The Unit by TD Barnes
- January 20th, 2021
- By tdbarnes
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The Unit
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Amazon ISBN: 9798597646114
B&N 9781666239690
When the US president withdrew the military from the endless Mideastern wars, he tasked the Central Intelligence Agency with deterring terrorist attacks on Israel, the United States, and the coalition. The CIA deploys a Terrorist Intervention Unit as a multiagency deterrent to contain terrorism and aggression by the Islamic activists filling the vacuum created by the US military withdrawal. With “do whatever it takes” and “with plausible deniability “as its rules of engagement, the Unit pushes the edges of the envelope to survive and to meet its objective.
Former Army Captain Bradley, now a rising star in the CIA’s Military Affairs Division, is chosen to head a multiagency Terrorist Intervention Unit in Afghanistan as the US withdraws all military troops. His orders are “do what you have to do” and with “plausible deniability. Already on the Taliban’s hit list from an earlier posting in the region while in the Army, Captain Bradley resorts to PSYOPS and 6th generation warfare to protect the Unit. Staffed with specialists picked from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, DOD engineers from Area 51, and a Special Agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Unit acts as a deterrent against terrorism as the Taliban and other Islamic activists fill the vacuum left by the troop withdrawal. Few know the Unit’s mission is a one-of-a-kind attempt to ward off all-out war in the Middle East.
TD Barnes and Chris Pocock. Between us is a mockup of the nuclear device mounted in the cage for dropping into the hole for an underground denotation.
Operation Icecap test town left in place, including the .5 million pounds (230,000 kg) instrumentation payload, the crane, the wiring, and many of the recording trailers when the test ban was signed.
The Sedan Crater. The Sedan test of Operation Storax on July 6, 1962, a 104 kiloton shot for Project Plowshare which sought to discover whether nuclear weapons could be used for peaceful means in creating lakes, bays or canals. The explosion displaced twelve million tons of earth, creating a crater 1,280 ft wide and 320 ft deep in Area 10. For an underground shot, a relatively large amount of energy was vented to the atmosphere, estimated to be 2.5 kilotons. Two radioactive dust clouds rose up from the explosion and traveled across the United States, one at 10,000 ft and the other at 16,000 ft. Both dropped radioactive particles across the USA before crossing into the sky above the Atlantic Ocean.
TD Barnes and Chris Pocock viewing the Sedan Crater. The 1,280 by 320 ft crater was created on July 6, 1962, by a 104-kiloton-of-TNT thermonuclear explosion. The device was buried 635 feet below the desert floor in Area 10 of Yucca Flat and was the largest cratering shot in the Plowshare Program. When the 104 kiloton bomb was detonated 600 feet below the ground level, it lifted the ground above it into a dome over 300 feet high before it broke the surface, sending a massive shockwave of dirt cascading from its epicenter. According to the informational site that sits at the site today, over 12 million tons of dirt got blown away. The explosion created fallout that affected more US residents than any other nuclear test, exposing more than 13 million people to radiation. Within 7 months of the excavation, the bottom of the crater could be safely walked upon with no protective clothing and photographs were taken.
This one of the houses constructed at varying distances from the blasts to test the impact and effects of the explosions.
