Update: Atomic Devices “ADMs” at Oroville Dam

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Updated June 24, 2017 5:15 am pst

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BY PAUL PRESTON

PAUL PRESTON appears on THE POWER HOUR with DANIEL BRIGMAN to discuss new revelations about the Oroville Dam and the events of February 12, 2017 when Butte County Sheriff KORY HONEA made the decision to evacuate 200,000 people down stream from the dam.  Paul explains Honea’s actions in light of evidence that indicates the actual intent of the events leading up to his decision were planned out to destroy the dam which would kill as many as as 1 million people down stream and destroy one of the worlds most valuable and vital agricultural regions.

Paul reveals there were nuclear devices that were removed from the dam following the decision to evacuate.  The nuclear devices were A.D.M.s ‘Atomic Demolition Munitions”.  A.D.M.s are used for destroying power plants, bridges, and dams.

To bring down the Oroville dam a series of dam system failures would need to happen.  To get the systems to fail at the same time would be extremely remote as to be impossible yet from February 7-13, 2017 the major systems of the dam were setting up for failure.  The main spillway, emergency spillway, the dam, the Hyatt power plant, the river outlet valve (ROV), water inflows vs outflows, rain storms and the human failure factor would all have to come together at one moment.

“Every dam expert, farmer, rancher, and engineer I’ve talked to over the last 3 months have come to the conclusion these events do not seem to be by accident but by design”.

In order to get the dam to go into complete failure mode there would have to be domino effect which would cause the loss of the emergency spillway by overtopping resulting in erosion that would cause head cutting thus bringing down the o.g weir. Loss of the emergency spillway would result in the main spillway loss at the head.  These two events would cause a 30 foot wall of water almost 2,000 feet long that would take the top 20% of the lake.  The wall of water would result in a large inundation zone that just in itself would destroy thousands of structures and kill 10 of thousands of people.

The main dam structure would stand with the remaining 80% of the water in the lake because the sheer mass of the dam would in and of itself prevent complete dam failure.  In order to bring down the main down a V notch would have to be achieved. This could be achieved by water porting from behind the dam (as seen in the 1976 Teton Dam disaster) which is unlikely but with the use of properly placed A.D.M.s a notch could be easily achieved.

Water porting the face of a dam is a concern for any dam but for an earthen dam it is a major problem that can have devastating results such as the V notch breech seen in the Teton Dam disaster.

The Teton dam failure of 1976 was due to water porting from the right abutment as the reservoir was filling for the first time.  For years the green spot on the Oroville dam has been know to the dam owners but has never been repaired.  Placement of A.D.M.’s in the access tunnel below a water saturated area of the dam would be the perfect formula to create a breach that would cause complete dam failure.

ADDITIONAL READING

Under Oroville Dam’s Deep Dark Secret: Cold War Gold

Project Plowshare: The insane 1950s plan to use H-bombs to make roads and redirect rivers.

The Nuclear Canal: When Scientists Thought H-Bombs Would Make Awesome Earthmovers

The best location to place A.D.M.s would be the ‘powerhouse access tunnel’.  The tunnel enters the dam at the left abutment at the 350 foot level and turns left further penetrating the the dam until it reaches the Hyatt Power plant. The powerhouse access tunnel would create a perfect chamber to achieve maximum explosive compression at detonation. Pictured below you are looking down at the top of the dam and you can see the tunnel’s access point to the power house.

Above are the blue prints of the Oroville Dam showing the access tunnel, power plant and ‘Green Spot’ locations looking from the top down.  Source: California State Water Resources

Of note is the “Green Spot” which shows water porting to the surface from the dam which for over 30 years has been a concern but never fixed.  Over time water porting will lead to the phenomena known as flow liquefaction. DWR officials have reported this to be a ‘spring’ in the dam.  If so then the source of the spring maybe the access tunnel directly below the green spot area.

April 23, 2017 Oroville Dam Left Groin Area Above Hyatt Power Plant “Green Spot”. Photo Paul Preston, AENN
In this picture you can see the the location of the “Green Spot” on the west  face of the Oroville Dam.  Directly below the circled area in red is the access tunnel to the Hyatt Power plant. Also seen is the damaged main spillway and at the far left is the emergency spillway and the original red fill dirt used to support the O.G. weir of the emergency spillway.   Picture taken February 15, 2017. Photo Credit California Department of Water Resources.

 

 A.D.M.s were rated between  5 and 6 kilotons of explosive power.

The “Special” Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a family of man-portable nuclear weapons fielded by the US military in the 1960s, but never used in combat. The US Army planned to use the weapons in Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. US Army Engineers would use the weapon to destroy, irradiate and deny key routes of communication through limited terrain such as the Fulda Gap. Troops were trained to parachute into Soviet-occupied western Europe with the SADM and destroy power plants, bridges, and dams.

Below is a drawing which shows what would happen if there was a detonation below ground.  A large creator would develop in a dam causing a V notch effect allowing water to rush out.

The Sudan Shot

To show the destructive power of ADMs one need only look to the 1962 “Sedan shot” conducted to demonstrate the power of nuclear devices to move soil that was part of Operation Plowshare,

The above and below pictures are from the test shot known as the “Sedan” shot of Operation Storax on 6 July 1962, a 104-kiloton-of-TNT (440 TJ) shot for Operation Plowshare, which sought to prove that nuclear weapons could be used for peaceful means in creating bays or canals. It created a crater 1,280 feet (390 m) wide and 320 feet (100 m) deep that can still be seen today.

The 1962 Sedan test shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet deep and 1,280 feet wide at the Nevada Test Site. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Present day ‘Sedan Shot” site.

A combination of dam system failures, weather, human assistance, flow liquefaction and A.D.M.s would no doubt bring down the entire dam in a matter of hours. The result would change history.

 

Many Thanks to Tim Yuen for the map

Inundation map of Oroville Dam failure.  Water would also inundate 50 miles past Sacramento, CA.  Loss of life could be over 1 million people in a matter of hours. The loss of one of the worlds richest agricultural areas would cause world-wide famine.

PAUL PRESTON appears on THE LIBERTY BROTHERS SHOW  with JIM WHITE AND JASON VANTATENHOVE and expands on the discussion regarding nuclear devices at Oroville Dam with new revelations about the Oroville Dam and the events of February 12, 2017 when Butte County Sheriff KORY HONEA made the decision to evacuate 200,000 people down stream from the dam. Paul explains Honea’s actions in light of evidence that indicates the actual intent of the events leading up to his decision were planned out to destroy the dam which would kill as many as as 1 million people down stream and destroy one of the worlds most valuable and vital agricultural regions.

Paul reveals there were nuclear devices that were removed from the dam following the decision to evacuate.  The nuclear devices were A.D.M.s ‘Atomic Demolition Munitions”.  A.D.M.s are used for destroying dams.

Atomic demolition munition

Atomic demolition munitions (ADMs), colloquially known as nuclear land mines, are small nuclear explosive devices. ADMs were developed for both military and civilian purposes. As weapons, they were designed to be exploded in the forward battle area, in order to block or channel enemy forces. Non-militarily, they were designed for demolition, mining or earthmoving. However, apart from testing, they have never been used for either purpose.

Military uses

Shot Uncle of Operation Buster-Jangle, had a yield of 1.2 kilotons,[1]and was detonated 5.2 m (17 ft) beneath ground level. The yield is approximately the same as the maximum yield of the W54 equipped SADM. The explosion resulted in a cloud that rose to 11,500 ft, and deposited fallout to the north and north-northeast.[3] The resulting crater was 260 feet wide and 53 feet deep.

Instead of being delivered to the target by missiles, rockets, or artillery shells, ADMs were intended to be emplaced by soldiers. Due to their relatively small size and light weight, ADMs could be emplaced by military engineers or Special Forces teams, then detonated on command or by timer to create massive obstructions. By destroying key terrain features or choke points such as bridges, dams, mountain passes and tunnels, ADMs could serve to create physical as well as radiological obstacles to the movement of enemy forces and thus channel them into prepared killing zones.

According to official accounts, the United States deployed ADMs overseas in Italy and West Germany (Fulda Gap) during the Cold WarThe most modern types (SADM and MADM) were deployed in South Korea Seymour Hersh referred to the deployment of ADMs along the Golan Heights by Israel in the early 1980s.

Civilian uses

ADMs have never been used commercially although similar small devices, often modified to cut down on fission yield and maximize fusion, have been deeply buried to put out gas well fires as part of the Soviet test program.

The Soviet Union tested the use of nuclear devices for mining and natural gas extraction (stimulating gas flow in a similar manner to fracking) on several occasions starting in the mid-1960s, as part of the Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program. Tests for similar purposes were carried out in the United States under Operation Plowshare, but due to radioactive contamination caused by the tests, no direct commercial use was made of the technology although they were successful at nucleosynthesis and probing the composition of the Earth’s deep crust by Vibroseis which has helped mining company prospecting.[14][15][16]

United States ADMs

In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States developed several different types of lightweight nuclear devices. The main one was the W54, a cylinder 40 by 60 cm (about 16 by 24 inches) that weighed 68 kg (150 lb). It was fired by a mechanical timer and had a variable yield equivalent to between 10 tons and 1?kt of TNT. A Field non-variable yield version of the W54 nuclear device (called the “Mk-54 Davy Crockett” warhead for the M-388 Crockett round) was used in the Davy Crockett Weapon System.

SADM

Cutaway casing with warhead inside, code-decoder / firing unit is at left.

The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a family of man-portable nuclear weapons fielded by the US military in the 1960s, but never used in actual combat. The US Army planned to use the weapons in Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. US Army Engineers would use the weapon to irradiate, destroy, and deny key routes of communication through limited terrain such as the Fulda Gap. Troops were trained to parachute into Soviet occupied western Europe with the SADM and destroy power plants, bridges, and dams.

The weapon was designed to allow one person to parachute from any type of aircraft carrying the weapon package and place it in a harbor or other strategic location that could be accessed from the sea. Another parachutist without a weapon package would follow the first to provide support as needed.

The two-person team would place the weapon package in the target location, set the timer, and swim out into the ocean where they would be retrieved by a submarine or a high-speed surface water craft.

MADM

The Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (MADM) was a tactical nuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. They were designed to be used as nuclear land mines and for other tactical purposes, with a relatively low explosive yield from a W45 warhead, between 1 and 15 kilotons. Each MADM weighted around 400 lb (181 kg) total. They were produced between 1965 and 1986.[20]

 

 



3 thoughts on “Update: Atomic Devices “ADMs” at Oroville Dam

  1. Want to hear more about the nuclear devices and what they were for. Details as much as you can come up with.

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