Of particular interest are the two mp3 files of Peter Vogel being interviewed by Dave Emory in 1999.

Dave Emory Only:

Much has been written and said about the development of nuclear weapons. Perhaps the most intriguing chapter in the development of the bomb was revealed by researcher Peter Vogel, who developed compelling information that the 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship was, in fact, the explosion and probable deliberate test of an early atomic weapon.

When the E.A. Bryan exploded in Suisun Bay (in the San Francisco Bay Area), the physical characteristics of the explosion were typical of an atomic blast, not a conventional one. In this broadcast, Vogel highlights these characteristics including:

a brilliant white flash (not the yellow or orange flash that would be characteristic of TNT or torpex);

an apparent Wilson condensation cloud (characteristic of nuclear explosions over water)

and blast damage much greater than would have been produced by a conventional explosion.

In addition, Peter presents compelling historical information indicating that the Port Chicago explosion was the test of an early and relatively crude atomic weapon called the Mark II.

Citing correspondence about the Mark II between many of the principal participants in the Manhattan Project, Peter analyzes the role of the Mark II in the development of the A-bomb and delineates numerous indications of a cover-up of Port Chicago. Among the significant indications of a cover-up are:

the re-classification of the military’s Port Chicago report as “Top Secret” immediately after the publication of Peter’s research in 1982 (almost forty years after the explosion);

obfuscation of the amount of fissionable uranium available for the Port Chicago test;

destruction of records of two rail cars loaded at Los Alamos National Laboratory and unloaded at Port Chicago;

misrepresentation of an apparent film of the Port Chicago explosion as having been made in Hollywood;

extreme agitation on the part of Edward Teller (“Father of the H-bomb”) upon being questioned about Port Chicago

and the disappearance of records of the incidence of cancer in the area around the blast for several key years after the explosion.

Significantly, the Los Alamos Laboratory was very interested in the Port Chicago blast. The report for the lab was written by Captain William Parsons, who later served as the bombing officer on the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima) and who also supervised the “Operation Crossroads” nuclear tests at the Bikini Atoll.

The black sailors who worked at Port Chicago mutinied after the blast. That mutiny was a significant event in recent African-American history. (Recorded in January of 1999.)

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