EMERY BANEBERRY (Picture I) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
In 1970 United States military made nuclear test series codenamed EMERY, and it was one of 16 tests, what were planned to explode in underground position. The underground nuclear tests were only allowed test form after the partial nuclear test ban treaty, what prohibited nuclear tests in the sea, close space and atmosphere because of the radioactive fallout. BANEBERRY was 10 kiloton unit, what was detonated 270 meters below the surface, and the depth was too small. The explosion caused the radioactive cloud and very high level of radiation. Two workers of that area got leukemia, because of that test.
That nuclear test is very strange because the unit was shot so close to the Earth surface, and that caused the high level of radiation. Somebody claimed that the reason for that radioactive catastrophe was that the United States tested cannon, what could launch the spacecraft to the trajectory. In this system, the nuclear detonator would be launched in the tunnel under the spacecraft, and then the pressure would throw it to the orbiter. This is one of the weirdest rumors of the history of aviation, and sometimes I have thought that is the real purpose of ORION-project actually cover this kind of tests, where satellites were shot to air by using nuclear weapons.
Picture II |
This is not the only or the first time when the nuclear detonators would be claimed to use in this purpose, and there is one very interesting detail in the history of nuclear weapons, what could explain the "Black Knight" satellite. In 1956 United States Military made the nuclear tests in the series of OPERATION BLUBBOB. There were test code-named PASCAL-B, where claimed that the steel plate would kick to the orbital trajectory.
The idea is purely similar to the Montgolfier-brothers balloon from 1783. The balloon was fly because under it was burned the campfire, what made heat air inside the balloon. The same idea could be in the nuclear detonation use under the similar construction, what is of course made by different materials. The nuclear detonator would give heat air, and launch that thing in the orbital trajectory. This writing is of course only speculative, and there would be no proof about supporting this, except the reports or comments of operation "Plumbbob Pascal-B" test in nuclear weapon archives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Emery
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Picture I
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Operation_Emery_-_Baneberry.jpg/280px-Operation_Emery_-_Baneberry.jpg
Picture II
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montgolfier_brothers_flight.jpg
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