By James Heddle By Mary Beth Brangan EON
Published August 4, 2025

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m., the United States Army detonated an implosion-design plutonium bomb named Gadget at the White Sands Missile Range at the Alamogordo, air base 120 miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

July 2025 New Mexico State officials organized a commemoration of that pivotal historical event.

The International Executive Committee of Religions for Peace announced,

“As we mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Nuclear Test, the Executive

Committee … reaffirms its unwavering commitment to the complete

elimination of nuclear weapons.”

Otherwise, the pivotal July 16 anniversary seemed to largely pass without much public notice or interest.

This, despite the fact that nuclear sabre rattling over Ukraine, India, Israel and other places has our current world so-called ‘leaders’ horrifyingly close to using nuclear weapons again. It can be said to have all begun with Trinity.

Out of the Deep Bore Memory Hole

In retrospect, the infamous, sacrilegiously titled ‘Trinity Test’ can be seen to be literally unholy in a number of ways.

The uranium used in the test had been mined on land long held sacred by the region’s indigenous tribal people, the Navajo or Diné. No permissions asked or given.

In a second sacrilege, the permanently toxic mine tailings had been left scattered about the desecrated landscape, their deadly dust blown in the wind.

Present day Diné leader Leona Morgan calls it a prime example of what she rightly condemns as ‘nuclear colonialism.’

A part of the Manhattan Project, the Gadget was the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. This was days after decimating Hiroshima with a different bomb design. Estimates of the deaths vary from 110,000 to 210,000 immediately followed by more deaths from radiation sickness. It launched a cascade of nuclear bomb tests shown in this map of known such tests to date.

The Great Atomic Psyop

The much-touted ‘Nuclear Age’ has been a Big Lie right from the git-go. The atomic bombing of japan was itself a ‘test, not, as the cover story goes ‘necessary to secure Japan’s surrender and save American lives.’ Documents show the Japanese had already decided to surrender.

But ‘Protecting human lives’ and ‘Securing world peace’ became the cover stories for all future nuclear testing. The psyop continues with the added false cover story assertion that ‘nuclear energy is the solution change. [More on that below.]

According to the National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV) ,

“The United States has sponsored a total of 1,054 nuclear weapons tests, and detonated two of these weapons over enemy soil during an act of war.”

Blowback Squared – What Goes Around, Comes Around

Lucas Ropek reports, “Ironically, despite America’s Cold War fears of being nuked by the Soviet Union, the only government that ever nuked us (and nuked us quite a bit) was our own.”

Radioactive Fallout from the Trinity Nuclear Test Impacted 46 U.S. States, Study Finds

https://gizmodo.com/trinity-test-oppenheimer-manhattan-project-nuclear-fall-1850663995

Nuclear destruction begins at home…but it spreads - some images that speak for themselves…

As Karl Grossman pointed out back in 2016, every reactor site, whether operating or decommissioned, and the spent fuel in storage there, or in other radioactive waste storage facilities, are pre-positioned Weapons of Mass Destruction waiting for an adversary state or terrorist.

Alan J. Kuperman, writing in Scientific American, brings our nuclear situational awareness up to date, warning that U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons - “The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results.” [Emphasis added]

The Nuclear Complex - A ‘Public-Private Partnership’

“One cannot exist without the other. Without civil nuclear power, there is no military nuclear power, and without military nuclear power, there is no civil nuclear power.” – French President Macron

The merger or fusion of civil and military nuclear institutions is the reality shaping the current nuclear situation, setting the context many informed observers agree for WW III

According to Michel Chossudovsky writing for Global Research in a precient 2011 article,

The World is at a critical crossroads….The powerful corporate interests behind nuclear energy and nuclear weapons overlap. In Japan at the height of the disaster, "the nuclear industry and government agencies [were] scrambling to prevent the discovery of atomic-bomb research facilities hidden inside Japan's civilian nuclear power plants" [Source] …
…Radioactive elements have not only been detected in the food chain in Japan, radioactive rain water has been recorded in California:
"Hazardous radioactive elements being released in the sea and air around Fukushima accumulate at each step of various food chains (for example, into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow's meat and milk, then humans). Entering the body, these elements - called internal emitters - migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, continuously irradiating small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years often induce cancer". [Source]

That 2011 article now forms the Preface of a new E-Book [PDF downloadable for free] in which Chossudovsky shows that his 2011 analysis is still even more relevent today and goes on to explain that a new war theater has opened in North Africa,

The War on Libya was launched within days of the Fukushima disaster. As we go to press, a dangerous process of military escalation is ongoing. NATO warplanes are hitting civilian targets in Libya including residential areas and government buildings in violation of inter- national law.
The war on Libya is an integral part of the broader military agenda in the Middle East and Central Asia which until recently consisted of three distinct areas of conflict : Afghanistan and Pakistan (the AfPak War), Iraq, Palestine.
A fourth war theater has opened up in North Africa, which raises the issue of escalation over a vast geographical area.
These four war theaters are interrelated. They are part of a broader region of conflict, which extends from North Africa and the Middle East, engulfing a large part of the Mediterranean basin, to China's Western frontier with Afghanistan, and Northern Pakistan.

Chossudovsky charges that, “The US has embarked on a military adventure, ‘a long war’, which threatens the future of humanity.” He describes what he calls the “Cult of Death and Destruction” and states,

“Nuclear was has become a multibillion dollar undertaking, which fills the pockets of US defense contractors. What is at stake is the outright ‘privatization of nuclear war”…. The US and its NATO allioes are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against both Iran and North Korea with devastaing consequences. Thismilitary adventure in the real sense of the word threatens the future of humanity…. ‘Making the world safer’ is the justifecation for launching a miitary operation which could potentially result in a nuclear holocaust…. The killing machin is deployed at a global level withing the framework of the unified command structure….”

Kazumi Matsui, mayor of Hiroshima, has recently warned,

“Among the world's political leaders, there is a growing belief that possessing nuclear weapons is unavoidable in order to protect their own countries [...] This situation not only nullifies the lessons the international community has learned from the tragic history of the past, but also seriously undermines the frameworks that have been built for peace-building."

The ‘Plutonium Economy’ and the ‘War Economy’ are Inseparable

Uranium (Pu) is a heavy metal that occurs naturally in the Earth's crust. It is used as fuel in nuclear reactors due to its ability to undergo fission, particularly the isotope uranium-235.

Plutonium is the essential component in nuclear bombs. Plutonium, unlike uranium, does not exist in nature in sufficient quantities for industrial scale bomb production. It is a man-made element only produced in nuclear reactors from uranium.

According to nuclear-energy.net,

“Plutonium is a chemical element used as nuclear fuel in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Although traces can be found in nature, all plutonium isotopes are of artificial origin.
“The first time that significant quantities of plutonium were produced was during World War II within the Manhattan Project. The purpose of this project was to manufacture a sufficient quantity of material to use nuclear energy to develop a nuclear bomb.”

The U.S. is well stocked with both uranium and plutonium.

According to J. Allender, E. Moore writing in Semantic Scholar,

“The United States (US) has identified 61.5 metric tons (MT) of plutonium that is permanently excess to use in nuclear weapons programs, including 47.2 MT of weapons-grade plutonium. Surplus inventories will be stored safely by the Department of Energy (DOE) and then transferred to facilities that will prepare the plutonium for permanent disposition.”

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Once in our bodies and our surrounding planetary ecosystem radioactive contamination circulates and persists in many ways.

**We Are Now All Planetary Hibakusha**

Hibakusha is a Japanese word for people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States.

As shown in Yale University Professor Robert Jacobs’ best-selling book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha, the radiological contamination of both our planetary ecosystem and our genes by the unholy nuclear trinity of reactors, weapons and waste means that we are all hibakusha now.

We Must Escape Cognitive Capture by the Cult of Nuclear Revivalism

The quasi-religious fervor of Members of the First Church of the Last Nukes is similar to that of AI cult devotees. They are cognitively captured by magical thinking sparked by high-tech, effective industry propaganda methods.

Nuclear Situational Awareness Furthers

As ‘20’s Hollywood wit W.C. Fields, once pithily put it,

“There comes a time in human affairs when we must seize the bull by the tail, and stare the situation squarely in the face.”

The Nuclear Age has inalterably contaminated earth’s ecosystem. Restoring our planetary environment to its pre-nuclear state is impossible.

But much mitigation and future prevention IS possible.

An accurate awareness of our shared nuclear situation is the place to start.

Trans-generational responsibility plus perpetual awareness, rather than abandonment plus amnesia, are the necessary core guiding values.

The twin goals are:

Managed phase-out nuclear energy and weapons technologies and a transition to a truly green renewable energy economy.
Commitment to responsible long-term, state-of-the-art radioactive waste containment policies, in thick casks that are maintainable and transportable, with dry cells for upkeep and repackaging, stored in reinforced buildings that are monitored and staffed with skilled workers using best practices, equipment, methods and structures; radioactive waste stored as close as safely possible to the site of generation to minimize transport risk; perpetually monitored and upgraded. This is the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility’s policy of Rolling Stewardship as developed by Gordon Edwards, Ph.D. and Robert Del Tredici. It is also the policy of the Nuclear Free Local Authorities.

Robert Del Tredici - Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility

Dry Cells, Monitoring, Repackaging and Hardened Onsite Containment

According to the Nuclear Information and Resource Service,

Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS) is a community-based concept that aims to protect the public from the threats posed by the current vulnerable storage of commercial irradiated fuel.

Systems Analyst Donna Gilmore, on her extensive, ground-breaking website SanOnofreSafety.org explains,

“Switzerland and other countries store thick-wall casks in hardened passively cooled building for additional environmental and security protection.
“The Swiss also have a dry transfer system (hot cell) facility, so they can transfer fuel from one cask to another, inspect inside casks and maintain casks and contents.”

Climate controlled, hardened containment building as close to the site of generation as possible to minimize transport risks. - SanOnofreSafety.org

Dry Cell for inspecting and repackaging spent fuel rods - SanOnofreSafety.org

Crisis as Opportunity

Every blockage to evolutionary advance is a goad to overcome it. Writing in 20019, futurist Duane Elgin foresaw Humanity’s Great Transition coming. He wrote,

“Humanity has entered a time of historic transition that is unprecedented in its urgency, magnitude and impact. We are being pushed by unyielding necessity to respond to an array of adversity trends. Some think climate change, unsustainable population, resource depletion, species extinction and more may bring a tragic end to human history. Others see these trends as an evolutionary force, moving us toward sustainable ways of living with a surpassing sense of purpose. I see the latter possibility as more accurate: We are going somewhere as a species!
“We are on an extraordinary journey, moving through a rite of passage that will take us from our collective adolescence into our early adulthood as a human family. With that passage, we will awaken a new sense of reality, human identity, and evolutionary journey that will enable us to move toward a sustainable and surpassing future. However, humanity’s passage from millennia of separation to a world of connection and collaboration is precarious and filled with monumental difficulties….
“Each generation makes sacrifices for the next as a caretaker for the future. This generation is being pushed by a wounded Earth and pulled by a welcoming Universe to make an unprecedented gift to humanity’s future: working together with equanimity and maturity to consciously realize our bio-cosmic potential and purpose of learning to live in a living Universe.
“In making the long journey from separation and then into a crisis of planetary scale initiation, we can finally begin our journey of return and arrive where we started—conscious of ourselves as bio-cosmic beings, in intimate relationship with other forms of life with whom we share the planet, and with the living universe that is our ever-sustaining home

Elgin explores these ideas in depth in his book Choosing Earth, which you can download for free in seven languages.

Debunking The Faux New Nukes as a ‘Cure for Climate Change’ Cover Story

Stanford professor, Mark Z. Jacobson, writing for NukeWatch.org, has pointed to Seven Reasons Why Nuclear Energy is Not the Answer to Solve Climate Change , which he lists as,

The long time lag between planning and operation of a nuclear reactor;
The consistent construction budget overruns and cost uncompeditiveness with wind and solar;
Weapons Proliferation Risk;
Meltdown Risk;
Mining Cancer Risk;
Carbon-Equivalent Emissions & Air Pollution -
There is no such thing as a zero- or close-to-zero
emission nuclear reactor. All reactors emit radioactive Carbon 14;
The radioactive ‘waste’ containment conundrum.

A joint report from NIRS and WISE seconds and amplifies his conclusions, as do sources sited by Nuclear Free North West

Nuclear power's reliability is dropping as extreme weather increases Warmer temperatures aren't the only threat. Hurricanes and typhoons have become the leading causes of outages in North America and some other areas. Ars Technica, July 24, 2021
Entire article: Increase in frequency of nuclear power outages due to changing climate, by Ali Ahmad, Nature Energy, July 2021
Nuclear Energy Will Not Be the Solution to Climate Change There Is not enough time for nuclear innovation to save the planet. By Allison Macfarlane, Foreign Affairs, July 8, 2021 The author formerly served as Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Then there are those who question the climate change narrative itself - not that climate change happens, nor that human activities contribute to it, but why multiple, on-going, un-regulated experiments in weather warfare and geoengeneering are rarely mentioned in the mainstreem scholarly discussions. The 1996 US Air Force report Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 acknowledged,

In 2025, US aerospace forces can own the weather by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map. A high risk, high reward endeavor, weather modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom…. Some of the potential capabilities a weather modification system could provide to a war fighting commander in chief CINC are listed in table 1. Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather modification capability 1 advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, 2 computational capability, 3 information gathering and transmission, 4 a global sensor array, and 5 weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future…. [emphasis added]

Such capacities have no doubt been in serious development - and not just by the Air Force - in the more than a quarter century since that publication. The invaluable website GeoengineeringWatch.org tracks those developments.

In any case, a report from FritzEnergy concluds that,

Nuclear energy is not the answer to solving climate change due to its high cost, radioactive waste, safety concerns, and limited resources.
Nuclear energy is also not a practical solution to solve climate change as it requires large amounts of water, is not renewable, and has the potential to cause disasters.
Investing in renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and other clean energy options is a much better solution to combat climate change.

The Roadmap to a WWS Future

Jacobson, has also developed a model showing how it is feasible for the world to shift to 100 percent clean, renewable energy without the magical thinking afflicting Church of Nuclear Revivalism members.

No Miracles Needed
How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
by Mark Z. Jacobson, with a foreword by Bill McKibben.
One of Cambridge University Press' "Books of the Year" (link)
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSNoMN/NoMiracles.html

The following substanciating results are derived from the LOADMATCH study by Jacobson, M.Z., D. Fu, D.J. Sambor, and A. Mühlbauer, On the energy, health, and climate costs of “all-of-the-above” versus 100% Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) climate policies: Analysis across 149 countries, 2024.

Main results. Transitioning 149 countries to 100% WWS for all energy purposes…
1. Keeps the grid stable every 30 s for three years in every grid region;
2. Saves 5.4 million lives per year from air pollution in 2050 among 149 countries;
3. Eliminates 55.3 billion tonnes-CO2e per year in 2050 among 149 countries;
4. Reduces 2050 all-purpose, end-use energy requirements by 54.4%;
5. Reduces 149-country 2050 annual energy costs by 59.6% (from $16.5 to $6.67 tril/y);
6. Reduces annual energy, health, plus climate costs by 91.8% (from $81.2 to $6.67 tril/y);Costs ~$58.2 trillion upfront for WWS electricity, heat, and H2 generation;
7. electricity, heat,cold, and H2 storage; heat pumps for district heating; all-distance transmission; anddistribution. The payback time due to WWS annual energy cost savings vs. BAU is 5.9years;
8. that due to annual energy+health+climate cost savings is 0.8 years;~9.8% of the WWS generator nameplate capacity needed has been installed;
9. New WWS requires 0.13% of the 149-country land for footprint, 0.38% for spacing;
10. Creates 22.9 million more long-term, full-time jobs than lost (not including increases in jobs in producing electric appliances, vehicles, machines).

Danielle Park explains,

His model takes account of the emissions from fossil fuels, of course, but also other pollutants that affect public health. When you combine these effects, it is apparent that the transition to clean energy will be a lifesaver and a great saver of energy too. Jacobson opposes the investment in nuclear power, which is far from lacking its own carbon emissions, when you count the work involved in mining, transporting, processing, and hiding and guarding the ingredients. Moreover, nuclear is far more expensive and will take far too long to create additional plants.

The ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ is DOA. Do Not Resuscitate.

For years, evidence has shown that the fanatic cult wet dream of a nuclear revival is a futile fantasy. In a new report for the EnergyScience Coalition authors assert,

The proponents of nuclear power rely on an excessive optimism which, once again, sits in stark contrast to the reality of the decades-long stagnation [of] the industry worldwide.

All of which lead to the conclusion that abolition of nuclear energy and weapons technologies - denuclearization - is the only rational, reality-based ‘nuclear option’.

Special Section

Proposing an SOS Nuclear Responsibility Paradigm

We advocate for the adoption by informed democratic process of a universal paradigm of perpetual, responsible radioactive waste containment that spans future generations, and combines the best elements of the Denuclearization and Peace Agendas, and the Rolling Stewardship (& here) Hardened Onsite Sorage (HOSS), and Swiss models of nuclear waste containment. Denuclearization is the only RATIONAL ‘nuclear option’.

The SOS Nuclear Responsibility Paradigm

Acknowledge the inextricable connection between nuclear energy, nuclear weapons and radioactive waste production, and the continuance of the perpetual global war economy.
Acknowledge and own human responsibility for irreversibly altering our planetary ecosystem and the genetic integrity of all biological entities from the use of nuclear technologies.
Acknowledge and affirm perpetual human transgenerational ecological responsibility for the radioactive waste, both short lived and long lasting - up to millions of years.
In this ethical context, establish robust regulatory laws, policies, and funding mechanisms with a commitment to long-term radioactive waste containment in perpetuity. Trillions of dollars in funding to make more nuclear weapons and radioactive waste must be instead allocated to containing the radioactive waste already produced and protecting the global genetic integrity and environment.
Mandate keeping facilities for radioactive waste containment as close as safely possible to the site of generation to minimize transport risks as well as to avoid spreading radioactive contamination. Strictly limit transport of any radioactive substances.
Adequate compensation for extra risk and health needs must be given to host communities as well as thorough education about the radioactivity. No community may be forced to take radioactive waste not generated in their community.
Mandate state-of-the-art, thick-walled, repairable, maintainable, and transportable (to handling facility) containment casks for radioactive waste to be stored and maintained in a reinforced, climate controlled, passively cooled building as the standard universal bottom line.
Mandate the construction of dry transfer system (hot cell) facilities at each source of radioactive waste generation to maintain and repackage casks.
Maintain thoroughly trained, well compensated, labor and management forces, working in maximally safe conditions at each containment facility.
Continually upgrade containment structures, technologies, methods and refinement of the skills and shared knowledge base passed on to succeeding generations of the onsite workers.
Commit as a society to the abolition of dual-use nuclear energy and weapons technologies. Commit to the termination of all radioactive substances’ generation and use.
Commit to develop the truly ecologically benign, renewable sources of energy generation that are now available and their advantages proven in practice.

Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle co-direct EON, the Ecological Options Network.

The multi-award winning EON feature documentary SOS – The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy, was chosen as the opening film in the 13th annual Global Nonviolent Film Festival, where it also received the Organizers’ Award for ‘BEST ACTUALITY SUBJECT – Feature Documentary’.

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