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The fusing system to fire multiple detonators simultaneously was developed in the seven weeks between Schlicke arriving and the beginning of July. The solution was probably some kind of fuse in which a high-tension electrical impulse vaporized a wire to activate all 32 charges in 0.04-0.08 microseconds. The type of impulses involved, e.g. Thyratrons and Krytons, are produced in special high-tension and high-efficiency vacuum tubes notably in the field of HF radar in which Dr Heinz Schlicke was a specialist.

Three days after the Trinity test on 16 July 1945 Dr Schlicke delivered a lecture to the Navy Department on the subject of detonator fuses and afterwards shared the platform with Luis Alvarez for a question and answer session from the scientists present.

The likelihood exists that the Hiroshima device was detonated by an implosion fuse. The first mock-up version of the U
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bomb was so large that it would not have fitted into the bomb-bay of a B-29
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, but the B-29 carrying the Hiroshima bomb had room in the bomb bay for several to fit in easily.

The Oak Ridge records show a large increase in enriched uranium stocks occurring in the third week of June 1945, at about the time when the implosion fuse suddenly became available. As this could be used to detonate a U
²³⁵
bomb with far less material, one assumes that the bomb was split down and the surplus returned to store, thus radically increasing the amount available. This, and the smallness of the bomb, increases the probability that the Hiroshima device was imploded. The sudden increase in U
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stock has led people to speculate that it must have been of German origin, leading to claims that “the bombs dropped on Japan came from German arsenals”, but that was not, and logically cannot have been, the case.

Did the
U-234
Cargo Influence US Policy?

The weight of evidence available suggests that the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan occurred as the result of some hitherto unexplained factor occurring between 16 and 30 May, 1945, which dictated the chief aim of American strategic atomic policy to be the military defeat of Japan at the earliest possible opportunity.

As at 16 May, no executive decision had been taken to use the bomb, and Secretary for War Stimson advised President Truman that the rule of sparing the civilian population “should be applied, as far as possible, to the use of any new weapons”.
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On Saturday 19 May 1945 the German submarine
U-234
berthed at Portsmouth New Hampshire: her specialist passengers were interrogated during the week beginning 24 May: Major Vance of the Manhattan Project arrived on 30 May to inspect the cargo and take away the heavy water and eighty little cases of “uranium powder”.

At a meeting of the Interior Committee on the morning of 31 May 1945:

“Mr Byrnes recommended and the Committee agreed that the Secretary for War should be advised that, while recognizing that the final selection of the target was a military decision, the present view of the Committee was that the bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible, that it be used on a war plant surrounded by workers' houses, that it be used without prior warning.”

Arthur H. Compton of the scientific panel noted of that morning's decision that “it seemed to be a foregone conclusion that the bomb would be used”
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, and when the meeting reconvened that afternoon the agenda had been amended so that consideration could be given to the question of the effect of the atom bomb on the Japanese and on their will to fight.

When President Truman learned of the decision on 1 June he admitted to Byrnes that he had been giving the matter serious thought for some days and that, after considering other plans, he had reluctantly come to the conclusion that there was no alternative. Although he did not give the order on 1 June, it appears that he had made the decision by then.

The political activity during the last two weeks in May 1945 was such that Stimson appears to have been a man overtaken by events. Somewhere in that period he ceased to treasure jealously the United States' reputation for fair play and humanity. He never explained why satisfactorily. In retrospect he stated:

“My chief purpose was to end the war in victory with the least possible cost in the lives of the men in the armies which I helped to raise.”
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It had ceased to be his rule to “spare the civilian population, as far as possible, to the new weapons” and worse, with his words, he justified the perpetration of any atrocity against civilians in order to save military lives. If, and only if, the possibility existed that Japan might have been gifted a number of small-scale atom bombs by Germany would the American Government have had an arguable right to order the deployment of their atomic arsenal. It is one of the great ironies of war that Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Fehler disobeyed his last order and surrendered his submarine to the United States in the hope of obtaining better treatment for his crew in captivity and presented Washington with the justification for the terrible action against Japan which was to follow, and with a weapon under whose shadow the world has existed ever since.

CHAPTER 14

Gravity II

G
ERMANY BETWEEN THE two World Wars was a fertile ground for research into UFOs and alternative technologies. UFO sightings go back of course to the beginnings of recorded history. Research shows that celestial lights and flying saucer shapes have been reported since the days of the Ancient Greeks. In the more recent epoch of the last two hundred years or so, marine insurers at Lloyds of London have taken note of occurrences reported in the logs of registered vessels, the majority of which were written by the most serious minded and perhaps Godfearing ships' masters and officers. The reports go on, backward in time to the first records of true oceanic navigation, proving that there never was “a time in 1947 when flying saucer sightings really began”, (an expression much favoured by those striving to prove that all UFO sightings are of terrestrial US origin), but only that there was a great spate of reported sightings from that year.

The oriental influence behind Nazism has already been remarked upon and will be raised again in the final chapter, and one of the areas to which the SS directed their attentions was the Aryan scientific treatises of pre-Hindu India. These Aryans of antiquity, far in advance of the rest of humanity in terms of scientific development, devised machines called
Vimanas
which “flew the skies like aircraft, utilizing a form of energy obtained directly from the atmosphere” and whose description resembles ‘flying saucers'.

There are some authenticated Sanskrit texts which, being technological, are called
Manusa
and are said by the writers to explain how certain machines were constructed for aerial flight. The
Yantra Sarvasa
deals with machinery, for example.
Rukma Vimana
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elucidates their construction, describing metal alloys, weights and heat-resistant metals.

According to the
Samarangana Suradhara,
the craft could fly “to great distances” and were “propelled by air”. The text devotes over 200 stanzas to building plans. As to propulsion, “four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure”. When these are heated, “the vimana develops thunder-power through the mercury, and at once it becomes like a pearl in the sky.”
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The vimanas were equally at home in the air, on water or submerged, confirming that the vimana could also be a submersible if so desired. Among the non-technical works known as
Daiva,
there would appear to be suggestions, if not evidence, that such vimanas could be put to the most gruesome and devastating use in wartime. One might be suspicious that it was for this very purpose that the Third Reich built vimanas, and not for the peaceful exploration of space, which was the supposedly secret reason why Wernher von Braun put so much effort into the V-2. There is alleged to exist a terrible sidereal force known to the Aryan rishis or wise men in the treatise
Ashtar Vidya
and to the mediaeval hermeticists as the ‘sidereal light' or Milk of the Celestial Virgin and other such terms. It was the
Vril
of the coming races of mankind described in Bulwer-Lytton's occult novel
The Coming Race
published in 1871, which influenced Hitler. The force is not doubted by the rishis, since it is mentioned in all their works. It is a vibratory force which, when aimed at an army from an
Agni Rath
, or, for want of a better term, gun, fixed to a vimana or balloon according to the instructions in
Ashtar Vidya,
reduced to ashes 100,000 men and elephants as easily as it would a dead rat. The force is allegorized in
Vishnu Purana,
the
Ramayana
and other Hindu volumes. The
Vril
would be the weapon par excellence and throughout the war a precise knowledge of its manufacture must have been earnestly sought by the Waffen-SS.

By a curious coincidence, in the edition of the periodical
Science
of 3 January 1969, Schubert, Gerald and Whitehead reported that when a heat source was revolved slowly below a dish of mercury, the mercury began to revolve in the contrary direction and then gathered speed until it was circulating faster than the flame. This is the projection of energy by an exceedingly simple process, and poses two interesting questions: where does the mercury obtain its surplus energy if not from the atmosphere itself, and was this in some way connected with Aryan vimana flight?

Odd Goings-on at Führer-HQ Waldenburg

Near the town of Waldenburg in Lower Silesia was a coal mine turned by the SS in 1944 into a laboratory for V-weapons research.
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The entire site, Führer HQ Riese, was started in the spring of 1944 and consisted of six underground systems with a 30-square kilometre area plus tunnels housing the proposed Führer HQ below Schloss Fürstenstein 25 kilometres away. Each system was a design of mostly concreted cross-tunnels on one or several levels. The most secure was Säuferhofen, whose entrances were protected by steel doors and machine-gun emplacements.

The research, which replicated a larger project at Ohrdruf in the Harz, took place between November 1944 and May 1945. It was code-named
Laternenträdger
(Torch bearer) and
Chronos.
Professor Walther Gerlach, Plenipotentiary for Nuclear Science, coordinated the programme with Dr Ernst Grawitz, Chief of SS Medical Services.

The experiments were conducted within a 20-cm thick ceramic cover in the shape of a bell. The studies were aimed at analyzing the effects of contra-rotating at very high speeds two cylinders containing about 250 kgs of mercury or a mercury amalgamate around a hard and heavy metal core.

Another experiment codenamed
Leichtmetall
(light metal) used thorium and beryllium peroxides. Thorium oxide is one of the most heat-resistant metals known and beryllium has a very high melting point. By 1944 Germany had cornered all available European stocks of thorium, but, on enquiring the reason, the US
Alsos
Mission was unable to establish a satisfactory answer.

The research room was 30 metres square with ceramic-tiled walls, the floor covered with rubber mats which were burned after three experiments. The entire contents of the room were destroyed after each ten experiments. After each test the room would be doused with brine for up to 45 minutes.

Each test lasted from 45 seconds to one minute when the apparatus emitted a strange, pale blue light. Some members of the research team suffered health problems from exposure to this light. Despite the precautions employed, many personnel complained of insomnia, memory loss, imbalance, muscle spasms and a permanent unpleasant metallic taste in the mouth. The first scientific team in May-June 1944 had been disbanded after the death of five of its seven members. While the test was proceeding, all personnel stood back 200 metres from the epicentre and wore thick rubber protective suits and helmets with large red glass visors.

During the tests electrical equipment up to 150 metres from the bell would short-circuit or break down.

The research involved tests on small animals, animal substances, plants such as mosses, ferns, ivies and fungi and possibly on humans as well. It was found that, during the spinning experiments, samples exposed inside the bell were completely destroyed by an alien crystalline matter which could not be described precisely, being unknown to science. The substance formed within the host and destroyed its tissues. Liquids such as blood gelled and separated. In plants, chlorophyll disappeared after 4-5 hours, followed by decay within 14 hours. However, there was no smell of decomposition and the plants transformed into matter of the consistency of axle grease. Efforts were made to reduce the damage inflicted by the unknown substance and by 25 March 1945 this had been cut to no more than 3%.

The menial work was carried out by prisoners from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. These people, and some lower-level German scientific workers, sixty-two in all, were murdered near Pattag at the beginning of May 1945 when the project closed down, indicating its high level of secrecy.

The interruption of electrical current is symptomatic of most close-contact UFO reports. It is an electromagnetic effect and occurred at Waldenburg, where one assumes it was directly related to spinning containers of mercury at high speed in order to achieve some effect in the various indescribable materials being experimented upon. It was suggested in the Polish bulletin that there was reason to suspect that the subject was connected with the Waffen-SS Haunebu flying saucer research project under the SS-E-IV and SS-U-13 research teams, but nothing is known about the work of either.
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