Fiery I-85 bridge collapse in Atlanta Georgia

[angelburst29]

Around 7 p.m. Thursday, crews were battling a massive fire on I-85 northbound just south of Ga. 400 when a section of the highway collapsed, officials said.

7 things to know about the fiery I-85 bridge collapse (Video - Map - Photo)
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/things-know-about-the-fiery-bridge-collapse/Rtw9PdbyFBoWchJPESywzJ/

Friday, March 31, 2017 - Fire officials extinguished it Thursday night after it burned for more than an hour.

Here are seven things we know so far:

What caused the fire? -
As of Friday morning, the cause is unknown. However, Channel 2 Action News reported that because flames appeared to be coming from underneath the interstate, the PVC piping under the interstate may have been on fire.

Gov. Nathan Deal said that though the cause of the fire was not yet known, “the speculation I’ve heard is that there are some PVC products that caught fire.”

Where exactly did the fire occur? - The fire was on a bridge — I-85 northbound just south of Ga. 400 near Piedmont Road, Atlanta fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said.

What are Atlanta commuters supposed to do? -
According to Georgia Department of Transportation officials, both northbound and southbound directions will be closed from the I-75/Brookwood split to the North Druid Hills exit for “the foreseeable future.”

•Motorists traveling north on I-85 from the south side of Atlanta will be diverted to northbound I-75 at Brookwood near 17th Street.
•Motorists traveling southbound on I-85 north of Atlanta will be diverted to northbound Ga. 400.
•Motorists traveling southbound on Ga. 400 from north of Atlanta will be diverted at Sidney Marcus exit.
•I-285 and I-20 are both open to traffic and are the best alternatives for motorists to use if possible.
•From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday only transit vehicles and vehicles with three or more occupants will be allowed to use the southbound express lane on I-85.
•Motorists are encouraged to utilize a wayfinding app to help navigate to their destinations.

According to MARTA spokesman Eric Burton, the trains have not been affected, and MARTA is increasing rail services. The transit company will also have additional staff on hand to help passengers.

If you’re on the road, the Google Map below shows the I-85 and Buford Spring Connector entrances and exits marked for closures.

Is anyone hurt? - Gov. Nathan Deal said Thursday evening that no injuries were reported.

Are schools and government offices open Friday? -
According to Channel 2 Action News, Atlanta Public Schools will be on normal schedule Friday, but DeKalb County Schools will be canceled.

The City of Atlanta government offices and the Municipal Court of Atlanta will start later than usual at 10 a.m. Friday.

Emory, Georgia Tech and Georgia State universities also posted alerts on their websites late Thursday encouraging students and faculty to consider alternate arrangements with their supervisors, instructors and fellow students.

How are people reacting? - People are taking to social media to share their thoughts, many messages mixed with both shock and worry.

When will the bridge be repaired? - “It’s going to take some time to get it repaired and back to service,” Gov. Nathan Deal said.

Georgia Department of Transportation inspectors were on the scene, and the construction crew that built the bridge has been contacted to look at the schematics and determine how long it will take to repair it, according to Deal.

As of 10:25 p.m. Thursday, Atlanta fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said inspectors still can't get under the bridge due to structural concerns.

"The entire bridge is compromised," Stafford said. "Right now, it's still dangerous to go under there."

A massive fire caused a bridge to collapse Thursday night on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, one of the busiest stretches of roadway in America, backing up rush hour traffic for several miles and creating what the mayor called a long-term "transportation crisis."

Bridge Collapses in Atlanta Freeway Fire During Rush Hour (Video)
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bridge-collapses-atlanta-freeway-fire-during-rush-hour-n740871

The huge fire was reported at 6:21 p.m. ET underneath the bridge on the northbound side — near where the interstate merges with another major artery, State Highway 400 — forcing authorities to close the interstate and turn drivers around during the evening rush.

Then, at about 7 p.m., the bridge collapsed in a flaming heap that spewed thick, black smoke high into the air, where it was visible for miles around Atlanta.

Authorities managed to turn back traffic before the bridge collapsed, and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said no injuries were reported. But thousands of motorists were locked in place on the interstate as state troopers worked on a way to get vehicles off the roadway.

Deal declared a state of emergency for Atlanta and Fulton County late Thursday night.

The fire itself was declared under control about 8 p.m., but the collapsed bridge was the principal problem. All lanes of I-85 in the area are expected to be blocked indefinitely, the state Transportation Department said.

"I think it's as serious a transportation crisis as we could have," Mayor Kasim Reed said at a news conference late Thursday. He said that FBI agents were on the scene "to work out what happened" but that the agency had reported no suspected link to terrorism.

Russell McMurry, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, also described the situation as a "crisis."

At a news conference at 11 p.m. ET — almost five hours after the fire started — transportation crews still couldn't gain access to the scene because of the heat still being generated by the flames, McMurry said.

A department spokeswoman said it was unlikely that inspections of the affected structures could even begin until Friday afternoon at the earliest.

The cause of the fire remained undetermined Thursday night, but Deal said in a televised statement that authorities were focusing on the possibility that polyvinyl chloride (PVC) piping commonly used in construction may have ignited for some reason. WXIA reported that large amounts of PVC pipe were stored under the bridge.

The location is near the ritzy downtown Atlanta district of Buckhead, sometimes called "the Beverly Hills of the South," which is home to some of the city's biggest businesses, medical centers and diplomatic missions.

State and local officials said more than 225,000 vehicles traveled trough the affected area on an average weekday, and they pleaded with Atlantans to do whatever they could to stay away for as long as it takes.

"Most of us are used to our routines. We're used to that one way we go to work and that one way we do our business," said Col. Mark McDonough, chief executive of the state Department of Public Safety. "So this is now the time to change that."

John Eaves, chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, asked businesses in the area to make plans for flexible work schedules and to encourage employees to use public transit in the coming "days and weeks."

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority said it was arranging extended service to accommodate the extra riders.

The DeKalb County School System said all schools would be closed Friday. The Atlanta school system said it was working on a plan to find alternative bus routes through the area.

Atlantans already suffered through the fourth-worst traffic in America and the ninth worst in the world, Inrix, a global transportation research firm, reported last year. But the impact of the collapse is likely to be felt for some time across the Southeast.

I-85 is one of the busiest freeways in the eastern half of the country, carrying vehicles almost 700 miles from southern Alabama through Virginia. It is an important commercial throughway for trucks making deliveries to businesses and warehouses not only in Atlanta but also in other major commercial centers like Montgomery, Alabama, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

WXIA reported that transportation officials were meeting with officials from Deal's office to assess both the immediate and the long-term impacts on transportation and commerce.


Interstate 85 collapses in Atlanta in massive fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjXLjmlDeE (3:37 min.)

I-85 fire near Piedmont Road pouring smoke onto highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkf8edggF4c (1:13 min.)

Footage Shows I-85 Bridge Collapse in Atlanta After Massive fire !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnF6dXd_gc (1:52 min.)

 

[angelburst29]

Three people have been arrested in connection with the large fire that collapsed a portion of an Atlanta highway Thursday, according to fire officials.

3 arrested in connection with large fire that collapsed portion of Atlanta highway
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/atlanta-residents-may-face-travel-nightmare-highway-bridge-190618940--abc-news-topstories.html

The suspects were identified as Basil Eleby, Sophia Broner and Barry Thomas, Georgia Deputy Insurance Commissioner Jay Florence to ABC News. Eleby faces a charge of criminal damage to property, while Broner and Thomas each were charged with criminal trespass. They have not yet entered pleas.

According to Georgia Deputy Insurance Commissioner Jay Florence, the fire was lit using materials that were on site. The Atlanta Fire Department said Eleby is the suspect "we are holding responsible for the fire," according to Sgt. Cortez Stafford, and the department believes the fire was set maliciously.

Eleby remains in custody and additional charges may be pending, according to the fire department. It was not clear if the other two suspects remained in custody. Police records show Eleby has 20 arrests dating back to 2000, mostly for possessing and selling drugs and assault.

Two of the suspects were interviewed, leading to the arrest of the third, Florence said.

Atlanta residents may face a travel nightmare after a massive fire caused an overpass on Interstate 85 in the city to collapse, shuttering the major thoroughfare.

No injuries were reported and no cars were on the highway bridge when it fell during Thursday afternoon's rush hour, Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said, according to The Associated Press. Fire officials said this afternoon that firefighters at the scene saved lives by recognizing cracks in the concrete and calling for an evacuation.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Georgia Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said the fire started in an area used "as a storage location for construction materials, equipment and supplies. The site was a secured area containing materials such as PVC piping, which is a stable, noncombustible material."

Interstate 85 is a major thruway in the Atlanta metropolitan area, carrying 400,000 cars a day, according to the Department of Transportation. The highway's closure is expected to cause major headaches in this heavily car-dependent city.

Officials are still determining the extent of damage and said there is no set timeline for the repairs. McMurry said it will take "at least several months" to rebuild.

He said about 350 feet of the northbound road as well as 350 feet of the southbound road will have to be totally removed and replaced.

"That is no small feat, but we're up to the challenge," McMurry said at a news conference this afternoon.

The transportation crisis comes at a terrible time, said Col. Mark W. McDonough of Georgia's Department of Public Safety, with travel expected to be high during spring break and with the Atlanta Braves' home exhibition game today against the New York Yankees.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency.

The Federal Highway Administration today awarded $10 million in “quick release” funding to initiate the most critical repairs in the next few weeks.

The "funds are considered a down payment on the costs of short-term repairs now, which can make long-term repair work possible in the weeks ahead," the Department of Transportation said in a statement.

One driver described her commute today as "horrible."

"It took me two hours to get out here this morning and then I had to come back out to take a friend to work," she told ABC News. "But that's life. What else can we do?"

Another driver, Laura, told ABC News, "You have to make the best of it. If you get upset about it, it's just going to make your drive worse."

"You can't change the situation," she added, "so just try to be polite to whoever is trying to get in and out and it'll make your drive home a whole lot easier."

Drivers are encouraged to shorten their trips and carpool with others, and Atlanta's public transportation system is stepping up rail and bus service, McMurry said.

"We ask for your continued patience as we gather more information and details on the required repairs and reconstruction activities needed to bring this roadway back to operational levels," McMurry said.

 

[SocietyoftheSpectacle]

An interesting Video ,
Points out that Other Hazmat incidents occured the same day .

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[JEEP]

An interesting Video ,
Points out that Other Hazmat incidents occured the same day .

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In googling 'red mercury', it appears these additional incidents are gaining attention.

According to wiki:

Red mercury is a substance of uncertain composition purportedly used in the creation of nuclear bombs, as well as a variety of unrelated weapons systems.

Hmmm - that does not sound good! Is red mercury useful in getting non-combustible material to blaze into a fire capable of bringing down a bridge? I can't help but think of the twin towers as being the only buildings ever to supposedly collapse due to fire. Can ordinary fire bring down a steel-reinforced concrete structure?

My other thought was the destruction of the bridge and it now being a 'cork in a bottle' to the normal traffic flow re Atlanta. What would be the consequences if an emergency evacuation of Atlanta was needed? Certainly seems that it would be a major obstacle to have that section of highway unavailable.

 

[JEEP]

This from a 2004 article on Rense.com:

Red Mercury - The WMD No One Wants To Talk About

On Friday, September 24, 2004, British police arrested 4 suspects for allegedly trying to purchase a 'highly powerful, radioactive material, originally made in Russia, know as' Red Mercury'.

These four supposedly were willing to pay $ 541,000 a kilogram, on behalf of a Saudi Arabian, (described as sympathetic to the Muslim cause'), whose name was not disclosed.

"The News of the World said that the material was developed by Soviet scientists during the Cold War for making briefcase nuclear bombs that could kill people within a few city blocks."

Sam Cohen, the physicist who invented the neutron bomb, sheds a little more light on the destructive power of red mercury. As quoted from a June 15, 1997 http://www.manuelsweb.com/sam_cohen.htm
article by Christopher Ruddy of the Tribune-Review, it states:

On Friday, September 24, 2004, British police arrested 4 suspects for allegedly trying to purchase a 'highly powerful, radioactive material, originally made in Russia, know as' Red Mercury'.

These four supposedly were willing to pay $ 541,000 a kilogram, on behalf of a Saudi Arabian, (described as sympathetic to the Muslim cause'), whose name was not disclosed.

"The News of the World said that the material was developed by Soviet scientists during the Cold War for making briefcase nuclear bombs that could kill people within a few city blocks."

Sam Cohen, the physicist who invented the neutron bomb, sheds a little more light on the destructive power of red mercury. As quoted from a June 15, 1997 http://www.manuelsweb.com/sam_cohen.htm
article by Christopher Ruddy of the Tribune-Review, it states:

'Most frightening for Cohen is the relative ease by which neutron bombs can be created with a substance called red mercury. Red mercury is a compound containing mercury that has undergone irradiation. When exploded, it creates tremendous heat and pressure - the same type needed to trigger a fusion device such as a mini-neutron bomb.

Before, an obstacle to creating a nuclear bomb was the need for plutonium, which when exploded could create a fusion reaction in hydrogen atoms. But red mercury has changed that. The cheap substance has been produced in Russia, Cohen said, and shipped on the black market throughout the world.

Cohen said that when UN inspectors went to Iraq to examine the Iraqi's nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.N. team found documents showing that they had purchased quantities of red mercury. The material means that a neutron bomb can be built "the size of a baseball" but able to kill everyone within several square blocks."

Another article, "
<http://www.tribulationalinstitute.com/Powerpoint/red_mercury_nightmare.htm>The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare" states that 'Iraq possesses "s-megaton" micro-nuclear warheads. These are softball sized two-megaton fusion bombs triggered by an irradiated and compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide. This device doubles the nuclear yield with a hundredfold reduction in weight. Using heavy hydrogen instead of uranium or plutonium to fuel its explosive reaction, this handheld nuclear weapon cannot be detected by U.S. sensors.'

Red Mercury.The CIA says that it does not exist, yet terrorist organizations worldwide are willing to pay outrageous amounts of money to procure it. Scientists have alluded that nuclear weapons containing red mercury, can enter the United States, UNDETECTED, be placed in cities all across the country, and cause cataclysmic destruction from a nuclear bomb, of incredible power, the size of a softball. I don't know about you folks, but this REALLY scares me!

Now, what bothers me even more, is that last year, confidential intelligence sources informed me that a Special Ops unit in Iraq had lost track of about a ton of red mercury. I have not heard anything to the contrary, so I am assuming that it is still missing. How could that happen???

According to the research that I have done and talking to the contacts that I have in the Intelligence community, red mercury not only destroys human life, but kills every living thing in its path for eternity!!! In other words, where its destructive energy has touched, NOTHING will ever live again, not at least in our lifetime!

Let me go one further, my sources inform me that it would only take a teaspoon of red mercury to kill all living creatures in the Great Lakes.

So now that I have your attention.think about this..We have all seen or heard about the posts from the Arabic forums that indicate that an American city will disappear, are these threats really that far-fetched????

Think again!

http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/red_mercury.htm

Comment
From George Paxinos
9-30-4

Red Mercury, as far as I know it, is NOT detonatable by itself.

I believe this is a smokescreen to keep it from being understood by the public.

What it is, is an efficient TAMPER, making possible the successful IMPLOSION FISSIONING of MINISCULE AMOUNTS of PLUTONIUM.

No more the still-fabled "critical mass" of around 35 lbs of fissile material!

It is MERCURIC-STYBIC HEPTOXIDE - Hg2Sb2O7

And its crystal structure has a lattice of little hollow spaces, into which plutonium atoms fit snugly, and are probably drifted in by a combination of gas-diffusion and/or electrolysis.

The heavy atoms of Mercury (Hg) and Antimony (Sb) reflect back neutrons into the mass at the same time they hold the plutonium while it is fissioning, by inertia of their heavy nuclei having too tremendous MOMENTUM by their implosion of a shell lined with Hg2Sb2O7 saturated with Pu, using immense electromagnetic fields generated by explosive FLUX-COMPRESSION GENERATORS (FCGs), and giving many times more velocity and hundreds or even thousands of times more energy density of implosion, than any chemical implosion technique ever could.

_http://www.rense.com/general57/red.htm

SWELL!

Interesting, too, that red mercury has strong ties to Russia - another possible connection as to what may really be going on w/ this op?

More info re 'red' mercury here dated 2/12/17:

_https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-red-mercury-602016

The science newsgroups have been abuzz with tales of a 2-kiloton yield Russian red mercury fusion device, theoretically in the possession of terrorists. This, of course, prompts the question: What Is Red Mercury? The answer to this question depends largely on whom you ask. Is red mercury real? Absolutely, but definitions vary. If you had asked me before I did a bit of Internet research, I would have given you the standard cinnabar/vermillion answer.

However, the Russian tritium fusion bomb is more interesting...
[...]
3. Any Red-Colored Mercury Compound Originating in Russia... as in the cold war definition of 'Red'. I doubt anyone is using 'red mercury' in this manner, but it's a possible interpretation.

The plot thickens . . .

 

[JEEP]

The signs are all there - our buildup being matched by Russia's buildup & Russia stating their fear of a pre-emptive strike by the U.S. Gee, a nice little false flag in Atlanta could be just the ticket!

‘Maybe worse than Cold War’: Kremlin spokesman on US-Russia relations

Trump has blown it. This is Putin's personal spokesman. Russia will survive a nuclear war with the US. The USA will not.

Ties between Russia and the US are probably worse than in the Cold War, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with ABC News, adding that the blatant anti-Russia propaganda has led to Americans seeing Russian hackers “in every fridge.”

So who benefits from all the different means being employed to reduce the world's population esp via war? In listening to now several Joseph Farrell interviews, I'm floored by the extent/expanse of the secret state/breakaway civilization esp in regards to the amount of money involved. Remember, $10 trillion missing from just the Pentagon alone! And this is beyond black budget money - not accountable anywhere! The NSA facility has a computing power of 5 zettabytes! Come on - who needs that much computing power for anything going on here on earth including all the nefarious surveillance right down to our DNA?

But, the scam may have just about reached the limit of how far it can go which means the PTB are going to have to start revealing things they don't want to reveal - or do they?

"Lucie - you got some 'splainin' to do!"

NOT IF THEY KILL US ALL OFF FIRST!

 

[Joe]

I thought that story was pretty bizarre also, I mean, what kind of fire could a couple of people set using "materials on site" that would burn hot enough to collapse a bridge?? And the ref. to 'red mercury' is intriguing.

 

[hlat]

Jim Stone is overall questionable. Here he makes a good point about the bridge concrete thickness and fire code which leads to the conclusion that there is no way the bridge collapsed after 48 minutes of fire starting around 6:12pm and bridge collapsing around 7:00pm. I am unable to copy/paste a quote due to the text being in picture format and not text format.

However, he does contradict his earlier assessment that it was just an accident.
_http://jimstone.is

Atlanta interstate collapse
I have looked over what went on there and am sticking with my original post - A large amount of ignitable material that was stored under the interstate (probably by the DOT itself) caught fire. Who knows how the fire started, but it started. Once it started it was too nasty to put out. The concrete was heated sufficiently to turn it back into lime enough for it to collapse.

People are speculating it was explosives or sabotage. I am speculating that sh*t happens.

They had to close down both directions even though only one direction collapsed, because the fire was so massive that it engulfed the entire side that did not collapse so completely that it was shooting flames out from under it also.

Complete tear down and re-construction will be needed. Who knows how long that will take. The detour ought to be fun for the surrounding neighborhoods!

Here is a quote he makes about red mercury.
_http://jimstone.is

Red Mercury and the Atlanta blast (I'll call it that, because ASTM E119 says so)
15 years ago, "Red Mercury" was not a substance, it was a bomb design,what changed?

I had heard about Red Mercury in Atlanta BEFORE this fake initiated interstate collapse happened. Red Mercury is now supposedly a substance (but my past info said it was in fact a design type code named red mercury) for a jump-straight-to fusion nuclear device that had no fissionable core. Supposedly in it's original form, "Red Mercury" was a Russian bomb design that could initiate a hydrogen bomb blast with no nuclear pit. But now it is a substance (I guess) and when I heard people calling it a substance I totally blew it off because I knew what Red Mercury was supposed to be over a decade ago and figured some fruits came up with a new story. That's why I did not mention it.

But now that this incident in Atlanta happened, people are hopping on the "Red Mercury is a substance" bandwagon so I have to mention it.

My fixed and never to be varied statement: Red Mercury is a nuclear weapon type/design that is fusion only. It is not a substance. It was a Russian myth used to scam arabs that I heard about 15 or more years ago. Maybe there is a pure fusion bomb out there, but I sort of doubt it. One other thing about the Red Mercury design was that it was claimed to be a port nuke (one you could sneak through a normal port) because without a fissionable core, it would not alert a neutrino detector. It was billed as a nuke design that could be smuggled. And the Arabs just lapped it up, because they would have no other way to get it to a usable location other than smuggling. Evidently they paid a fair piece for it and it ended up being a ruse.

If you have a different version of the Red Mercury story, it is most likely a simple fabrication. And now it has re-emerged as a substance that makes micro nukes possible and not a bomb type or design? Well, I find it interesting it was mentioned in Atlanta before this incident was caused but I seriously doubt it had anything to do with it OTHER THAN AS A LAUGHABLE EASILY DEBUNKED PSY OP TO LEAD PEOPLE DOWN A DIRT ROAD AND OFF A CLIFF OVER SOMETHING ELSE, YOU KNOW, THE OBVIOUSLY BLOWN UP INTERSTATE. Better to have people talk about something stupid that anyone in the know heard about a LONG time ago in a totally different context than have anyone looking into why that interstate really collapsed.

My final conclusion: Perhaps the Russians have a pure fusion nuke they never talked about, but you can sure as hell bet that if they do, they did not hand it to Arabs! And if you have heard anything else about red mercury, it was pulled from thin air, perhaps hatched as a psy op, and then spread by people who did not know the original story, which had a thread of truth to it but amounted to a way to bilk money out of Arabs.

 

[Hindsight Man]

Burning bridges is pretty symbolic imo.It does seem extremely suspicious that an ordinary fire collapsed a concrete and steel bridge,perhaps it's ''simply'' to ratchet up tensions among people?

 

[JEEP]

The definitions of red mercury from the link posted previously:

WHAT IS RED MERCURY?
[list type=decimal]
[*]Cinnabar/Vermillion
Cinnabar is naturally-occurring mercuric sulfide (HgS), while vermillion is the name given to the red pigment derived from either natural or manufactured cinnabar.

[*]Mercury (II) Iodide
The alpha crystalline form of mercury (II) iodide is called 'red mercury', which changes to the yellow beta form at 127°C.

[*]Any Red-Colored Mercury Compound Originating in Russia... as in the cold war definition of 'Red'. I doubt anyone is using 'red mercury' in this manner, but it's a possible interpretation.

[*]A Ballotechnic Mercury Compound
Presumably red in color. Ballotechnics are substances which react very energetically in response to high-pressure shock compression. Google's Sci.Chem group has had a lively ongoing discussion about the possibility of an explosive form of mercury antimony oxide. According to some reports, red mercury is a cherry red semi-liquid which is produced by irradiating elemental mercury with mercury antimony oxide in a Russian nuclear reactor. Some people think that red mercury is so explosive that it can be used to trigger a fusion reaction in tritium or deuterium-tritium mixture. Pure fusion devices don't require fissionable material, so it's easier to get the materials needed to make one and easier to transport said materials from one place to another. Other reports refer to a documentary in which is was possible to read a report on Hg2Sb207, in which the compound had a density of 20.20 Kg/dm3 (!). Personally, I find it plausible that mercury antimony oxide, as a low density (nonradioactive?) powder, may be of interest as a ballotechnic material. The high-density material seems unlikely. It would also seem unreasonably dangerous (to the maker) to use a ballotechnic material in a fusion device. One intriguing source mentions a liquid explosive, HgSbO, made by Du Pont laboratories and listed in the international chemical register as number 20720-76-7. Anyone care to look it up?

[*]A Military Code Name for a New Nuclear Material
As I understand it, this definition originates from the extraordinarily high prices commanded and paid for a substance called 'red mercury', which was manufactured in Russia. The price ($200-300K per kilogram) and trade restrictions were consistent with a nuclear material as opposed to cinnabar.[/list]
Looking for more information? Here is an insightful reader response to this FAQ, written by Wm. Yerkes: _https://www.thoughtco.com/nuclear-fission-versus-nuclear-fusion-608645

_https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-red-mercury-602016

 

[angelburst29]

Checking for any new updates, I came across an article where the bridge was shut down in another incident - two years ago - due to a bomb scare.

Chaos as Atlanta highway shut down amid bomb scare after a 'suspicious package' was found taped to an overpass bridge (Photos - Video)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2937494/Atlanta-highway-shuts-suspicious-package-taped-overpass-bridge.html#ixzz4d7Ju0stH

3 February 2015

* Atlanta police ordered a city highway to close Monday afternoon in order to examine - and later blow up - a suspicious package
* I-75/I-85 was closed on all sides for several hours
* The package had been taped onto the 14th Street Bridge and was later detonated by a bomb expert

Atlanta police ordered a city highway to close Monday afternoon in order to examine - and later blow up - a suspicious package.

The Wall Street Journal reported the package had been taped onto the 14th Street Bridge, describing it as 'a suspicious cylindrical object.'

According to the newspaper, 'Traffic was stopped around 2 p.m. and backed up for miles in both directions. It resumed by 4:35 p.m.'

The Wall Street Journal reported that the package was detonated by a bomb expert.

Police would go on to tell CBS46 that the package was not explosive.

 

[gdpetti]

Maybe it wasn't, maybe it was just a detonator... and the explosives were below it... the roadway did seem to defy the laws of state regulated cement laying... would take a wee bit longer to burn up like that... but then we live in the age of 9-11, so anything is possible.... to believe anyway. ;)

 

[NormaRegula]

I just got sent this vid link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Z89rpZJF0

Purports to be from Anonymous. Says the bridge was blown-up by terrorists and is being covered-up by the US Government.

 

[JEEP]

Dr. Joseph Farrell weighs in on the 'red mercury legend' & its sudden reappearance in the news (13:50 min):

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"I have a couple more blogs about the subject coming up on Saturday and Sunday" - JPF

Some interesting comments on Farrell's website to this story: _https://gizadeathstar.com/2017/04/news-views-nefarium-april-6-2017/

But seriously, who calls the local police to tell them you’ve got red mercury — from “Africa” no less? The whole thing reeks of three-letter psyop. Are the neocons dropping breadcrumbs, prepping for that long-predicted dirty-bomb false flag?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I’ll see you on that and raise the bet: could there be any connection between this and the missile-strikes-so-dearly-loved-by-Bushes-and-Clintons?
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How about this scenario: In order to convince Trump of the dangers of Assad and his Russian benefactor, they tell him that Russia is supplying Assad with red mercury who has given it to Iran who has given it to their sleeper cells in the US, etc. And for added flourish they have some show up in the US so Wormtongue Kushner can tell Trump the danger we are all in as red mercury is already on our shores and he won’t be able to make America great again, if it is blown up with thermonuclear bombs.

Truth be told, red mercury could be a real fear of the zio-cons.

Does the sudden reappearance of the red mercury threat (?) have anything to do w/ Trump's also very sudden missile attack on Syria?

Oct 15 2016

(Windmill knight) Is the situation in Syria going to escalate to a third world war as some people think?

A: No. But there may be a terrorist dirty nuke or two!

Q: (L) And when you say, "terrorist", we assume that that should be in quotes?

A: Yes

 

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Some curious oddities in connection to red mercury gleaned from the comments to Joseph Farrell's Part 1 blog on the subject & this relevant excerpt from same:

Indeed, as one very astute listener to my Thursday News and Views pointed out while I was talking and recording (I didn't see his remarks until after I had finished the recording, and hence could not respond to him in real time), the "red mercury" story in Atlanta apparently ran concurrently with some sort of "drill" that was taking place, and that, of course, raises the suspicion meter into the red zone: are they preparing an operation, false flag or otherwise, involving nuclear weapons? Given that "red mercury" is supposed to originate in Russia, this is a rather harrowing thought to contemplate, given the current climate in the USSA of "Russiagate" and alleged hacking of US elections. This comes also at a time when chemical weapons were used in Syria, and hysteria is being ratcheted up, while the lamestream corporate media in the USSA seems to be ignoring the fact that Mr. Putin talked Mr. Assad to relinquish his chemical weapons, and that headed off the war-in-Syria hysteria that was being hyped during the Obama Administration. In short, there's been no real evidence presented thus far about who used those chemical weapons.
_https://gizadeathstar.com/2017/04/really-red-mercury/

Notable comments:

We also have “red matter” in one of the latest Star Trek movies. A nifty, red, liquid substance (similar to “red mercury”) held within a “containment vessel” of which only one drop will give you a singularity capable of swallowing an entire planet or a super nova.

Anytime you see “drills” being played out at the same time such events occur, you can pretty much assume another false flag is in process.
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Yeah, I saw that “red matter” as the core of the movie (2009), and wondered at the time WHY it was being ‘injected’ into the mass consciousness. (I suspect J.J. Abrams is a ‘conduit’…)

I had a similar reaction to the central plot-device usage of “Red Mercury” in the movie “RED 2” (2013). I do note now that RM ‘originated’ in the three-letter agencies in the movie.
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The thought just popped-in about the rumored “Samson Option” secreted-away nukes (not sure of what variety) in cities around the world. Combined with the above, an interesting ‘stew’…

So - a drill was taking place in Atlanta same time as the curious red mercury incident ... and red mercury/red matter has popped up in a couple of movies similar to X-files & black oil. And, oh yes, the Samson Option . . . Israel again!

Can't imagine that this activity went unreported/unnoticed by the Trumpsters.

Is it possible that the term ‘Red Mercury’ is code for something else?

Message delivered & received? Code Red? Also wondering about that 'burning bridges' symbolic association. Oh, and were there any Israeli art students on scene to 'document the event'?