But only because Im circling like a gooney bird around this thing. Trying to get a handle.
Brown left the Navy. Separation. Not interested. Na, Nope, no fit.
Or so the cover story goes.
Shite, silent e, when I was at Radiac monitoring French fallout, I asked my Captain a technical question. He rang a number to get permission to answer me. He rang ANSTO. Aust Nuke Science Tech Org. CIVILIANS. THEY COMMANDED MY COMMANDER and his answer was "Corporal Langley, they have told me you do not need to know, so I cannot tell you."
Civilians shermilions. Dont matter a damn.
Its cover. Deep cover. A divorce that never happened. From the perspective of those actually getting things done.
And before that he was what, in the position normally occupied by a big nog at a radar school.
Radar. Ha. Code for something else.
Mark Oliphant arrived in America with instructions from MAUD to gee up the Americans in August 1941. No interest. (My left foot) Only Ernest Lawrence would listen. Oliphants cover was a mission re radar. The number of radar people in the bomb program is interesting. Ernest lawrence separated uranium isotopes by ionising uranium within a a charged field. The ions flew across the device from the negative to the positive and tracked different trajectories according to the isotope.
Deep below the atomic program was the Brown program. What Ernest Lawrence did with his EM U separation was ion propulsion. I wont hear any arguments about it. Ive said it before and Im repeating it now. It happened in California in the early 40s.
In 1946 something happened. The Atomic Energy Act. It controlled a lot of information. It over rode legally certain inalienable rights pertaining to information deemed to be related to nuclear activities.
EVERYTHING IS MADE OF ATOMS. Im being bleeding obvious sorry but this is a live parrot talking.
By 1947 the stuff declassified became subject to the over arching provisions of the Act.
By 1954 it was amended and around that time an entire print run of Scientific American got burnt by the AEC.
I am not saying Brown was involved in the bomb. Not at all.
He was, I feel certain, involved with America.
Doesnt matter that he was a civilian. Whats that anyway, the Atomic Energy Act was up and running.
Deem. Look that up. The government can deem anything if a legal cause allows. Social Security deem deliberate loss of income for example. Few ifs or buts. (Give your spare loot to your kids early) (Dad) If you do it late, it costs pension money. Deeming. Ions can be deemed to be atomic quite logically.
Anyhow, where was I before I started choosing the colour of my Porsche? (in my dreams) Oh yea 1954
Born Secret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
Born secret" and "born classified" are both terms which refer to a policy of information being classified from the moment of its inception,
USUALLY[quote][/quote] (NB, PAY ATTENTION, VAGUELY IMPORTANT, OF RELEVANCE) regardless of where it was being created, usually in reference to specific laws in the United States that are related to information that describes the operation of nuclear weapons.
It has been extensively used in reference to a clause in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which specified that all information about nuclear weapons and nuclear energy was to be considered "Restricted Data" (RD) until it had been officially declassified. In the 1954 revision of the Act, the United States Atomic Energy Commission was given the power to declassify entire categories of information. The "born secret" policy was created under the assumption that nuclear information could be so important to national security that it would need classification before it could be formally evaluated. The wording of the 1954 act specified that:
All data concerning (1) design, manufacture, or utilization of atomic weapons; (2) the production of special nuclear material; or (3) the use of special nuclear material in the production of energy, but shall not include data declassified or removed from the Restricted Data category pursuant to section 2162 of this title. (Quist 2002, ch. 4)
Whether or not it is constitutional to declare entire categories of information pre-emptively classified is not clearly known. When it was directly challenged in a freedom of the press case in 1979 (USA v. The Progressive et al) where a magazine attempted to publish an account of the so-called "secret of the hydrogen bomb" (the Teller-Ulam design) which was apparently created without recourse to classified information, many analysts predicted that the Supreme Court would, if it heard the case, reject the "born secret" clause as being an unconstitutional restriction of speech. The government, however, dropped the case as moot before it was resolved. (DeVolpi 1981)
And if anyone is left with me at this point, please follow to Cardozo.
If not here it is
http://fas.org/sgp//eprint/cardozo.pdf.
"However, by August 1, 1946, when the Atomic Energy Act
reached President Truman for signature, the new second purpose was
“(2) A program for the control of scientific and technical
information . . .,”
3
and Section 9 was gone, replaced by a new Section
10, “Control of Information.” This new section contained the novel
doctrine later described as “born secret.” Slightly modified in 1954, it is
still in force today."
"The phrase “all data” included every
suggestion, speculation, scenario, or rumor—past, present, or future,
regardless of its source, or even of its accuracy—unless it was
declassified. All such data were born secret and belonged to the
government. If you related a dream about nuclear weapons, you were
breaking the law. "
The Pearl Harbor demo may have been a demo designed as a feint and thats been said before. Lots of gee whizz but not bang, and everyone goes home and nothing happens. And then every known vector for information from the US to the USSR would have been monitored as closely as the times permitted to see if there was a lead back to the mole.
The US was aware from early days.
The defence of any realm does not rely on any one method. The myth that one technology is the one to watch is quite deliberately just that.
Now, if you look at Ernest Lawrence's Caultron thingy again, as a complete system, he's pumping mega voltages in . And its in the frigging air and the uranium ions are bleedin well chasing the positive.
Pearl Harbor demo, very interesting.
Berkeley flying uranium very interesting too.
Usually allows does not disallow the usual. The converse is implied. TT Brown was not usual.
In 1946 the US did not pass a law entitled the TT Brown Technology Act. It didnt have to. It was Born Secret under another piece of legislation.
IMO.
Look if Lawrence had put his caultron in a boat would it have moved? Apart from us Greenies screaming blue murder about the ensuing jet of ionised uranium coming out the back, of course it would. The motion of the boat would be conventional, the propulsion of the uranium ions is not.
Chasing the positive.
Im not in a good frame, but anyway if you can put up with me, this is a scene setter, and from it, with other docs, the "atomic' can be seen to have started before 1941. Probably 1905. Certainly by 1925.
Ions are dual use. at least. Not just relevant to ionising radiation.
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?recor ... 9&page=382
page 385 of that says in part " On Jan 16, 1939, 7 mths before the German attack on Poland, Niels Bohr had arrived from Copenhagen with disquieting news of a German experiment....."
The rest follows from that. That the Germans, like everyone else, had been firing ions (in the broad terms) and had used uranium as the target. Lise M (she should be famous) (but she was a woman) using Einstein's equation (1905) (We are Post Modern and forget the real modern age) (it was before Groves) (BG) calculated the energy output from exile as she was a Jew. She also predicted the immediate fission products.
Meanwhile, shortly after, the non weapon ion shooter, TT Brown quietly leaves the Navy, just after Fermi conferences with Abelson (who spent his holidays with Lawrence cooking up plutonium with Seaborg) and Gunn. Now, Brown was not part of the weapons program. He had a different tech for the fundamentals. If the AEC was Microsoft Brown was Apple. One's a computer, the other is a I dunno, a gizmo. One that can do anything without hanging. (OK Ill argue about that poor analogy)
Still I cant prove it.