radical cure with primaquine (0.5 mg/kg/d for 14 days) in patients without G6PD deficiency [17, 18]. Failures of primaquine are unusual, mostly due to poor observance or inadequate dosage [19].

 

To date, diagnosing P. ovale infection in travellers returning from endemic areas is still a challenge for physicians and requires repeat microscopic searches to detect low parasitaemia. As PCR is not a routine tool, there is a real need to improve the sensitivity of rapid diagnostic tests for this plasmodial species.

 

 

ALSO:

 

PLEASE note that even PCR tests can be fooled!  See for example:

 

"Molecular tests (tests that look for DNA material from P. ovale in blood) must take into account the fact that there are two subspecies of ovale and tests designed for one subspecies may not necessarily detect the other.[13]"

 

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium_ovale

 

 

"Relapse occurs in P. vivax and P. ovale infections through the activation of hypnozoites in the human liver." – Manas Kotepui, "Prevalence of malarial recurrence and hematological alteration following the initial drug regimen: a retrospective study in Western Thailand", BMC Public Health volume 19, Article number: 1294 (2019),

 

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7624-1#:~:text=The%20recurrence%20in%20patients%20with,hypnozoites%20in%20the%20human%20liver.

 

Relapse malaria is not so easy to detect as 1st exposure malaria.

 

Please note this: neither nigel, not Dr Kumar, not myself have EVER ASKED FOR A BLOOD TEST FOR MALARIA.  Instead, please just save us all a headache, look up "malaria" in John's GP notes by Dr Kumar, and try what he tried (which worked last time)?  No?

 

Ann, RGN, malaria expert.

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 05 April 2021 06:05
To: Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>
Subject: Fw: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 04 April 2021 21:04
To: M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk <M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

Dear Emma,

 

Many thanks. John's private consultant Mr Maheshwar FRCS will hopefully do this Tuesday he has already given John a message to "Hang on in there".  Really all we are asking is a prescription for immediately starting on a good general anti-malarial eg Mefloquine (Lariam).  Blood tests and fine-tuning by switching anti-malaria can be done if the response is unfavourable within 48 hours.  John apart from that just needs good, intense general nursing for a fever.

 

Cheers,

Ann

 

From: E.Mitchell@thelondonclinic.co.uk <E.Mitchell@thelondonclinic.co.uk> on behalf of M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk <M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk>
Sent: 04 April 2021 17:38
To: johnbryancook@hotmail.com <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>; M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk <M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk>
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

Dear Mrs Cook,

 

I explained to your son this afternoon that I would need a Medical report + COVID-19 result in last 72hrs from the Consultant caring for him in the NHS. In his absence we would except a report from the Registrar.

Once we have the medical report we would need to review to see if this is a suitable transfer.

I would also need to find an infectious diseases doctor who is willing to except your husband under their care which can be slightly challenging at this time.

If excepted we will then need to talk to the self-pay team to assess what deposit would need to be made.

 

Regards

 

Emma Mitchell

 

Senior Nurse

 

Matron's Office

 

T: 020 7616 7732 | x3628

 

The London Clinic

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Registered address: 20 Devonshire Place, London, W1G 6BW

 

From: john cook [mailto:johnbryancook@hotmail.com]
Sent: 04 April 2021 16:47
To: Matron's Office <M.Office@thelondonclinic.co.uk>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

This is an EXTERNAL email, please exercise caution.

 

I wish to stress also that Nigel had a tape recorded discussion with John in hospital yesterday in which John was compo mentos (sound mind) and stated he would like to return to the London Clinic for better treatment.  We have recorded the fact that John was unable to reach glasses of water left at his right side (his right shoulder is dislocated) due to the position of his bed which has the left side (with his good arm) beside the only sink and the only bin in the filled 6-bed room D of D'Arcy Ward, Colchester Hospital, Turner Road.  John is appalled by the treatment and wishes transfer to the London Clinic immediately please.  He was suffering malarial chills yesterday yet had only one think blanket on his bed, and he felt freezing.  The ward manager at 4pm today refused even a blood test for malaria.  The email from the ward sister shows they won't even x-ray him.  They have thus forfeitted their legal rights of care to claim he would be better there than in The London Clinic.  A police complaint will be made if transfer is refused by Colchester Hospital in these circumstances.

 

Ann

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 04 April 2021 16:04
To: M.office@thelondonclinic.co.uk <M.office@thelondonclinic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

Emma Mitchell: John's recent heart condition report is by:

 

Mr Zafar Maan FRCS,

Consultant Urological Surgeon,

Department of Urology

Colchester General Hospital,

 c/o Joanne.povoas@colchesterhospital.nhs.uk

 

Maan’s letter dated 27/03/2019:

 

“I had a chat with Dr Harkness, your (JOHN COOK'S) Cardiologist today. … Speaking to your Cardiologist we looked at your overall fitness.  We think you may be suitable for percutaneous treatment and very likely would be fit enough for a general anaesthetic. … when you … use stairs you are able to get to the top without huge shortage of breath.  Your ejection faction is greater than 50%, you have cardiac stent and are on Apixaban but the Apixaban could be stopped given that your stent were placed a long time ago [only one bare metal stent was inserted, 2006 by Dr Tang] You are not suffering with angina…This does open up the treatment options for you”…

 

Thank you.

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 04 April 2021 16:00
To: M.office@thelondonclinic.co.uk <M.office@thelondonclinic.co.uk>
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

 

Ann Cook, RGN (retired),       

42 Pampas Close,

                                                                                    Highwoods,

                                                                                    Colchester,

                                                                                    Essex,

                                                                                    CO4 9ST Tel 01206 842435

Emma Mitchell,

The London Clinic,

m.office@thelondonclinic.co.uk

London Clinic's phone is 0203-6133-885.

 

RE: TRANSFER OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 FROM D'ARCY WARD, GAINSBOROUGH WING, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, TURNER ROAD, CO4 5JL, TO THE LONDON CLINIC

 

Thanks for your help to our son on the phone at this difficult time.  I attach (Below) the latest report on my husband John Cook's medical condition. You can email the people on that ward or call that extension for the senior nurse (in their confidential email appended below) for more details.  

 

Briefly, I was an SRN (RGN) Staff Nurse working at The London Clinic when I first met this patient, John Cook, who I married a year later.  He was suffering from malaria then as now, which is a recurrent malarial anaemia that escapes from liver to blood stream when his immune system is weak following a serious infection.  He was admitted with pneumonia and sepsis (from the infection leaking into the blood from lungs) but responded to IV antibiotics and was recovering (see below) until yesterday morning when his oxygen saturation fell from 98% to 70% without oxygen, but it has now been restored with 6 litres/minute oxygen mask.  This is the action of malarial anaemia, with the red cells being attacked by malaria.  Previously in 2004 this occurred after flu (malaria) and was treated by an anti-malarial.  Colchester Hospital D'Arcy Ward manager Mark Smith has today stated that they will not administer an anti-malarial like Larmine / Mefloquine because he is "frail" so I request private admission to The London Clinic.  We have substantial savings (£20,000 available as immediate deposit).  His usual private hospital, The Oaks, Colchester (Consultant Mr Maheshwar, FRCS) is not accepting emergency admissions during the covid pandemic.  John has Pfizer vaccume (1st dose) in January and is covid free.  We stress the urgent nature and wish for admission today please because he needs proper treatment immediately.

 

His heart condition is 

 

Yours sincerely,

Ann Cook (wife and next of kin)

Nigel Cook (son)

 

 

 

 

From: England, Alyce <Alyce.England@esneft.nhs.uk>
Sent: 01 April 2021 17:16
To: 'johnbryancook@hotmail.com' <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Cc: PALS <PALS@esneft.nhs.uk>; Rasool, Iftikhar <IIftikhar.Rasool@esneft.nhs.uk>
Subject: RE: D'ARCY WARD, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, DISCHARGE OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845

 

Dear Ann

 

Thank you for your enquiry we hope this email response finds you well. I have liaised with Dr Rasool (John’s consultant) and we have discussed the responses to your questions detailed in your email.

 

1). John has had a chest examination today consisting of chest auscultation, there was no wheezing, no signs of fluid overload, reasonable air entry and saturations where 98% on room air and respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute. Dr Rasool doesn’t feel a repeat chest x-ray is indicated at this time based on clinical parameters. Repeat Chest X-Rays would be carried out if there were signs of clinical deterioration in breathing function despite treatment.

 

2). As discussed on the telephone we are unable to facilitate for ear suction as an Inpatient during an acute hospital stay, however if you are able to arrange for someone to be willing to carry this procedure out we are happy to accommodate for this to take place whilst John is on the ward.

 

3). After our discussion regarding the catheter I was advised that Johns catheter had come out (the balloon had deflated and fallen out). We have monitored Johns urinary passing and he is passing urine freely with no retention therefore a catheter has not been reinserted at this time.

 

4). Unfortunately whilst patients are in hospital it is not accessible for patients to receive a COVID vaccine as patients are required to be well physically and functionally, however Johns second COVID vaccine can be facilitated in the community by either district nurses who will visit patient homes if they are housebound or staff within the nursing home should this be his discharge destination.

 

We would also like to advise that John has been assessed by the physiotherapy team today and was able to sit on the edge of the bed well with assistance of one person and was able to stand on two occasions using a rotunda and assistance of 2 for around 3 seconds each time. They have recommended that we continue to support John to sit out in the chair as tolerated using the rotunda to transfer him from bed to chair. If he is unable to tolerate this we can consider the use of a full body hoist if he is not too fatigued to do so safely.

 

John has also been reviewed by the palliative consultant today who has also advised that John does appear to be very frail and may not improve following this admission as discussed yesterday with you, John will continue to be reviewed by the palliative team as required for symptom control if these arise.

 

I hope this email has answered your enquiries and offers some reassurance with regards to Johns on-going care whilst he is on Darcy ward. Please feel free to contact myself or Dr Rasool should you have any further enquiries or questions you would like answering.

 

Kind Regards & thanks

 

 

Alyce England

Ward Sister

Darcy Ward

Ext 5389

 

 

 

From: john cook <johnbryancook@hotmail.com>
Sent: 01 April 2021 07:15
To: Communications <Communications@esneft.nhs.uk>
Subject: D'ARCY WARD, COLCHESTER HOSPITAL, DISCHARGE OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845

 

      

Ann Cook, RGN (retired),     

42 Pampas Close,

                                                                                    Highwoods,

                                                                                    Colchester,

                                                                                    Essex,

                                                                                    CO4 9ST

Sister Elise and Dr Ahamed,

D’Arcy Ward,

Gainsborough Wing,

Colchester Hospital,

Turner Road,

CO4 5JL, email communications@esneft.nhs.uk

                                                                                    Thursday 1 April 2021

Dear Sister Elise and Dr Ahamed,

 

RE: DISCHARGE OF JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845 

 

Thanks for the call yesterday afternoon. To speed my decision up, please clarify:

 

(1) John is in discomfort and always needs to clear his chest of clear mucus after respiratory infections, before he is able to either eat or stand up because the mucus reduces his air access to lung surface area, which makes his pulse fast and causes him dizziness.  I asked on the phone if John had a chest X-ray to check for residual fluids two weeks after his 18 March pneumonia, which our son has observed being coughed up as a clear mucus discharge in choking on his first sip of water? I asked this of you during the phone call, but I did not receive any answer (I checked the call again).  Please clear John’s lungs, and x-ray them to confirm the fluid has been removed.

 

(2) My son also asked Dr Ahamed yesterday if he will do us the courtesy to speed up John’s discharge from your ward by allowing microsuction of the hardened wax in John’s ears as soon as possible, as was attempted on the NHS when he was admitted to Birch Ward on 8 Dec 2020 – essential to communicate easily with John during any care at home or elsewhere.  The wax in December was hard and couldn’t be removed, so we were told to use olive oil ear spray and sodium bicarbonate ear spray to soften the wax and allow it to be removed by a subsequent NHS ENT microsuction.  Hearing is vital to John, so because microsuction is only done in hospital, we request this be done as soon as possible, to speed up a safe and comfortable discharge, please.  (We have a phone appointment with John’s ENT consultant Mr Maheshwar for 3pm today.) Please facilitate this as soon as possible so John can clearly hear us when we explain the situation and ask him for input into the decision, an important factor.

 

(3) I also asked if John’s bladder cathether could be changed under local anaesthetic prior to discharge, as this was fitted on 5 Nov 2020, and has been overdue for change for three months now (because Colchester Hospital cancelled the appointment in January).  It can’t be done at home. Sister Elise agreed to do it in the call prior to discharge.  Otherwise, it causes unnecessary infections.

 

(4) John is now overdue for his 2nd dose of the Pzifer covid Vaccine which must be given in hospital and cannot be given at home due to low temperature vaccine storage.

 

Kind regards,

Ann Cook, c/o johnbryancook@hotmail.com

 

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Dear Alyce England and Dr Rasool,

 

May I please clarify, particularly with the kind Dr Rasool, John's current medication and current blood sodium and haemoglobin levels, since some of the current prescription has provably (see below) caused all of his hospitalised collapses and dizziness via sodium, potassium and iron issues caused by medications, and we have been into this three times over the past year.  John’s low blood haemoglobin [his blood and blood loss causes low WBC, low platelets, low RBC, etc, not just low haemoglobin; Dr Rasool despite repeated fair warnings, is now claiming these symptoms permit him to claim a pre-leukemia condition of depressed blood counts generally when in fact it is just blood loss proven by photos of repeated blood loss in urine and skin bleeds] blood sodium cause dizziness that is artificial and is mistaken for fraility, which affects physiotherapists ability assess his ability to stand up without dizziness: 

 

 

 

Summary of consultant’s reports on privately diagnosed collapse causes and balance problems based on NHS-provided basic laboratory data for  

 

JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, NHS No. 4129440845  

 

Covering: August 2020-April 2021: summary by Ann Cook, retired RGN, 2 April 2021  

  

 

  

John’s most recent emergency admission prior to this one was for similar reasons that John is now lying in a bed and not walking competently, and it was confined to the EAU at Colchester Hospital and lasted just 2 days, 15 Dec – 17 Dec 2020. 

  

The 6-pages long Colchester Hospital EAU Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) states on page 3 that John’s sodium level was 127 on 15 Dec 2020 at 9pm, very close to the 125 mEq/litre N.I.C.E. criterion for collapse and emergency NHS re-admission.  

  

This is also almost exactly the same as the figure of 128 when he was discharged from Tiptree Ward by Dr Nadeem Aftab (Geriatric medicine) on 10 September 2020 with his Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) report dated that day stating his sodium on discharge had only been increased from 114 mEq/litre on admission to 128 mEq/litre on discharge, still very close to the 125 mEq/litre N.I.C.E. criterion for collapse and emergency NHS re-admission. 

  

This proves that my calculation (appended in full below) that John personally needs 1 gram of salt per litre of water to stabilise his sodium has worked since 10 September: the sodium level only changed from 128 on 10 September 2020 to 127 on 15 Dec 2020.  However, he needs a slight increase beyond that 1 gram NaCl/litre to bring his sodium up from 127 or 128 to the normal of about 140 where he would be OK.  

  

Page 4 of the Colchester Hospital EAU Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) states that John’s red cell haemoglobin at 9pm on 15 December 2020 was 94 g/L.  The normal range is 130-180 in males, so John was extremely anaemic in addition to having a 128 sodium level, near the NICE collapse criterion of 125. 

  

Therefore we know for certain that blood loss induced anaemia and hyponatraemia have both caused John oxygen insufficiency faints upon standing in the past, as well as some of other medication that reduces blood pressure by increasing blood potassium levels. Iron infusion or injection or a large vitamin B6 injection to facilitate iron absorption into haemoglobin (likewise vitamin D allows calcium absorption) might be tried?  Last Friday week my son was told by a nurse a doctor has requested a B6 injection for John, but it was cancelled for some reason (maybe slow action?). 

  

The summary of data below includes where stated reports I have privately commissioned from specialists and so it may not be accessible in the NHS medical history database on this patient, because private medical information including blood pressure measurements and privately paid for qualified medical consultant reports by Anne Glynn Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist MCSP HPC Registered PH36382 and consultant Mr Maheshwar FRCS (a large number of documents which can be supplied in full if necessary) are pertinent to all three recent emergency hospitalisation collapses of John Cook within the past year.  All were caused principally by low sodium and low haemoglobin: 

  

  1. JOHN’S FIRST EMERGENCY NHS “COLLAPSE” ADMISSION:  

  

21 August 2020 - John’s first passive “collapse” (not causing injury but requiring hospitalisation for loss of coordination) was less than one year ago.  Hyponatraemia made him completely unable to even stand up for one second since he lost his mental ability to control his limbs including his arms, but had normal blood pressure (120/65) and pulse (76).  He had not had a fall or physical injury.  The day before he had walked up and down the 12 steps of the stairs to bed as usual, without a fall. 

  

John’s GP, Dr Kumar (Highwoods Surgery), was unavailable and due to pandemic pressures on the NHS, John was home bed nursed for 6 days waiting for a phone call from a GP, unable to get out of bed or move a limb. GP Dr Suresh visited on 27 August 2020, was unable to diagnose the cause or prescribe solutions, so arranged immediate hospital admission for tests. 

  

28 August 2020: Tiptree Ward diagnosed acute hyponatraemia/low sodium of 114 mEq/litre on admission sampling, 27 August 2019, far below the N.I.C.E. criterion of 125 mEq/litre for hyponatraemia collapse and admission to hospital (normal or ideal is about 135-145mEq/litre).  This NICE concentration threshold is irrespective of age.  He was discharged by Dr Nadeem Aftab (Geriatric medicine) of Tiptree Ward on 10 September 2020 with his Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) report dated that day stating his sodium on discharge had only been increased from 114 mEq/litre on admission to 128 mEq/litre on discharge, still very close to the 125 mEq/litre N.I.C.E. criterion for collapse and emergency NHS re-admission.  

  

I calculated John’s correct daily sodium intake to prevent further collapses in the future to be 2g salt per day per 2 litres of daily water intake and excretion (or 1 gram of salt per litre of drinking water, palatable contrasted to the 35g in a litre of seawater).  This amounts to four times his normal 0.5g daily salt sprinkling on meals, and the full calculation of this 2g/daily salt intake requirement is appended (it begins with John’s officially measured NHS sodium level in mEq/litre and uses that with John’s body weight to derive the necessary intake as 1 gram per litre of salt intake).   This exactly compensates for the sodium excretion of sodium when 2 litres daily water intake needed to prevent kidney infections and blockage from John’s large staghorn kidney stones.  We twice-daily monitored & home recorded his blood pressure & pulse to ensure no rise due to high sodium.  Previously John had only 0.5g daily sodium intake from salt in food, so there had been a serious net sodium loss causing an expensive NHS bed blocking collapse.  1g salt added per litre of water intake, cheaply and safely stopped hyponatraemia, restoring his nervous system. 

  

  1. JOHN’S SECOND EMERGENCY NHS ADMISSION: 28 Nov 2020 11pm 

  

This NHS hospitalisation from 28 November 2020-8 December 2020 was diagnosed by Ann Cook RGN (retired) as medication-induced hyperkalemia (high blood potassium, causing low blood pressure since potassium dilates veins) which induced hypotension (low blood pressure of 105/60 on a home blood pressure monitor) in conjunction with iron shortage anaemia, causing a collapse and fall. 

  

The anaemia was observed first as chronic loss of over 10ml/day as proved by photos emailed to Highwoods Surgery of both urinary tract bleeding and skin bleeding from John’s allergy to apixaban which the GP has not switched for an alternative. 

  

The GP also kept John on several medications causing John’s very low blood pressure, nicorandil, ramipril and even John’s kidney antibiotic trimethoprim all increased his blood potassium level to dilate veils, thus decreasing blood pressure, causing him to faint with 105/60 blood pressure.  It was still hypotension when paramedics arrived. 

  

Trimethoprim just by itself caused very high serum potassium levels about 5mmol/L in 50% of patients on Trimethoprim, near the 5.5mmol/L hyperkalemia level, as reported in: “Renal mechanism of trimethoprim-induced hyperkalemia”, Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 Aug 1995, v119, issue 4, pages 296-301, available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8328738/ 

  

So that paper shows John’s prophylactic Trimethoprim to prevent kidney infection contributed to John’s hyperkalemia and therefore his hypotension, making him fall!  There are other antibiotics. 

  

In addition, since discharge on 10 September 2020 John has been losing an average of about 40ml/day blood loss from both urinary bleeding and skin bleeding from John’s allergy – repeated telephone calls and emails we have saved that we sent to the GPs at Highwoods Surgery during the pandemic, containing photos of John’s bleeding.  Chronic bleeding at a rate greater than blood is replenished causes anaemia.  Calculation: textbook red blood cells have 120 days mean life, and the patient contains 5 litres of blood of which 1 litre is rec cells /RBCs, so the daily RBC loss from normal expiration of RBCs is 1/120 litres/day or about 8ml/day, which is replaced naturally by the bone marrow supply of new RBCs.  aAdditional 10ml/daily losses in bleeding in urine and more in blood soaked vests you could squeeze blood out of and measure in a measuring cup, produces acute anaemia within 4 months. The total RBC loss in John is then 10 + 8 = 18ml/day, twice the maximum production. 

  

The NHS Discharge Summary for John’s 28 Nov – 8 Dec 2020 admission to Birch Ward (consultant Dr Ajith Pillai) agreed with my blood pressure monitor and observed bleeding, diagnosing postural hypotension (fall when standing due to low blood pressure) and anaemia.  It also changed John’s medication, stopping the prescriptions for blood potassium boosters ramipril and niorandil, and also the beta blocker sotalol which was slowing John’s pulse to below 69 which reduced oxygen to the brain causing dizziness. It also helped by introducing Furosemide, and sodium bicarbonate ear drops but continued with apixaban to which John has a skin bleeding allergy and urinary bleeding.  It instead prescribed Dermol and Cetraben cream for skin bleeding.  Before Apixaban John was on Warfarin which is an alternative that caused no skin bleeding, but this was stopped due to the weekly blood tests needed with Warfarin.  But there are several alternatives that safely reduce platelet clotting and are nearly as effective in large trials (John was on 75mg daily aspirin prior to Warfarin). 

  

  1. JOHN’S THIRD EMERGENCY NHS ADMISSION: 15 Dec 2020 9pm 

  

This is the really vital collapse and fall for understanding the mechanism for John’s dizziness and collapses, and the emergency admission was confined to the EAU at Colchester Hospital and lasted just 2 days, 15 Dec – 17 Dec 2020. 

  

The 6-pages long Colchester Hospital EAU Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) states on page 3 that John’s sodium level was 127 on 15 Dec 2020 at 9pm, very close to the 125 mEq/litre N.I.C.E. criterion for collapse and emergency NHS re-admission.  

  

This is also almost exactly the same as the figure of 128 when he was discharged from Tiptree Ward by Dr Nadeem Aftab (Geriatric medicine) on 10 September 2020 with his Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) report dated that day stating his sodium on discharge had only been increased from 114 mEq/litre on admission to 128 mEq/litre on discharge, still very close to the 125 mEq/litre N.I.C.E. criterion for collapse and emergency NHS re-admission. 

  

This proves that my calculation (appended in full below) that John personally needs 1 gram of salt per litre of water to stabilise his sodium has worked since 10 September: the sodium level only changed from 128 on 10 September 2020 to 127 on 15 Dec 2020.  However, he needs a slight increase beyond that 1 gram NaCl/litre to bring his sodium up from 127 or 128 to the normal of about 140 where he would be OK.  

  

Page 4 of the Colchester Hospital EAU Transfer of Care (Discharge Summary) states that John’s red cell haemoglobin at 9pm on 15 December 2020 was 94 g/L.  The normal range is 130-180 in males, so John was extremely anaemic in addition to having a 128 sodium level, near the NICE collapse criterion of 125. 

  

Therefore we know for certain that blood loss induced anaemia and hyponatraemia have both caused John oxygen insufficiency faints upon standing in the past, as well as some of other medication that reduces blood pressure by increasing blood potassium levels.  John normally insists on taking all his medication with a religious respect for doctors, and refuses to appreciate that during the pandemic they do not have the time to read all his lengthy reports.  I hope that the medical summary below will focus your attention on John’s blood haemoglobin and blood sodium as physiotherapists assess his ability to stand up without dizziness. 

  

ANNEX 

  

John Cook’s (born 30/06/33, NHS number 4129440845) estimated extra required salt intake of 2.2g/day needed to prevent any further acute hyponatraemia collapses/falls, calculated from Colchester Hospital’s blood sodium report  (by Ann Cook, SRN (retired), January 2021)  

  

 

John B. Cook sodium level (on admission emergency Colchester Hospital on 27 August 2020):  

  

114 mEq/litre (very low), causing collapse.  

 

N.I.C.E. criterion of hyponatraemia admission to hospital (collapse):  

  

125 mEq/litre.  

  

Normal or ideal sodium level: 135-145 mEq/litre (NHS website).  

  

Hyponatremia: low blood sodium concentration (below 135 mEq/litre)  

A normal blood sodium level is between 135 and 145 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L). Hyponatremia occurs when the sodium in blood falls below 135 mEq/L.  Kidney stones cause the retention of excess fluid in the body, diluting the sodium to low concentration, causing dizziness, cramps, irregular heartbeat etc.  

  

Sodium blood level units conversion factor: 1mEq of sodium-23 (of +2 ionic charge) = (atomic mass) / (ionic or ion charge, which is +2 for sodium) = 23/2 = 11.5 mg.  Therefore, sodium’s conversion factor = 11.5mg per mEq 

  

Sodium-23 mass is 39.4% or NaCl or 0.394 as a ratio to salt (NaCl), since the ratio of atomic masses of sodium to a molecule of sodium chloride is 23/(23+35.4) = 0.394.  

  

=> 27 August 2019 John B. Cook NaCl body mass = 114x11.5/0.394 = 3330 mg/litre  

  

At 70% body water content and 70kg body mass, this equals 49kg of water = 49 litres water, so the total NaCl is 3330 x 70 = 233100 mg = 233 grams NaCl (total salt content).  

  

Repeating this calculation with the ideal 140 mEq/litre sodium level in place of the measured 114 mEq/litre, gives (140/114)x233 = 286 grams NaCl as required amount.  

  

Thus, the difference of 286-233 = 53 grams of NaCl is John Cook’s NaCl deficiency, causing hospitalisation on 27 August 2019.  This 53g deficiency is beyond a mere sprinkle of salt on a meal, and must be addressed gradually by balancing intake with loss.  The needed extra salt daily to prevent a deficiency is the 53 g deficienty divided into duration of sodium in his body.  

  

Duration of water and associated highly-water-soluble sodium is approximately given by the fact that the 49kg entire body water content is being excreted at the rate of about 2 litres (2 kg water) a day, i.e. a time period equal to (49kg)/(2kg/day) = 24.5 days.  So the required NaCl extra intake per day he needs is = 53g/24.5days = 2.2 grams extra NaCl per day.  

  

We are therefore trying to ensure that in addition to John’s normal salt on meals, he takes an additional 0.5 gram of NaCl dissolved in every 0.5 litre glass of water (thus approx 2g per day of extra salt intake), to ensure that the high water flushing needed to prevent growing kidney stone infections doesn’t cause acute hyponatraemia again.  

  

We are also home-monitoring John’s blood pressure (currently 125/80), to ensure that this extra approx 2g/day sodium chloride intake does not cause blood pressure problems.  At present, it isn’t. Urinary consultant Mr Maan stated in December that he cannot operate to remove the kidney stones during the covid-19 crisis, so John still needs regular prophylaxis trimethoprim antibiotics (nitrofuratoin has failed to prevent urinary infections 3 times), and plenty of water flushing to prevent kidney infections.  

  

Apixaban was causing a severe skin allergic reaction/bleeds was finally replaced with the alternative anti-platelet clotting drug Clopidogrel which has totally stopped John’s skin allergy and profuse skin bleeding, but then the GP insisted to John he take Apixaban again (as well as Clopidogrel), and his skin and urinary bleeding and anaemia problem resumed.  This explains is why I am still so concerned over these "very technical nuts and bolts"!  We have been reassured time and again that all will be well, and yet the medication problems have caused severe dizziness in John.  (I was also prescribed medication but I control my high blood pressure using bananas, high in potassium, plus a blood pressure monitor to determine the correct banana dose by trial and error!  So some of these observations might possibly be of more widespread interest than just to one patient, John.) 



 

Kind regards, 

Ann 

 

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Additional data:

FACT: doctors and nurses the UK are subject to up to 14 years imprisonment for illegal euthanasia or encouragement of suicide, by withholding food and water for example, as was done to John Cook, under the Suicide Act 1961, section 2.  Essex Police should know the basic laws!

Blood in urine: two 2L overnight bags containing blood, 15 February 2021, John Bryan Cook. Typical example (one of many incidences): Doctor Suresh was called by phone and the photos emailed to her about Johns allergy to apixaban causing serious bleeding.  Dr Suresh was also told that the fursomide diuretic was causing over 6L urine throughput per day (good for flushing water through kidneys, but also diluting body fluids excessively, requiring salt supplements to avert hyponatremia, e.g. 1g NaCl per 1L of drinking water).  Dr Suresh ignored this and said "continue with existing medication".

Dr Suresh also harmed John by prescribing anti-inflammatories for John's right shoulder joint, the tissue of which swelled to the size of a football in 2019, instead of authorising an immediate emergency x-ray, which was bungled when it finally took place in January 2020. The radiographer ignored John's dislocated right shoulder and spotted a lung lesion, probably bleeding from his Apixaban allergy in the lung due to her prescription for Apixaban and her refusal to change to an alternative anti-coagulant (John displayed NO signs of coughing or respiratory infection.) While doing nothing about the dislocated right shoulder whatsoever, the radiographer merely booked John in for a PET scan in March 2021 (just before the pandemic closed the NHS down to regular scans). The PET scan debunked the lung cancer theory, so it was possibly a small lung lesion similar to the numerous Apixaban allergy bleeding sores on John's back, legs and arms. January 2020 John had a brain MRI (magnetic resonabce imaging) scan which confirmed no signs of illness and refutes Dr Rasool and Dr Ahmed's inaccurate theory that John has dementia, a lie contrary to hard factual evidence. Dr Rasool despite repeated fair warnings, is now claiming these symptoms permit him to claim a pre-leukemia condition of depressed blood counts generally when in fact it is just blood loss proven by photos of repeated blood loss in urine and skin bleeds/ John's so-called atrial fibrillation is extremely minor and stable at 7% standard deviation in the timing between pulses, over the past five years as proved by home tests on three E.C.G/defib combos he has at home (see example below), through good low fat diet and plenty of cardio exercise (standing up and sitting down in his chair 20 times quickly to make his heart race for five minutes, regularly, and until September 2020 he refused to have a stairlift installed so he forced himself to go up and down the stairs (12 steps) regularly every day, and went out driving to Manningtree for daily walks to remain fit

John Bryan Cook fit happy and healthy having his blood pressure checked by his son at 1940hours on 15 March 2021. We also checked his E.G.C. for atrial fibrillation condition regularly (three combo ECG/defibrillators at home are used, and we can download to the computer for analysis/printouts of waveforms). His heart condition is good for his age due to healthy diet and exercise.

  

Essex Cares LIMITED aka ECL were used by Colchester Hospital to abuse Johns son who was diagnosed in 2008 by Xray as having curvature of spine into carrying a bed downstairs causing injury when John was unfit for discharge due to having only 127 mEq/L of sodium in his blood that day, 10 September 2020, as proved by the blood analysis printed on John's Colchester Hospital Discharge Summary! Essex Police refused to make an arrest at that time or even to respond to the complaint in any way. ECL never responded to the complaint but instead made up a lying counter-complaint which claimed that Ableworld Colchester Ltd had supplied a dangerous bathlift. Colchester Police has numerous personal links to Colchester Hospital (the largest employer in the town, so officers respond abusively with "Clap for the NHS" or "I think the NHS is doing a wonderful job under difficult circumstances" when crimes by the Colchester Hospital are reported), and there is some evidence that they have been used by the Hospital to ensure a stairlift was not available at John's home on his 10 September 2020 discharge (Essex Police illegally seized John's car on 1 September 2020 while he was in Hospital, thereby preventing family members driving to Ableworld Colchester Ltd in Stanway, too far to walk, for an emergency stairlift; at the time they were warned the car is insured, but the officer simply silenced a family member by reading the official pre-arrest Caution "you have the right to ..." etc, proving that Essex Police's priorities are causing abuse; a complaint sent recorded delivery to the Chief Constable of Essex Police has simply never been responded to in any way!). See photo below of John Cook's car being illegally stolen by Essex Police on 1 September 2020 while he was in hospital, preventing an emergency stairlift being installed in his home prior to his illegally hastened discharge unfit from hospital:


Above photos: proof that Colchester Hospital discharged John on 10 September 2020 as "fit" when he actually had dangerously low sodium which caused his fall. During visits in August and September 2020 it was noticed that they failed to prescribe NaCl tablets to address this critical sodium deficiency either in hospital or upon discharge! Instead of adding 1g NaCl to each 1 L of drinking water to eliminate the net urinary loss of sodium, they tried to merely retain John's existing sodium deficiency by restricting water intake to 0.5L per day as if that would help! John's dehydration was due to partial blockage of kidneys with stones that they refused to remove (when John's private urinary consultant, Mr Maan was asked to intervene, the urology receptionist became abusive on the phone to John's son and screamed that John had no right to have private treatment by Mr Maan if the NHS refused to treat John, and that she would complain about Mr Maan's provision of private help at the Oaks Hospital despite the fact the NHS were themselves refusing any treatment whatsoever and thus causing unnecessary/criminally deliberate collapses and emergency admissions! The NHS is now in a situation which is the exact opposite of the Hippocratic Oath of medicine! It sets out, like Dr Mengele, to treat patients like dirt and then to try to block their private treatment after NHS failures! After four collapses and re-admissions due to low sodium and low haemoglobin, it becomes clear BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that this is a deliberate policy of attempting to murder human beings, not an "accident".

Above: Nigel Bryan Cook typical article payment 350.00 in 2002 from publisher NOT to a publisher. I also sold other articles to that and other publications, including a half page in the Mail on Sunday (via the then Consumer Affairs Editor, I believe it was Christopher Leake, who re-wrote the article and the Mail on Sunday then paid me £400 for the facts research I obtained as an evidence researcher on that occasion; I will have the article and the paperwork on file in storage. This disproves Joanna Seraphin's claims that I pay newspapers to publish news! What rot!

The traditional use of racism in socialism/Marxism propaganda machines including the NHS against hard working immigrants and in support of Marxist murderers

by Nigel B. Cook, son of John Cook

While my mother Ann Cook RGN was working part-time as ward manager at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey, I was abused by racist NHS “speech therapists” between ages of 5 and 12, when I had fluid-filled inner ears due to blocked eustachian tubes (which connect inner ear to throat to allow fluid drainage). The fluid build up in my inner ears allowed me to only hear very low frequency sounds, without any high frequencies, causing a severe “autism” style speech defect, because you repeat what you can actually hear (which of course is not what people actually say). When I complained that the underlying problem had not been addressed, I was simply abused more, for having complained! There was no escape, turning my childhood into a hell similar to the persecution by socialists in dictatorial 20th Century regimes of Germany or Russia: complain to a KGB/Gestapo and you get punished for complaining. Nobody in authority does anything about justified complaints except counter-complain and punish the victims further, for no just reason.

This persisted not just the 7 years from ages 5-12, but afterwards because the mimicking of irritated fellow school pupils and even the head-teacher of Holy Family Primary School in Addlestone (which I left prior to privately getting grommets in my eardrums to drain the inner ears, which the NHS failed to do and which was done privately by BUPA under the family private health insurance my father, John Cook, acquired when changing to a job which included as an employment benefit private health cover with BUPA), who was an amateur “speech therapist”, repeatedly abused me in his study for being unable to hear him clearly (and thus repeat what he said precisely). Dad therefore saved my life the NHS's refusal to give me a simple diagnostics and treatment made suicidally depressed.

My mother, Ann Cook RGN, then informed me that this was a widespread NHS racism problem, and that she had suffered racist abuse when trying to intervene as a hospital RGN. She would lose her job if the “groupthink teamwork” mentality made her an outsider. In the 1950s, she said when she arrived from Ireland in Britain to train as an RGN, Attlee’s Labour Government still allowed blatant racism in the form of “No Blacks or Irish” notices on the doors of hotels, hostels, and rented rooms. She also found after training in cardiology intensive care at the London Hammersmith Hospital, that NHS socialism racists were killing black patients in post-surgical recovery deliberately by lying them on their back, not on their side, while skin colour was used to indicate internal haemorrhage (internal bleeding). Specific example of a patient who had surgery for a nose injury which later bled in post-operative recovery: the nurses were banned from placing the patient into the side (recovery position), resulting in blood running unseen down from the nose to the lung, resulting in unnecessary mortality. CPR was attempted when blood pressure measurements failed, by which time the patient had already expired as determined by defibrillator flat line and lack of response to chest compressions. The standard practice at the time was to look for internal haemorrhage by signs of skin colour changes, and only to take blood pressure readings at spaced intervals of half an hour. Objecting to this resulted in racist abuse from doctors.

My mother, originally herself a left-wing socialist, gradually lost faith in the Marxist NHS sub-culture of hypocritical Orwellian “doublethink”, racists masquerading as anti-racists, war-mongers masquerading as peace crusaders, money-obsessed capitalists masquerading as communists while striking for higher wages to doom the economy under National Debt, and religious bigots masquerading as marxist atheists. Every time the Marxists riot against capitalism, under the flag of Race War, Class War, Religious War, or Cultural War, the media is saturated with propaganda. Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square, London, was defaced with the sprayed words "is a racist" in response to the suffocation of George Floyd, due to a Minneapolis police officer filmed kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes 46 seconds. This is being used to justify the toppling of slaver trader and "public benefactor" Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, UK (the statue was thrown into Bristol harbour) by crowds during a pandemic.

Colston's Royal African Company transported 80,000 slaves to America, and he bequeathed his immoral earnings to local Bristol charities on his death in 1721. Deplorable but not the whole story, any more than the anti-nuclear propaganda is the whole story. I'd like to follow in the spirit of Herman Kahn's original 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable (not the dire 1984 book of similar title), pointing out the problem that most of abusive slavery, lasting over thousands of years not a couple of hundred, has been "white slavery", which Wikipedia describes thus:

“White slavery, white slave trade, and white slave traffic refer to the chattel slavery of Europeans by non-Europeans (such as North Africans and the Muslim world), as well as by Europeans themselves, such as the Viking thralls or European Galley slaves. From Antiquity, European slaves were common during the reign of Ancient Rome and were prominent during the Ottoman Empire into the early modern period. In Feudalism, there were various forms of status below the Freeman that is known as Serfdom (such as the bordar, villein, vagabond and slave) which could be bought and sold as property and were subject to labor and branding by their owners or demesne. Under Muslim rule, the Arab slave trades that included Caucasian captives were often fueled by raids into European territories or were taken as children in the form of a blood tax from the families of citizens of conquered territories to serve the empire for a variety of functions. In the mid-19th century, the term ‘white slavery’ was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade.”

Photo above:Herman Kahn on white slavery in England 1962 Thinking About the Unthinkable book, Chapter 1, In Defense of Thinking (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CRAP 1984 BOOK OF IDENTICAL TITLE BY KAHN COLLEAGUES). For the full 1962 Kahn book, click link here please! Note that socialism fails due to blocking free thought, replacing it by ranting groupthink lies: race/class/religious war dictatorship.

It gets more difficult for anyone with any honesty who wants to dig up slavery and use it today to further an allegedly anti-racist policing agenda, because in the even more general and flippant use of the term “slavery” by the hard left Marxist agitators, all workers in capitalist countries are “slaves”. So if you hold personal grudges dating back to the Victorian era (and before) over slavery, you might as well smash up everything in protest like the Luddites, which of course is music to the ears of the anti-capitalism Marxist revolutionary movement which infiltrates the media.

Are they going to smash up all the statues of Julius Caesar and other Roman Emperors, since their money came from the slave trade, wars, conquests, massacre, and domination of other races, or is this just about the history of racism in the UK and USA?

Again, what about the Islamic slave trade in white UK slaves in the medieval period? What about white female child slavery in the UK, rife through the ages into the Victorian era? What about other forms of discrimination? I had speech and hearing impediments in childhood which led to discrimination, and still has effects today for self-confidence (e.g. nervous twitches of facial muscles, when under stress; a problem which developed over the seven years of impaired speech and distorted hearing when I had to try to guess what people were saying from only being able to understand 10-50% of words spoken, depending on speed, accent and mumbling of the speaker - I would have to guess what they were saying or be verbally abused falsely for "not listening" if I asked them to speak more clearly or to repeat themselves!). Discrimination is a much deeper problem than race, and the hate preaching anti-slavery campaigners who want the world enslaved to Marxist hell are not doing anyone any service, not even themselves.

The UK Slavery Abolition Act was 1833, and in America it was in abolished in 1865 by the ratification of the the 13th amendment to the constitution after the Civil War decided the matter, aided by the 1863 Gettysburg Speech of Whig and Republican Abe Lincoln (who paid with his life when he was assassinated by a pro-slavery Confederate spy in 1865, before the 13th amendment was ratified).

As late as 1848, some 15 years after the UK had abolished slavery by act of parliament, the US Congress was still arguing over the role of the state on slavery, with the Democratic Party splitting on the issue at its Convention that year. John Calhoun had proposed resolutions in Congress stating that the Congress has no right to end the slave trade, which were opposed by Thomas Benton of Missouri, as John F. Kennedy describes in his book Profiles of Courage. But it was simply too big an issue to be resolved by verbal arguments, so civil war broke out in 1861.

Racism, however, continues in the UK and USA after slavery was abolished, and part of this is fascist style anti-capitalism Jew baiting by Marxists “playing the race card” by claiming their discrimination is anti-racist. There are other brands of racism as well, that don't necessarily equate to skin pigmentation; my mother is Irish and when she emigrated to the UK in 1951 to become a student nurse in the brand new NHS, the notice “No blacks or Irish” were legally allowed in the front windows of hostels and hotels.

During the cold war, Race War was used (along with Class War, Culture War, Religious War, Drug War and support for all sorts of nationalistic terrorist wars on the West, from shipping arms by submarine to the Official IRA in the 1960s to putting nuclear missiles into Cuba) by the USSR's Marxist fanatics to stir up nationalist rebellions in the West, leading to revolutionary movements across Eastern Europe, Western Europe (less successfully, since they had NATO support!), South-East Asia, South America, and Africa.

Dad went to work in Ghana in 1957, just after it had gained independence under the leadership of President Kwame Nkrumah, who won the Lenin Peace Prize from the USSR in 1962 after his 1961 tour of Eastern Europe. In 1958, Nkrumah had tried to outlaw tribal black-on-black racism by passing:

“An Act to prohibit organizations using or engaging in racial or religious propaganda to the detriment of any other racial or religious community, or securing the election of persons on account of their racial or religious affiliations, or for other purposes in connection therewith.”

This was not popular with the most marginalized tribes, but it was the USSR and Chinese Marxists who actually led to Kwame’s overthrow, by encouraging him to make a tour of North Vietnam for Marxist propaganda purposes during the Vietnam War in 1966. While he was out of Ghana, the police and military staged a coup d'etat, and cut Ghana’s ties with Marxism!

Marxism in Ghana had been built on the bubble of state taxation of inflated cocoa prices from 1954-60 (the price shot up after chocolate rationing in the UK ended in 1953, increasing demand). When global supply increased to cater for the demand, the price of cocoa fell in the 1960s and Ghana's wonderful promise of Marxism disappeared together with the support for Marxism, just like Nkrumah himself (who became an exile after the 1966 revolution in Ghana).

This failure of socialism had occurred in 1930s Germany, which borrowed heavily, blew the money on Marxist type “National Socialist” projects like building autobahn and huge weapons stockpiles, and then went so bankrupt it had to invade neighbours just to prevent economic collapse. Similarly, the USSR in the 1980s, found it was bankrupt from socialism, but was deterred from invasions so went under without a shot being fired. I have no sympathy for the crap about Winston Churchill's “eloquence” saving us in both world wars, since it was his failure in Cabinet in 1914 to deter war that led to the mess, and again his bleating warnings in the 30s failed to stop war. If he was such a clever talker, why did he fail in 1914 and the 1930s? He never had even the publicity skills or mass appeal of President Trump, losing the 1945 General Election by Hitler-appeaser, disarmer and NHS fanatic Clement Attlee, even after warning of Gestapo that socialism evolves itself into every time. His 1945 speech, like his 1930s speeches, simply fell on deaf ears. He was no hero, but a careless narcissist.



(Extensive further evidence proving this, including tape-recordings of abusive left wing political style typical NHS rants we received during telephone conversations with doctors, nurses, and taped face-to-face meetings with dad's abusers and video will be posted for all to see at the site: https://www.facebook.com/nigelbryancook/ , which allows multimedia content more easily than this platform.)

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At 3:23 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pass-the-buck loop cycle starts at Essex Police:

From: Rob Huddleston T/D/SUPT 42001385
Sent: 19 April 2021 07:30
To: john cook
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

Good morning

I have forward your emails to T/Chief Inspector Jon Evans who is the Current Colchester District Commander.

Best regards

Rob Huddleston
T/Detective Superintendent 42001385
Director of Intelligence
Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate
Force Senior Identification Manager DVI
Ext 42001385 (internal) Mobile 07970 962494 (Mobile)
Email: rob.huddleston@essex.police.uk

Personal Assistant: Beth Coyne
Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate
Email: beth.coyne@kent.police.uk





From: john cook
Sent: 17 April 2021 10:26
To: Rob Huddleston T/D/SUPT 42001385
Subject: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

Dear Chief Rob Huddleston,

Just keeping you informed that we have no reply regarding attempted murder under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 section 1(1) so will be writing with full video and audio taped evidence.

Kind regards


 
At 3:27 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If he writes "I have forward your emails..." rather than "I have forwarded your emails..." we know what impression his evidence will have on a pompous elitist High Court Judge, so maybe it's just as well he's been moved on to an Ivory Tower.

 
At 3:27 pm, Blogger nige said...

Please be polite or they'll lose the evidence or their marbles.

 
At 4:36 pm, Blogger nige said...

How the NHS murders the elderly using NSDAP National Socialist tactics from 1933-45 Germany: (1) refuse to unclog patients hardened wax ears so they can't hear you, (2) make sure you turn the patient's hearing aid volume to minimum, (3) make sure the batteries in the hearing aid are flat, (4) ask the patient "what year did ww2 end?" while wearing a mask so they can't lip-read, (5) dehydrate them by keeping water out of reach so they are as confused as - so the French Foreign legion used to call - a "the grasshopper" and can't think clearly, (6) sign them off for pain-killing palliative care discharge immediately only (no diagnostics or treatment) having advanced dementia when they don't actually have dementia (as proved by a clear MRI scan in 2020) but simply can't hear what you are mumbling from behind your mask 6 feet away! Would be a joke if it wasn't attempted murder.

 
At 4:55 pm, Blogger nige said...

NHS GP Dr Harold Shipman murdered 215 patients this way! Dame Janet Smith's DBE, Chairman of The Shipman Enquiry, a 618 pages long report on the case, published in 2003, states Detective Inspector David Smith bungled the police investigation and allowed Dr Shipman to go on murdering more and more elderly people:

" It is a matter of regret and an obvious focus of criticism that DI Smith made no proper notes of his conversations with any of the people to whom he spoke in the course of the investigation. He made some brief notes on three pages of his daybook; he also created a chart or spreadsheet on his computer. He kept no diary note of his movements. Indeed, it was extremely difficult for the Inquiry to work out a chronology of the investigation until
the records of the telephone used by DI Smith were obtained. At the end of the investigation, DI Smith made no written report. I shall consider the effects of these failures in greater detail later in this Report. At this stage, I draw attention to them to highlight the evidential difficulties they have caused."

- Shipman, 2nd report ("The Police Investigation of March 1998") by of Dame Janet Smith DBE, paragraph 3.2 on page 29. (Police don't find eugenics by the NHS quacks exciting!)

 
At 4:58 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Forced euthanasia (outlawed by the Suicide Act 1961 section 2), not eugenics. Stand corrected, like the patient wearing NHS orthopaedic shoes!

 
At 5:03 pm, Blogger nige said...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332070/Stafford-Hospital-inquiry-Patients-left-water-forced-drink-vases.html -

Patients at scandal-hit hospital 'forced to drink from vases after being left on ward without water'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 18:34, 23 November 2010


Thirsty patients were forced to drink from vases of flowers after they were left on a ward without water, an inquiry heard today.

Campaigner Julie Bailey, whose mother Bella died at the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital, said patients were left 'screaming' out in pain on chaotic and under-staffed wards.

She said that when she raised the issue of lack of water on the wards with the nurses, she was told they could not leave drinks out for patients during the night because of 'health and safety'.

Miss Bailey, who slept at her mother's bedside in the hospital for eight weeks, told the inquiry: 'They couldn't find anything else to drink so they were drinking from flower vases.

'I saw that myself on several occasions, it wasn't just one occasion.

'There were just no fluids available for patients.'

Miss Bailey also told how her 86-year-old mother once collapsed on a ward after being left without her oxygen supply.

The grieving daughter set up the campaign group Cure The NHS after the death of her mother at Stafford Hospital, which has been heavily criticised for putting targets and cost-cutting ahead of patient welfare.

It has been claimed that hundreds of patients died at the hospital, run by Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, as a result of sub-standard treatment.

Following the death of her mother in 2007, Miss Bailey lobbied for an open investigation into how appalling standards of care were allowed to persist.

A public inquiry into the care provided by the trust between 2005 and 2009 was launched earlier this month.

Today Miss Bailey told inquiry chairman Robert Francis QC that her mother collapsed on Ward 11 of the hospital after being left in a chair with no oxygen supply because there were no nurses available to reconnect the canister.

Miss Bailey said the pensioner, who had a hiatus hernia and suffered from breathing difficulties, had left the ward to undergo an endoscopy and was placed in a chair upon her return by a hospital porter.

She said her niece, who had been visiting, was told repeatedly that a nurse would reconnect the oxygen supply, but after 45 minutes no nurse had arrived and her mother collapsed.

Miss Bailey said: 'The healthcare assistant kept saying, "the nurse will be with you in a minute, the nurse will be with you in a minute" but she never came.

'So mum collapsed and my niece telephoned me.'

She added: 'I believe that if my niece hadn't gone in to see my mum at that particular time when she collapsed then she would have died there that day. I am convinced of it.

'After that I decided that mum would never be in that hospital alone and that is what we did.'

Describing the ward, Miss Bailey said: 'It was absolute chaos. There were people screaming out, shouting "nurse, nurse". It was just bedlam.

'There were just relatives waiting all the way down the corridor which I later learned was people, relatives, coming in for visitor hours and then waiting to talk to staff.

'It was just like clutter all the way down and people shouting out.

'It was just, it appeared to be, utter chaos on the ward.'


Remember that when you praise the virtues of the NHS.

 
At 5:05 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Miss Bailey should have reconnected the oxygen herself and watered the patients herself. Not rocket science, is it?

 
At 5:09 pm, Blogger nige said...

I did that, brought in bottles of UFIT 500ml 50g protein thick banana milkshake from Tesco and dad gulped them down for six days, until an ignorant "nurse" stopped me on the seventh day, claiming he would cough and should be left to die "peacefully" from thirst and starvation. I also put my own woolly hat and coat on dad when the ward manager Mike Smith put him on oxygen because a nurse had left the window open and he was going into hypothermia with cold hands (circulatory collapse)! He didn't need oxygen, just warmth! Lunacy and quackery dressed up as medical competency by abusive thugs who just want to murder their patients and claim to be geniuses. Should be banned from the hospital immediately, but the police are impressed by his nasty lies, debunked on my tape recordings.

 
At 5:50 pm, Anonymous Harold Smith said...

Colchester Hospital declares 'major incident'

Colchester Hospital declares 'major incident'
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Colchester Hospital has declared a "major incident" following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

The hospital trust said the measure is likely to last a week, and asked patients to visit Accident & Emergency only if they have a "serious or life-threatening condition".

The CQC raised "safeguarding concerns" following an inspection on Wednesday.

Jon Brain reports.

Published15 November 2014SectionBBC NewsSubsectionUK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-30066778

 
At 5:55 pm, Blogger nige said...

Colchester Hospital is using nuclear wartime style "triage" in an ageist manner to deny care to elderly patients after they force them to to be discharged too early then re-admitted three times. The fourth time, they deny them water (unless a visitor feeds their relative for the one hour allowed visiting time a day to keep them alive). Contrast this to the lying proganada the Stalinist media loves to publish:

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19231730.colchester-hospitals-new-chief-nurse-plans-future/

EVERYONE should feel safe and supported when they come into Colchester Hospital.

So the hospital’s new chief nurse Giles Thorpe is on a mission to ensure everyone’s care is looked at holistically.

Giles joined the East Suffolk and North Essex Trust, which runs the hospital, in November.

He took on the role before the second wave of coronavirus hit.

With a 20-year career in the NHS, beginning in intensive care, Giles said he is often humbled by his peers, now more than ever, having witnessed just how “dedicated and flexible” he’s seen all staff be since he arrived.


So he has only been in the NHS 20 years (less than half mum's 48 years experience) and he is top dog. It's like putting a new born baby in charge of the Army, Air Force and Navy!

 
At 7:49 am, Blogger nige said...

Too much evidence to fit on a DVD Rom! Will try to upload all evidence for the prosecution and for the media to publish under the Fair Trading exceptions permitted in the Copyright Acts:

Cook family vs NHS England, Highwoods Surgery and Essex Police

files to be deposited for storage (in case police related to Colchester Hospital "workers" "accidentally" lose or delete files emailed):

https://archive.org/details/colchesterhospital

 
At 9:45 am, Blogger nige said...

More of the Essex Police "pass the parcel/buck around to create a catch-22 loop in which nothing is ever done by anyone", this time from the Essex police officer who was involved with stealing John Bryan Cook's car on 1 September 2020, thus preventing me from getting an emergency stairlift in parts in the hatchback Colt for when dad was discharged too soon by Colchester Hospital on 10 September 2020, 9 days after the car was taken (the officer who actually stole the car went on leave the next day so PC Holland took over and instead of returning the car when requested made me walk three times in total to the car pound and pay to have it released at the end of the week, too late to get order the stairlift in time, which we told Colchester Hospital about but they didn't care and lied that dad was "fit for discharge", dispute their paperwork data showing his sodium level disproved this). We wrote to chief constable to complain by recorded delivery, but never had any reply! Thus, Essex Police were assisting an offender, thus violating the Criminal Law Act 1967:

"Where a person has committed, any other person who, knowing or believing him to be guilty of the offence or of some, does without lawful authority or reasonable excuse any act with intent to impede his apprehension or prosecution shall be guilty of an offence." - Criminal Law Act 1967, section 4(1), "Penalties for assisting offenders".

Here is Chris Holland's dishonest email today to me:

From: Christopher Holland PC 42070635
Sent: 21 April 2021 09:44
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - FW: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

Hello Mr Cook,

I’m assuming you have my details by accident on the email chain as I have had no dealings with this case. I am a road policing officer from Stanway in Essex. I’m hoping someone else on the email chain is aware of this incident and can help,

Thanks

Chris HOLLAND

Stanway Road Policing Unit

From: nigel cook
Sent: 19 April 2021 06:28
To: clerks@4kbw.co.uk; Pippa Mills DCC 42077808 ; Richard Allport ; Jill Evans ; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890 ; Christopher Holland PC 42070635
Subject: EXTERNAL - FW: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

To: Basil Hillman, 4 King’s Bench Walk, London. Telephone: 0207‐822‐7000 Fax: 0871‐288‐7022 Email: clerks@4kbw.co.uk

 
At 5:43 am, Blogger nige said...

Quick update for all interested parties, 6.33am, 22 April 2021. I have been up all night on coffee producing pdfs of letters for evidence and audio files of tape-recordings, but have not finished by a long way. Mum was diagnosed yesterday of having suspected skin cancer by her private Oaks Hospital dermatologist Dr Mehta after her GP Dr Kumar of Highwoods Surgery inspected her and dismissed her skin lesions last year as a mere "rash". She has also two days ago had a blood test which shows abnormal hormone levels which, in the light of possible skin cancer, could indicate further problems. Since the Essex Police have not even bothered to respond, other than "pass the buck" type emails (which they did last year before not replying further at all), mum is a bit depressed and doesn't want Colchester hospital or the NHS involved in her care in future at all. She will have her hips done privately at a London hospital, possibly London Clinic if they do it, or maybe the London Independent Hospital where dad had to go to have his one stent fitted by Dr Tang in early 2005. The fact that the police and even BBC Look East are refusing to treat this as news of criminal activity is shameful and disgusting, but exactly what they did last year when I was injured and mum sustained further serious damage to her hip joints after John was discharged on 10 September with no proper physiotherapy care from ECL. They simply made things worse by coming for 20 minutes three times a day (total about 1 hour per day out of 24 hours when mum and I were caring for him and I was caring for mum who was in pain whenever she walked). They refused to care for mum, they refused to help rehabilitate dad (which I did all by myself, although eventually in early 2021 the police managed to get an ACE physiotherapist to visit twice, without notice and both times when John was at the end of the walking exercises I did with him and was too exhausted to do more with the physiotherapist!). This who scandal is disgusting and makes me feel very depressed. I can't take much more police or NHS abuse!

 
At 5:52 am, Blogger nige said...

Sorry, when ECL came three times a day for 20 minutes a time, it made things worse because (1) they did nothing I wasn't doing before dad was hospitalised (helping dad wash, get dressed, brush teeth, walk when suffering with severe anaemia and critically low sodium and bleeding skin from Apixaban allergy, (2) they made it worse by coming at random times 7-11am, 7-11pm when dad was asleep in the morning and interrupting his sleep or when dad wanted to go to bed early at 4-6pm, they forced him to wait sometimes until 11pm for the carer to arrive and help him to bed, (3) they also made up abusive lies as indicated on this post and currently a complaint being handled by CQC and Joanna Seraphin of Essex Council adult protection services. She is the only one to have bothered to speak to dad to confirm he is compos mentis!!! (Will have to leave this now at 6.52am to get ready for my PCR covid-19 test at Essex University at 8am 22 april 2021.)

 
At 3:23 pm, Blogger nige said...

Update, 22 April 2021, 16.23hrs:

From: nigel cook
Sent: 22 April 2021 16:20
To: Will Quince MP
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST (Case Ref: ZA48884)

Yes I give consent for the details to be shared. Thank you for replying!
Nigel Cook

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Will Quince MP
Sent: 22 April 2021 15:21
To: nigelbryancook@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST (Case Ref: ZA48884)

Dear Mr Cook

Re: John Bryan Cook

Thank you for emailing Will Quince MP and we were very sorry to read about the distress caused to you, your father and family at Colchester Hospital.

Will can raise your concerns with Nick Hulme, Chief Executive of Colchester Hospital. We would therefore be most grateful if you will email giving consent for Will to share your details and correspondence with him. A short email giving consent will be sufficient.

As soon as we have received confirmation from you, Will, will contact Nick Hulme on your behalf.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to contact Will.

With kind regards

Office of Will Quince MP
Member of Parliament for Colchester



You can read how the Office of Will Quince handles your Personal Data at https://www.willquince.com/privacy-policy




________________________________________
From: nigel cook
Sent: 19 April 2021 19:02
To: QUINCE, Will
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

42 Pampas Close,
Highwoods,
Colchester,
Essex,
CO4 9ST
Tel. 01206-842435

Dear Will Quince MP,

My dad John Bryan Cook has been abused at Colchester Hospital and I am publishing extensive evidence of it. Can you raise questions in the House of Commons on the matter please (see attached messages from the police).

Thank you for your time.

Yours sincerely,
Nigel Bryan Cook
(son of John Bryan Cook), Colchester Constituency, Essex.

Sent from Mailhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986 for Windows 10

From: john cook
Sent: 19 April 2021 08:25
To: Nigel Cook
Subject: Fw: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST




From: Rob Huddleston T/D/SUPT 42001385
Sent: 19 April 2021 07:30
To: john cook
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST


Good morning



I have forward your emails to T/Chief Inspector Jon Evans who is the Current Colchester District Commander.



Best regards



Rob Huddleston

T/Detective Superintendent 42001385

Director of Intelligence

Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate

Force Senior Identification Manager DVI

Ext 42001385 (internal) Mobile 07970 962494 (Mobile)

Email: rob.huddleston@essex.police.uk



Personal Assistant: Beth Coyne

Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate

Email: beth.coyne@kent.police.uk



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At 9:59 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 23 April 2021 10:55
To: Chief Constable
Cc: QUINCE, Will; phillippa.mills@essex.police.uk ; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr; Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk; Jill Evans
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - RE: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

Dear C. Ford (T/Insp. 2162),

RE: LACK OF ANY RESPONSE FROM JON FORD, ATTACHED URGENT EVIDENCE SUBMISSION OF MURDER CHARGE FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION IF YOU WOULD DO IT YOURSELF PLEASE

I attach murder evidence phone recordings for immediate attention. We have never had any response (other than “pass the buck” with no outcome or updates) from numerous complaints by phone, email to local Colchester Police last year 2020, because they don’t consider Dr Harold Shipman-type murder attempts are a crime, or else because they have personal “clap for the NHS”-style propaganda links to Colchester Hospital (biggest employer here) and to ECL (Essex Cares LIMITED), so they are in a conspiracy in violation of the Criminal Law Act 1977 section 1(1). I have evidence to back up this statement which I shall publish. I have also been informed that Essex Police are currently busy with drugs gangs, who are higher priority than murder. I now please request this case be given the priority it deserves, since my mother is overdue for hip surgery on both hips at Colchester Hospital and has been abused (including most of the damage to her hips!) as have I, by Colchester Hospital.

I do not want her, myself or my father to have to go there until it stops deliberately trying to murder patients. If you refuse to uphold the law immediately, please let me know and I will press for a complaint against you. I am sure you have other important work, but remember that another force’s police bungling led Dr Harold Shipman to murder 215 human beings, when complaints were dismissed as trivial by police.

Thank you again for your concern and for your time. If you will accept a donation towards your investigation of £10,000 to Essex Police to help save the lives of the over-80s whose protection the Government states has been a majority priority thepast year (adding over £1 trillion to the national debt), I will pay it immediately by bank transfer to Essex Police Bank Account (please give me a/c number and sort code and account holder name), for an unbiased investigation unconnected to the biased local Colchester police station!

Yours sincerely,
Nigel Bryan Cook
Son of John Bryan Cook, attempted murder victim,
(I have been given power of attorney by John Bryan Cook and have it all tape-recorded to avoid “confusion”).

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From: Chief Constable
Sent: 21 April 2021 14:55
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - RE: CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS ACT 1981 SECTION 1(1) re JOHN COOK b. 30/06/1933, 42 Pampas Close, Highwoods, Colchester CO49ST

Dear Nigel Cook

Thank you for your email to CC Harrington.

One of my staff have asked Chief Inspector Jon Evans to review the content of your emails and respond to you in due course.

Regards,

C Ford
T/Insp. 2162
Staff Officer to CC Harrington
Executive Support. HQ Directorate
Essex Police | PO Box 2 | Sandford Road | Springfield | Chelmsford | Essex | CM2 6DA
Tel: 0300 333 4444 (or 101 within Essex) | Website: www.essex.police.uk


...

 
At 11:45 am, Blogger nige said...

Amendment: Ann Cook points out a typing error in this blog post - for "vitamin B6" please read instead "vitamin B12".

(Incidentally, both John's sister Jill and his brother Jeremy Cook also have anaemia.)

 
At 3:15 pm, Blogger nige said...

Amendment 2: my client Richard Allport, who runs itender.co and other sites that I set up and maintain while caring for my elderly parents, wishes to clarify his link to the Met Police as follows for the record:

Richard Allport's FATHER, John Allport, MBE, served at New Scotland Yard and was invested as an MBE by Her Majesty the Queen as a Member of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday 11 December 2007.

Just to avoid any confusion over who was in the Met Police!

(Also, use of the word "Empire" in no way, shape or form signifies approval for events in British colonies before the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Please note that slavery continued in America for another three decades, long after being abolished by the UK, and that most British police do not carry guns to confuse with tasers in an emergency.)

 
At 9:55 am, Blogger nige said...

Update on John Cook, 24 April 2021: Colchester Police Officer Christopher Raynsford (PC 42074890) very kindly visited mum and me today from 9.30-10.45am and advised me not to publish the full tape recordings of the abuse at Colchester Hospital until CID arrive either today or tomorrow (they are very busy at present in Clacton). If they have to get statements from the suspects it is important they are not aware of the content of tape recordings in advance, although the tape recordings can afterwards be disclosed to the defence legal team when the case goes to court.

 
At 10:28 am, Blogger nige said...

Update: 25 April 2021 - Colchester Hospital is STILL NOW abusing John Cook at Woodlands View by using an abusive, lying "speech therapist" to try to advise the staff not to feed dad food! Dad complained to his nurse YESTERDAY Saturday 24th April 2021 that the "speech therapist" who tried to murder dad at the hospital in March before I stepped in to feed him UFIT 500ml 50g protein banana milkshakes from Tesco - is STILL visiting him there and trying to prevent him being fed. I fed him solid foods and milkshakes for a week, with sips of water after each mouthful of mashed potato and mashed fish, to help him swallow, in March before an abusive "nurse" stopped me! Will be sending yet another complaint to police. Have instructed dad's Woodlands View nurse by phone at 11am today Sunday 25th April 2021 to BAN all NHS Colchester Hospital "recommended" "speech therapist teams" from entering his room! Dad has his tonsils removed like me, and like me chokes on a first sip of water to a dry throat! This is not an excuse to deny him FOOD!!!! Speech therapists are liars as I found out as a kid abused by them myself when I was given "speech therapy" while having frequency distorted hearing (a form of abuse), due to blocked eustachian tubes which dad also had!! Dad does not deserve this abuse. Mum is beside herself again, having this on top of constant pain from both damaged hip joints and a cancer diagnosis last week! Life is being made terrible.

CID have still not arrived although they phoned for some info last night.

 
At 1:04 am, Blogger nige said...

Future updates will be at the links:

https://www.facebook.com/nigelbryancook/

and

https://archive.org/details/colchesterhospital

 
At 12:15 pm, Blogger nige said...

See Nige Cook's analysis of the groupthink anti-individualism "groupthink" (which Ann Cook RGN says is termed "teamwork" by left wingers in the NHS, those who in 1984 coerced her into joining union strikes chanting political slogans "maggie, maggie maggies, out out out" like the animals in George Orwell's book 1984, against any basis in reason since the left wing USSR's hatred of capitalism prevented it developing its own integrated circuits for PET scanners and MRI scanners, so it had very backward medicine, loads of underpaid doctors with Victorian apparatus, the hard socialism mentality of utopia): https://vixra.org/abs/1511.0067

 
At 5:06 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I see in a video you have on youtube that the Daily Express is mentioned. It was taken over by left wing Mirror group guys who believe in the NHS like a new Mecca and is edited by hard stalinist Owen Jones, or maybe the man's name is Gary Jones? He is one of those who caused the present NHS overload by refusing to publish the truth on masks a year ago, and also by supporting excessive immigration to undermine the NHS, by overload. He says on his wikpiedia page that he could not sleep when the previous Daily Express editor pointed out the stresses caused to the NHS by excessive immigration. But he could not sleep because he hated that editor, not because he realised he had got it all wrong! Your mother, who I know very well indeed, was an immigrant to the UK who first got a written job offer from the NHS, based on her hard work in the Republic of Ireland, and she spent 48 years serving the people of the UK. By contrast Gary Jones or Owen Jones won't ever publish the truth, unless shamed first. They put politics ahead of the common good!

 
At 5:13 am, Blogger nige said...

Please don't make generic attacks on newspaper editors on this blog post.

There are lots of editors on any paper or TV: the over all editor, assistant editor, sub-editors (who in the stone age, used to assemble the text, photos and headlines on to the pages, creating the "finished" typeset articles using Quark software on elitist Applemacs), then copy-editors (who re-write the words or "copy" in a word-processor to turn it from hard facts into an interpretative, sensational "story" that has a simplistic "narrative", like a fairy tale).

If the Daily Express has been involved in attempts to murder John Cook via Essex Council worker Joanna Seraphin, while he is extremely anaemic and has thus passed power of attorney to me, by making up false complaints in collaboration with the accused Sister England, then it is felony under section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.

 
At 8:05 am, Blogger nige said...

Here is Joanna Seraphin's email to me after John Cook complained he had been told LIES by her (we have already published the video of him making his complaint on Youtube, with the carer Anu claiming against John's memory that he was NOT forced into taking the call, but also admitting that SHE LEFT THE BUILDING and allowed the "alleged" abuse of John, resulting in his being confined to bed the next day with suicidal depression until I arrived the next day, and unshaved by Barchester Homes care staff for a week he claims, which I find VERY suspicious):

From: Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker
Sent: 29 April 2021 18:33
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: John Cook's complaint today about Joanna Seraphin making him feel suicidal
Importance: High


Dear Nigel,

Thank you for your email.

I am sorry to hear you felt your father was apparently upset after my video call with him on 27/4/2021 in the presence of care staff at Woodland View.

During my call with your father, he communicated well with me and showed no signs of distressed or upset. I had made this call to get your father’s views around the issues raised in a concern received by Social Services. Your father was able to confirm to me details he knew but there some details he had no awareness of but told me whatever you were doing, you were doing it in his best interest and did not wish for Social Services to look into any of the matters we discussed any further. It was agreed with your father that no further enquiries would be made and the matter would be closed.

At the end on my conversation with your father, he told me he is happy with the care he receives here at Woodland View and was getting ready to have his Covid 19 vaccine.
Having received your email I have since contacted Woodland view to find out from them how your father was after my video call. The feedback I received from the Home was that your father was not upset with the conversation I had with him or with me but, was worried with the nature of the areas covered relating to the family and this resulted in him requesting staff contact you to visit him so he could have a conversation with you.

I am sorry for any distress caused to you if you believed I had caused your father upset and distress. I want to assure you that had your father shown any signs of distress during my call with him, I would have stop the call.

Kind Regards



Joanna Seraphin
Adult Social Care Social Worker
OA Team 1 North

Adult Social Care - North
Essex County Council

T: 033301 37354
M: 07702900564
Email: joanna.seraphin@essex.gov.uk

 
At 8:13 am, Blogger nige said...

What Joanna has been asked to do is to investigate abuse of John to support a police investigation, NOT to abuse John on the order of D'Arcy Ward abusive Sister England or a newspaper! We have already requested bodycam/Colchester Hospital D'Arcy Ward and main corridors CCTV of John's abuse and my abuse, particularly on and around Saturday 3 April (when I had to walk home cold, leaving my woolly hat and coat on dad to overcome his HYPOTHERMIA which was caused by a nurse leaving the window open and then refusing to give dad enough blankets to raise his core temperature to stop hypothermia - additional proof of this will be me entering Hospital Ward in woolly hat and coat, and being forced to leave without them on the CCTV tapes) and Easter Sunday 4 April 2021 (when I was blocked by Mark Smith and threatened with assault as tape recorded, resulting in further abuse from a police officer on 999 when I attempted to play the tape and they would not even listen to the complaint), and the following Tuesday when I was blocked physically by Dr Rasool in D'Arcy Ward Corridor after Mark Smith entered the room to interfere with my visit to John at Joanna Seraphin's request (she told me to call her voicemail during the visit to get dad to give evidence of his abuse by Colchester Hospital, Mark Smith had nurses in the room listening who went to fetch him and then he started shouting that he refused to have his abuse documented on tape recordings despite it being evidence of repeated criminal attempted murder of John that was being documented).

From: Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker
Sent: 29 April 2021 18:33
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: John Cook's complaint today about Joanna Seraphin making him feel suicidal
Importance: High


Dear Nigel,

Thank you for your email.

I am sorry to hear you felt your father was apparently upset after my video call with him on 27/4/2021 in the presence of care staff at Woodland View.

During my call with your father, he communicated well with me and showed no signs of distressed or upset. I had made this call to get your father’s views around the issues raised in a concern received by Social Services. Your father was able to confirm to me details he knew but there some details he had no awareness of but told me whatever you were doing, you were doing it in his best interest and did not wish for Social Services to look into any of the matters we discussed any further. It was agreed with your father that no further enquiries would be made and the matter would be closed.

At the end on my conversation with your father, he told me he is happy with the care he receives here at Woodland View and was getting ready to have his Covid 19 vaccine.
Having received your email I have since contacted Woodland view to find out from them how your father was after my video call. The feedback I received from the Home was that your father was not upset with the conversation I had with him or with me but, was worried with the nature of the areas covered relating to the family and this resulted in him requesting staff contact you to visit him so he could have a conversation with you.

I am sorry for any distress caused to you if you believed I had caused your father upset and distress. I want to assure you that had your father shown any signs of distress during my call with him, I would have stop the call.

Kind Regards



Joanna Seraphin
Adult Social Care Social Worker
OA Team 1 North

Adult Social Care - North
Essex County Council

T: 033301 37354
M: 07702900564
Email: joanna.seraphin@essex.gov.uk

 
At 4:36 pm, Blogger nige said...

I wish also to point out that I have sold articles around 15-25 years ago while working as a freelance technical author / journalist to magazines and national newspapers, and I have NEVER PAID FOR THEIR PUBLICATION (I have been paid, this is the standard way it happens!). Whatever newspaper claimed I paid them £10,000 to have an article published is a damn liar, and this is a police matter because it resulted in dad being abused, so he states.

 
At 12:25 pm, Blogger nige said...

Ann Cook, RGN, intensive care postgraduate (Hammersmith Hospital), and I had an unsatisfactory discussion on Saturday over John Cook's police attempted murder case, resulting in another 999 call for abuse of me when I couldn't do more to have the perpetrators arrested, due to CID bungling. I have just sent an email in agreement with her to the care home, copied to Chief Constable (who hopefully will forward it to CID, since we don't have their email yet):

From: nigel cook
Sent: 03 May 2021 12:40
To: WoodlandView.Reception@barchester.com; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Chief Constable
Subject: Community nutritionists for John Cook in Room 19

Dear Lynn,

I just called in and dropped in 10 strawberry flavour 25g protein milkshakes for John Cook, room 19. He is to have two a day, morning and night, on orders of Ann Cook RGN who did a postgraduate course in specialised cardio intensive care for five years at Hammersmith Hospital, London.

She says he is NOT to have any community "dieticians” restricting his diet to type 4, or any other interference, without her prior approval. She is afraid they will simply implement the lying Dr Rasool’s claims that John is unable to eat food, has advanced heart problems, has dementia, etc., when in fact even under severe anaemia (which Dr Rasool refused to test or treat!), his heart ejection fraction has remained stable around 50% for five years, and he has not had an angina attack in that time despite the recent stresses on his heart caused by his pneumonia and sepsis last month when Colchester Hospital criminally refused her request to send him to intensive care and provide blood transfusions. Please mark Colchester Hospital reports and recommendations that have any input from Dr Rasool, consultant on D’Arcy Ward “LIES” so anyone reading them is aware that Ann Cook RGN has evidence they are not true, and are a cover-up campaign for attempted murder.

I am carbon copying this email to PC Christopher Raynsford, Joanna Seraphin ASC Social Worker, and the Chief Constable’s office. We are attempting to ensure John’s haemoglobin is re-checked by Mill Road Surgery tomorrow and he is given oxygen/blood transfusions to prevent further collapses on standing and risks of heart failure due to oxygen insufficiency resulting from the blood loses he ensured due to Dr Suresh.

Cheers,
Nigel Cook
Son of John Cook

 
At 9:11 am, Blogger nige said...

8 May 2021 10am update. This is NOT isolated. My client Richard says his mum, who has had leukemia for 3 years was admitted to hospital yesterday after a fall, then kicked out at 2am this morning (he had to go and pick her up). His dad got the MBE for services to the Met Police at New Scotland Yard, London. All this would have been prevented if they had listened to the previous post on this blog from well over a year ago, warning that masks were needed to prevent the pandemic because if you go for "herd immunity", the virus simply has a huge pool to mutate new forms and once it has say a hundred major variants, you can flush your vaccines down the plughole for all the use they will be. It will be resistant to vaccines once it mutates sufficiently to overcome simplistic spike protein recognition in huge crowded populations in the cities of Africa and India. Proper gas masks that keep fingers from accidentally touching nose, eyes, mouth, not vaccines, stamps out respiratory infections. As a bonus, it could reduce or even eliminate (if bird reservoirs of flu are vaccinated via bird feeders) the common cold, pneumonia, and other aerosol vector disease!

 
At 7:43 pm, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 10 May 2021 20:30
To: Nick.Hulme@esneft.nhs.uk; tips@dailymail.com; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; PALS; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr; Jill Evans; QUINCE, Will; concerns@cqc.org.uk; PALS
Subject: FW: Complaint about my attempted murder by Colchester Hospital and "hundreds" of continuing palliative discharge murders by Colchester Hospital, 2020-2021

Spoke to Oaks Hospital cardio consultant and Colchester Hospital Divisional Director Dr Alan Harkness privately on phone (taped call, as did he for reference purposes): he claims John Cook’s Colchester Hospital blood test dated 8 April 2021 (he was discharged next day, 9 April with very low haemoglobin) showed a haemoglobin level of just 109 grams per litre, far below the N.I.C.E. criterion for anaemia which is anything below 130 grams per litre for men over 15 years (dad is 87!). ... Will publish all evidence asap since Colchester Police CID have done NOTHING about these crimes. Colchester Hospital has 763 beds, by the way, and on 4 May the number of hospital beds occupied by covid cases in the WHOLE OF ESSEX (not just Colchester Hospital) was only 21, and had only been 33 a week previous in April. So Harkness’s ... covid “excuse” for John Cook’s admission 18 March-9 April, stinks to high heaven. Harkness claimed that when John was admitted in January there were 400 cases: problem is that John was NOT admitted in January.

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From: nigel cook
Sent: 08 May 2021 03:00
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Chief Constable; Jill Evans; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr; QUINCE, Will
Subject: FW: Complaint about my attempted murder by Colchester Hospital and "hundreds" of continuing palliative discharge murders by Colchester Hospital, 2020-2021

For your information:

From: john cook
Sent: 08 May 2021 02:48
To: Nick.Hulme@esneft.nhs.uk; tips@dailymail.com; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Nigel Cook; concerns; PALS
Subject: RE: Complaint about my attempted murder by Colchester Hospital and "hundreds" of continuing palliative discharge murders by Colchester Hospital, 2020-2021

Dear Chief Executive of Colchester Hospital Nick Hulme,

... I have been admitted to Colchester Hospital with minor problems: sodium deficiency, apixaban allergy bleeds which caused skin, urinary tract and lung lesson infections which could have been treated at home by a GP simply switching anticoagulants from apixaban to aspirin or any of many alternatives (I have minor AF but have never had an angina attack in many years and was vigorously exercising using stairs - without any stairlift in my home, until last September's collapse on the stairs due to your hospital's illegal activity) but Dr Suresh of Highwoods Surgery who refused to do this during the pandemic and called an ambulance to pass the buck instead, having already caused most of my original problems by refusing sodium & haemoglobin blood tests ...

My son has been physically and verbally abused repeatedly by Colchester Hospital doctors and has recorded the abuse ... I have written to you repeatedly since 12 September 2020 at Colchester Hospital, we have emailed PALS and the ward sister Alyce England repeatedly, but have not received any reply whatsoever from Colchester Hospital to complaints in writing. Recently after my son at my request contacted Colchester's MP, he received yet another abusive telephone call ... He and my wife have already also received repeated abusive phone calls from the girlfriend of D'Arcy Ward "doctor" Ahmed, violating the Data Protection Act 2018 by using personal information and also the Privacy and Electronic Communications Act 2003. We have repeatedly since last year requested both Colchester Hospital and also Essex Police to use EMAIL or LETTERS since the abuse of John last year led to serious injuries to his wife Ann Cook's replacement hip joints (both now loose in their sockets), causing excruciating agony when rushing to answer the phone, and also further damage ...

 
At 7:44 pm, Blogger nige said...

Sorry, typing error above, should read "108 grams/litre of haemoglobin on 8 april 2021", not 109.

 
At 7:52 pm, Blogger nige said...

In any case, over a year ago, John pointed out in the previous post that the 55,000,000 British C7 gas/biological virus general purpose civil defence masks stockpiled until 1968 would prevent the pandemic if worn where covid transmission was possible for two weeks, since the virus as a surface contaminant only survives a few days:

https://glasstone.blogspot.com/2020/03/gas-masks-or-eh20-escape-hoods-as.html (CLICK HERE FOR LINK)

So there was SIMPLY NO NEED FOR 400 covid-19 bed blockers in January 2021!

 
At 8:07 pm, Blogger nige said...

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nick-hulme-11534b21 - Seems that Nick Hulme is based in Ipswich, not Colchester, although Chief Executive of both Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals! States on linked in that he was educated at Ratcliffe College from 1974-9, "Ratcliffe College is a Catholic independent school in Leicestershire"... makes a lot of sense...

 
At 6:38 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 12 May 2021 02:21
To: WoodlandView@barchester.com; press@barchester.com
Subject: RE: Contract

Hi Hannah,

I will make payment today. Please could you let me know the full name and professional registration of the “nurse” at Woodland View who is banning visits to John by me (Ann can’t since she has an open wound from skin cancer surgery last week as well as damage to both replacement hips caused by Colchester Hospital on 10 September), and who put John into the Joanna Seraphin lying abusive call and then left him unsupervised to be subject to what John calls abuse and worry with him suffering from very low haemoglobin, which on 8 April was 108 grams/litre, compared to 130 grams/litre NICE definition of anaemia, and a normal level in men of around 155 grams/litre? This caused a lot of stress. Do you have a video recording of that call which caused John to get into suicidal depression please? I want more information please.

Thank you for your help.

Nigel Cook

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From: WoodlandView@barchester.com
Sent: 11 May 2021 12:37
To: nigel cook
Subject: FW: Contract

Hello,

Following on from my previous email, please see attached invoice.

Kind regards,

Hannah Juggins
Administrator

Telephone: 01206 855 390
Email: woodlandview@barchester.com
Website: www.barchester.com/home

Woodland View Care Home
216 Turner Road
Colchester
Essex
CO4 5JR

 
At 6:39 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 28 April 2021 18:58
To: ben-julian.harrington ; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker ; John Cook ; Richard Allport ; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890 ; Jill Evans ; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr
Subject: RE: Correspondence between you and Sister England who attempted to murder John Cook

CAUTION: This is an external email.

Dear Joanna Seraphin,

RE: Correspondence between you and Sister England who attempted to murder John Cook and the Criminal Law Act 1977 section 1(1)

My father John Cook has authorised me to make a freedom of information act request on his behalf for emails etc between yourself and Sister England (he is aware of the one below), in view of Joanna Seraphin’s allegedly “disturbing” skype video phone call to John Cook at Woodland View Nursing Home yesterday which he says made him feed “depressed and suicidal” under section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. He stated to me, and this was confirmed by his nurse Anu at Woodlands View, that he felt unset by the skype call he was coerced into taking yesterday. He has asked me to deal with the matter.

In the first instance, please let me make a Freedom of Information Act 2000 request for all correspondence, calls, emails etc taking place between the accused Sister England (see her email to Joanna Seraphin copied below) and Joanna Seraphin. Let me know if we need to get a barrister involved to get this info.

Cheers,
Nige

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From: England, Alyce
Sent: 09 April 2021 13:37
To: 'Joanna.Seraphin@essex.gov.uk'
Cc: johnbryancook@hotmail.com; 'nigelcook@quantumfieldtheory.org'
Subject: John Cook

Hi Joanna

I have tried to contact you via telephone today to discuss John Cook’s on going care needs when leaving hospital. It has been discussed and agreed that John will be discharged today to Woodlands View Nursing home for Palliative care privately funded initially for 4 weeks. Whilst John has been with us here on Darcy ward he was assessed for Continuing Healthcare Funding and this was granted for The Oaks Nursing Home. John and his family declined this as their preference is for John to go to Woodlands View.

I write to request please for you to follow John up within the coming weeks if possible to apply if appropriate for CHC funding for John’s continued care whilst at Woodlands View.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further information concerning this.

Regards & thanks

Alyce England
Ward Sister
Darcy Ward
Ext 5389

This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received. Content of emails received by this Trust will be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the specified exemptions, including the The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Caldicott Guardian principles. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Turner Road, Essex, CO4 5JL

 
At 6:39 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 12 May 2021 02:57
To: Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Chief Constable; phillippa.mills@essex.police.uk
Subject: RE: Correspondence between you and Sister England who attempted to murder John Cook

Hi Joanna,

RE: On Monday 10 May 2021, Colchester Hospital Divisional Director cardiologist Dr Allan Harkness stated in a tape recorded 45 minute phone call to me that on discharge on 9 April John B. Cook was suffering from very low haemoglobin, which on 8 April was 108 grams/litre, compared to 130 grams/litre NICE definition of anaemia, and a normal level in men of around 155 grams/litre, a vital fact omitted deliberately and murderously from his discharge summary despite proof of many ignored emails and taped calls abouit this to Sister England and the rest of them

After requesting Freedom of Information Act 2000 information of vital importance to stopping murders at Colchester Hospital, we have finally received a form to fill in, not the requested information. I will fill it in and submit it today. However in view of the urgency of preventing more of the “hundreds” of existing murders proudly announced on the phone at 5am, five hours after John’s last admission to Colchester Hospital suffering from Hospital and GP caused apixaban allergy injuries (anaemia and sepsis caused by asymptomatic “pneumonia” – he had no cough or respiratory symptoms as confirmed by me, mum RGN and the paramedics who were puzzled by where the infection causing the shock, blood pressure and pulse anomalies was) by the A&E consultant who seemed proud to refuse to send John to intensive care for proper treatment for the injuries caused him by the NHS, we demand a police investigation into this.

Can the police investigate why the hospital says it has murdered hundreds of people please? Please let me know if you are short of funds, because in the spirit of helping the NHS to improve and stop murdering people, I am happy to contribute from my savings to this investigation!

Thank you.

Nigel Cook

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From: Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker
Sent: 29 April 2021 10:43
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: Correspondence between you and Sister England who attempted to murder John Cook

Nigel,
Thank you very much for your email. This to advise that I have passed on your request for information regarding my communication with Sister Alyce England to our Transparency Team, who will deal with your request further .
Kind Regards


Joanna Seraphin
Adult Social Care Social Worker
OA Team 1 North

Adult Social Care - North
Essex County Council

T: 033301 37354
M: 07702900564
Email: joanna.seraphin@essex.gov.uk





https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/

 
At 6:40 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 12 May 2021 02:57
To: Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Chief Constable; phillippa.mills@essex.police.uk
Subject: RE: Correspondence between you and Sister England who attempted to murder John Cook

Hi Joanna,

RE: On Monday 10 May 2021, Colchester Hospital Divisional Director cardiologist Dr Allan Harkness stated in a tape recorded 45 minute phone call to me that on discharge on 9 April John B. Cook was suffering from very low haemoglobin, which on 8 April was 108 grams/litre, compared to 130 grams/litre NICE definition of anaemia, and a normal level in men of around 155 grams/litre, a vital fact omitted deliberately and murderously from his discharge summary despite proof of many ignored emails and taped calls abouit this to Sister England and the rest of them

After requesting Freedom of Information Act 2000 information of vital importance to stopping murders at Colchester Hospital, we have finally received a form to fill in, not the requested information. I will fill it in and submit it today. However in view of the urgency of preventing more of the “hundreds” of existing murders proudly announced on the phone at 5am, five hours after John’s last admission to Colchester Hospital suffering from Hospital and GP caused apixaban allergy injuries (anaemia and sepsis caused by asymptomatic “pneumonia” – he had no cough or respiratory symptoms as confirmed by me, mum RGN and the paramedics who were puzzled by where the infection causing the shock, blood pressure and pulse anomalies was) by the A&E consultant who seemed proud to refuse to send John to intensive care for proper treatment for the injuries caused him by the NHS, we demand a police investigation into this.

Can the police investigate why the hospital says it has murdered hundreds of people please? Please let me know if you are short of funds, because in the spirit of helping the NHS to improve and stop murdering people, I am happy to contribute from my savings to this investigation!

Thank you.

Nigel Cook

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From: Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker
Sent: 29 April 2021 10:43
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: Correspondence between you and Sister England who attempted to murder John Cook

Nigel,
Thank you very much for your email. This to advise that I have passed on your request for information regarding my communication with Sister Alyce England to our Transparency Team, who will deal with your request further .
Kind Regards


Joanna Seraphin
Adult Social Care Social Worker
OA Team 1 North

Adult Social Care - North
Essex County Council

T: 033301 37354
M: 07702900564
Email: joanna.seraphin@essex.gov.uk





https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/

 
At 6:40 am, Blogger nige said...

From: WoodlandView.Reception@barchester.com
Sent: 03 May 2021 15:58
To: nigel cook
Subject: RE: Community nutritionists for John Cook in Room 19

Hello Nigel

I have printed your email and passed it on to the unit.

Kind Regards

Lynn

Lynn Sampson
Administration Assistant
Woodland View
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JR

Tel: 01206 855390
Fax: 01206 621890

From: nigel cook [mailto:nigelbryancook@hotmail.com]
Sent: 03 May 2021 12:40
To: Woodland View Reception ; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890 ; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker ; Chief Constable
Subject: Community nutritionists for John Cook in Room 19

WARNING: This email is from an external source - be careful of links and attachments. Make sure they are not malicious.


Dear Lynn,

I just called in and dropped in 10 strawberry flavour 25g protein milkshakes for John Cook, room 19. He is to have two a day, morning and night, on orders of Ann Cook RGN who did a postgraduate course in specialised cardio intensive care for five years at Hammersmith Hospital, London.

She says he is NOT to have any community "dieticians” restricting his diet to type 4, or any other interference, without her prior approval. She is afraid they will simply implement the lying Dr Rasool’s claims that John is unable to eat food, has advanced heart problems, has dementia, etc., when in fact even under severe anaemia (which Dr Rasool refused to test or treat!), his heart ejection fraction has remained stable around 50% for five years, and he has not had an angina attack in that time despite the recent stresses on his heart caused by his pneumonia and sepsis last month when Colchester Hospital criminally refused her request to send him to intensive care and provide blood transfusions. Please mark Colchester Hospital reports and recommendations that have any input from Dr Rasool, consultant on D’Arcy Ward “LIES” so anyone reading them is aware that Ann Cook RGN has evidence they are not true, and are a cover-up campaign for attempted murder.

I am carbon copying this email to PC Christopher Raynsford, Joanna Seraphin ASC Social Worker, and the Chief Constable’s office. We are attempting to ensure John’s haemoglobin is re-checked by Mill Road Surgery tomorrow and he is given oxygen/blood transfusions to prevent further collapses on standing and risks of heart failure due to oxygen insufficiency resulting from the blood loses he ensured due to Dr Suresh.

Cheers,
Nigel Cook
Son of John Cook

 
At 6:41 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 28 April 2021 11:06
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk
Subject: RE: John Cook, Criminal violations of the Data protection Act 2018 section 170 unlawfully obtaining personal data

RE: John Cook, Criminal violations of the Data protection Act 2018 section 170 unlawfully obtaining personal data

Just to confirm, Ann Cook would like the girlfriend of Dr Ahmed (who phoned repeatedly blocking Mr Maheshwar’s phone calls on Thursday 1 April 2021) arrested for criminal violation of

Data protection Act 2018, Section 170, unlawfully obtaining personal data.

She said that Dr Ahmed, ward doctor on D’Arcy Ward, Colchester Hospital, had instructed her to make lying calls blocking her line repeatedly, claiming falsely that we had asked for a PET scan for John Cook, a lie.

Cheers,
Nigel And Ann Cook RGN (retired)

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From: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890
Sent: 26 April 2021 22:03
To: nigel cook
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL - FW: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View

Mr Cook

I will have to find out if the body worn video can be disclosed, in the meantime to preserve it can you tell me the incident number at all or the surname of the officer with a date.

Regards

Christopher Raynsford
Police Constable 74890 | North Local Policing Area | Essex Police |
( 101 (external) 430817 (internal) Mobile 07815 491488)
Colchester Commitment – Putting People & Communities at the heart of everything we do.

 
At 6:42 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 25 April 2021 13:39
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890
Subject: RE: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for visiting us yesterday at 42 Pampas Close. I called 101 today but they wouldn’t take a message and they said you weren’t coming to work until 3pm today so just a short email with two serious problems:

1. I’ve now finally identified from tapes of phone calls that at least one of the nuisance call culprits is a female claiming to a doctor who is the girlfriend of Dr Ahmed who abused dad and myself. Dr Ahmed was ward doctor on D’Arcy Ward in March 2021 (a month ago). She did not give her name but called repeatedly on Thursday (the day before Good Friday 2021) trying, apparently to block consultant Mr Maheshwar’s call to us from the Oaks Hospital when had previously told Sister England of D’Arcy Ward we had booked a phone call privately from Mr Maheshwar that afternoon. She called repeatedly despite being told we were expecting an urgent call. She made up lying claims that I had requested Dr Ahmed to take a PET scan of dad, which I had never done! Mum was severely disturbed by repeated her nuisance lying calls. We are going to try to get any records BT has to see if she also made nuisance calls to us after that time, or if they were Mark Smith.
2. Dad complained yesterday at Woodland View that he is being again denied food after dad’s nurse at Woodland View (which costs us £5200 every 4 weeks) was visited by a “Colchester Hospital expert speech therapist who instructed Woodland View to deny dad any food”. I have emailed and phoned them to instruct that no further visits from anybody sent by Colchester Hospital are to be permitted unless myself, mum and police are present to monitor the visit to prevent further abuse

Cheers,
Nige

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From: nigel cook
Sent: 25 April 2021 12:24
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890
Subject: FW: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View



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From: john cook
Sent: 25 April 2021 12:06
To: WoodlandView@barchester.com; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Nigel Cook; Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk
Subject: Re: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View

Dear Hannah,

Please put a note on John Cook's file for Woodlands View to block all Colchester Hospital "speech therapist" and other visits to John Cook (together with Highwoods Surgery's Dr Suresh et al.), unless approved in advance by his wife Ann Cook RGN (retired) and myself. We will need to be present during any such future visits, together with CID detectives, to ensure no further abuse occurs.

I spoke to John's nurse at Woodlands View by phone at 9am today Sunday 25 April 2021 who told me John complained that a speech therapist yesterday banned dad from eating food, although I had fed dad mashed potato and mashed fish for a week together with UFIT 500ml 50g protein banana milkshakes, until I was stopped by a "nurse" who lied that he would choke. (He had his tonsils removed aged 5 like me and always chokes on a first sip of water, but can swallow solid food if given water sips to help him swallow correctly. I have the same problem and I'm just 49!)

Mum and myself were finally visited by a police officer for over an hour yesterday Saturday 25 April 2021 and CID branch phoned in the evening for an hour to get more details and we have kindly been offered support by Colchester's MP, Will Quince. We are asking him to raise questions in the House of Commons with Parliamentary Privilege, which will bypass Data protection Act and Copyright Act issues and permit the press and TV to report the case, which allows other abused patients families to come forward

Sorry to send you many emails about John. I recognise you are very busy with general admin! Hopefully it will all be over soon.

Kind regards,

Nigel Cook and Ann Cook RGN (retired)
(son and wife of John Cook, holding the power of attorney for his care)

 
At 6:43 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 28 April 2021 08:21
To: John Cook; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Jill Evans; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr; Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - FW: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View

Sorry, mum has just said she will write the newspaper article (her favourite is the Telegraph, which she used to have letters published in long ago), by herself damning the NHS, as a former NHS employee of 48 years she has lots of additional evidence to disclose of cover-ups aided by the police dating back decades, including patients who had the wrong leg amputated when a careless surgeon flipped the x-ray on the light box, then incinerated it quickly and then lied that it had been badly infected as a cover up, black patients who died from blood in the lungs in post-operative recovery lying on their backs when ignorant doctors refused to allow her to put them into the recovery position, because the “standard procedure” at the time was to look for internal haemorrhage by “pale skin colour” (blatant NHS racism), etc, etc., etc., etc. Expect fireworks, she is mad. I will just produce a TV documentary with dad’s help (he has been a computer wizz since being introduced to vacuum computers in the 1960s while a London accountant)!

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From: nigel cook
Sent: 28 April 2021 06:58
To: John Cook; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Jill Evans; jeremy.cook@wanadoo.fr
Subject: FW: EXTERNAL - FW: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View



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From: nigel cook
Sent: 28 April 2021 06:25
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL - FW: John Cook, room 19, Woodlands View

Just an update. All of the tape-recordings are now MP3 (universally compatible) audio files, fully indexed with date and time in the file name (the time is the time the smartphone stamped their details with the instant the recording ended). ...

 
At 7:29 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 28 April 2021 17:54
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker
Subject: RE: John Cook's complaint today about Joanna Seraphin making him feel suicidal

Dear All,

I am caring for my 88 year old mother single handed who has a cancer diagnosis and agony in both hips and today I was summoned by dad’s nurse, Anu, to Woodland View Care Home, Turner Road Colchester to hear my dad, John Cook, complain that he couldn’t sleep last night and felt suicidal following a skype call he was forced into taking a call from Joanna Seraphin yesterday afternoon, in which he claimed (I videoed his claim so there is no “confusion” about the allegation, Joanna Seraphin insisted that I was being coercive of him and had sold an unauthorised newspaper article under his name.

I had trusted Joanna Seraphin last year and am frankly disappointed that my dad felt suicidal as a result of his call, and has refused to get up into a chair today for the first time in a week. ... . Yesterday when I visited him he was on facebook on his smartphone which I brought in, for the first time in years. He set up a facebook account about a decade ago but never used it. Now he is. Let’s try to help him enjoy life. I’m sick of making more and more complaints by behalf of my mum and then being abused myself by bigots for so doing. It’s pretty obvious now that you are not so far really treating this seriously.

Cheers,
Nigel Cook

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At 7:32 am, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 01 May 2021 09:19
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Chief Constable; Ben-Julian.Harrington@essex.police.uk; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker
Subject: RE: John Cook's complaint today about Joanna Seraphin making him feel suicidal

Dear Chief Constable,

Please give Christopher Raynsford PC 42074980 whatever extra resources/time to obtain the police officers bodycam/Colchester Hospital D'Arcy Ward and main corridors CCTV of John's abuse and my abuse, particularly on and around Saturday 3 April (when I had to walk home cold, leaving my woolly hat and coat on dad to overcome his HYPOTHERMIA which was caused by a nurse leaving the window open and then refusing to give dad enough blankets to raise his core temperature to stop hypothermia - additional proof of this will be me entering Hospital Ward in woolly hat and coat, and being forced to leave without them on the CCTV tapes) and Easter Sunday 4 April 2021 (when I was blocked by Mark Smith and threatened with assault as tape recorded, resulting in further abuse from a police officer on 999 when I attempted to play the tape and they would not even listen to the complaint), and the following Tuesday when I was blocked physically by Dr Rasool in D'Arcy Ward Corridor after Mark Smith entered the room to interfere with my visit to John at Joanna Seraphin's request (she told me to call her voicemail during the visit to get dad to give evidence of his abuse by Colchester Hospital, Mark Smith had nurses in the room listening who went to fetch him and then he started shouting that he refused to have his abuse documented on tape recordings despite it being evidence of repeated criminal attempted murder of John that was being documented).

We need this evidence before it is deleted, for court proceedings. I have lengthy audio tapes which can easily be time-synced to the CCTV footage showing me entering the hospital and leaving it, to provide complete audio-visual evidence of my abuse and the attempted murder of my father. PC Raynsford is only working nights at present and goes on leave early next week for a rest, so time is running out unless additional help is given him. I have already said I am prepared to pay £10000 towards a proper police investigation that helps save the lives of other patients at Colchester Hospital. I realise CID are busy with a murder in Clacton but if you allow CCTV to be destroyed, that will undermine the investigation in this case.

Cheers,
Nigel Cook

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At 9:30 pm, Blogger nige said...

Friday 14 May 20210, 2225hrs update copied from facebook posting, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222048844383322&set=pcb.10222048849463449


Anyone with spare prayers tonight, please say one for John. Finally today his key problem of lethally low hypokalemia (i.e. very low potassium, precise amount 2.4 mmol/litre as measured in blood sample yesterday Thursday 13 May 2021) was diagnosed today by a brilliant GP from Mill Road Surgery, Colchester (John's new GP), who immediately prescribed potassium solution, which John drank while I was there this afternoon! GP visited him while I was there. Against John's wishes which I repeatedly tape recorded while he was in Colchester Hospital last month, including in a call to his social worker Joanna Seraphin's phone, John wanted to live (resuscitation) but the GP this afternoon showed me a lying "do not resuscitate" form filled in by Dr Rasool, D'Arcy Ward Consultant, Colchester Hospital, which falsely claims that I and my mum Ann Cook RGN (retired) were consulted and that John wanted to die when in fact he wanted resuscitation and life. He's suicidallu depressed in part he says because his heart is continuallyu pounding - due to low potassium (hypokalemia) which causes his blood vessels to contract, increasing needless stress on his heart (like a pump trying to pump fluid through a really narrow tube!). We had repeatedly requested to see blood tests for John but this had been denied by the previous doctors and the hospital! Anyway, he is aware of the problem, he immediately ate a banana and a half (high in potassium) - even though he hates bananas - and was given the prescribed water soluble potassium salt solution to begin to redress the hypokalemia (low potassium). (In the past he has had collapses due to high potassium (hyperkalemia), due to blood vessels expanding too much and causing dangerous LOW blood pressure due to excess potassium enhancing medication! We need a full re-analysis of his medication for blood pressure (which all works via potassium!) urgently. Mum, Registered General Nurse (retired) simply controls her blood pressure using bananas (high in potassium), and a blood pressure meter to determine the correct banana dose by trial-and-error! Far safer than some prescriptions ... John should recover quickly now he is on high potassium medication in a few days, but is still at risk of heart attacks for the weekend until his potassium stabilises, so please pray, if you can, that he pull through into next week. I spoke to his heart surgeon Dr Tang last night (Dr Tang put in dad's single stent in January 2005) who was wonderful and will do his best to make sure dad's heart is OK next week. Dr Tank began work at 8.30 am
yesterday, was in Colchester yesterday morning, went up to London in the afternoon according to Laura his secretary, yet still called us on time at 6.10pm in the afternoon to do his best for John! Wonderful caring surgeon! Photo below taken today of dad, it was taken this afternoon, he is fighting for life du to low potassium, extremely serious. I also filmed dad's heart beat trace using one of his portable defibrillators this afternoon, in ECG mode. We do this regularly at home to see if his atrial fibrillation is stable, i.e. the irregularity in the time spacing between pulses, which is NOT serious at all due to his good diet and cardio exercise regime - normally until march standing up and sitting down in his chair 20 times quickly to make his heart race for exercise (he has never had angina in 5 years and has never needed defibrillation). The standard deviation of the time intervals between heartbeats remains only 7%, just as it was five years ago. Very minor AF! His heart was pounding, however, due to the low potassium contracting his blood vessels! REFERENCE: https://doclibrary-rcht.cornwall.nhs.uk/DocumentsLibrary/RoyalCornwallHospitalsTrust/Clinical/Pharmacy/ManagementOfHypokalaemiaClinicalGuideline.pdf

 
At 9:30 pm, Blogger nige said...

ECG of dad's heart done on dad's ECG/defibrillator by me this afternoon, Friday 14 May 2021 at 2pm before the GP arrived. Dad's atrial fibrillation is NOT a problem: it is virtually insignificant now due to very healthy diet (porridge for breakfast, fish and veg for lunch, skimmed milk, no sweets/sugar) plus regular exercise for past 16 years since his single stent was put in by Dr Tang at the London Independent Hospital in January 2005! His atrial fibrillation, measured by the irregularity in timing of heart contractions, today was only 7% (standard deviation in time intervals between pulses), no different from last year when he had no stairlift was was walking up stairs, exercising and driving daily. His heart valve ejection fraction of 45% is unchanged from last year, also. His problem now is (1) severe low potassium i.e. hypokalaemia (2.4 mmol/litre potassium in blood serum measured yesterday 13 May 2021), and (2) anaemia (108 g/l haemoglobin on 8 April 2021, day before Colchester Hospital discharged him without telling Woodland Nursing home this on his discharge report). If dad can survive the next few days as he is given potassium solution to overcome hypokalaemia (hypokalaemia contracts blood vessels, increasing the strain on the heart and risking a heart attack, like a pump having to pump a large amount of fluid through very thin tubes!), he should make it! REF: https://doclibrary-rcht.cornwall.nhs.uk/DocumentsLibrary/RoyalCornwallHospitalsTrust/Clinical/Pharmacy/ManagementOfHypokalaemiaClinicalGuideline.pdf

 
At 5:46 pm, Blogger nige said...

From: nigel cook
Sent: 15 May 2021 18:28
To: Christopher Raynsford PC 42074890; Joanna Seraphin - ASC Social Worker; Chief Constable; phillippa.mills@essex.police.uk
Subject: Murder evidence in lying Do not Resuscitate form signed by Dr Rasool of Colchester Hospital to Woodland View Nursing Home on 9 April 2021 which false claims John Cook, Ann and Nigel Cook had agreed/been consulted when in fact we have proof of the opposite

RE: John Bryan Cook, b. 30 June 1933, home address 42 Pampas Close, Colchester, CO4 9ST.

On Friday 14 May 2021 John Cook’s new GP (Mill Road Surgery, Colchester) showed me in Room 19 at Woodland View Nursing Home, Turner Road, Colchester, additional murder evidence in lying Do not Resuscitate form signed by Dr Rasool of Colchester Hospital to Woodland View Nursing Home on 9 April 2021 which false claims John, Ann and Nigel Cook had agreed/been consulted when in fact we have proof of the opposite. I was shown the form yesterday which is in John Cook’s folder at the nurses’ station, Woodland View Nursing Home, Turner Road, Colchester. I repeatedly tape recorded conversations with John Cook last month, including one on his Essex Council social worker Joanna Seraphin’s voicemail as she requested, in which he freely stated he wanted to live not to die (ward manager Mark Smith and Dr Rasool then abused me for doing what Joanna asked. He wanted resuscitation. I was never consulted nor was Ann Cook RGN but Dr Rasool signed a form stating the opposite, I.e. deliberately lying and placing John Cook’s life in imminent danger to cover-up attempted murder, after refusing to give blood tests or differential diagnosis information. I request that this evidence is photocopied by Essex Police for CID as murder attempt evidence. Thank you for your cooperation.

Nigel Cook

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All of this data should have been published to inform public debate on the basis for credible nuclear deterrence of war and civil defense, PREVENTING MILLIONS OF DEATHS SINCE WWII, instead of dDELIBERATELY allowing enemy anti-nuclear and anti-civil defence lying propaganda from Russian supporting evil fascists to fill the public data vacuum, killing millions by allowing civil defence and war deterrence to be dismissed by ignorant "politicians" in the West, so that wars triggered by invasions with mass civilian casualties continue today for no purpose other than to promote terrorist agendas of hate and evil arrogance and lying for war, falsely labelled "arms control and disarmament for peace": "Controlling escalation is really an exercise in deterrence, which means providing effective disincentives to unwanted enemy actions. Contrary to widely endorsed opinion, the use or threat of nuclear weapons in tactical operations seems at least as likely to check [as Hiroshima and Nagasaki] as to promote the expansion of hostilities [providing we're not in a situation of Russian biased arms control and disarmament whereby we've no tactical weapons while the enemy has over 2000 neutron bombs thanks to "peace" propaganda from Russian thugs]." - Bernard Brodie, pvi of Escalation and the nuclear option, RAND Corp memo RM-5444-PR, June 1965.

Update (19 January 2024): Jane Corbin of BBC TV is continuing to publish ill-informed nuclear weapons capabilities nonsense debunked here since 2006 (a summary of some key evidence is linked here), e.g. her 9pm 18 Jan 2024 CND biased propaganda showpiece Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vgq5/nuclear-armageddon-how-close-are-we which claims - from the standpoint of 1980s Greenham Common anti-American CND propaganda - that the world would be safer without nuclear weapons, despite the 1914-18 and 1939-45 trifles that she doesn't even bother to mention, which were only ended with nuclear deterrence. Moreover, she doesn't mention the BBC's Feb 1927 WMD exaggerating broadcast by Noel-Baker which used the false claim that there is no defence against mass destruction by gas bombs to argue for UK disarmament, something that later won him a Nobel Peace Prize and helped ensure the UK had no deterrent against the Nazis until too late to set off WWII (Nobel peace prizes were also awarded to others for lying, too, for instance Norman Angell whose pre-WWI book The Great Illusion helped ensure Britain's 1914 Liberal party Cabinet procrastinated on deciding what to do if Belgium was invaded, and thus failed deter the Kaiser from triggering the First World War!). The whole basis of her show was to edit out any realism whatsoever regarding the topic which is the title of her programme! No surprise there, then. Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia are currently designing the W93 nuclear warhead for SLBM's to replace the older W76 and W88, and what she should do next time is to address the key issue of what that design should be to deter dictators without risking escalation via collateral damage: "To enhance the flexibility and responsiveness of our nuclear forces as directed in the 2018 NPR, we will pursue two supplemental capabilities to existing U.S. nuclear forces: a low-yield SLBM warhead (W76-2) capability and a modern nuclear sea launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) to address regional deterrence challenges that have resulted from increasing Russian and Chinese nuclear capabilities. These supplemental capabilities are necessary to correct any misperception an adversary can escalate their way to victory, and ensure our ability to provide a strategic deterrent. Russia’s increased reliance on non-treaty accountable strategic and theater nuclear weapons and evolving doctrine of limited first-use in a regional conflict, give evidence of the increased possibility of Russia’s employment of nuclear weapons. ... The NNSA took efforts in 2019 to address a gap identified in the 2018 NPR by converting a small number of W76-1s into the W76-2 low-yield variant. ... In 2019, our weapon modernization programs saw a setback when reliability issues emerged with commercial off-the-shelf non-nuclear components intended for the W88 Alteration 370 program and the B61-12 LEP. ... Finally, another just-in-time program is the W80-4 LEP, which remains in synchronized development with the LRSO delivery system. ... The Nuclear Weapons Council has established a requirement for the W93 ... If deterrence fails, our combat-ready force is prepared now to deliver a decisive response anywhere on the globe ..." - Testimony of Commander Charles Richard, US Strategic Command, to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, 13 Feb 2020. This issue of how to use nuclear weapons safely to deter major provocations that escalate to horrific wars is surely is the key issue humanity should be concerned with, not the CND time-machine of returning to a non-nuclear 1914 or 1939! Corbin doesn't address it; she uses debunked old propaganda tactics to avoid the real issues and the key facts.

For example, Corbin quotes only half a sentence by Kennedy in his TV speech of 22 October 1962: "it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States", and omits the second half of the sentence, which concludes: "requiring a full retalitory response upon the Soviet Union." Kennedy was clearly using US nuclear superiority in 1962 to deter Khrushchev from allowing the Castro regime to start any nuclear war with America! By chopping up Kennedy's sentence, Corbin juggles the true facts of history to meet the CND agenda of "disarm or be annihilated." Another trick is her decision to uncritically interview CND biased anti-civil defense fanatics like the man (Professor Freedman) who got Bill Massey of the Sunday Express to water down my article debunking pro-war CND type "anti-nuclear" propaganda lies on civil defense in 1995! Massey reported to me that Freedman claimed civil defense is no use against a H-bomb, which he claims is cheaper than dirt cheap shelters, exactly what Freedman wrote in his deceptive letter published in the 26 March 1980 Times newspaper: "for far less expenditure the enemy could make a mockery of all this by increasing the number of attacking weapons", which completely ignores the Russian dual-use concept of simply adding blast doors to metro tubes and underground car parks, etc. In any case, civil defense makes deterrence credible as even the most hard left wingers like Duncan Campbell acknowledged on page 5 of War Plan UK (Paladin Books, London, 1983): "Civil defence ... is a means, if need be, of putting that deterrence policy, for those who believe in it, into practical effect."