{"product_id":"american-nuclear-deception-why-the-port-chicago-experiment-must-be-investigated-9798986053615","title":"American Nuclear Deception: Why \"the Port Chicago experiment\" must be investigated","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to the bomb, what we don't know could kill us. Written for ordinary readers by a concerned American citizen, \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Nuclear Deception\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eshows how the history of the bomb impacts current nuclear policy. This fresh evidence is seen through the surprising lens of the Port Chicago nuclear explosion theory (PCnet).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe controversial theory, introduced in \u003cem\u003eThe Black Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e (Spring 1982), was denied by the U.S. government; \"dissed\" by traditional historians; distorted by sensational conspiracy theorists; and deleted from Wikipedia -- all without benefit of an official investigation. Peter Vogel researched his theory for 35 years, but in December 2018 the senior scholar shut down his website, withdrawing his singular ebook, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Wave from Port Chicago\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book updates the PCnet\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eexposing the vital, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003edocumented connection between the Manhattan Project and the unexplained explosion that destroyed two ships at the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot near San Francisco on July 17, 1944, killing 320 Americans. According to a local newspaper, most victims were 'atomized'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unprecedented blast is still listed as one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history; but the greatest home-front disaster of World War II was upstaged by the mass mutiny trial of \"the Port Chicago 50\" why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Naval board ruled that the cause could never be determined -- but one of the three men on the board, Capt John Crenshaw, was related to Capt William S. Parsons, the man responsible for producing the bomb. Crenshaw was with Parsons on July 20, 1944, when he led his research team to Port Chicago to study \"the effects of the detonation.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA large body of wide-ranging new evidence supports the PCnet, overcoming opinion-based objections. Readers will learn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy it matters that Albert Einstein did not actually write the famous letter to FDR. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy FDR flipflopped on integrating the Navy \u003cem\u003eafter\u003c\/em\u003e authorizing the top-secret bomb project.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow \u003cem\u003eEinstein's work on torpedo design\u003c\/em\u003e as a Navy consultant in 1943 may have supported Parsons' quest for an \u003cem\u003eatomic torpedo\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA secret reason for FDR's \u003cem\u003esecret trip\u003c\/em\u003e to the West Coast during the 1944 Democratic National Convention;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy FDR's flagship was in the Port Chicago area on the day of the explosion;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy a false press release about an explosion at an ammunition depot was used to cover up the famous Trinity test.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the Port Chicago explosion led to the Trinity test, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, \u003cem\u003eOperation Crossroads\u003c\/em\u003e, the Nevada Proving Ground . . . and current nuclear policy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperts acknowledge that false assumptions have left many questions about the bomb unanswered. Instead of Truman's decision to \u003cem\u003euse\u003c\/em\u003e the bomb, the PCnet highlights FDR's single-handed decision to \u003cem\u003ecreate\u003c\/em\u003e the world-changing weapon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, Readers decide: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Port Chicago disaster -- \u003cem\u003ewas \u003c\/em\u003eit a nuclear explosion?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Department of Defense said: \". . . ridiculous.\" The Navy History and Heritage Command says \"hogwash.\" The Port Chicago National Memorial says \"unlikely.\" In 1993, two historians, Lawrence Badash and Richard G. Hewlett, called Vogel's original article \"A Story Too Good to Kill\". But \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Nuclear Deception\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eshows why \u003cstrong\u003ethe Port Chicago nuclear explosion theory is too important to ignore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15662636\"\u003eDaisy B. 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