Nuclear Safety, Megajoule Technology

Underground Nuclear Tests
in the Hexagon

November 14, 2002

I reproduce below two articles recently published in the press. The first was sent to me by Serge Acquatella:

Nice-Matin, November 14, 2002, "In Brief" section, page 14:

UNEXPLAINED NOISE IN WESTERN VAR:

An unusual phenomenon, still unexplained, occurred yesterday around 2:30 PM. A rumbling followed by a weak tremor lasting three to four seconds surprised residents from St-Cyr to La Valette. Fire stations were flooded with calls from concerned people. No damage was reported. The Strasbourg Geological Center, which records every minor seismic event on national territory, detected no anomalies.

The second excerpt was sent by Christophe Giudicci and comes from

La Provence, also from November 14, 2002:

A Huge Noise Heard

Yesterday afternoon, a mysterious tremor was felt in the region. Could the source have been aerial—and kept secret?

At 2:26 PM yesterday, the phone lines of the operational centers of the Bouches-du-Rhône firefighters in Marseille, the Var firefighters in Toulon, and the naval firefighters of the Phocaean city were flooded with calls. At the gendarmerie station in Plan-de-Cuques, east of Marseille, as well as in apartments in southern districts and in Saint-Cyr, Bandol, and Toulon, windows shook. Testimonies collected by emergency services converge: a loud noise resembling a shockwave was felt—a real "bang," a heavy rumbling. Many people immediately assumed it was an earthquake, a small tremor along a crustal fault line, since the Southeast is directly exposed. Not at all! At the Institute of Physics of the Globe in Strasbourg, where every rumble of the Earth's interior is meticulously recorded, "nothing was registered on our instruments. It's truly very strange, because if it had been a shockwave, we would have detected it." At the Cadarache Atomic Energy Center (CEA), no explanation is available. Could it have been the collapse of an underground gallery near the Gardanne coal mines? Unlikely, since this mysterious noise—which "made our windows and door move," as one couple from the Bonneveine neighborhood in Marseille attests—was also clearly felt along the Toulon harbor.

The remaining possibility is an aerial origin. Physicists in Strasbourg confirm: "It didn't come from the ground; the source must therefore be aerial." Military? The air gendarmerie at Istres air base reported they knew nothing about it. Last night, at the Aix-en-Provence Air Navigation Center, they stated: "At that moment, no supersonic aircraft was flying over the region—neither civilian nor military."

I believe some things need to be explained to the French people.

In 1995, I published a book with Albin Michel, titled Les Enfants du Diable ("The Children of the Devil"). In fact, I had written this book years earlier, at the request of publisher Olivier Orban, but he, despite signing a contract with me, refused to publish it once he read it. I believe he was "shocked" by it. Everyone has their limits of credibility, perception, interpretation, and understanding. If you read the book, you'll see it begins with a reference to the story of Cassandra. She was a Trojan woman struck by Apollo with the gift of foreseeing the future—but never being believed. Until Troy's destruction, she spent her days wandering the city, vainly pleading with her people to listen. Only her brother, a priest in the temple, believed her. But then the gods sent enormous serpents from the sea that suffocated him.

It has been twenty-five years since I've been warning about things before they happened. In 1976, I was the first European to use the word "terawatt." No one believed me. The same happened in 1983 with "nuclear winter," etc. Today, I'm about to publish a book in a few weeks, discussing the astonishing American lead in "space force," based on operational hypersonic vehicles for twelve years now—and already, some fool is calling it "technological delirium." I hope he won't be facing me on a TV panel if I'm invited. Ignorance and incompetence are starting to seriously tire me.

The times are dangerous. Often, I think I'd prefer not to know all that I know. But I do know these things. So I speak, I write.

You may have seen on my website a number of files concerning "cutting-edge weapons," which have actually been developed worldwide for decades. You'll find files on:

The microwave weapons, electromagnetic weapons, climate weapons, seismic weapons, etc.

In 1996, the French government announced that France would abandon underground nuclear testing at Mururoa, after "a few final qualification shots." From then on, France would continue developing its thermonuclear weapons through "simulations" performed on computers and on a facility called "Megajoule," currently under construction at Barp, near Bordeaux.

In fact, you're being lied to. But this is nothing new. On my website, I've explained that the Megajoule project is completely fraudulent. Not only will these experiments never work, but even if hydrogen fusion via laser were to succeed, it would have absolutely nothing to do with nuclear bombs (which are based on lithium hydride fusion). Yet no one moves, no one reacts. What are our Nobel laureates—Charpak and others—doing? Why don't they raise these questions in the mainstream press? What are our courageous science journalists doing, clinging to their ejection seats? How is it that, for six years, no one has noticed that Megajoule is merely a "screen project" (for which a thousand salaries are still budgeted for 2008—a rather impressive feat, given that we're told research funding is being cut)? Are our physicists blind and deaf?

I don't understand. On my website, I included a letter addressed to Kovacs, the head of the Megajoule project. To date, no journalist has contacted me. No television channel has considered sending a report there. No one found it odd that Kovacs hasn't replied to a letter sent months ago, containing very precise questions. Is there no French journalist with enough courage to challenge a project directly emanating from the army? Possibly...

Let me explain. You've now all heard about these "new weapons," which are only "new" because, suddenly, these things reach your ears or appear before your eyes. You're discovering microwave weapons powered by "flux compression generators" invented by the Russians (A. Sakharov) in the 1950s. How they work: a system of this kind converts...