Divine Strake Test Scheduled for Detonation June 2
by Deanna Taylor Sunday May 07, 2006 at 06:59 AM

The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is planned to be a large-yield, buried burst detonated at the Nevada Test Site.

The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is a detonation of a 700 ton buried heavy ammonium nitrate/fuel oil charge above a tunnel structure. The main purpose of the test is to study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnel structures.

An International Day of Action has been planned for May 28 at the Nevada Test Site in an effort to stop this test. Indigenous, environmental and other activist groups have joined together to hold a peace camp on Western Shoshone Land, the site where the U.S. Government holds such tests.

Global Security has these definitions:

Divine: Having the nature of or being a deity. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. Superhuman; godlike. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball. Heavenly; perfect.

Strake: A device for controlling air flow over an aircraft. A strake is also a part of a boat or ship used for generally the same purpose in water rather than air. It is a strip of planking in a wooden vessel or of plating in a metal one, running longitudinally along the vessel's side, its bottom or between them on the turn of the bilge.

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