15 - Tsar Bomba

During the Cold War, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics detonated over 2000 nuclear weapons. The largest of these tests occurred on October 30, 1961. At 1132 AM, Moscow Time, a massive thermonuclear bomb exploded over the Soviet test site at the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The bomb had a yield of 50 megatons. By comparison, the bomb that leveled Hiroshima had a yield of 16 kilotons. The largest weapon tested by the United States was the Castle Bravo device, a 15 megaton explosion set off in 1954. It was long thought that the Tsar Bomba - as it is commonly called - was designed to destroy hardened command and control sites, like Cheyenne Mountain. While this is true, it appears that the only test of this weapon had nothing to do with the Cold War. It was a military operation carried out to repel invaders from another dimension.

The use of a nuclear test as cover raises the question of how many other ‘tests’ may have been attempts to combat alien entities? Operation Nullify is evidence that some ‘missing aircraft’ were lost in combat against otherworldly threats. Were some of the large number of underground tests in reality attacks on subterrestrials? Could the large number of bombs detonated in the Pacific been part of a covert nuclear war? And could the cessation of testing by the superpowers been the sign of a change in strategy and not a desire to reduce Cold War tensions?

While there is only limited information in the files provided by Mr. Friend, the image and documents continue to expand our knowledge of the scope of the covert war. It also introduces some new information.

Document one is a report from Alexander Shelepin, the head of the KGB. In addition to providing details of the Soviet’s successful sealing of a dimensional breach, it gives us more information about how widespread Soviet research into the paranormal was. The Soviets had teams in addition to Alfa 9 involved in remote viewing and transdimensional reconnaissance. They were also aware of the danger posed by Deadbolt Manifest to the human race. This is demonstrated by the fact that, in addition to the Tsar Bomba, the Russians were readying their nuclear bomber force for action.



Document two is a Shadow Garden report on the Tsar Bomba event. While it doesn’t add much to the information presented in Shelepin’s report, it does introduce the association of Fortean events with dimnesional breaches. Charles Fort was a writer in the late-19th and early-20th century who collected information on anomalous events. If you’ve heard of spontaneous human combustion or ball lightning then you are familiar with terms popularized by Fort. While it is not clear what ‘dimensional condensate” is, the ‘bioactive rain’ may be a reference to ‘red rain,’ a well-documented phenomenon in which rain the color of blood falls from the sky.



The final item is an image labeled - “N-Space breach and containment, 30Oct61.” Is this a glimpse of the entities that will ultimately destroy the world?


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