Geiger Readings for Oct 19, 2019
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 703 - Vulnerabilities of Navy E-6 Mercury Command Aircraft
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Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft
The U.S. Navy designed the E-6 Mercury aircraft in conjunction with Boeing to control the U.S. arsenal in case of nuclear war. The E-6 is one hundred and fifty feet long, forty-two feet high and has a one hundred and forty-eight foot wingspan. It carries a crew of twenty-two and has a top speed of six hundred and ten miles per hour.
Geiger Readings for Oct 18, 2019
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 109 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 702 - The U.S. Has Fifty Nuclear Bombs In Turkey - Part 2 of 2 Parts
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Incirlik airbase in Turkey
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Geiger Readings for Oct 17, 2019
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 100 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 103 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Weapons 701 - The U.S. Has Fifty Nuclear Bombs In Turkey - Part 1 of 2 Parts
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B61 bomb
Part 1 of 2 Parts
During the Cuban Missile Crisis between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, new U.S. nuclear missile batteries in Turkey became a point of contention in the bargaining to avoid an all-out nuclear war. Those missile batteries were removed in 1963 as a concession on the part of the U.S.