Johnston Atoll & MT Vulcanus - Agent Orange - Nukes:

I always thought that vulcanus was something related to why the inner tubes of my childhood 2nd hand London push bike needed frequent re-inflation and the occasional rubber patch gluing-on and dusting with chalk before being re-inserted into the outer casing.  - Wrong again.

- Well naturally you won't have any idea of what these names mean other than the clue I've put at the end of the title .. nor did I until mate 'J' sent me a "heads-up".

The MT Vulcanus doesn't seem to exist any more .. either scuttled or scrapped - but for years this ship was engaged profitably incinerating toxic wastes such as TCDD - Dioxins & dioxin-like material, - liquid chlorinated hydrocarbon wastes - and later more than EIGHT MILLION LITRES of  Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War in the South Pacific.

Built in 1955 as a freighter she was converted into a floating incinerator  and renamed Vulcanus in 1972 having two incinerators installed aft plus waste tanks for the nasties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT_Vulcanus

Vulcanus motored around the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico for years spewing out smoke before moving down to the South Pacific in 1977 where she pumped-out most of the AGENT ORANGE from the storage tanks on Johnston Atoll and set about partially burning that into our local skies.

- MT Vulcanus was re-converted into a tanker in 1990 after seaborne incinerating was banned ..

Johnston Atoll previously called Kalama Atoll is one of those "Artificial Islands" that some of the big powers like to construct for military purposes .. but unlike the Chinese ones in The South China Sea that we've been told all about by the media - Johnston Island was built and run by the U S  government supposedly as a closed 'National Wildlife Refuge' .. but in reality for nearly 70 years, the atoll has been under the control of the U.S. military. During that time, it was variously used as a naval re-fueling depot, an airbase, a nuclear and biological weapons testing site, a secret missile base, and a chemical weapons and Agent Orange storage and disposal site.

Johnston Island with Sand Island In the Forefront;

Johnston Island /Atoll has been used for rocket launch testing, herbicide tests - biological - virus and chemical warfare development - and multiple Hydrogen Bomb tests both "successful" and failed -  and is variously contaminated with Plutonium and other toxic substances. This contamination is reducing as the "island' is slumping back into the ocean that it was dredged-up from and the toxins are dispersing widely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Atoll

- I don't think that The U S Military want Johnston Atoll anymore ..

.. anyone fancy it? - and more to the point ... Anyone know why we let these maniac governments do this stuff to our planet?

Don't panic - as Jacinda has banned semi-auto and other rifles ..

Marty K.

P.S. There are two 'Nimitz' Class nuclear powered aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Ronald Reagan in service up around Japan and Guam which are both reported as suffering from a serious infection with COVID-19. - News of the illness and it's effect on the deployment of each carrier's roughly 5,000 crew members is of-course restricted by the military mouth-pieces. Roosevelt's Captain was fired for requesting help ... then the nutter who fired him has also resigned ..

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