The Effects of Nuclear Weapons www.nukegate.org: 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)

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.

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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

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.

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!

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”

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

TRUSTEES OF THE LONDON CLINIC LIMITED

Registered company number 307579. Registered charity number: 211136.

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 2^nd 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:

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.

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).

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.

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.

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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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Anonymous3:23 pm
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

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Anonymous3:27 pm
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.
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nige3:27 pm
Please be polite or they'll lose the evidence or their marbles.
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nige4:36 pm
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.
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nige4:55 pm
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!)

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Anonymous4:58 pm
Forced euthanasia (outlawed by the Suicide Act 1961 section 2), not eugenics. Stand corrected, like the patient wearing NHS orthopaedic shoes!
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nige5:03 pm
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.
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Anonymous5:05 pm
Miss Bailey should have reconnected the oxygen herself and watered the patients herself. Not rocket science, is it?
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nige5:09 pm
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.
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Harold Smith5:50 pm
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
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nige5:55 pm
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!
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nige7:49 am
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
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nige9:45 am
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
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nige5:43 am
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!
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nige5:52 am
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.)
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nige3:23 pm
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

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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.

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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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nige9:59 am
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

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nige11:45 am
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.)
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nige3:15 pm
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.)
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nige9:55 am
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.
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nige10:28 am
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.
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nige1:04 am
Future updates will be at the links:

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

and

https://archive.org/details/colchesterhospital
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nige12:15 pm
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
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Anonymous5:06 am
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!
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nige5:13 am
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.
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nige8:05 am
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
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nige8:13 am
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
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nige4:36 pm
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.
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nige12:25 pm
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
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nige9:11 am
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!
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nige7:43 pm
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 ...
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nige7:44 pm
Sorry, typing error above, should read "108 grams/litre of haemoglobin on 8 april 2021", not 109.
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nige7:52 pm
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!
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nige8:07 pm
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...
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nige6:38 am
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
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nige6:39 am
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
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nige6:39 am
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/
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nige6:40 am
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/
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nige6:40 am
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
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nige6:41 am
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.

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nige6:42 am
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)
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nige6:43 am
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). ...
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nige7:29 am
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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nige7:32 am
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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nige9:30 pm
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
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nige9:30 pm
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
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nige5:46 pm
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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“Appeasement seldom works in the long term ... appeasement will not prevent every possible attack.”

Glasstone and Dolan, “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons,” 1977, paras 12.14, 12.17, 12.22, pp. 545-7:

The high incidence of flash burns caused by thermal radiation among both fatalities and survivors in Japan was undoubtedly related to the light and scanty clothing being worn, because of the warm summer weather ... If there had been an appreciable cloud cover or haze below the burst point, the thermal radiation would have been attenuated somewhat and the frequency of flash burns would have been much less. Had the weather been cold, fewer people would have been outdoors and they would have been wearing more extensive clothing. Both the number of people and individual skin areas exposed to thermal radiation would then have been greatly reduced, and there would have been fewer casualties from flash burns. ... The death rate in Japan was greatest among individuals who were in the open at the time of the explosions; it was less for persons in residential (wood-frame and plaster) structures and least of all for those in concrete buildings. These facts emphasize the influence of circumstances of exposure on the casualties produced by a nuclear weapon and indicate that shielding of some type can be an important factor in survival. ... Had they been forewarned and knowledgeable about areas of relative hazard and safety, there would probably have been fewer casualties even in structures that were badly damaged.”

ABOVE: "The H-Bomb: we hear too much of the horrors, not enough about our chances of survival. Some people will tell you that if this country were attacked with H-Bombs, every man jack of the population would be wiped out. That just isn't true: it isn't anything LIKE the truth."

Our problem is the pseudo-scientific groupthink prejudice and ignorance of the media, which publishes false indoctrination; sycophantic "ridicule" of cheap, effective duck and cover (the flash of an expolsion travels faster than the blast wave). By dismissing civil defence as a credible option for reducing risks and for negating the effects of terrorist threats and actions, 100% of the "response" emphasis is placed on military action, disarmament idealism, or appeasement of terrorism (all of which have strong advocates in the media, the money-spinning professional pseudo-science peace/environmentalism dogma industries, and related fashion/fascist politics). There are few strong civil defence advocates in the government, Parliament, the popular media, the military, the scientific community. But civil defence must become a component of all humane war, reducing or eliminating collateral damage, mortality, injury and suffering to civilians.

"The entire Free World, despite its intellectual sophistication, is being held hostage by fear. This fear of the unknown has proliferated for the past 80 years through propaganda, unsound pronouncements of world leaders, and misleading labels compounded by a public press that has neglected its own mandate to seek out and tell the truth."

- James W. Hammond, Poison gas: the myths versus reality, Preface (Greenwood Press, 1999).

Above: the firestorm in Hiroshima merely blocked out sunshine for 25 minutes, hence disproving ‘Nuclear Winter’ polemical deceptions; furthermore, unlike Hiroshima modern cities that are nuclear targets simply do not contain thousands of charcoal braziers in bamboo and paper screen filled wooden houses with black colored air-raid black out curtains in their windows, and thermal shadowing prevents most modern city buildings from being ignited so there can be no firestorm now, let alone any climate change due to nuclear weapons! (Source: Figure 6 (3H) of the Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan, Volume 1, Office of the Air Surgeon, report NP-3036, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.)

Above: eighteen people visiting Hiroshima survived and took trains home to Nagasaki and then survived the second explosion. Nine survivors of Hiroshima who travelled to Nagasaki avoided blasted glass and flying debris at the second nuclear explosion because they knew that the blast effect (breaking windows and blasting glass fragments and other debris horizontally) was slightly delayed after the flash (like thunder after lightning), so they had time to literally duck and cover from part of the heat flash and horizontally flying glass and debris. Robert Trumbull - the New York Times Pacific and Asia war correspondent, 1941-79 who had been in Iwo Jima - documented the facts in his 1957 book Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Personal Experiences of Nine Men who Lived Through Both Atomic Bombings. Here are their experiences and ages on 9 August 1945:

Kenshi Hirata, 26, accountant at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Company, Hiroshima (Trumbull pp. 25, 61, and 119): “‘through an open window what looked like a golden lightning flash ... had blown up out of the earth. The weird light was everywhere. I immediately thought of an air-raid, and hurled myself prostrate in the passage.’ Hirata’s quick action probably saved him serious injury, if not his life. ... Because it was the middle of summer, which is exceptionally hot in southern Japan, most of the people of Hiroshima were very thinly clad that morning, so they had less than ordinary protection against burns, Hirata observed. ... [Back in Nagasaki] ‘I shouted to my aged father ... ‘Lie face downward!’ In the immediate moment I was expecting that terrific explosion blast and roar.’ ... Kenshi and his father were unharmed. ‘But in two or three minutes ... I saw people running out of their houses, holding their hands over injuries on their heads, faces, and bodies. Most of these were wounds caused by flying pieces of glass.”

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 29, Mitsubishi ship designer who died in 2010, aged 93 (Trumbull pp. 28 and 109): “‘Suddenly there was a flash like the lighting of a huge magnesium flare,’ Yamaguchi recalls. The young ship designer was so well drilled in air-raid precaution techniques that he reacted automatically. He flung his hands to his head, covering his eyes with his fingers and stopping his ears with his two thumbs. Simultaneously he dropped to the ground, face down. ... ‘As I prostrated myself, there came a terrific explosion’ ... [The left side of his face and arm facing the fireball were burned, and he returned to Nagasaki, experiencing the second nuclear explosion on the sixth-floor of the headquarters office of Mitsubishi.] Spelling out the danger of flying glass, he urged them to keep windows open during an air-raid alert, and at the instant of the flash to seize at once upon any shelter available ... the second A-bomb confirmed young Yamaguchi’s words, exploding in a huge ball of fire about a mile away. Yamaguchi’s lecture ... was not lost upon his colleagues. With the young designer’s words still fresh in their minds, they leaped for the cover of desks and tables. ‘As a result,’ said Yamaguchi, ‘my section staff suffered the least in that building. In other sections there was a heavy toll of serious injuries from flying glass’.”

Shigeyoshi Morimoto, 46, maker of kites for air defense of Japanese ships, used his Hiroshima experience to take cover in Nagasaki after seeing the flash, before the windows were blasted in. Tsuitaro Doi, 47, was on his Hiroshima hotel bed, a thin floor mattress called a “futon” when he saw the explosion flash (Trumbull pages 42 and 106-7): “I quickly rolled over and covered my head with the futon ... The floor of the room and my futon were covered with tiny bits of shattered glass. I noticed that I had a slight cut on one arm, and another on the leg, where I wasn’t covered. ... [He returned home to Nagasaki] “Doi was telling his wife in detail about the bomb. ‘If you ever see that flash,’ he said, ‘immediately prostrate yourself on the floor, or the ground if you are outside. ...’ As he was saying these words, the windows lighted as if giant searchlights had been turned directly into the house. ... Mrs Doi startled, jumped to her feet impulsively and turned to run out of the house. Doi grabbed her and pulled her and the baby down as the blast wave shattered all the glass in the little cottage and ripped off the wood and paper sliding doors. As the flimsy house steadied Doi opened his eyes, and saw that the interior of the room was a wreck. But neither he nor his wife nor the baby was hurt.”

Shinji Kinoshita, 50, was hit by falling roof slabs in a Hiroshima warehouse but returned home to Nagasaki and was just outside the door of his family home when the bomb fell (Trumbull p105): “he was momentarily blinded by a flash that seemed to cover the sky. Like the other survivors of the Hiroshima attack, Kinoshita realized at once what the strange, blinding light meant, and reacted without a second’s hesitation. He threw himself face first on the ground, at the same time shouting into the house, ‘Cover yourself with futons!’”

Masao Komatsu, 40, was hit by falling beam in a Hiroshima warehouse and was on board a train in Nagasaki when the bomb fell (Trumbull, p101): “the interior of the coach was bathed in a stark, white light. Komatsu immediately dived for the floor. ‘Get down!’ he screamed at the other passengers. Some recovered sufficiently from the daze of the blinding light to react promptly to his warning. Seconds later came the deafening crack of the blast, and a shock wave that splintered all the windows on both sides of the train. The passengers who had not dived under the seats were slashed mercilessly from waist to head by glass flying at bullet speed.”

Takejiro Nishioka, 55, publisher of Nagasaki’s leading newspaper in 1945 who became Governor of the Nagasaki Prefecture in 1957. In Hiroshima on business on 6 August 1945, he survived the first nuclear explosion and noted the delay of the blast wave after the very bright visible first flash from the fireball. When he returned to Nagasaki he was not allowed to publish these facts, yet he survived by diving into an air raid shelter when he saw the flash after a single B-29 appeared over the city. He explained (Trumbull, p92):

“I had observed in Hiroshima that when the flash came, there would be a few seconds before it was followed by the blast wave ... I have often bitterly regretted the law that gagged me as a newspaperman, and forced me to confine my communications to the governor’s ear alone.”

Japan only permitted civil defense advice against nuclear attack to be published after the second nuclear attack on Nagasaki, which was too late. Even at ground zero, the blast wave was delayed after the first flash because of the height of burst, so quick reactions could limit exposure to flying glass. Proof of the efficiency of duck and cover advice against the blast wind and flying debris was given by Nagasaki’s police chief Mizuguchi, who had been told Nishioka’s advice by the Nagasaki governor and had passed it to his first-grade middle school student son, who was with three friends in Daikoku-Machi street, Nagasaki, when the flash occurred (Trumbull pp. 114-5):

“The police chief’s son remembered his father’s warning at once. Hauling his friend with him by the hand, he dashed for a shelter on the pavement ... The two boys in the shelter were saved; the other two, who stayed on the street, seemed to vanish ... Mizuguchi’s wife, at the same moment, happened to be standing just outside their house, under the eves, with a baby in her arms. The instant she saw the flash, she recalled her husband’s words of the night before and rushed back into the house. She opened a closet and, with the baby still in her arms, crowded inside and pulled shut the sliding door. ... The room, and the area outside the house, was covered with innumerable sharp, pointed slivers of shattered glass. Clearly, she had escaped serious injury by shutting herself in the closet. ...

“Nishioka was bitterly upbraided by Hiromasa Nakamura, chief of the foreign affairs sections of the Nagasaki Prefectural Office, for not briefing other government officials on the happenings at Hiroshima and the efficacy of bomb shelters. ... ‘I could only tell him that I was indeed anxious to tell everyone in Nagasaki what I had learned, but that if I had done so, I would have been liable for violation of the law against spreading ‘wild rumors’, and could have been arrested and convicted.”

Akira Iwanaga (25, engineer at Mitsubishi ship yard, a friend and colleague of Yamaguchi). After surviving at Hiroshima, he arrived in Nagasaki just as the bomb exploded, aboard the same train as another double-survivor, Masao Komatsu (Trumbull p101). Sakajiro Mishima, 36, dockside worker at Mitsubishi ship yard, also survived both nuclear explosions. Yamaguchi’s friend Kuniyoshi Sato, along with Masako Suga and her baby boy and Hiroshi Shibuta were all also double-survivors of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Another double-survivor is Mrs Kazuko Sadamaru (aged 20 in 1945), who was interviewed aged 80 in 2005 in The Observer (London, Sunday 24 July 2005). She was a nurse in a Nagasaki’s Ohmura Naval Hospital but on 5 August 1945 had to accompany a soldier to Hiroshima by train, where she survived and returned to Nagasaki before the second bomb:

‘“I never wanted to speak out about my experience. I haven’t published anything or talked to anyone because I didn’t want anyone to know. I only became a nurse because I wanted to devote myself to patients and the country. I never dreamt Japan would lose the war. I worked and worked believing Japan would win. I cannot forget the events on 6 and 9 August 1945. I saw the flashes and the mushroom clouds of both A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So many were exposed to the A-bomb but I am one of the few people who have experienced the two bombs, and still I am in good health. It was fate that I was there, but I had good luck in that I survived both bombs.” Despite being close to both bombs, she suffered only a temporary abnormal white blood cell count and loss of hair.”’

“No statistically significant increase in major birth defects or other untoward pregnancy outcomes was seen among children of survivors. ... The incidence of major birth defects (594 cases or 0.91%) among the 65,431 registered pregnancy terminations for which parents were not biologically related accords well with a large series of contemporary Japanese births at the Tokyo Red Cross Maternity Hospital, where radiation exposure was not involved and overall malformation frequency was 0.92%. No untoward outcome showed any relation to parental radiation dose or exposure. ... Since many birth defects, especially congenital heart disease, are not detected in the neonatal period, repeat examinations were conducted at age eight to ten months. Among the 18,876 children re-examined at that age, 378 had one or more major birth defect (2.00%), compared with 0.97% within two weeks of birth. Again, there was no evidence of relationships to radiation dose.”

– RERF, Birth defects among the children of atomic-bomb survivors (Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapons explosion irradiated survivors).

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki nuclear attacks RERF life-span study (LSS) from 1950 to 2000 for leukemia deaths and from 1958 to 1998 for solid cancer occurrence showed that for 49,204 survivors in the leukemia study group, there were an excess of 94 leukemia deaths attributed to radiation, risk of 94/49,204 or 0.191% (above the natural number of cancers in the unexposed control group), and an excess of 848 solid (tumour) cancer deaths in 44,635 survivors, a risk of 848/44,635 or 1.90%.

In each case, the excess radiation cancer risk was smaller than the natural risk of 0.22% for leukemia and 15.69% for solid (tumour) cancer deaths. It is significant that the natural cancer death risk was higher than the radiation cancer death risk for both leukemia and solid tumours unless the dose exceeded about 1 Gray (100 R or 100 cGy).

E.g., 48% of leukemia deaths from doses of 10-100 R were due to radiation and 52% were natural (a bigger risk than radiation). Likewise, only 16% of solid tumour cancer deaths for doses of 10-100 R were due to radiation (84% were natural):

“If all residents in the hazardous fallout region adopt a shelter-in-place strategy, the total number of acute radiation casualties is estimated to be ~ 3,600, as compared to ~ 100,000 casualties if all are outdoors and unsheltered. Some further reductions in casualties can be realized if those in the poorest shelters transit to better shelters soon after the detonation.”

– Larry D. Brandt and Ann S. Yoshimura, Analysis of Sheltering and Evacuation Strategies for a Chicago Nuclear Detonation Scenario, Sandia National Laboratories, Report SAND2011-6720, August 2011, page 5. (PDF here.)

“We have shown that common estimates of weapon effects that calculate a ‘radius’ for thermal radiation are clearly misleading for surface bursts in urban environments. In many cases only a few unshadowed vertical surfaces, a small fraction of the area within a thermal damage radius, receive the expected heat flux.”

– R. E. Marrs, W. C. Moss, and B. Whitlock, Thermal Radiation from Nuclear Detonations in Urban Environments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCRL-TR-231593, June 2007, page 11. (PDF here.)

“Reliance on The Effects of Nuclear Weapons for valid conclusions has its shortcomings. For example, in the 1954 test series in the Pacific, I was on the deck of the YAG-39 which was on station at about twenty miles from the shot point of a detonation with a yield near ten megatons. The thermal flash did not produce the predicted second degree burn on the back of my neck or indeed any discomfort at all.”

- Dr Carl F. Miller, Dialogue, Scientist and Citizen, vol. 8, combined issues 4-5 (February-March 1966), page 17.

“Models developed at Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown similar reductions in injuries from the initial radiation [J.T. Goorley, Nuclear Weapon Effects for Urban Consequences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR 09-00703 and LA-UR-10-01029] ... Like the thermal analysis, these studies indicate that the ambient radiation levels from a low-yield, ground-level nuclear detonation in an urban environment could be significantly reduced.”

– Brooke Buddemeier, “Reducing the Consequences of a Nuclear Detonation: Recent Research”, The bridge (ISSN 0737-6278, National Academy of Engineering), Vol. 40, No. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 28–38 (quotation from page 30).

After studying hundreds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, Dr. Irving L. Janis reported that the bright flash arriving at light speed ahead of the blast wave allowed them to take evasive action in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a fact ignored in computer models of blast casualties (Psychological Effects of Atomic Bombing, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Publication No. L54-134, 14 May 1954, page 4):

“A substantial proportion of the survivors reacted automatically to the brilliant flash of the A-bomb as a danger signal, even though they knew nothing about the existence of atomic weapons at that time. Some who were not located near ground zero took prompt action – such as falling to a prone position – which minimized exposure to the blast and to the secondary heat waves. In many other cases, however, the opportunity to minimize the danger was missed because the individual remained fixed or because the action which was taken proved to be inappropriate.”

Dr G. Andrew Mickley explains how workers who returned to Nagasaki after surviving at Hiroshima were able to use their experience to survive the second nuclear explosion, and to help others to prepare, in his paper “Psychological Factors in Nuclear Warfare”, Chapter 8 in Textbook of Military Medicine; Part I, Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty; Volume 2: Medical Consequences of Nuclear Warfare, U.S. Army, 1989, pp. 184-5:

“The benefits of training are confirmed by the remarkable experiences of nine persons who survived the Hiroshima bombing and then fled to Nagasaki in time for the second atomic bomb. They remembered very well what they had done that allowed them to live, and they quickly instructed others in Nagasaki: “Yamaguchi's lecture on A-bomb precautions, he pointed out later, was not lost upon his colleagues. With the young designer's words still fresh in their minds [on 9 August 1945, in Nagasaki] they leaped for the cover of desks and tables. “As a result,” said Yamaguchi, “my section staff suffered the least in that building. In other sections there was a heavy toll of serious injuries from flying glass.” (Quoted from Robert Trumbull, Nine who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1957.)”

Robert Trumbull’s Nine who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki (E. P. Dutton and Co., N.Y., 1957) interviewed nine of the sixteen who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions (travelling to homes in Nagasaki immediately by train after surviving at Hiroshima). The double-survivor Takejira Nishioka (a newspaper publisher) observed in Hiroshima that the blast wave was delayed after the flash, and, being friends with the Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, tried (but failed) to get permission to send out a warning prior to the Nagasaki nuclear attack that people can avoid being knocked down or hit by horizontally-blasted window glass and debris if they duck and cover on seeing the very bright visible flash.

Duck and cover also provides shielding from thermal and nuclear radiation, because it increases the fraction of the free-field air radiation dose which is attenuated through obstructions before reaching a person, as was known in 1949 (HO 225/14, The advantage of lying prone in reducing the dose of gamma rays from an airburst atomic bomb).

The advice was experimentally verified in the 37 kt Plumbbob-Priscilla nuclear test of 1957, where a standing dummy and a lying dummy were actually filmed being hit by a 5.3 psi peak overpressure blast wave. The lying dummy was completely unmoved, but the standing dummy was accelerated to 21 ft/s in just 0.5 seconds, and blasted a distance of 22 feet. However, in humans the feet rotate forward (because the centre of the body mass is above mid-height) so head-first impacts at the maximum velocity are prevented by the laws of physics, and the only risk to the head is from the vertical fall, and even this is delayed for the blast duration, giving at least 0.5 second of extra time to use the arms to protect the head.

Even in the 43.7 kt Plumbbob-Smoky nuclear test where the dummies were in a “blast precursor” desert sandstorm with a very much high dynamic pressure, the lying dummy was only blown half the distance of the standing one.

In 1964, the 0.5 kt Snowball explosion confirmed the data and showed that goats are a proxy for humans in translation experiments (DASA-1859). Experiments thus proved that 77% (23/30) of goats survived a blast which gave them a velocity of 51-78 ft/sec and a decelerative tumbling displacement of 59-151 ft (I. G. Bowen, D. R. Richmond and C. S. White, Translational Effects of Blast Waves, “Minutes of the Tripartite Technical Cooperation Program, Panel N-1, Sub-group N, 14-16 March 1963”, Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 11 March 1963, page 57).

In a built-up area, most people will never even reach the peak velocity observed in desert tests, because they will be stopped by obstructions after typically 10 ft, before they have even been accelerated to the optimum velocity. Therefore, any injury will be less serious, due to the smaller velocity at the time of impact. People can shelter from the blast winds behind strong concrete buildings like those which survived in Hiroshima, and which function as "blast walls" which deflect the blast winds and protect against overpressure by diffraction which reduces overpressures substantially (this is the opposite of normal incidence angle reflection, which theoretically increases blast overpressure on the front face of a rigid structure, if it is strong enough to reflect the blast wave back without absorbing its energy).

On 27 September 1956 dummy men were exposed to the 15 kt Buffalo-1 nuclear test at Maralinga (similar yield to Hiroshima). Dummies standing facing the burst were blown ~0.35p_psi² feet (p = peak overpressure, psi). But the dummies lying facing radially towards or away from ground zero were only blown 10% of this distance, because of (1) the smaller area exposed to the blast wind and dust, and (2) the greater area in contact with the ground, providing frictional resistance against drag. References: W. J. H. Butterfield, E. G. Hardy and E. R. Drake Seager, The effects of blast on dummy men exposed in the open, Operation Buffalo, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, report AWRE-T2/59, 1959 National Archives documents DEFE 16/165, A. R. F. Martin, The effects of blast on dummies and scout cars, Operation Antler, report AWRE-T6/59, ES 5/270, 1959, and the research on the reduced blast displacement of lying dummies exposed to large conventional explosions: DASA 2710.

George Monbiot, The Guardian, Tuesday 5 April 2011: “The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all: I’ve discovered that when the facts don’t suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce. ... Dr Caldicott is the world’s foremost anti-nuclear campaigner. ... Caldicott’s response ... a report by the US National Academy of Sciences, which she urged me to read. I have now done so – all 423 pages. It ... strongly contradicts her claims ... For the last 25 years anti-nuclear campaigners have been racking up the figures for deaths and diseases caused by the Chernobyl disaster, and parading deformed babies like a medieval circus. They now claim 985,000 people have been killed ... there have been 6,848 cases of [treatable] thyroid cancer among young children – arising ‘almost entirely’ from the Soviet Union’s failure to prevent people from drinking milk contaminated with iodine 131 [which has a half life of only 8 days, so cattle can be taken out of fields and given winter feed while it decays, or else the milk can be dry powdered or used to make cheese, or even frozen; if people must drink contaminated milk, they can block iodine-131 uptake by daily 130 mg potassium iodate tablets, which nuclear industries stock for emergency distribution].”

Weapons effects exaggerations against civil defense are escalated by successive journalists and editors, who increase circulation against ever increasing noise levels from rival journals by publishing lying scare mongering which is “justified” by the allegedly moralistic pseudo-ethical assumption that “the ends justify the means”. Environmentalists who worship subjective, fashionable groupthink like a religion scream and conflate natural cancers with the effects of radiation. Like a Gordian Knot, any attempt to pull apart this scam “orthodoxy” just hardens the dogma, because its proponents do not believe in it on the basis of hard objective science, but just as an emotional, ethical, moralistic piece of patronising high-horse politics. As Glasstone pointed out in the 1950 Effects of Atomic Weapons, it is like the gas effects fear-mongering exaggerations propaganda before WWII (which claimed that gas would destroy civilization and lied that there was no defense).

“The unsuspecting layman naturally swallows it whole ... but they do want to get their manuscript accepted for the feature page of the Daily Drivel or the Weekly Wail. In order to do that, they must pile on the horrors thick.” – James Kendall, Breathe Freely!, quoted by Fair (ADA488135, linked here).

The 1935 effectively pro-Nazi “pacifist” conspiracy between Labour and Conservatives to pander to popular British pro-disarmament pacifist media sentiments.

“There is no security in armaments and we shall be no party to piling them up.”

– Labour Party Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee, 1935 (two years after Hitler took power and began rearming Germany; quotation from Gilbert and Gott, The Appeasers, 1967). Troubled by the failure of unilateral disarmament to save millions of lives in WWII, Attlee 12 years later as Prime Minister ordered the stockpiling of the first British nuclear weapons to deter WWIII from starting.

“Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and that we must rearm ... I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain.”

– Conservative Prime Minister Stanley “the bomber will always get through” Baldwin, who won the 1935 general election with a large majority by lying to get votes for popular pacifism, denying Winston Churchill’s unpopular “warmongering” claims that Hitler was rearming Germany and must be deterred effectively (speech in House of Commons, 12 November 1936). (Some pro-Baldwin historians – not Winston Churchill – claim Baldwin was referring to an earlier non-existing election than 1935, but this makes no difference to the total and utter lying masquerading as democracy.)

An early example of “ends justify the means” exaggeration of weapons effects is Will Irwin’s 1921 book, The Next War, exaggerating gas war into the end of civilization to “justify” 1920s disarmament. This was followed by a chorus of others, before appeasers like Chamberlain stepped in to “guarantee peace in our time” by shaking Hitler’s hand (while Britain only rearmed at a fraction of the rate of Germany, so as “not to risk another war”). Instead, this increased the danger of war:

“These weapons often appear mysterious and sinister to the general public. I think that much of the responsibility for this feeling falls on our government which, by placing great restriction on the public discussion of these weapons by military officers, has fostered this miasma of ignorance. ... the government perpetuates the mysteriousness of these weapons by its restrictions. Until I retired as Commanding General, U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command, I was under such restrictions. ... An uninformed public will not support urgently needed research and development on these weapons, nor will it be prepared psychologically for their use against us. ... Only knowledge of these weapons will make them less terrifying.

“In 1959, after hearings on research in CBR (Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Warfare), the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives stated that: ‘There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the dangers and uses of CBR if proper support is to be given to our defenses and countermeasures’. ... The attitude of our government not only prevents the public from learning of these weapons: it is also greatly responsible for the failure of our military personnel to learn about them. ... The military, in our country, are not a caste apart, but simply an extension of the civilian populace.”

- Brigadier General J.H. Rothschild, Tomorrow’s Weapons, McGraw-Hill, N.Y., 1964, pp. xi-xiii.

Rothschild explains on page 1 that his June 1959 Harper’s Magazine article arguing for greater defense against chemical and biological weapons was opposed by letters of protest “against war itself”. He then explains on page 2 that chemical and biological weapons are not uniquely invisible. Bullets are also invisible while flying through the air.

On page 3 he adds that in WWI only 2% of gassed American Expeditionary Force casualties died, compared to 25.8% of non-gas casualties, adding: “Exposed to one of the nerve gases, available since World War II, the casualty will either die or recover completely. Though a person under the effects of the nerve gases looks as though he is suffering greatly, men who have been accidentally exposed to them, and have recovered, say that they do not remember suffering at all. This is at great variance with the experience of casualties resulting from bullets, shell fragments, flame throwers, and land mines.”

Matthew Meselson, reviewing Rothschild’s book using sophistry on page 35 of the October 1964 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, fell into a false argument, claiming that the use of chemical weapons in WWII would have caused them to be used in the Korean War with “additional casualties.” In fact, the use of chemical weapons in WWI did not cause them to be used in WWII, and the use of nuclear weapons in WWII did not cause them to be used during the Cold War. Furthermore, because America kept to “conventional” weapons during the Korean War, it had to drop 635,000 tons of explosives and napalm bombs on Korea, more than in the entire Pacific theatre during WWII, ruining Korea’s cities, with immense casualties and suffering. Escalating to demoralise the enemy, as in August 1945, may stop wars and so stop further physical use of the feared weapon.

Biologist J. B. S. Haldane summarised the psychology of denial and duplicity in claiming gas warfare “unthinkable” in his 1925 book Callinicus: “First are a number of out-and-out Pacifists, who object to all war, and apparently hope to make it more difficult ... With them are associated a group of sentimentalists who appear to me definitely to be the Scribes and Pharisees of our age. ... They salve their consciences for such behaviour by attacking, in the name of their God or their ideals, every novelty ... In particular they are distinguished by a ferocious opposition to, and contempt for, any attempt at the solution of human problems ...”

Attacks on civil defense are akin to attacking home fire insurance, hospitals, ambulances, seatbelts, lifeboats, and other damage reducing precautions on the false allegation that they deflect attention from utopian accident prevention, or that they are “inefficient” and “the survivors would envy the dead”. The “false sense of security” and “recklessness” historically is shown to occur not with civil defense, but with a lack of civil defense, leading to either appeasement or a maximum amount of damage, escalating the problems.

“Is it really necessary for peace on this planet that an increasing number of governments have the power to destroy the lives of millions of Americans on short notice? Do the opponents of civil defense not see that such power also provides a temptation to use it, at least for blackmail? Mr Margolis points repeatedly and emphatically to the public apathy with regard to civil defense. ... But, in any case, if history is any guide, public apathy toward a measure would in no way prove the undesirability thereof.”

- Dr Eugene P. Wigner, “Civil Defense: Wigner on Project Harbor”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 1966, pp. 21-22 (quotation on page 22).

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President Barack Obama, Prague, Czech Republic, 5 April 2009:

“In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up. More nations have acquired these weapons. ... Terrorists are determined to buy, build or steal one. Our efforts to contain these dangers are centered on a global non-proliferation regime, but as more people and nations break the rules, we could reach the point where the center cannot hold.”

Dr Clayton S. White, M.D., “Biological Effects of Blast,” report DASA-1271, 1961, pp. 32-36:

“The area of complete destruction at Hiroshima [the area of the firestorm which developed to a maximum intensity 2-3 hours after the explosion was] about 1.2 mile radius (4 square miles), a range at which 4-5 psi existed. At this range there was an overall survival of near 90 percent. ... one must not confuse the area of complete destruction of houses ... with ‘complete destruction’ of people. ... The gloomy habit of confusing the two concepts is, I am afraid, as prevalent as it is unrealistic and, indeed, untrue. ... Think of the differences in casualties which might have occurred in Hiroshima had the population just been mostly indoors.”

Above: the overcrowding of wood-frame buildings in 1945 Hiroshima was such that 42 percent of the ground areas in the main firestorm areas was covered with wooden buildings containing charcoal braziers, paper screens, and bamboo furnishings. This compared to 45 percent ground coverage by buildings in the central wooden medieval part of Hamburg which suffered a firestorm in July 1943. (Source: secret USSBS report The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, May 1947, volume 2. This originally secret volume is not the misleading 1946 pamphlet, which omits all vital data.) U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, never-published full May 1947 report 92 on Hiroshima, volume 2, typeset edition pages 126-8 (quoted on pages 176 and 98 of Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945):

“Structural damage by blast to multistory, steel- and reinforced concrete-frame structures did not extend beyond 2,000 feet from GZ. The buildings within this radius sustained an average of 12 percent structural damage. The average for all the buildings of this type in Hiroshima was 8 percent.”

These are modern city buildings. The burned out areas in old photos are congested (a roof to ground area averaging 42% in firestorm areas) wood frame houses. On page 98, Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 quotes the secret 1947 USSBS Hiroshima report, vol 1, pp 13-14 (typeset edition):

“... 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 ... 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.”

The electric power was rapidly cut off by the overload, so sustained heat came from charcoal fires in Hiroshima's houses (due to breakfast, i.e. 8:15 local time).

Above: overcrowded wood frame housing containing charcoal braziers on the edge of the damaged area in Hiroshima (U.S. National Archives photo). How many cities in the world which contain this type of overcrowded wooden housing with charcoal braziers are targets for nuclear terrorism today? Note also that formerly secret measurements of the specific activity of fallout show that only about 1% of the crater volume becomes lofted fallout dust, most of which falls back rapidly: nuclear tests in the 1950s thus confirmed that there is no significant nuclear winter (cooling) from the cratered dust lofted as fallout. This claim relies on the carbon soot from large-scale firestorms (not just fires) which are supposed to inject a stable, non-humid, layer of hydroscopic carbon soot to altitudes where it can be warmed and achieve stable stable buoyancy, blocking out sunlight from lower altitudes. This contravenes the facts concerning the black rain in Hiroshima, which rapidly precipitated the soot. Robock's poorly researched but politically correct (peer-reviewer passed) Climactic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts (Atmos. Chem. Phys., v7, pp. 2003–2012, 2007) maintains the nuclear disaster delusion by ignoring all factual data on firestorm dust from Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

The authors assume that all targeted cities will produce mass fires with efficient pyroconvective pumping, that these fires will consume basically all available flammable material in the target cities, and that rainout will only remove 20% of the soot before it reaches the upper atmosphere. These are not valid assumptions, and real-world experience with atmospheric nuclear weapons detonations does not bear them out. ... even Brode's relatively extreme views are incompatible with the bizarre assumptions made in the 2007 Toon et al. study, and consequently the many studies that now use its conclusions to model the effects of regional nuclear conflict. The extremely low 20% rainout value is particularly problematic- the authors have no real justification for it other than "because we used it in 1990, and it arguably happens this way in some forest fires." ... Indeed, neither Hiroshima or Nagasaki appears to fit the assumptions made in the study - rainout at Hiroshima seems to have been pretty pronounced (the famous black rain), and Nagasaki failed to develop into a full-blown firestorm due to the local topography. In any case, rainout after a nuclear explosion is not the same as rainout resulting from a forest fire, as is attested by this 1988 study and this 1979 study of rainout following the atomic bombings in Japan. In short, Toon et al. really didn't do their research - at all.

Before quoting the firestorm details from the secret Hiroshima report, it is worth pointing out that all nuclear weapons stockpiled today are much smaller yield MIRV (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles) than the heavy fallout weapons tested in the 1950s. Most are relatively little more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons. Professor Freeman Dyson debunked the popular myths in his 1985 book Weapons and Hope (Harper and Row, New York, pp. 33-41):

“In 1957 ... Nevil Shute Norway published On the Beach, a description of mankind wiped out by radiological warfare [he had also previously published guesswork speculations about war in Britain in his April 1939 novel, What Happened to the Corbetts, which incorrectly speculated that bombing would cause a lack of clean water and cause that diseases like cholera to spread]. Norway's poignant translation of apocalyptic disaster into the everyday voices of real people caught the imagination of the world. His book became an international best-seller and was made into a successful film. The book and the film created an enduring myth, a myth which entered consciously or subconsciously into all subsequent thinking about nuclear war. ... Almost all the details are wrong: radioactive cobalt would not substantially increase the lethality of large hydrogen bombs; fallout would not descend uniformly over large areas but would fall sporadically in space and time; people could protect themselves from the radioactivity ...

“The first generation of hydrogen bombs which were tested in 1952 and 1954 had yields running from ten to fifteen megatons. They were, from a modern point of view, absurdly and inconveniently large. ... By the time I paid my first visit to Los Alamos, in the summer of 1956, hydrogen bombs of the twenty-megaton class were already considered technologically obsolete; all the experts I spoke to were working on smaller bombs with lower yields. ... The race toward smaller bombs has been driven by ... the cruise missile and the MIRV (Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicle). ... As soon as cruise missiles and MIRVs are available, high-yield weapons rapidly become obsolete. ... The central paradox of the arms race is the discrepancy between public perception and reality. The public perceives the arms race as giving birth to an endless stream of weapons of ever-increasing destructiveness and ever-increasing danger. ... In the 1950s there was indeed a race to produce weapons of mass destruction ... Since then the arms race has been running strongly in other directions, away from weapons of mass destruction toward weapons of high precision. ... One consequence of the computer revolutions has been the replacement of big hydrogen bombs by the MIRV and the cruise missile.”

The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, secret, unpublished three-volume May 1947 report

The 14 October to 26 November 1945 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Hiroshima is the key compendium of data, with much more data than any nuclear test report from the 1950s. A 1946 British Mission to Japan report includes photographs of air raid shelters which survived near ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but gives the survival data of 15,000 school children (in teams clearing firebreaks mainly outdoors), without stating the survival rates inside modern buildings. This is also done in Manhattan District report on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in the 1950-77 editions of The Effects of Atomic Weapons and The Effects of Nuclear Weapons where no breakdown of survival data in different kinds of buildings and in the open is provided. In particular, the cause of the Hiroshima firestorm was determined by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in its secret May 1947 report, but this was omitted from publications such as its unclassified report and the book, The Effects of Atomic Weapons.

Beginning with an incendiary raid on Tokyo on 9 March 1945 which Japanese records showed killed 83,793 and burned out 267,000 buildings (25% of Tokyo’s buildings), sixty-four Japanese cities were destroyed by non-nuclear air raids. The detailed and objective analysis of these incendiary air raids was classified “Restricted” in April 1947 by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in its unpublished limited distribution typeset and printed report Number 90, Effects of Incendiary Bomb Attacks on Japan, (108 MB PDF linked here). Part 3 (pages 65-118) documents the effects of the 9 March 1945 Tokyo incendiary raid, with photos on pages 104-109 very similar to the damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (combustible light frame buildings burned out with their steel distorted by the fires, and piles of charred bodies in streets). By omitting to publish this, an objective comparison of nuclear with conventional attacks was prevented.

The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, USSBS report 92, volume 2 (typeset May 1947 edition, 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).” Page 85 of volume one explains why so many people were outdoors in Hiroshima at 8:15 on 6 August 1945:

“Conditions on Morning of Attack. The morning of 6 August 1945 was clear with a small amount of clouds at high altitude. Wind was from the south with a velocity of about 4.5 miles per hour. Visibility was 10 to 15 miles. An air-raid ‘alert’ was sounded throughout Hiroshima Prefecture at 0709 hours [the weather survey B-29 aircraft flying one hour ahead of the nuclear bomber]. ‘All-clear’ was sounded at 0731 hours. The following circumstances account in part for the high number of casualties resulting from the atomic bomb:

(1) Only a few persons remained in the air-raid shelters after the ‘all-clear’ sounded.

(2) No ‘alert’ was sounded to announce the approach of the planes involved in the atomic-bomb attack.

(3) The explosion occurred during the morning rush hours when people had just arrived at work or were hurrying to their places of business. This concentrated the population in the center of the city ...”

Volume two examines 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.”

Page 28: “Wood poles as far as 10,000 feet in a southerly direction from AZ [air zero] and 13,000 feet in a northerly direction were flash-burned but the burns, generally not much more than a discoloration of the wood, were in all cases only on the side of the pole facing AZ. ... it is logical to conclude that wood (ignition temperature approximately 450 F) was not raised to its ignition temperature, except possibly in its most easily ignitable condition, such as dry-rotted. Surface spalling or roughening of granite by heat was observed near GZ and as far as 2,400 feet from AZ. This condition was only noticeable where the granite was directly exposed to rays from the bomb (surfaces facing AZ but shielded from it were not spalled) indicating that extremely high temperatures lasted only a fraction of a second. Asphalt road surfaces and asphalt-painted surfaces also were flash-burned, distinct shadows of objects being cast upon them, which again indicated that the radiated heat from the bomb created a temperature which was high but of short duration. ... Blisters as much as one-sixteenth inch high were raised on exposed tile at GZ (2,000 feet from AZ), decreasing in size as the distance from AZ increased until they were barely visible at 4,400 feet from AZ (4,000 feet from GZ).”

Page 34: “The fire wind seems to have reached its maximum velocity about 2 to 3 hours after the bomb explosion, following which it began to diminish in intensity. ... the heavier rain began about 3,500 feet west of GZ and extended westward about 5,000 feet. Light rain was reported to have fallen near the center of the city. ... Rain fell almost exclusively in the northwest area of the city ... accounted for by the light natural wind from the southeast which blew particles of hot carbon northwestward to a cooler area where moisture condensed about them and fell as rain.”

Page 44: “A special effort was made to determine the probable cause of initial ignition in buildings in which there was fire and the reason for non-ignition in buildings in which there was no fire. By observation and by interrogation of persons who were in or near the buildings when the bomb detonated it was established that the probable causes of initial ignition in 40 of the 58 fire-resistive [not wood frame] buildings in which there was fire were as follows: 8 by heat radiation from the bomb (primary fire); 3 by blast disturbance of telephone or chemical laboratory equipment (secondary fire); and 29 by fire spread from exposing buildings.”

Page 45: “Direct Ignition by the Atomic Bomb. ...

“(1) Each of the eight fire-resistive buildings in which primary fire was reported had unprotected windows facing AZ. Black cotton black-out curtains or light-weight paper, or both, were reported to have ignited initially in most of these buildings. All buildings in Hiroshima whose windows were not equipped with steel-roller shutters, which were considered light-proof, were required to have black-out curtains. Among the eight buildings which had primary fires, the farthest from AZ was Building 64 [Hiroshima Communications Hospital] at 5,300 feet [from AZ, or 4,900 feet from GZ].

“(2) A doctor who was in the first story of Building 64, a hospital 5,300 feet from AZ, stated that he discovered fire in the second story 10 minutes after the detonation, but was unable to identify the source. ... Cotton black-out curtains were drawn across the second-story windows only. ... Contents in the second story were totally damaged by fire, but in the first story only a few pieces of wooden furniture near the windows in the south wall facing AZ were scorched ...”

Page 70: “Direct Ignition by the Atomic Bomb. None of the 8 non-combustible buildings which had [contents] fire in them was reported to have had its contents ignited by radiated heat from the bomb. All except 3 (Buildings 46, 78, and 81) of the 12 non-combustible buildings had at least some unprotected wall openings facing AZ at the time of detonation of the bomb. The contents of these 3 buildings were shielded from direct radiated heat from the bomb by a blank wall, closed fire shutters, or another building. ...

Pages 74-75: “Combustible Construction. a. General. ... combustible buildings were load-bearing, brick-wall structures with wooden floors or roof, or both; steel-frame structures with wooden purlins and studs ... It was established that the probable cause of initial ignition in 23 of the 41 buildings which had fire was as follows: 3 by secondary fire (electrical equipment, stoves and industrial furnaces), and 20 by fire spread from exposing buildings. ... No eyewitness testimony was obtained to the effect that any one of the 41 fire-damaged combustible buildings was ignited directly by flash heat from the bomb.

“b. Direct Ignition by the Atomic Bomb. Although none of the 41 fire-damaged combustible buildings was reported to have been ignited by radiated heat from the bomb, it is considered probable that the contents of a few of the buildings which had unshielded wall openings facing AZ and which were within 4,000 feet of AZ were ignited in this manner. Since wooden poles and other exposed wood, even near GZ, were only flash burned by the bomb, it seems unlikely that exposed wood outside or inside buildings was ignited directly. ...

“c. Ignition by Secondary Fire. It was established that the initial ignition in three combustible buildings (3 [Hiroshima Electric Company’s Yagurashita Substation 900 feet from GZ], 37 [Takano Bath House 4,200 feet from GZ], and 72 [Toyo Light Alloy Company 6,200 feet from GZ]) was probably by secondary fire. These comprise 13 percent of the cases in which the probable cause was determined in this class of building. Building 3, an electric substation, was ignited by short circuits in electric generating and transforming equipment after the blast had collapsed the combustible roof. ... Building 37, a public bath house, was ignited by a hot stove after the blast had collapsed the combustible roof so that it fell on the stove. The combustible debris and contents were completely consumed. Building 72, an aluminum foundry, was ignited by a hot stove ...”

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 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.”

Page 110: “The most common failure of wood-frame buildings was buckling of the relatively slender columns ... This resulted usually either from a mass displacement of the building away from the blast, or from panel walls being blown in and carrying the columns along.”

Pages 126-8: “Structural damage by blast to multistory, steel- and reinforced concrete-frame structures did not extend beyond 2,000 feet from GZ. The buildings within this radius sustained an average of 12 percent structural damage. The average for all the buildings of this type in Hiroshima was 8 percent.”

Page 96 gives the mean destructive distance for multistory steel and reinforced concrete frame (both earthquake and non-earthquake resistant) buildings at 700 feet, compared to 9,200 feet for Japanese (wood-pole constructed) wooden houses. The damaged areas are proportional to the square of the radius, so although the Japanese wooden houses were only destroyed out to a radius about 13 times greater than modern city buildings, they were destroyed over an that was 173 times greater. Thus, for a similar bomb yield and altitude, the number of damaged buildings in a modern city would be 173 times less than in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

Page 126 states that the effects would have been stronger near ground zero for a lower burst height, but “lowering the height of detonation would have increased the amount of shielding of one structure by another”, thereby preventing the wide-area Mach stem enhanced blast and thermal effects like flash burns. Penney published extensive evidence of blast wave attenuation by the work energy done in causing damage (the force F due to a blast pushing a wall distance D in the direction of the blast uses energy E = FD, so energy is continually lost from the blast wave in a city, in doing damage).

Although fashionable books on Hiroshima tend to print pictures of the “blasted” twisted metal beams of the Odamasa Store (former Taiyo Theatre), USSBS building 52 at 2,800 feet from ground zero, page 322 explains it is an effect of fire: “Severe distortion caused by burning of combustible construction and contents.” Furthermore, similar twisting of metal frames in wooden buildings occurred in the Toyko incendiary attack, but those photos remained Restricted. It is not a special “nuclear” effect, nor are the burned bodies in the streets of Tokyo photographed after the main non-nuclear attack, despite all the polemic and inaccurate claims attacking civil defense.

Volume three states on page 29:

“The atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima, although it was an extremely powerful blast weapon, caused relatively little structural damage to the 81 important bridges. Scattered throughout the entire city, the bridges, 260 to 15,600 feet from ground zero (GZ), connected islands to islands and islands to the mainland, forming an adequate and efficient bridge system. ... impressive evidence of the ability of the bridges to resist the forces of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (air-burst at 2,000 feet0 was found in the facts that (1) 10 of 19 timber bridges studied were undamaged, (2) 10 of 15 concrete bridges had no damage, and (3) 14 of 23 steel bridges were undamaged.”

This is illustrated by the survival of the nuclear target point, the distinctive T-shaped Aioi bridge at the intersection of the Ota and Motoyasu Rivers (located 1,000 feet from ground zero due to the Hiroshima bombing error). Volume three at page 40 explains: “This bridge of plate-girder design received physical damage of a spectacular and interesting nature but it continued to carry unrestricted highway, pedestrian, and street railway traffic. The longitudinal steel girders suffered no great structural damage although a slight lateral deformation indicated that they had been highly stressed.” Bridge 20 over the Motoyasu River at 2,900 feet from ground zero retained clear “shadows” of non-scorched asphalt cast by the hand railings, one of the pieces of evidence which allowed geometric determination of the burst location and altitude.

EMP effects in Hiroshima may have been masked by blast and fire damage, as indicated in volume three, pages 191-6: “Of the 7 substations of the Chugoku Electric Co., the Sendamachi substation and steam-electric plant at 7,700 feet from GZ were heavily damaged by fires which spread to the area. The Otemachi substation, 2,400 feet from GZ, was heavily damaged by blast and fires started by the short-circuited equipment. The Dambara, Misasa, and Eba substations were only slightly damaged at distances from GZ of 5,500 feet and beyond. ... Analysis of the Damage. The Hiroshima substation, 15,000 feet from GZ, was undamaged by blast as a direct effect, but the tremendous overload created by the short-circuited damaged electrical equipment in the city of Hiroshima tripped the circuit breakers in the substation and immediately interrupted all electrical services in the Hiroshima area.”

Above: the reason why there is statistically reliable data on high doses of radiation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki is simply the fact that many people - far from being instantly vaporized along with all buildings near ground zero - survived all of the nuclear explosion effects within the Hiroshima firestorm in the Bank of Japan and Geibi Bank Company, and extinguished fires 2-3 hours after the nuclear explosion when firebrands (burning cinders) were blown through broken windows from the wooden areas firestorm surrounding these modern concrete city buildings. The photos above are from the U.S. Department of Defense DCPA Attack Environment Manual 1973, chapters 3 and 8, which documents the successful firefighting in modern buildings within the Hiroshima firestorm. The diagram on the right shows substantial radiation protection factors in modern city buildings from fallout radiation. Amateur fire-fighting in the Hiroshima nuclear attack is more applicable to modern cities today which contain fire-sprinkler systems in vulnerable buildings and fewer wooden houses:

“The study involves the development of techniques to evaluate the effect of fire defenses on building fires caused by a nuclear burst and the incorporation of the fire-defense techniques in a fire-spread model. ... Preliminary computations indicate that within a few hours about 1/4 of the manpower available in a tract can suppress all fires created by the initial ignition of 1/2 or less of the buildings. Most of the manpower, particularly those in the self-help teams, can be diverted to other activities after several minutes of effort. The preliminary results show that ordinary citizens with minimal instruction and training can bring about very pronounced reductions in the total fire damage.”

- Arthur N. Takata, Mathematical Modelling of Fire Defenses, IIT Research Institute, report AD0688941, 1969 (See also part 2, AD0705388.)

The U.S. Department of Defense's 1973 DCPA Attack Environment Manual, chapter 3, panel 26 used the examples of successful amateur fire-fighting modern Western-type city buildings in Hiroshima as proof that people can survive in modern city buildings exposed near ground zero within the firestorm of a nuclear explosion (due to overcrowded wooden housing areas). The data came from reports which remained limited or secret in distribution, however. Panel 27 in chapter 3 of the 1973 DCPA Attack Environment Manual states:

"The evidence from Hiroshima indicates that blast survivors, both injured and uninjured, in buildings later comsumed by fire 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 within the first half hour. The remainder were consumed by fire spread, some as late as 15 hours after the blast."

This proves that the rapid room flashover filmed Upshot-Knothole Encore test effect in a litter-filled wooden and imflammable materials-filled room with a large window facing the fireball with no obstructions or "shadowing", did not occur in the 80% humidity conditions of Hiroshima, far higher than in the drier Nevada test site desert (the humidity in Hiroshima was 80% and in Nagasaki it was 71%, see table VI of William E. Loewe, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report UCRL-90258, 1983). Although humidity has relatively little effect on the ignition energy for thin fine kindling materials, the proportionate effect is far greater for thicker fuels with the same equilibrium moisture content. The thermal flash can dry out damp paper; but it cannot dry out damp wood (a maximum of 0.85 mm of the surface of wood was charred by 50 cal/cm² from a 30 kt test in 1955 as proved by Kyle Laughlin in nuclear weapon test report WT-1198, 1957). Therefore, rapid flashover does not occur in realistic city humidity (most cities are beside rivers, lakes or the ocean). It did not occur from thermal radiation in Hiroshima.

Panel 3 of chapter 3 of the 1973 DCPA Attack Environment Manual also points out that the predictions of thermal burns in The Effects of Nuclear Weapons omit protection due to shadows by tall buildings in modern cities, and duck and cover evasive action: "Persons caught in the open or near windows can also take advantage of the relative slow pace of the thermal pulse from large-yield weapons. ... Further out, even more time would be available. In the light damage area (1 to 2 psi), evasive action within the first four seconds would avoid significant burn injury."

Above: buildings protect against thermal burns and fire ignition by the simple shadowing effect. The badly injured people in Hiroshima in many documented survivor accounts of serious burn and flying glass injuries had moved into a position (behind windows or outdoors) with a direct radial line to the fireball, to watch the B-29 bomb carrying aircraft.

In The Number of Atomic Bombs Equivalent to the Last War Air Attacks on Great Britain and Germany (National Archives piece HO 225/16, 1950, Top Secret for 8 years then Restricted until 1980), the British Home Office Scientific Advisory Branch points out nuclear war damage and casualties tends to be exaggerated by the media’s incorrect use of Hiroshima. For example, it found that actual WWII damage on Britain was found to be equivalent to 52 Hiroshima bomb’s “for the night raiding conditions on London in the last war, where something like 60% of the population were in houses, 35% in shelter and 5% in the open ...”

Above: conventional warfare dropped 240 kilotons of bombs on Germany in the month of March 1945 alone, equivalent to 15 times the 16 kt Hiroshima nuclear bomb, i.e., one Hiroshima every 2 days during March 1945.

Note that in both WWI and WWII the vast majority of the weapons and explosives used were manufactured during the war itself, so prior disarmamant would not have assured that no weapons were used. One assumption in most disarmament propaganda is that a war is an instant all-out blitz; this assumption was made prior to WWI and was proved false, and again before WWII and was proved false again. The whole of the second-strike capability of hardened silos and hidden submarines designed by RAND Corporation strategists in the late 1950s was specifically aimed at removing any temptation for such a short knock-out war. This second-strike system remains and takes away any rational incentive to launch a surprise all-out attack. This is why, as President Obama stated, the major risk from nuclear weapons is a limited nuclear attack due to terrorism and rogue states. A nuclear attack will have a similar effect to large WWII air raids, but the effects will be easier to mitigate than V2 warheads, if people are informed about the reality of nuclear weapons effects phenomenology, and duck before the blast wave arrives, stamp out fires, and take cover from fallout. EMP will often rapidly disconnect the electrical fire risk by activating circuit breakers in substations, as at the Nevada test site after EMP pick up in long cables which carried thousands of amps from close-in locations out to the control point 30 miles away (not only to the 2 psi overpressure range gives in Glasstone and Dolan, which confuses the range to which cables pick up EMP with the range to which currents can be carried by cables). This is made clear in B. J. Stralser's secret 30 April 1961 E.G. and G. report Electromagnetic effects from nuclear tests.

Distributing the same explosive energy over many small bombs (rather than a single large bomb) in conventional is actually more damaging, since people have no time to respond near a small bomb that explodes. Additionally, the overpressure-damaged area from a bomb scales up only as the two-thirds power of the explosive energy, and is equivalent to megatons of nuclear weapons per month. The Manhattan Project in 1945 at best could produce only two bombs per month. There is a tendency among many politicians, historians, disarmers, and others to down-play conventional warfare and to exaggerate the effects of nuclear weapons, by misleadingly selective use of statistics. (Source: Overall Report, European War, USSBS, 1945, charts 3 and 4. Chart 1 in this document shows that 2,697,473 tons of bombs were dropped on the occupied countries in Europe by the US Army Air Force and the RAF, including 50.3% on Germany, 21.8% on France and 13.7% on Italy. In 1945, essentially all of the bombing was on Germany. The fact that civilian damage can be accomplished by conventional warfare led the British Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (William Waldegrave) to explain in the 28 July 1988 House of Commons debate on Disarmament (Hansard HC Deb 28 July 1988 vol 138 c778): "Britain and Europe have suffered dreadfully from conventional wars during this century, and modern conventional weapons are many times more destructive than those of 40 years ago. ... That is why we must insist that nuclear arms control must not make Europe safe for conventional war ..." Nuclear weapons were clearly not responsible for WWI or WWII, despite false and misleading anti-civil defense propaganda spread by Noel Baker, Joseph Rotblat and others who found it immoral to use nuclear weapons for ending WWII but were happy to work on them when it happened to suit their personal pet politics. When a terrorist uses a weapon and thousands of people don't duck and cover against blast, glass and radiation, what does the great "free" media of fashionable groupthink prejuduce do then? Laugh at the needless suffering? Pretend that they followed the consensus of politically dogmatic consensus that was justified by the long term ambition to end nuclear deterrence and go back to conventional war, and to do this by telling lies about civil defense? Or do what it usually does, and learn the lessons when it is too late to prevent needless suffering? here.)

London received 71 major raids (over 100 tons/raid) in the Blitz from 7 Sept 1940 to 16 May 1941, consisting of 18,291 tons or 18.291 kilotons of high explosive, over twice the blast yield (8 kt) of the 16 kt Hiroshima nuclear bomb (O’Brien, Civil Defence, 1955, Appendix IV, p681). These explosives were mainly 50 kg and 250 kg (B’Brien, p505), an average of about 0.1 ton of explosive per bomb. The scaled area equivalent megatonnage for overpressure damage areas and casualties from the London Blitz is therefore 4 thermonuclear weapons, each with a total yield of 2 megatons (1 megaton of which is blast):

(4 bombs) x (1 megaton TNT blast yield)^2/3 = (182,910 bombs of 0.1 ton each) x (10^-7 megatons blast yield)^2/3.

Home Office experts had experience from the WWII Blitz, visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 after the nuclear air bursts (as part of the British Mission to Japan), and set up Anderson shelters at Monte Bello to assess their protection against nuclear war at the first British nuclear bomb test. The first manual they issued on nuclear attack was the excellent 1950 “Atomic Warfare” (PDF file, 6 MB, linked here) with 24 photos of damage from blast, heat and fire from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the protection from heat flash by shadows, a discussion of shelters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a blast pressure graph and discussion, and a Foreword by Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Then, under Prime Minister Churchill, in 1953 the British Government published its excellent civil defence training notes “The atom bomb, its effects and how to meet them: Heat” (0.6 MB PDF) and “The atom bomb, its effects and how to meet them: Effects on personnel” (0.8 MB PDF).

Most later British manuals appeared to be mindless drivel, despite being based on more solid evidence from nuclear testing, because all the evidence was secret and had to be omitted, leaving patronising advice that looked pathetic to readers. Even the Hiroshima and Nagasaki shelter photos and discussions were omitted from future Home Office Nuclear Weapons and Protect and Survive handbooks, instead of adding more photos and data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to inform the readers about the possibilities for survival. However, the 1960 Civil Defence Handbook no. 7 Rescue, a 25 MB PDF file, linked here does reprint key Hiroshima and Nagasaki building damage photos, showing building response to blast from the standpoint of improvised rescue techniques, comparing it to the London Blitz. Also in 1960, concise Civil Defence Instructors’ General Notes (78 pages, PDF linked here) were published which provide an excellent brief overview of civil defence against conventional high explosive bombs, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

What went wrong with civil defense during the Cold War era was the move towards hubris, arrogance, patronising, dependence upon authority, and increasing secrecy over the basis of the evidence for widely mocked and attacked civil defense countermeasures against nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Instead of focussing on making the lessons of Hiroshima clear for all to understand, these lessons went unpublished or were actually classified secret. The failure of the government to effectively and scientifically answer and demolish false propaganda attacks in the media against civil defense undermines national security when the chips are down:

“The only way to win a war is to escalate it one way or another above what the enemy can endure. If we feel that we cannot win without unacceptable risk we have no business fighting in the first place.

“There are just two checks on escalation. One is the waning of motivation for fighting the war in the first place. A long grinding war of attrition on the ground might achieve this ... The second check on escalation is to so overwhelm your enemy with such heavy and rapid destruction that he loses all hope of winning. Then surrender is an attractive choice when compared to inevitable defeat or certain death. This, of course, is the way we brought Japan to terms in 1945. It was unnecessary to invade with infantry and fight a ground war. We seem to have forgotten this fact. Even though Japan had four million troops under arms with two million guarding her shores, not a shot was fired. We invaded with fourteen hundred military administrators, by air. Not a life was lost in this invasion.

“The Japanese had been highly motivated to wage war against us. Kamikaze tactics and no-surrender policies were typical. Yet a realization that Japan simply could not win and the certainty that continued resistance meant mounting devastation caused her to toss in the sponge. ... In the final analysis, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved and dozens of cities spared ... In Korea ... there were three and a half million military casualties on both sides during three years of drawn-out war. Over a million civilians were killed ...”

- General Curtis E. LeMay, America is in Danger, pages 307-9.

In a surprise attack, conventional weapons give practically no time for defensive countermeasures, unlike the bright flash prior to the blast arrival over most of the damaged area in a nuclear explosion, which acts as a warning. With nuclear weapons, there is an automatic warning prior blast and fallout arrival over the wide areas of destruction, which gives time for most people to take effective countermeasures and was used by people who experienced the Hiroshima nuclear explosion before travelling to Nagasaki and surviving the second nuclear explosion. As explained by Professor Joseph O. Hirschfelder, “The Effects of Atomic Weapons”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August-September 1950, vol. VI, no. 8-9, pp. 236-40 and 285-6 (quotation from page 238):

“Because of the comparatively long duration of the thermal radiation, exposed personnel can greatly reduce their exposure by ducking behind an obstacle or dropping prone. Ducking behind an obstacle would also considerably reduce the exposure to gamma rays and place the person in a more sheltered position to withstand the flying debris which will shower the area a few seconds later when the blast wave passes. It takes the blast wave one second to reach one-half mile, three seconds to reach one mile, and seven seconds to reach two miles.”

Dr Samuel Glasstone in 1950 compared psychological fears of radiation to ignorance of gas warfare in Effects of Atomic Weapons, 1950, page 289, paragraph 8.116: “perhaps the most important application of radiological warfare would be its psychological effect as a mystery weapon, analogous to the initial use of poison gas ... The obvious method to combat radiological warfare in this case is to understand and be prepared for it.” By educating people in simple effective fallout countermeasures, the use of fallout in warfare by ground bursting nuclear weapons may be discouraged, like gas in WWII. In the event of a disaster, panic can be replaced by actions that will reduce the danger. The gas illusion:

“In the next war, with its overwhelming air raids, its gases blotting out life over square miles, its bacilli, possibly its rays, munitions works and the services of the rear will be special objects of attack.”

- Irwin Will, The Next War: An Appeal to Common Sense, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1921, p77 (best-seller first published by Dutton in April 1921, 23rd printing, October 1921).

“The chemical Warfare Research Department [prior to 1927] had been making experiments to determine how long persons could remain under certain conditions in a ‘gas-proof’ room ... a broadcast in February [1927] by Professor Noel Baker, on ‘Foreign Affairs and How They Affect Us’ ... claimed, ‘all gas experts are agreed that it would be impossible to devise means to protect the civil population from this form of attack’. The Chemical Warfare Research Department emphatically disputed the accuracy both of the details of the picture and of this general statement. They considered it unfortunate that statements of this nature should have been broadcast to the public, particularly after the Cabinet’s decision that the time was not ripe for education of the public in defensive measures.”

- T. H. O’Brien, Civil Defence (official U.K. history), 1955, p31.

Like civil defense attacking polemics today, Noel-Baker had made a completely false claim about "all experts" agreeing that gas masks and civil defense are useless in that influential and dangerous February 1927 BBC radio broadcast, Foreign Affairs and How they Affect Us. As British official civil defence historial Terrence H. O'Brien states, the British committee on civil defence chickened out of censoring or even bothering to correct Noel-Baker, despite disputing his assertion in secret meetings. They agreed that he was wrong, but then agreed to do nothing, because they didn't want to risk the work of censoring all BBC broadcasts on gas war. In the true spirit of British officialdom, they only considered censorship, not democratic argument by exposing the falsehood and demolishing it with facts. The Cabinet had decided gas defenses were a classified secret, so their hands were tied as they were bound by the Official Secrets Act. However, Noel-Baker was not telling the truth and the original 1915 British gas mask inventor Professor J. B. S. Haldane (who one of the experts on the gas civil defence committee advising the Cabinet) had published a very different view of gas warfare in his 1925 book Callinicus: A Defence of Chemical Warfare. It is a fact therefore that was a lie for Noel-Baker to two years later make his claim about a complete consensus of experts denying defense against was warfare. Here are Noel-Baker's lying February 1927 BBC broadcast words of political Correctness and groupthink ideology:

“‘In the first phase of the next war,’ says a high authority, ‘there is little doubt that the belligerents will resort to gas bomb attack on a vast scale. This form of attack upon great cities, such as London or Paris, might entail the loss of millions of lives in the course of a few hours. Gas clouds so formed would be heavier than air and would flow into the cellars and tubes in which the population had taken refuge. As the bombardment continued, the gas would thicken up until it flowed through the streets of the city in rivers. All gas experts are agreed that it would be impossible to devise means to protect the civil population from this form of attack’."

(Source: Peter Adey, Aerial Life, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p189.)

Noel-Baker, athlete and Quaker disarmer typical of the ideologues exaggerating weapons effects and denying facts about the efficiency of civil defence countermeasures today, later won a Nobel Peace prize and become a Lord, but his fear-mongering and scare-mongering lies about civil defence actually helped to enable Hitler to murder millions by cultivating appeasement. I have yet to find any historian who addresses the ideology whereby lies about civil defence for utopian dreams of disarmament are compared to Adolf Hitler's or Joseph Stalin's ideological lies of eugenics or Marxism; all are ideologies where "the ends justify the means" and since the ends are not achieveable in the real world, all of these ideologies which rely on lying fear-mongering about the alleged evils of weapons, minority races, or genuine democracy. He failed to achieve peace and his lying ideology against civil defense actually made the war risks and the war dangers of the world worse, by removing support for Churchill and allowing public empathy to side with Hitler, even to the point of the British football team being forced to give the Nazi salute at a game in Germany. Support for appeasement was due in large part to the anti-civil defense groupthink polemics which played up WWI effects, but Noel-Baker did not do this by accident or genuine error, because he was still continuing the same inaccurate anti-civil defense polemics in 1980 to deny any possibility of civil defense being of value under any circumstances, again by examining only the worst and least probable possibility, despite this being proved in WWII to be a contrived, unbalanced piece of sophistry. This is like denying the value of hospitals, seat-belts or life-boats by the trick of only considering worst-case eventualities where they are of minimal utility. House of Lords Home and Civil Defence Debate on 5 March 1980 (Hansard, vol 406 cc260-386):

“... I want to argue that no measure of civil defence, in any war which we can realistically expect to have, will save a single life, and that to nurse a hope of safety from civil defence is to indulge a self-deceiving, futile and dangerous illusion—self-deceiving and futile because, as I said, civil defence will not save our lives; dangerous because it diverts attention from the only policy that gives us any genuine hope. It makes the public think that there will be safety where no safety is. It obscures the fact that the only way to avert disaster is to avert the war, and to abolish those offensive weapons without which aggressions cannot be begun. ... My Lords, the first atom bomb weighed two kilogrammes—less than 5 lbs [sic]. ... Against such a danger civil defence offers us no help ...”

But this is another falsehood of the same type as his 1927 BBC broadcast on gas: as WWII indicated (where gas was not used against Britain or Germany), by reducing the scale of the disaster if a terrorist or accidental nuclear explosion should occur, civil defense could help avoid escalation to a massive war by minimizing the effects even within war itself, stabilizing the political situation.

Denying civil defense facts, apart from maximising casualties, is a constraining act which forces only military responses in a crisis. Noel-Baker was never openly criticised for his propaganda and also dismissed civil defence against biological warfare in a letter to the New Scientist (14 Dec 1961, no 265, p700), after they published an article called “Biological agents in warfare and defence” by Dr LeRoy D. Fothergill of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps:

“May I express my gratitude to you for publishing the article ... Dr Fothergill writes with admirable restraint ... very little progress has been made in ... defending the citizen ... there is at present no defence against them, and none likely in the measurable future.”

Fothergill’s article (aimed at raising concern to encourage more research and defences) gave outdoor data for wind dispersion of spores released by a ship off the Californian coast in 1950. Being inside with the windows closed gives good protection while the cloud is blown past (even anthrax has a half life of only 25 minutes outdoors in bright sunlight in dry air and less in humid air; see Field Manual FM 3-3, 1992, Fig. B-1). Noel-Baker deceptively seized on an omission as if proof that countermeasures do not exist, exactly what he had done in 1927 when the government kept civil defence experiments and weapons effects facts secret.

“In May 1929, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom sponsored a conference in Frankfurt on ‘modern methods of warfare and the protection of civil populations’. ... While the overall objective of the proceedings was to enhance pleas for disarmament, individual participants did so by calling attention to the stakes of future wars ... conference speakers emphasized that ‘the worst of the past gives little idea of what would be the horrible reality of a future war,’ one where ‘the civil population ... will be massacred by gas bombs from thousands of aeroplanes ...’”

– Professor Susan R. Grayzel, At Home and Under Fire, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp149-50 (citing Getrud Woker, “The Effects of Chemical Warfare,” in Les methodes modernes de guerre et la protection des populations civiles / Chemical Warfare: An Abridged Report of Papers Read at an International Conference at Frankfurt, London, 1930, p45).

“Most of the books and pamphlets on the subject seem to me to be of the nature of propaganda ... a great many opponents of the Government state that such things as gas-masks and gas-proof rooms are completely useless, that London could be wiped out in a single air raid ... a frightful responsibility rests on those who expose British children to such a death in order to score a point ... In 1915 ... I was at that time a captain in a British infantry battalion and was brought out of the trenches to St. Omer, where I assisted my father in the design of some of the first gas masks. ... one would be safe in a phosgene concentration of one part per thousand, of which a single breath would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such a mask is a very nearly complete protection. ... These gases can penetrate into houses, but very slowly. So even in a badly-constructed house one is enormously safer than in the open air. ... even if a new gas is produced, it is very unlikely that it will get through our respirators. ... Now all the poisonous gases and vapours used in war are heavier than air, so it is thought that they would inevitably flood cellars ... But within a short time it would be mixed with many times its volume of air. Now air containing one part in 10,000 of phosgene is extremely poisonous. But its density exceeds that of air by only one part in 4,000.”

- Professor J. B. S. Haldane, A.R.P., 1938.

“Ever since the Armistice, three classes of writers have been deluding the long-suffering British public with lurid descriptions of their approaching extermination in the next war ... pure sensationalists, ultra-pacifists, and military experts. ... they do want to get their manuscript accepted for the feature page of the Daily Drivel or the Weekly Wail. In order to do that, they must pile on the horrors thick ... The amount of damage done by such alarmists cannot be calculated, but is undoubtedly very great. ... It is significant that they concentrate almost unanimously on poison gas, and that the dangers of high explosive and incendiary bombs are seldom stressed. The reason, of course, is obvious – poison gas has a much greater news value. It is still a new and mysterious form of warfare, it is something which people do not understand, and what they do not understand they can readily be made to fear. ... Millions of people, perhaps, have been impressed by the authority and reputation of Mr H. G. Wells into believing that this picture represents the plain truth.”

- Professor James Kendall (a 1917 Chemical Warfare Liaison Officer), Breathe Freely! The Truth About Poison Gas, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1938, pp. 11-13.

“... in spite of the tremendous scale of the violations it still took the Germans five years, from January 1933 when Hitler came in to around January 1938, before they had an army capable of standing up against the French and the British. At any time during that five-year period if the British and the French had had the will, they probably could have stopped the German rearmament program ... one of the most important aspects of the interwar period [was] the enormous and almost uncontrollable impulse toward disarmament ... As late as 1934, after Hitler had been in power for almost a year and a half, [British Prime Minister] Ramsey McDonald still continued to urge the French that they should disarm themselves by reducing their army by 50 per cent, and their air force by 75 per cent. In effect, MacDonald and his supporters urged one of the least aggressive nations in Europe to disarm itself to a level equal with their potential attackers, the Germans. ... Probably as much as any other single group I think that these men of good will can be charged with causing World War II. [Emphasis by Kahn.]. ... At no time did Hitler threaten to initiate war against France and England. He simply threatened to ‘retaliate’ if they attacked him. ... an obvious prototype for a future aggressor armed with H-bombs ”

- H. Kahn, On Thermonuclear War, 1960, pp. 390-1 and 403.

Future President John F. Kennedy's college thesis, Why England Slept, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1962 (first published 1940), pages 7, 169, 170 and 179:

Page 7: “What had England been doing while Hitler was building up this tremendous German Army?... To say that all the blame must rest on the shoulders of Neville Chamberlain or of Stanley Baldwin is to overlook the obvious. As the leaders, they are, of course, gravely and seriously responsible. But, given the conditions of democratic government, a free press, public elections, and a cabinet responsible to Parliament and thus to the people, given rule by the majority, it is unreasonable to blame the entire situation on one man or group.”

Page 169: “... I believe, as I have stated frequently, that leaders are responsible for their failures only in the governing sector and cannot be held responsible for the failure of a nation as a whole ... I believe it is one of democracy’s failings that it seeks to make scapegoats for its own weaknesses.”

Page 170: “Herbert Morrison, the able British Labour Leader ... was being criticised in 1939 for co-operating with the Government ... ‘At the beginning I got plenty of abuse from the irresponsibles because I said that Labour administrators must play their full part in A.R.P. [Air Raid Precautions, i.e. civil defense], which was denounced as a fraud and a plot... to create war psychology. For Labour local authorities to co-operate with state departments in this task was treachery ... no A.R.P. could possibly be effective’.”

Page 179: “... the dictator is able to know exactly how much the democracy is bluffing, because of the free Press, radio, and so forth, and so can plan his moves accordingly.”

Kennedy stuck to his guns with civil defense. After the first Russian nuclear weapon test, he wrote a public letter to President Truman warning of the risk of an "atomic Pearl Harbor", published in the New York Times of 10 October 1949. Kennedy also attended the 22-26 June 1959 nuclear war congressional hearings which featured Herman Kahn on civil defense, and Kennedy used the supposed missile gap as the basis for his Presidential election campaign (which in the even only appeared in about 1975 when the USSR achieved parity and went on bankrupting itself by churning out more missiles). Kennedy set up the public fallout shelter allocation in 1961. All of this goes back to his time in the American Embassy in 1939 and the research he did into the connection between British civil defense apathy in the 1930s and appeasement (even encouragement) of fear exploiting Nazi thugs. He could see that aggressors are all alike: they are all self-deluded, they all have an ideology, and they all use fear-mongering lies.

Professor Susan R. Grayzel, At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge University Press, 2012) finds that (p176): “a variety of voices reflected on the enormous destructive potential of air power in interwar Britain, and many determined to prevent the imagined horrors of the next war from coming true. Several important constituent bodies of the nation – including key segments of women, trades unionists, and members of the state itself – worked fervently for disarmament and to challenge efforts to accept aerial and perhaps even chemical attacks as somehow inevitable in a future war.”

Pro-disarmament propaganda which was based entirely on exaggeration of weapons and war effects (ignoring the real dangers of ideologies like racist eugenics and ethnic cleansing) and denials of civil defense efficiency went largely unopposed until 1938, partly due to official secrecy to keep both the enemy and the public ignorant (while they were being sold exaggerations by the media). To be heard, disarmament activists had the temerity to falsely dismiss all countermeasures, to exaggerate the scale of potential attacks, and to ignore the fact that countermeasures were a tried and tested solution (unlike disarmament without civil defense, i.e. complete vulnerability). Public apathy allowed doom exaggerations to be mainly supported or allowed to circulate without correction. How many newspapers, popular historians, or TV stations stand up and publish the facts on nuclear weapons and Hiroshima today? None. Civil defense has never had any backing and has always been violently opposed by ideologies which prefer war. When Noel-Baker claimed to have an "authority" which proved a consensus of gas war experts who knew gas had no countermeasure, he was simply lying to the nation. In any case, his claim that science is determined by a religious type consensus, was again lying to the nation, because science is distinguished from political agreements by its factual evidence rather than its fashionable popularity and the number of votes its adverts gain. Never mind how "unpopular" or "unfashionable" it is for a gas mask or duck and cover evasive action to protect the public, it is fact:

For a full analysis of the small amount of fallout measured in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see W. McRaney and J. McRaney, Radiation dose reconstruction U.S. occupation forces in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 1945-1946, DNA 5512F, 1980, and for a comparison of the fallout pattern to self-induced rainout computer predictions see Charles R. Molenkamp, An Introduction to Self-Induced Rainout, URCL-52669, 1979, and Numerical Simulation of Self-Induced Rainout Using a Dynamic Convective Cloud Model, UCRL-83583, 1980. Neutron-induced activity dose rate and decay rate data from the 2002 Japanese dosimetry project (DS02) is linked here and is verified by neutron induced activity in debris from both cities. The only fully scientific (quantitative) discussion of the relative contributions of initial flash radiation, neutron induced activity, and fallout as a function of burst altitude is given in Chapter 5 (Nuclear Radiation Phenomena) of Dolan’s effects manual EM-1.

White shows that Hiroshima’s Post Office, 0.12 mile from ground zero, was gutted by fire hours later well in the firestorm, but over 50% of its 400 occupants had already survived the explosion and escaped. Photos of the final burned out areas show firestorm effects which occurred after survivors had time to escape, not unsurvivable, instant Encore-type thermal radiation-induced newspaper-filled inflammable room flashover in a dry desert. The firestorm in Hiroshima took 2-3 hours to reach a maximum intensity. The secret (full) U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey May 1947 report on Hiroshima interviewed over 1,000 survivors, and their evidence was that the fires were started by the blast wave overturning the obsolete charcoal braziers in obsolete city-centre wooden housing slums, which were full of inflammable paper screens and bamboo furnishings. The report shows that no building in Hiroshima had any fire-sprinkler system, and that the only fires started inside modern buildings by thermal radiation were in black coloured (heat absorbing) blackout air-raid curtains within 2,500 feet of air zero (close to ground zero). These and firebrands entering the Bank of Hiroshima through broken windows were easily extinguished by survivors with water buckets, in the centre of the "firestorm".

This obsolete mechanism caused the firestorm, not thermal flash ignition, which cannot directly ignite sound wood. The danger from exaggerations of weapons effects in order to underplay civil defense and leave yourself vulnerable to an enemy was clearly demonstrated in the 1930s, when British Government scientists exaggerated war effects. They exaggerated the effects by using the July 1917 surprise attack bombing data, when people stood outdoors during the air raid, or watched the explosions ignorantly from behind glass windows: exactly the situation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were again surprise attacks. This exaggeration by using 1917 data led to Nazi appeasement in the 1930s, when they could have been stopped with minimal casualties if civil defense effectiveness was understood earlier. Civil defense did work to prevent a poison gas attack by the Nazis, despite gas masks never being 100% effective: the efficiency of the countermeasure was sufficient that the Nazis never tried to use their 12,000 tons stockpile of tabun nerve gas in WWII.

Civil defense did not need to be 100% effective in order to remove the attractiveness of "weapons of mass destruction" to coercive thugs wishing to threaten civilian targets. Exaggerations of weapons effects, by downplaying or ignoring simple countermeasure effectiveness prior to World War I, actually encouraged the warmongers to plan for WWI prior to 1914 in the belief of achieving a quick victory using big guns and other offensive weapons. By ignoring the efficiency of simple improvised blast and flying missile defenses like trenches against explosive blast, shelling, mortar fire, shrapnel and machine guns in the American Civil War, European planners exaggerated weapons effects predictions.

This exaggeration led to WWI by falsely predicting a quick and easy outcome from the use of offensive bombardment and machine guns against completely exposed and unprotected opponents. Simple trenches and gas masks in WWI proved highly effective at reducing casualties, thereby turning the war into a protracted affair that Germany had not prepared for. Thus, two world wars have proven conclusively that deceptive exaggerations and attacks on defensive countermeasures against explosive and contaminating weapons effects like blast and persistent mustard and nerve gas did not guarantee peace. Instead, weapons effects exaggerations for "peace" actually encouraged thugs to acquire precisely the most scare-mongered weapons for coercive intimidation, and to use them to threaten the unprepared into appeasement, causing wars.

Some myths debunked: 1. nobody was "vaporized": people are 70% water which has far too high a specific heat capacity and latent heat of vaporization even at ground zero, 2. fallout and neutron induced activity were insignificant compared to the initial nuclear radiation doses, because of the height of burst, 3. the long term effects of radiation were trivial compared to the natural cancer rate in an unexposed control group, and genetic effects were insignificant, 4. conventional weapons killed more people and resulted in more deaths and suffering because conventional wars lasted for years: the "blunt knife" is more dangerous overall, because it is likely to slip and cause injuries, because you need to use more force on a blunt knife to achieve any given result, 5. shallow underground bursts avert collateral damage around bunkers, while retaining credible deterrence. Downwind fallout can be washed or brushed off, and nuclear radiation is attenuated by buildings, 6. nuclear weapons with individually larger areas of effects are actually easier to protect against than an immense number of conventional weapons, because the blast wave is delayed for a longer period of time after the bright visible flash over most of the damaged area: fashionable lying "films" falsely superimpose the sound on the flash to "discredit" civil defense, one of the most sinister deceptions. The same applies to fallout: the further an effect has to travel, the longer it takes to arrive, so there is time to evacuate or to take cover in a safe building. Conventional weapons failed to deter two world wars, which explains why Cold War nuclear weapons were relied upon for deterrence. Anti-civil defense propaganda for nuclear disarmament politics is reducing not only deterrence but public safeguards against nuclear terrorism. Nuclear disarmament will put the clock back to the pre-nuclear era of conventional world wars. Nuclear safeguards and inspections will simply drive proliferation further underground, or risk war in themselves (just as 1930s efforts to oppose proliferation risked starting a war).

“If individuals feel they can do little about possible dangers, they have to flee from such threats by the use of denial. ... such individuals are not prepared to deal with the danger situation when it appears. ... In the early days of training for nuclear disaster, we stressed the number of casualties that even a nominal bomb could produce. Our listeners were alarmed, thinking, ‘How could we care for a thousand burn cases when only four or five such cases demoralize our hospital?’ The result of this approach was to lose our audiences.”

– Albert J. Glass, MD, “Mass Psychology: the Determinants of Behavior under Emergency Conditions,” Mass Burns: Proceedings of a Workshop, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (linked here), pp. 11-20 (quotations from pages 13-14).

Exposed burned skin evaporates water at the rate of 10 litres/m²/day, which dries out and cools the body temperature, and this water evaporation rate is the actual physical mechanism behind the well-known dehydration, hypothermia, and shock in serious burns victims. The exposed burned skin also offers direct entry to the body tissues for bacterial infections (sepsis) which overwhelm the immune system and in combination with lowered temperature due to evaporation, escalate to pulmonary complications, and also allow direct contamination with radioactive fallout particles after a nuclear attack. Because severely burned victims reject food, they soon lose the energy needed to recover due to the cooling from water evaporation from the burned areas. At Hiroshima nothing was done to address the causal mechanism for burns mortality, instead efforts were made to treat dehydration by providing more fluids and antibiotics for infection. Reversing this whole approach, in order to actually prevent the underlying causes of these secondary effects in an emergency situation (nuclear attack), it has been found that simply covering exposed severe burns wounds with plastic film has been proved to avoid or reduce the immense evaporation of water which actually causes all of these immediate dehydration, shock, and hypothermia effects, and also much of the infection and contamination danger in the first place.

See Carl Jelenko, III, MD, “The Burn Surface as a Parasite: Water Loss, Caloric Demands, and Therapeutic Implications” and E. J. L. Lowbury, “The Prevention of Sepsis in Burns” (which shows in table 2 that 70% mortality from infected burns is reduced to 5% mortality if the burns are not infected) in Mass Burns: Proceedings of a Workshop, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (linked here).

Think Plastic Wrap as Wound Dressing for Thermal Burns

ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) News

August 2008

By Patrice Wendling

Elsevier Global Medical News

CHICAGO - Ordinary household plastic wrap makes an excellent, biologically safe wound dressing for patients with thermal burns en route to the emergency department or burn unit. The Burn Treatment Center at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, has advocated prehospital and first-aid use of ordinary plastic wrap or cling film on burn wounds for almost two decades with very positive results, Edwin Clopton, a paramedic and ED technician, explained during a poster session at the annual meeting of the American Burn Association. “Virtually every ambulance in Iowa has a roll of plastic wrap in the back,” Mr. Clopton said in an interview. “We just wanted to get the word out about the success we’ve had using plastic wrap for burn wounds,” he said. Dr. G. Patrick Kealey, newly appointed ABA president and director of emergency general surgery at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, said in an interview that plastic wrap reduces pain, wound contamination, and fluid losses. Furthermore, it’s inexpensive, widely available, nontoxic, and transparent, which allows for wound monitoring without dressing removal. “I can’t recall a single incident of it causing trouble for the patients,” Dr. Kealey said.

Professor Eugene P. Wigner, “Why Civil Defense: A consideration of its effects if war comes, if not, and on the likelihood of nuclear war”, The Technology Review, v66 (1964), no. 8, pp. 21-23:

“No one, least of all the soldier, thought it ill-fitting or cowardly to seek protection ... rather than to meet enemy shells fatally in the open. ... Let us assume, for example, that the United States and the Soviet Union reach some accord on gradual disarmament, and that many weapons and missiles are destroyed. ... If some small country, ruled by a dictator, built or otherwise acquired a few megaton-size weapons, its ruler might be tempted to threaten the U.S. with a few bombs with primitive delivery systems, such as mined merchant ships or concealed bombs in cities, to gain a free hand in his part of the world. ... It often has been said that the protection of our population might make our leaders more aggressive ... The absence of civil defense also could generate aggressiveness in leaders aware of the advantages of striking the first blow.”

'Restricted' classified U.K. Home Office Scientific Adviser's Branch journal Fission Fragments, W. F. Greenhalgh, Editor, London, Issue Number 3, August 1962, pages 22-26:

'The fire hazard from nuclear weapons

'by G. R. Stanbury, BSc, ARCS, F.Inst.P.

'We have often been accused of underestimating the fire situation from nuclear attack. We hope to show that there is good scientific justification for the assessments we have made, and we are unrepentant in spite of the television utterances of renowned academic scientists who know little about fire. ...

'Firstly ... the collapse of buildings would snuff out any incipient fires. Air cannot get into a pile of rubble, 80% of which is incombustible anyway. This is not just guess work; it is the result of a very complete study of some 1,600 flying bomb [V1 cruise missile] incidents in London supported by a wealth of experience gained generally in the last war.

'Secondly, there is a considerable degree of shielding of one building by another in general.

'Thirdly, even when the windows of a building can "see" the fireball, and something inside is ignited, it by no means follows that a continuing and destructive fire will develop.

'The effect of shielding in a built-up area was strikingly demonstrated by the firemen of Birmingham about 10 years ago with a 144:1 scale model of a sector of their city which they built themselves; when they put a powerful lamp in the appropriate position for an air burst they found that over 50% of the buildings were completely shielded. More recently a similar study was made in Liverpool over a much larger area, not with a model, but using the very detailed information provided by fire insurance maps. The result was similar.

'It is not so easy to assess the chance of a continuing fire. A window of two square metres would let in about 10⁵ calories at the 5 cal/cm² range. The heat liberated by one magnesium incendiary bomb is 30 times this and even with the incendiary bomb [which burns for 15 minutes, not the few seconds or less for a nuclear flash] the chance of a continuing fire developing in a small room is only 1 in 5; in a large room it is very much less.

'Thus even if thermal radiation does fall on easily inflammable material which ignites, the chance of a continuing fire developing is still quite small. In the Birmingham and Liverpool studies, where the most generous values of fire-starting chances were used, the fraction of buildings set on fire was rarely higher than 1 in 20.

'And this is the basis of the assertion [in Nuclear Weapons] that we do not think that fire storms are likely to be started in British cities by nuclear explosions, because in each of the five raids in which fire storms occurred (four on Germany - Hamburg, Darmstadt, Kassel, Wuppertal and a "possible" in Dresden, plus Hiroshima in Japan - it may be significant that all these towns had a period of hot dry weather before the raid) the initial fire density was much nearer 1 in 2. Take Hamburg for example:

'On the night of 27/28th July 1943, by some extraordinary chance, 190 tons of bombs were dropped into one square mile of Hamburg. This square mile contained 6,000 buildings, many of which were [multistorey wooden] medieval.

'A density of greater than 70 tons/sq. mile had not been achieved before even in some of the major fire raids, and was only exceeded on a few occasions subsequently. The effect of these bombs is best shown in the following diagram, each step of which is based on sound trials and operational experience of the weapons concerned.

'102 tons of high explosive bombs dropped -> 100 fires

'88 tons of incendiary bombs dropped, of which:

'48 tons of 4 pound magnesium bombs = 27,000 bombs -> 8,000 hit buildings -> 1,600 fires

'40 tons of 30 pound gel bombs = 3,000 bombs -> 900 hit buildings -> 800 fires

'Total = 2,500 fires

'Thus almost every other building [1 in 2 buildings] was set on fire during the raid itself, and when this happens it seems that nothing can prevent the fires from joining together, engulfing the whole area and producing a fire storm (over Hamburg the column of smoke, observed from aircraft, was 1.5 miles in diameter at its base and 13,000 feet high; eyewitnesses on the ground reported that trees were uprooted by the inrushing air).

'When the density was 70 tons/square mile or less the proportion of buildings fired during the raid was about 1 in 8 or less and under these circumstances, although extensive areas were burned out, the situation was controlled, escape routes were kept open and there was no fire storm.'

Modern buildings in modern cities do not suffer firestorms.

“The only way to win a war is to escalate it one way or another above what the enemy can endure. If we feel that we cannot win without unacceptable risk we have no business fighting in the first place.

“There are just two checks on escalation. One is the waning of motivation for fighting the war in the first place. A long grinding war of attrition on the ground might achieve this … The second check on escalation is to so overwhelm your enemy with such heavy and rapid destruction that he loses all hope of winning. Then surrender is an attractive choice when compared to inevitable defeat or certain death. This, of course, is the way we brought Japan to terms in 1945. It was unnecessary to invade with infantry and fight a ground war. We seem to have forgotten this fact. Even though Japan had four million troops under arms with two million guarding her shores, not a shot was fired. We invaded with fourteen hundred military administrators, by air. Not a life was lost in this invasion.

“The Japanese had been highly motivated to wage war against us. Kamikaze tactics and no-surrender policies were typical. Yet a realization that Japan simply could not win and the certainty that continued resistance meant mounting devastation caused her to toss in the sponge. … In the final analysis, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved and dozens of cities spared … In Korea … there were three and a half million military casualties on both sides during three years of drawn-out war. Over a million civilians were killed ...”

- General Curtis E. LeMay, America is in Danger, pages 307-9.

General Curtis Emerson LeMay (1906-90) developed and led the B-17 and B-24 incendiary bombing missions first in Europe and then B-29 missions in the Pacific during World War II, including control of incendiary raids and the two nuclear attacks. In the Cold War he headed the Berlin airlift of 1948, was the founder of SAC (the Strategic Air Command), and from 1961-5 was Chief of Staff of the USAF, retiring after arguments with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over the Vietnam War. LeMay advised declaring war on North Vietnam (which McNamara refused to do) and the escalatory winning tactics that had proved successful against Japan without requiring a ground invasion of Japan in 1945. McNamara instead initially used the failing flexible response efforts to try to encourage negotiation with the least possible force, and later a gradual rather than overwhelming vertical escalation which simply resulted in media criticism for the killing of civilians with no positive result. While LeMay requested the bombing of North Vietnam harbors, but McNamara preferred to leave them untouched and bomb insurgent camps and supply routes within Vietnam, claiming that LeMay’s scheme would kill Soviet Union advisers in supply ships in the harbors of North Vietnam, escalating the war horizontally, destabilizing Europe.

General Curtis E. LeMay’s 5 June 1968 book America is in Danger (Funk and Wagnalls, New York) is still valid today, and it predicted on page 307 that America was going to lose in Vietnam, if McNamara’s graduated response war policy continued. The book jacket clearly summarizes LeMay’s case: “America is in danger. … We find ourselves in a purely defensive role, unable to make our will felt even in a conflict with a backward jungle country. … Our strategic nuclear superiority has given us much diplomatic strength in the past. Do we still have that strength? … I think not. That is why America is in grave danger. … Assessing the strategic situation, General LeMay argues that our former policy of overwhelming nuclear superiority proved itself during the crises in Berlin, Taiwan, and Cuba, and produced twenty years of relative peace. Yet the current Administration has opted for a new and untested posture that permits, even encourages parity with Russia.”

On pages viii-ix LeMay explains that the worst wars are caused by dogmatic censorship in democracy:

“The equivocal manner in which we are waging the war in Southeast Asia [Vietnam] is a direct result of the bankrupt nature of a deterrent policy. … ‘defense intellectuals’ go unchallenged simply because the experienced professional active duty officers are officially prohibited from entering into public debate. … In 1916 while war in Europe was raging, President Woodrow Wilson banished from Washington a few officers at the Army War College who had the temerity to plan for war. … I. S. Block, ‘proved’ statistically in a popular book The Future of War, and in numerous speeches, that war was an economic impossibility [Norman Angell’s Great Illusion in 1908 deluded Britain into viewing war as economically absurd, but was still awarded a Knighthood and a Nobel Peace Prize after WWI, since facts are always distorted to fit in to a hardened ideology]. His disciples (among whom was David Starr Jordan) were still plugging this doctrine in America in the face of the Battles of the Marne and the Somme.

“Just a few months before Sarajevo in 1914, David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University and a renowned naturalist, said, ‘It is apparently not possible for another real war among the nations of Europe to take place.’ … Before World War II the military profession was again pre-empted by the ‘defense intellectuals.’ … The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 had outlawed law in principle. The Washington Disarmament conferences of the 1930s, if not arriving at a treaty had at least condemned ‘offensive’ weapons. … There was no one who could tell America that wars cannot be won with defensive weapons. … In the Army Air Corps we developed the B-17 Flying Fortress almost clandestinely. … Thirteen were ordered in 1937 and with them we worked out the tactics and strategies which carried the war to Germany and Japan …”

On pages xiii-xiv, LeMay points out that in any war, be it Japan or Vietnam, there is no certain quantitative prediction possible of the effect of weapons on the will of the enemy to resist or surrender, and this factor must be either omitted or faked in all computer “predictions”:

“We computerized every activity susceptible to machine analysis long before most businesses or other government agencies … What we did not do was to force non-quantifiable data into a quantified mold in order to feed it to the machines. … when defense intellectuals attempt, in deadpan seriousness, to quantify the effect that x number of casualties will have on the government or the will to resist, they are entering the Land of Oz. Some countries have succumbed, as France did in 1940, with minor casualties. Carthage and Paraguay (in 1870) show that other countries never give up, no matter what the casualties. … Such unknowns in the strategic equation are anathema to the quantifier.”

LeMay elaborates this on page 77:

“An enraged country may go to war against impossible odds, with no logical change of victory. This is another example of weakness in the concept of deterrence – the possibility of the illogical reaction. Thus did Paraguay fight against an overwhelming alliance of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in 1864. So did little Serbia stand up to the great Austria-Hungarian Empire in 1914. And thus did England and France declare war on Germany in 1939 … Almost any country can be pushed too far, as was Hungary in 1956. It then feels compelled to fight regardless of the consequences. Patrick Henry’s remark ‘give me liberty or give me death’ is not an isolated human decision.”

LeMay’s points out that Defense Secretary McNamara’s failure in the Vietnam War was due to the abuse of science, in fiddling computer model assumptions about the political response to the enemy to military coercion. LeMay on page 89 shows that this failure of analysis in Vietnam also applies to general nuclear war deterrence planning, e.g. McNamara’s 1967 Posture Statement: “To deter deliberate nuclear attack upon the United States … ability to inflict an unacceptable degree of damage …” Here the word “unacceptable” is a subjective function of the emotional state of mind of the enemy.

Anti-nuclear war propaganda like Kubrick’s pseudoscience film Dr Strangelove is attributed by LeMay on pages 8-12 to ideologues (the pseudo-pacifists, the pseudo-moralistic crusaders, and the well-meaning media whose lying “anti-war” propaganda lay behind previous wars):

“This large peace-time military establishment has allowed many scaremongers to capitalize on the traditional anti-military American attitudes and thus sell books and movies. … It is like yelling fire in a crowded theatre. Some … is encouraged by our enemies to weaken faith in our military leadership and thus to undermine our resolve or capability for self-defense. Some of it, of course, is a perfectly legitimate concern over how a large, perpetual military establishment will change our system of values, society, and government. … One must keep in mind the communist technique of ‘boring from within.’ … History illustrates that the first act of a dictator is to distort and suppress the news. Free speech and press permit the truth to be aired and opposing opinions to be expressed. … The world is moving too fast today, particularly in technology, for us to be tied to a monolithic organization which stifles all thought outside its own party line of hackneyed solutions. … One of the greatest dangers in a military estimate of any situation is to believe, through party-line strategic concepts, that you know what the enemy will or will not do. We knew that Japan would not attack Pearl Harbor, our best-defended outpost. … We knew that the Soviet Union would not put nuclear intermediate range ballistic missiles in Cuba. … We must – but do not – have a defense organization which permits controversy, which permits the ‘unthinkable’ condition to be debated freely, which permits the screwball idea to come forth, and which tolerates the maverick officer. The Andrew Jacksons, the Zachary Taylors, the Ulysses S. Grants, the George Deweys, the Alfred Thayer Mahans, the Billy Mitchells, are not nurtured in orthodoxy. They are not products of a party line.”

In a chapter on the “Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” LeMay explains on page 204 that although “Every large war, of course, is sparked by some relatively minor event, as the murder at Saravejo in 1914 or the Nazi march into Poland in 1939”, ignition sparks are not the fuel. The straw that breaks the camel’s back is not the sole or even the major problem:

“The small countries of Austria, Czechoslovakia, or Poland most certainly cannot be accused of ‘catalytic’ behavior during these tense times. Should Poland have succumbed for the sake of world peace? The small country argument is sometimes related to the ‘statistical’ theory. As more countries get the bomb, goes the reasoning, something is likely to happen that will cause a bomb to go off. … This fear should be laid to rest. The number of nuclear bombs and warheads have already proliferated to the thousands and the first accidental nuclear explosion has yet to occur. … For example, on December 8, 1964, a B-58 Hustler bomber with a ‘nuclear device’ in its bomb bay caught fire at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana … no radioactive contamination occurred. Of the four bombs dropped from a B-52 off Palomares, Spain, as a result of a refueling collision in 1966 … there was some relatively harmless contamination caused by two which broke up. A nuclear bomb is a highly complicated device and many sequential steps must be taken to light it off. … At worse, the chemical high explosive components of a bomb might detonate from fire and scatter some nuclear material which could cause a small area to become mildly and harmlessly radioactive, as in Spain. Nothing of this sort is liable to lead to a nuclear war.”

On pages 242-260, in his chapter on “Counterinsurgency and the War in Vietnam”, LeMay points out:

“It is a war waged simultaneously on many fronts and in many forms. It is a cold war and a hot war, and economic war and a political war, a propaganda war and an ideological war. It is waged by the communists according to their own timetable and on battlefields of their choosing. … By 1965 we were bombing North Vietnam and landing combat troops to engage with the Viet Cong. Yet the South Vietnamese army was shot with desertions and down to one-third strength. Equipment worth millions of dollars from the United States was finding its way into Viet Cong hands. … It is a war of flexible response not designed to win but rather to punish, and to punish only enough to bring the Hanoi government to the conference table. … It is a war where our powerful Navy allows foreign ships to supply the enemy with war materials. … It is a war where we allow the one principal harbor – the harbor through which the large majority of enemy supplies must flow – to remain undamaged. … This is the war of flexible response and graduated deterrence applied for the first time. This is the war concocted by the arms controllers of the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations to prevent, they believed, the feared nuclear holocaust. The consequences of such a cruel non-war will be heartache, frustration, and death, rather than a reasonable political settlement. We must change our strategy. …

“The long, drawn-out conflict has created dissension, disillusion, and dispute in America. It has seemed to foster a greater sense of determination and purpose in North Vietnam. … Oriental stoicism and patience make North Vietnam willing to extend the struggle from generation to generation, or so they say, to have a ‘protracted war’. … we are fighting with the commodity most precious to us … the lives of men. And what is our objective? To negotiate. … Our continued pleas for peace and talks can only leave an impression of irresolution, which encourages North Vietnamese resistance. … we dribbled in reinforcements, taking one half-measure after another in the ‘graduated’ manner of flexible response, pursuing a peculiar strategy which said, in effect, ‘Fight the enemy on his own terms.’ … we must fight the war from our position of strength, not theirs. We must fight it at the lowest cost to ourselves and at the greatest cost to the enemy. … Probably the weirdest aspect of this Alice-in-Wonderland war is that we have dropped more explosive on Vietnam than we did on Germany in World War II. … It is not air power that is wanting. It is the wrong employment of air power. … The sanctuary we have granted to the port of Haiphong is one of the strangest anomalies in the history of warfare. During the past two years 827 ships have brought munitions and supplies to North Vietnam. Of these ships, 267 were Russian, 258 were Red Chinese, 94 were from Eastern European countries, and 210 were ships of our alleged allies and foreign air recipients. … There are so many ways we could close that port! We could blockade it. We could bomb it to rubble. We could mine it. We could sink a ship in the entrance channel.”

The American gradual response doctrine in Vietnam backfired and built up resistance and hardness in North Vietnam. When finally the bombing intensity was increased, the people were by then well accustomed to bombing and inured to bombing. Vietnam is the textbook example of what happens when you try to fight a politically correct war: not only do you lose militarily, but you also cause more destruction and suffering in the process of losing and then suffer more savage propaganda from the “peace” movement for having done so. In his chapter on “Limited War”, LeMay explains how Einstein’s equation can be used to intimidate an enemy thus actually preventing the usual massacre:

“Modern delivery systems make it possible to achieve great accuracy in placing weapons on target, and technology has made it possible to tailor the size of the nuclear yield to fit the situation [dial a yield]. The basic target system for nuclear weapons, as in all conflict, is the enemy’s military capability … The introduction of appropriate-sized nuclear weapons should insure an early termination of hostilities, reduce casualties among American and friendly forces, and limit, not expand, the amount of economic disruption and destruction … As to the question of escalation to general nuclear war, it would seem that this is a matter which should concern the Communists more than it does the United States … With United States superiority, the crossing of any threshold of escalation presents an outcome progressively worse for the Communists. Lacking a capability to fight and win a full-fledged war with the United States, they are obliged, in their own interests, to keep any war at a low level of intensity. …

“The idea of controlled escalation is not valid when we are confronted by an irrational enemy. A country bent on suicide cannot be stopped short of that. …

“1. Success in limited war is contingent upon maintaining a superior general war capability.

“2. Escalation must be feared most by the power with the weaker general war capability. …

“Unless we start to win the wars we get into, we may find ourselves overextended around the world on several frontiers, fighting equivocal wars. To maintain such vast military forces America would become an armed camp with all our sons being drafted for these endless foreign wars. God forbid! The 1984 of George Orwell would be here. America could then offer little more to its citizens than communism does to its comrades.”

In a chapter on “Military Superiority” at pages 273-309, LeMay explains that fashionable arms control and weapons parity is a dangerous policy because it encourages aggression and coercion by the enemy:

“The desire to reduce the huge expenditure for armed forces and armaments is universal. Measures to reduce the risk of war or its destructive nature are crucial matters to all. … Why have physical scientists taken up arms control with such consummate zeal? Some scientists have suggested that there is a guilt complex at work. The physical scientists unleashed the horrible genie of nuclear energy and now they feel morally responsible for putting the genie back into the bottle. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [which responded with a damning review of LeMay’s book, written by Dr Ralph Lapp, ignoring the military lessons about war and quibbled about the yields of some Russian missiles] has beat this drum for almost two decades. Activists … set out to change the national ethos by making nuclear war so horrible to contemplate that national defense with nuclear weapons would be considered immoral and unthinkable. … This anti-nuclear movement is a highly charged, emotional ‘cause’ which has attracted many other groups. The peace organizations have joined with vim. Yet so have many able and well-intentioned politicians, diplomats, and businessmen. … These are all people with a crusading zeal to do away with nuclear weapons and save the world from nuclear war. … They conceive of nuclear weapons to be the greatest evil in the world, and this thought seems to becloud all judgement, knowledge, and sometimes even loyalties. …

“The accidental war concept was popularly launched by the novel Red Alert [by Peter George in 1958, which was made into Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb using cobalt bomb propaganda against LeMay, Kahn and Teller], a horror story describing a war started by a crazed SAC commander. … Soon after the story was published in 1958, it was ordered that tactical pilots would be medically examined for possible mental abnormalities. The connection seems obvious. Fail-Safe by Burdick and Wheeler was a later thriller of similar plot. This impossible yarn related how a condenser blew in communications equipment, causing a bomber force to fly past its fail-safe point and attack Moscow. Such a ridiculously inaccurate story, deliberately twisting the whole concept of fail-safe which simply meant that if any part of the system failed the system was safe, was passed off by the authors as an authentic possibility, even a probability. Said the authors, ‘it represents a competent estimate of the technical and scientific factors involved in the ‘fail-safe’ system. …

“War is never ‘cost-effective’ in terms of dollars and blood. People are killed. To them the war is total. You cannot tell bereaved wives, children, and parents that today’s war in Vietnam, for example, is a counter-insurgency exercise into which the United States is putting only a limited effort. Death is final, and drafted boys should not be asked to make this ultimate sacrifice unless the Government is behind them 100 percent. If we pull our punches how can we explain it to their loved ones? … Our losses so far in Vietnam exceed those of the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War combined. Are we paying this price simply to help a friendly country stop outside aggression, or are we actually fighting expanding communism? … we should never engage in a small war unless we are prepared to fight and win a large war. This is fundamental. … The only way to win a war is to escalate it one way or another above what the enemy can endure. If we feel that we cannot win without unacceptable risk we have no business fighting in the first place.

“There are just two checks on escalation. One is the waning of motivation for fighting the war in the first place. A long grinding war of attrition on the ground might achieve this … The second check on escalation is to so overwhelm your enemy with such heavy and rapid destruction that he loses all hope of winning. Then surrender is an attractive choice when compared to inevitable defeat or certain death. This, of course, is the way we brought Japan to terms in 1945. It was unnecessary to invade with infantry and fight a ground war. We seem to have forgotten this fact. Even though Japan had four million troops under arms with two million guarding her shores, not a shot was fired. We invaded with fourteen hundred military administrators, by air. Not a life was lost in this invasion.

“The Japanese had been highly motivated to wage war against us. Kamikaze tactics and no-surrender policies were typical. Yet a realization that Japan simply could not win and the certainty that continued resistance meant mounting devastation caused her to toss in the sponge. … In the final analysis, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved and dozens of cities spared … In Korea … there were three and a half million military casualties on both sides during three years of drawn-out war. Over a million civilians were killed ...”

On pages 104-5, LeMay recommends ABM, pointing out that enemy nuclear missile warheads are vulnerable to initial nuclear radiation and X-ray ablation extending over immense distances in the vacuum of space by a defensive nuclear explosion, so they are shot down without having to “hit a bullet with a bullet”. On page 106, LeMay points out that on 10 November 1966 Defense Secretary McNamara publicly admitted that Russia was employing these ABM systems around Moscow and Leningrad. The three 300 kt Russian Operation K nuclear tests at altitudes of 290, 150 and 59 km on 22 and 28 October and 1 November 1962, respectively, were ABM system proof tests. Unlike American high altitude nuclear tests (where EMP damage on Hawaii was discovered purely by accident), Russia specifically instrumented burned power transmission lines and telephone lines for EMP damage research before setting off these nuclear tests. Russian unveiled its Griffon ABM in 1963 and “The Galosh ABM was displayed in a Moscow parade in November, 1964.”

Despite this proof-tested Russian ABM accomplishment which would have shot down rogue nuclear missiles falling on Moscow, America never protected its cities by ABM systems. Civil defense is also derided in democracies by utopian ideologies who are rewarded Nobel Peace Prizes for censoring out the facts.

Survival at high overpressures from nuclear bombs in Japan, by easy shielding of outdoor radiations

Source: L. Wayne Davis, “Prediction of Urban Casualties and the Medical Load from a High-Yield Nuclear Burst” (based on over 35,000 Hiroshima and Nagasaki case histories), Dirkwood Corporation paper DC-P-1060. By contrast, the widely circulated 1979 U. S. Office of Technology Assessment report, “The Effects of Nuclear War”, assumes that just 5-6 psi produces 50% mortality (the computer model this estimate is from ignores floor resistance, like an ice-skating rink in multistory buildings, thus assuming that the blast blows people out of high-rise buildings to be killed by gravity in the fall to the ground), compared to over 15 psi for people indoors at Nagasaki (people indoors were largely protected from blast-duration dependent wind drag effects, and longer duration blast reduces the vertically falling debris load on survivors by blowing debris horizontally, often reducing rather than increasing the overall hazard). Table 5 in the 1979 report “arbitrarily” assumes that 6.7 cal/sq. cm is lethal to people outdoors, whereas the Dirkwood report shows that 16 cal/sq. cm was lethal to 50% of personnel exposed outdoors in thin summer clothing in Hiroshima, and larger amounts are required for higher weapon yields. Clothing and shadows from buildings, trees, fences, and vehicles offered substantial protection. The U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey reports on Hiroshima and Nagasaki document how people were able to roll and beat out ignited dark colored clothing at very high thermal exposures, usually without sustaining serious burns. Once people are protected against the radiation, flying debris and wind drag by taking cover, Glasstone and Dolan’s 1977 “Effects of Nuclear Weapons” shows in Table 12.38 that an effective peak overpressure of 62 psi is required for 50% lethality from blast effects. Their Table 12.43 shows that the average mass of flying glass fragments decreases with increasing overpressure, from 1.45 grams at 1.9 psi to 0.13 grams at 5.0 psi, making protection against high velocity flying glass splinters and other debris possible. M. K. Drake, et al., “Collateral Damage”, Science Applications, Inc., Defense Nuclear Agency report DNA 4734Z, ADA071371, 1978, page 5-86: “For personnel inside structures, the probability of being hit by glass fragments decreases rapidly as a person moves laterally from behind a window. At 25 degrees from the edge of a window pane, the density of glass fragments is approximately one-tenth the density of fragments measured directly behind the window. ... This was extremely evident in injuries of British civilians during World War II. As the people learned to quit looking out of their windows during bomb raids, the number of glass casualties decreased dramatically.” (Like lightning before thunder, the painfully bright first flash of a nuclear explosion arrives ahead of the slower blast wave, proving a useful warning to duck and cover over large areas of destruction. Fallout consists of small particles which take time to arrive, allowing evacuation or improvised radiation shielding. Fallout predictions only failed during early 1950s tests due to inadequate knowledge of the fallout mechanism and inadequate weather predictions. Modern city buildings with modern fire-resistant furnishings are even less prone to ignition than black air-raid blackout curtains in wartime Hiroshima, which generally failed to start sustained fires. The Hiroshima firestorm was caused by thousands of overturned charcoal stoves in paper screen filled congested wooden housing areas, so overcrowded they were a peacetime fire risk, according to the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey report. With no firestorms, there can be no nuclear winter. In Hiroshima, where there was a firestorm, sunshine was blocked out for 25 minutes as proved by the Hiroshima meteorological sunshine recorder data.)

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