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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class William J. Camp Jr., left, noncommissioned officer in charge, uses a chemical agent detection pen to determine the substance at a simulated crime scene while 1st Lt. Paul C. Hesch, operations officer, both with the 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (21st WMD-CST), New Jersey National Guard, monitors for any changes during an exercise at the TD Bank Ballpark, Bridgewater Township, N.J., June 27, 2019. The scenarios, which ranged from reacting to pharmaceutical based agents to training to sharpen joint hazardous assessment team skills, were created by staff from the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The 21st WMD-CST supports civil authorities at man-made or natural disasters by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances, as well as assess the consequences, and advises on response measures. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Paul C. Hesch, operations officer, 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (21st WMD-CST), New Jersey National Guard, checks his detection equipment prior to entering a simulated crime scene during an exercise at the TD Bank Ballpark, Bridgewater Township, N.J., June 27, 2019. The scenarios, which ranged from reacting to pharmaceutical based agents to training to sharpen joint hazardous assessment team skills, were created by staff from the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The 21st WMD-CST supports civil authorities at man-made or natural disasters by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances, as well as assess the consequences, and advises on response measures. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around seventy five Iraqi activists staged an anti-terrorist rally with flags, costumes and theatrical performances in front of the White House. At the same time a parallel demonstration was taking place twenty feet away staged by Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other peace groups opposed to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Nicky Lam, left, and Sgt. Quran Williams, both with the New Jersey National Guard's 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team, examine the results of a handheld chemical identification analyzer at a simulated lab site during a joint training exercise with members of the Monmouth County Hazmat team at Fort Monmouth, N.J., April 6, 2017. The 21st WMD-CST is a joint unit comprised of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen whose mission is to support civil authorities by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances in either man-made or natural disasters. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with senior advisers on the underground nuclear test announced by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on 6 January.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
United Nations, New York
06 January 2016
Photo # 659099
U.S. Army Sgt. Quran T. Williams, Survey Team Member, 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (21st WMD-CST), New Jersey National Guard, unloads a Talon IV robot during a training exercise at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Oct. 23, 2019. The robot is used for reconnaissance and detection in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear environments. The 21st WMD-CST supports civil authorities at man-made or natural disasters by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances, assess the consequences, and advises on response measures. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
A Picatinny Arsenal firefighter, right, checks New Jersey National Guard 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team Strike Team member Sgt. Joe Bercovic with a handheld volatile organic compound monitor during a training exercise with the Picatinny Arsenal Fire Department at the New Jersey Homeland Defense Homeland Security Center at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., Mar. 23, 2017. The 21st WMD-CST is a joint unit comprised of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen whose mission is to support civil authorities by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances in either man-made or natural disasters. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the #StopTrident rally at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 27th February 2016.
Washington DC, Monday evening August 20, 2014. Around twenty social justice activists associated with Code Pink and other peace groups rallied in front of The White House to protest the renewed bombing of Iraq. The Obama administration claims that the bombing and increasing presence of US troops there is a necessary response to the virtual collapse of the US puppet government in large areas of the country and the capitulation of much of the Iraqi army to brutal Sunni Isis forces.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around seventy five Iraqi activists staged an anti-terrorist rally with flags, costumes and theatrical performances in front of the White House. At the same time a parallel demonstration was taking place twenty feet away staged by Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other peace groups opposed to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq.
Next time you are on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media and some trumpeter starts extolling the virtues of their fuhrer and bashing anything and everything liberal, you need to suspect they are a Kremlin Troll. Maybe they are not, but posting this pic and saying "Hey, I found a picture of you in action" just might make you feel better.
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August 6, 1945 - the sun rose into a clear blue sky over the city of Hiroshima, Japan promising a warm and pleasant day. Nothing in the day's dawning indicated that this day would be any different from its predecessors. But this day would be different, very different. This day would change the world. On this day a single bomb dropped by a single airplane destroyed the city, leading to the end of World War II and introducing mankind to the Atomic Age.
Dr. Michihiko Hachiya lived thorough that day and kept a diary of his experience. He served as Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital approximately a mile from the explosion's epicenter. His diary was published in English in 1955
Suddenly, a strong flash of light...
"The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, reflecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors opening to the south.
Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was sprawled on the living room floor exhausted because I had just spent a sleepless night on duty as an air warden in my hospital.
Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled me - and then another. So well does one recall little things that I remember vividly how a stone lantern in the garden became brilliantly lit and I debated whether this light was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks from a passing trolley.
Garden shadows disappeared. The view where a moment before had been so bright and sunny was now dark and hazy. Through swirling dust I could barely discern a wooden column that had supported one comer of my house. It was leaning crazily and the roof sagged dangerously.
Moving instinctively, I tried to escape, but rubble and fallen timbers barred the way. By picking my way cautiously I managed to reach the roka [an outside hallway]and stepped down into my garden. A profound weakness overcame me, so I stopped to regain my strength. To my surprise I discovered that I was completely naked How odd! Where were my drawers and undershirt?
What had happened?
All over the right side of my body I was cut and bleeding. A large splinter was protruding from a mangled wound in my thigh, and something warm trickled into my mouth. My check was torn, I discovered as I felt it gingerly, with the lower lip laid wide open. Embedded in my neck was a sizable fragment of glass which I matter-of-factly dislodged, and with the detachment of one stunned and shocked I studied it and my blood-stained hand.
Where was my wife?
Suddenly thoroughly alarmed, I began to yell for her: 'Yaeko-san! Yaeko-san! Where are you?' Blood began to spurt. Had my carotid artery been cut? Would I bleed to death? Frightened and irrational, I called out again 'It's a five-hundred-ton bomb! Yaeko-san, where are you? A five- hundred-ton bomb has fallen!'
Yaeko-san, pale and frightened, her clothes torn and blood stained, emerged from the ruins of our house holding her elbow. Seeing her, I was reassured. My own panic assuaged, I tried to reassure her.
'We'll be all right,' I exclaimed. 'Only let's get out of here as fast as we can.'
She nodded, and I motioned for her to follow me."
It was all a nightmare...
Dr. Hachiya and his wife make there way to the street. As the homes around them collapse, they realize they must move on, and begin their journey to the hospital a few hundred yards away.
"We started out, but after twenty or thirty steps I had to stop. My breath became short, my heart pounded, and my legs gave way under me. An overpowering thirst seized me and I begged Yaeko-san to find me some water. But there was no water to be found. After a little my strength somewhat returned and we were able to go on.
I was still naked, and although I did not feel the least bit of shame, I was disturbed to realize that modesty had deserted me. On rounding a corner we came upon a soldier standing idly in the street. He had a towel draped across his shoulder, and I asked if he would give it to me to cover my nakedness. The soldier surrendered the towel quite willingly but said not a word. A little later I lost the towel, and Yaeko-san took off her apron and tied it around my loins.
Our progress towards the hospital was interminably slow, until finally, my legs, stiff from drying blood, refused to carry me farther. The strength, even the will, to go on deserted me, so I told my wife, who was almost as badly hurt as I, to go on alone. This she objected to, but there was no choice. She had to go ahead and try to find someone to come back for me.
Yaeko-san looked into my face for a moment, and then, without saying a word, turned away and began running towards the hospital. Once, she looked back and waved and in a moment she was swallowed up in the gloom. It was quite dark now, and with my wife gone, a feeling of dreadful loneliness overcame me.
I must have gone out of my head lying there in the road because the next thing I recall was discovering that the clot on my thigh had been dislodged and blood was again spurting from the wound.
I pressed my hand to the bleeding area and after a while the bleeding stopped and I felt better
Could I go on?
I tried. It was all a nightmare - my wounds, the darkness, the road ahead. My movements were ever so slow; only my mind was running at top speed.
In time I came to an open space where the houses had been removed to make a fire lane. Through the dim light I could make out ahead of me the hazy outlines of the Communications Bureau's big concrete building, and beyond it the hospital. My spirits rose because I knew that now someone would find me; and if I should die, at least my body would be found. I paused to rest. Gradually things around me came into focus. There were the shadowy forms of people, some of whom looked like walking ghosts. Others moved as though in pain, like scarecrows, their arms held out from their bodies with forearms and hands dangling. These people puzzled me until I suddenly realized that they had been burned and were holding their arms out to prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together. A naked woman carrying a naked baby came into view. I averted my gaze. Perhaps they had been in the bath. But then I saw a naked man, and it occurred to me that, like myself, some strange thing had deprived them of their clothes. An old woman lay near me with an expression of suffering on her face; but she made no sound. Indeed, one thing was common to everyone I saw - complete silence.
All who could were moving in the direction of the hospital. I joined in the dismal parade when my strength was somewhat recovered, and at last reached the gates of the Communications Bureau."
Reference: "Surviving the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima, 1945," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
A Picatinny Arsenal firefighter, left, checks New Jersey National Guard 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team Strike Team member Staff Sgt. Nicky Lam for contamination during a training exercise with the Picatinny Arsenal Fire Department at the New Jersey Homeland Defense Homeland Security Center at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., Mar. 23, 2017. The 21st WMD-CST is a joint unit comprised of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen whose mission is to support civil authorities by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances in either man-made or natural disasters. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around seventy five Iraqi activists staged an anti-terrorist rally with flags, costumes and theatrical performances in front of the White House. At the same time a parallel demonstration was taking place twenty feet away staged by Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other peace groups in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Steve B. Kovacs, left, assists Staff Sgt. Julian Londono, Decontamination Team Member, both with the 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (21st WMD-CST), New Jersey National Guard, out of his Level A Protective Suit during a training exercise at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 25, 2020. The exercise was in preparation for the 21st’s upcoming collective lanes training and annual Army North training proficiency evaluation. The scenarios were created by facilitators from the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The 21st WMD-CST supports civil authorities at man-made or natural disasters by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances, assess the consequences, and advise on response measures. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around seventy five Iraqi activists staged an anti-terrorist rally with flags, costumes and theatrical performances in front of the White House. At the same time a parallel demonstration was taking place twenty feet away staged by Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other peace groups opposed to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around seventy five Iraqi activists staged an anti-terrorist rally with flags, costumes and theatrical performances in front of the White House. At the same time a parallel demonstration was taking place twenty feet away staged by Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other peace groups opposed to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq.
Titan Missile Museum
May 7, 2007
Green Valley, Arizona
The largest intercontinental ballistic missile the United States ever built was the Titan 2. It had one warhead, a single hydrogen bomb. Every Titan 2 bunker was destroyed according to the treaty with Russia (however I've heard some were not completely destroyed and are now being turned into underground houses), this one was spared to be turned into a museum. Most of the rest of the missiles were given to NASA to launch satelites into space. The hole in the missile is so Russian satelite photos can see that there is no warhead in the missile.
The museum was used for part of the movie Star Trek: First Contact.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around seventy five Iraqi activists staged an anti-terrorist rally with flags, costumes and theatrical performances in front of the White House. At the same time a parallel demonstration was taking place twenty feet away staged by Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other peace groups in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Soldiers from the 95th Chemical Company, 2d Engineer Brigade, suit up to man decontamination stations during joint operations with members of the California National Guard 95th Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction) at the Arctic Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Site on JBER-Richardson July 17. Like Alaska's own 103rd CST (WMD), the California team is composed of Army and Air Force National Guardsmen, trained in NBC and HAZMAT identification, assessment, and sampling. Their primary mission is to provide first responder support to civil authorities in matters of NBC, HAZMAT, and other major incidents. The week's training included a joint operations and casualty evacuation; suspected HAZMAT lab clearing; NBC training; and weapons familiarization. (U.S. Air Force photo/Percy G. Jones)
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.
Lt. Col. George Christenson, third from left, commander of the New Jersey National Guard's 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team, is briefed by members of the Monmouth County Hazmat team during a joint training exercise at Fort Monmouth, N.J., April 6, 2017. The 21st WMD-CST is a joint unit comprised of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen whose mission is to support civil authorities by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances in either man-made or natural disasters. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Sgt. Quran Williams with the New Jersey National Guard's 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team, seals an evidence sample with tape during a joint training exercise at Fort Monmouth, N.J., April 6, 2017. The 21st WMD-CST is a joint unit comprised of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen whose mission is to support civil authorities by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances in either man-made or natural disasters. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Washington DC, Saturday June 20, 2014. Around one hundred social justice activists associated with Code Pink, Answer Coalition and other groups rally in front of the White House in opposition to the Obama administration's decision to put U.S. combat forces back into Iraq. Some of us stood on this same spot in 2002 in protest of the impending 'post 911' phase of the Iraq War.