“The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a ‘tsunami bomb’, designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves” … Jonathan Pearlman, The Telegraph
… by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor
Dear Folks, As many of you know, I love to say, “You just can’t make this stuff up.”
Even now we are still discovering that more way of killing masses of civilians were being experimented on all the time. That this happened in New Zealand with their long anti nuclear history is even more bizarre. But that is what a World War does to people…stimulate their killing instincts.
We are reposting this Telegraph piece (God Bless them for printing it) not only as a dusty musty old archived find, but for one much more important. If they were discovering little goodies like this during WWII for creating ‘natural’ disasters, how far do you think the science has come since then, light years maybe?
And if you were wondering why something like this has not seen the light of day after all of these years, you are correct if you were thinking that ‘they’ would not want us asking nerdy little questions about whether such kinds of organic weapons design was still being done.
We already know that the best cover for domestically produced UFOs is to have them viewed as extraterrestial only because then no one will be asking about how the development money was approved without any public oversight, in…God forbid…a Democracy !!!
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‘Tsunami bomb’ tested off New Zealand coast
The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a “tsunami bomb” designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves.
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney 01 Jan 2013
The Big One
The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during the Second World War and showed that the weapon was feasible and a series of 10 large offshore blasts could potentially create a 33-foot tsunami capable of inundating a small city.
The top secret operation, code-named “Project Seal”, tested the doomsday device as a possible rival to the nuclear bomb. About 3,700 bombs were exploded during the tests, first in New Caledonia and later at Whangaparaoa Peninsula, near Auckland.
The plans came to light during research by a New Zealand author and film-maker, Ray Waru, who examined military files buried in the national archives.
“Presumably if the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did, we might have been tsunami-ing people,” said Mr Waru.
“It was absolutely astonishing. First that anyone would come up with the idea of developing a weapon of mass destruction based on a tsunami … and also that New Zealand seems to have successfully developed it to the degree that it might have worked.” The project was launched in June 1944 after a US naval officer, E A Gibson, noticed that blasting operations to clear coral reefs around Pacific islands sometimes produced a large wave, raising the possibility of creating a “tsunami bomb”.
Mr Waru said the initial testing was positive but the project was eventually shelved in early 1945, though New Zealand authorities continued to produce reports on the experiments into the 1950s. Experts concluded that single explosions were not powerful enough and a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about five miles from shore.
“If you put it in a James Bond movie it would be viewed as fantasy but it was a real thing,” he said. I only came across it because they were still vetting the report, so there it was sitting on somebody’s desk [in the archives].”
Forty years after the joint testing, New Zealand faced a dramatic breakdown in its security ties with the US after it banned the entry of nuclear-armed ships from entering its territory during the 1980s. The dispute led to the US downgrading its relationship with New Zealand from an “ally” to a “friend”.
In his new book Secrets and Treasures, Mr Waru reveals other unusual findings from the archives including Defence Department records of thousands of UFO sightings by members of the public, military personnel and commercial pilots.
Some of the accounts of the moving lights in the sky include drawings of flying saucers, descriptions of aliens wearing “pharaoh masks” and alleged examples of extraterrestrial writing.
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Jim W. Dean was an active editor on VT from 2010-2022. He was involved in operations, development, and writing, plus an active schedule of TV and radio interviews.
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