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NAVY violated DOD regulations, CFR and the Chemical Warfare Convention making it Illegal to transfer to SF

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TRAINING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA Naval training bulletin, June 1951 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Bureau of Naval Personnel

This article explains the laws violated including the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty signed in 1993 including

TI-The Smoking Gun – Chemical Warfare test at Treasure Island Navy evaluates methods use to clean up Mustard Gas

The LAW

DOD Regulations :

40 CFR § 266.205 – Standards applicable to the storage of solid waste military munitions.

§ 266.205 Standards applicable to the storage of solid waste military munitions.
a (ii) The waste military munitions must be subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB).

US Code recognizes the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) as the regulator for chemical weapons regulations 40 CFR § 266.205 – Standards applicable to the storage of solid waste military munitions. I cited the first listing of it in this code to establish the authority of the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) regulations are US Law.

The following are the laws violated by the Navy in illegally transfering Treasure Island Navy Bas to the city of San Francisco.

DOD AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES SAFETY STANDARDS
DoD 6055.09-STD, February 29, 2008 – Incorporating Change 2, August 21, 2009

C12. CHAPTER 12
REAL PROPERTY KNOWN OR SUSPECTED TO CONTAIN MUNITIONS AND EXPLOSIVES OF CONCERN AND CHEMICAL AGENTS pp 268 –

  • C12.8. TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE OF DoD CONTROL
    Pursuant to DoD guidance on real property disposal Instruction 4165.72 (Reference (al)), real property known to contain or suspected of containing explosive or CA hazards may not be transferred out of DoD control (other than to the Coast Guard) until the Chairman, DDESB, has approved measures submitted by the transferring Component to ensure the recipient of the property is fully informed of both the actual and potential hazards relating to the presence or possible presence of explosives or CA, and restrictions or conditions placed on the use of the property to avoid harm to users due to the presence of explosives or CA.
    • C12.8.1. Notices. A recipient of such DoD property shall be provided:
      • C12.8.1.1. Details of any past removal or remedial actions, including:
        • C12.8.1.1.1. The degree of MEC or CA removal.
        • C12.8.1.1.2. The process used to determine that degree of removal to be adequately protective.
      • C12.8.1.2. Written notification that detection and removal methods are not 100 percent effective, and that residual hazards may remain in areas (e.g., MRS) that were subjected to response actions.
    • C12.8.2. Restrictions and Conditions. Based on potential explosive and CA hazards present and the projected use of the property, the following types of use restrictions and conditions shall be imposed, as appropriate, on such DoD property:
      • C12.8.2.1. A prohibition on excavation or drilling in any areas known or suspected to contain MEC or CA, regardless of CA configuration, without appropriate permits or assistance.
      • C12.8.2.2. A prohibition on disturbing, removing, or destroying any found MEC or CA, regardless of CA configuration.
      • C12.8.2.3. A requirement to immediately notify local law enforcement representatives of any discovery of MEC or CA, regardless of configuration.
      • C12.8.2.4. A prohibition on the construction or installation of particular improvements including utilities, roadways, airstrips, navigable waterways, pipelines, and structures, both above and below ground.
      • C12.8.2.5. A prohibition on specific alterations, extensions, or expansions to such improvements.
      • C12.8.2.6. A prohibition on certain types of uses, such as child care centers, housing, or farming.
      • C12.8.2.7. A restriction to a specific type of use or owner, such as a state National Guard range.
      • C12.8.2.8. Inclusion of DoD Component explosives and CA safety personnel and the Chairman, DDESB, in deliberations, decision making, and approvals pertaining to future munitions response activities to address MEC or CA, regardless of CA configuration.
      • C12.8.2.9. Inclusion of the restrictions and conditions in the recorded land records for the jurisdiction, to the extent allowed by state law.
  • C12.1. SCOPE
    • This chapter:
    • C12.1.1. Establishes explosives safety standards that, when applied, will protect people and real property from explosive and CA hazards associated with:
      • C12.1.1.1. Real property known or suspected to contain:
        • C12.1.1.1.1. Munitions and explosives of concern (MEC).
        • C12.1.1.1.2. CA in other than munitions configurations (e.g., DoD laboratory vials, CA identification sets, one-ton containers, CA-contaminated soil).
  • C12.2.3.2. DoD Components should, unless there is evidence to the contrary, assume the following areas present CA hazards:
    • C12.2.3.2.1. Former CWM or CA burial sites.
    • C12.2.3.2.2. Former CWM or CA disposal areas.
    • C12.2.3.2.3. Former CWM impact areas.
    • C12.2.3.2.4. Former training areas used for training with CWM or CA.
    • C12.2.3.2.5. Former CWM or CA production and demilitarization facilities.

  • Emergency withdrawal distances do not consider the potential flight range of propulsion units.
    • C8.6.1.3. Provisions for prompt notification to emergency response and environmental agencies and the potentially affected public for an actual or potential detonation or uncontrolled release, discharge, or migration of AE that may endanger human health or the environment.
    • C8.6.1.4. Provisions for complying with sections 11001-11022 of title 42, U.S.C. (commonly known as the “Emergency Planning Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)”) (Reference (no))), and DoD or DoD Component implementing policies.
  • C12.5.9.2. Explosives Hazards. When explosives hazards are known or suspected to exist along with CA hazards within a response area (e.g., the MRA or MRS), a submission that addresses both explosives safety (see subparagraph C12.5.8.) and CA safety (as outlined in thissection) is required

Note The DOD recognized that its Ammunition and Explosives Standards did not include Chemical Weapons and since there was an extended deadline for compliance to the Treaty of 2012 they published this revision of the 2008 edition to get the in use immediately. So it has edited cross outs of content.

Table C8.T4. Emergency Withdrawal Distances for Non-Essential Personnel

Notes for Table Table C8.T4. Emergency Withdrawal Distances for Non-Essential Personnel

Distance Violations for exploding ordnance in radiologially impacted areas making it a WMD and the Navy failed to evacuate the residents when the 81mm Mortor was found and removed.

4000 feet means every person who lives on Treasure Island were required to be evacuated when they found the 81mm Mortar in 2016, that includes the folks in the TIDA Office on the Island. This mortar was reported 3 years after the fact in the 2019 NAVFAC FINAL POST-CONSTRUCTION SUMMARY REPORT
Non-Time Critical Removal Action for Solid Waste Disposal Areas
Westside Drive, Bayside Drive, and North Point Drive,
Radiological Characterization, Building Demolition, and
Remediation, Installation Restoration Site 12 (Phase III)

Yellow line shows the 4000 foot range required by DOD for unexploded Ordnance evacuation.

The Navy was required by the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty and US LAW to report this in the DOD Annual report to Congress on the Destruction of Chemical Weapons which is given by the Undersecretary of Defense every year: 50 U.S. Code § 1523 – Annual report on chemical and biological warfare defense

There is no mention of Navy training locations in those reports which go into great detail for the Army’s training facilities that operated at the same time as Treasure Island, using the same manuals and training.

For example Fort McClellan is usually documented with Treasure Island as training bases in the Navy Training manuals and that base has been surveyed and cleaned where each individual bottle in the (CAIS) Chemical Warfare Identifiation Sets has been accounted for, but there is no mention of the Navy’s facilities in the reports to Congress.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is submitting this annual report for Fiscal Year
(FY) 2004 to the United States (U.S.) Congress pursuant to 50 U.S. Code,
Section 1521. The report documents the status of the U.S. Chemical Demilitarization
Program (CDP) as of September 30, 2004.

The Chemical Weapons Training at TI will require the Secretary of Defense to explain to Congress why the Navy is not included in the Reports to Congress violating DOD regulations, the OPCW international Treaty and US LAW.

Chemical Weapons on TI

MUSTARD GAS CAIS CAIS, Toxic Gas Set, K942, M2 (E11) p 233 Chemical Weapons used in Training in (CAIS) (Chemical Agent Identification Sets) used by instructors who would either detonate or throw the chemical agent onto the ground to break so that students could use identifying kits to determine which chemical agent was used and decontaminate it.

Several examples of chemical weapons found and/or used on Treasure Island including:

ABC Warfare Defense 1960 and 1963 Treasure Island CA Alcataz is in the background aswell as the Marin Headlands

81mm Chemical Mortar found buried in the ground with radioactive materials

This is an 81 MM chemical Weapon found buried under the housing at Treasure Island in 2016 behind what was the Chemical Warfare School buried with radioactive materials and this weapon was discontinued in 1961. The safe distance for civilians to unexploded CHEMICAL Ordnance is 4000 feet making this weapon a danger all of the people of Treasure Island and the Navy failed to evacuate the people. It was found buried in the ground, not in a bunker, buried with radioactive waste which means that if it exploded, it would cause a nuclear disaster by spreading the radioactive material and that is by definition a weapon of mass destruction.

CG is Phsophene H is Mustard

This weapon came with 4 options Mustard Gas (H), Phosgene (CG), Sulfur Trioxide (FS) or White Phosphorus (WP). The Mustard Gas (H) and the Phosgene (CG) are Chemical Weapons that are banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty that was signed in 1993 and this weapon was made obsolete in 1961. Sulfur Trioxide (FS) is a chemical weapon (see Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty video on What is a Chemical Weapon) and subject to OPCW inspection and it must be destoyed in a OPCW certified chemical weapons destruction facility. It certainly cannot be exploded at Travis AFB. If the explosve had the Phosphorus (WP) then it would have burned all the people on Treasure Island.

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January 2022 Navy list of chemical weapons used for training at all bases and OPCW Treaty Violations at Treasure Island

U.S. Chemical Weapons and Related Materiel Reference Guide Final ;U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity; Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate; Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel Integrating Office; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood Area Edgewood January 2022

This document is from January of 2022 listing all of the chemical weapons used by the Armed Forces since World War I including the CAIS “Chemical Agent Identification Set” kits that contain chemical weapons up to 1971 when they realized that they could use simulants and not recklessly endanger the lives of everyone by using deadly poisons.

Blue designates the Naval Chemical Weapons and
the Dark Blue refers to the OPCW Internationa Treaty on Chemical Weapons signed in 1993

Note: In 1995 The Navy reported Hydrogen Cyanide Gas a chemical weapon that is banned by the International Treaty OPCW was found to be in use at Treasure Island at a rate between 400 to 4000 pounds by weight per year. This is after the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty OPCW was signed in 1993. They sent it to Naval Air Station Alameda. This deadly and banned poison gas was located adjacent to the present location of the Treasure Island Skatepark! And this weapon is banned under the international chemical warfare convention Treaty requiring two UN Observers to be present when they disposed of the chemical weapon. Tah wou ldahve triggered the EPA to be directly involved in the cleanup and that did not happen. So someone broke the law and violated the Treaty.

Blue designates the Naval Chemical Weapons and
the Dark Blue refers to the OPCW Internationa Treaty on Chemical Weapons signed in 1993
Blue designates the Naval Chemical Weapons and
the Dark Blue refers to the OPCW Internationa Treaty on Chemical Weapons signed in 1993
Blue designates the Naval Chemical Weapons and
the Dark Blue refers to the OPCW Internationa Treaty on Chemical Weapons signed in 1993
Blue designates the Naval Chemical Weapons and
the Dark Blue refers to the OPCW Internationa Treaty on Chemical Weapons signed in 1993
Blue designates the Naval Chemical Weapons and
the Dark Blue refers to the OPCW Internationa Treaty on Chemical Weapons signed in 1993

The Training consisted of chemical warfare gases in kit form (CAIS) for the instructors to take a vial, smash it against the ground or use a detonator to explode the vial and then the military personnel would use detection kits to try to diagnose the chemical weapon used and then use chemicals to clean it. The Cleaning agents were almost as deadly as the chemical agents. As you can imagine this is very dangerous and you had to be confident in your men to protect themselves in chemical suits.

At Treasure Island they started off the gas mask training with tear gas in a room under the USS Pandemonium which is a mock up of a ship that they conducted these training exercises upon.

Unfortunately during operation Desert Storm there were not enough detection kits to go around and they had to use older kits which required the use of chemical weapons to train the men in using them. So the opportunity for exposure increased at that time.

This Article will present the following information and then post the images of the pages below

81mm Chemical Weapon – see below

CAIS List

  • The list of ( CAIS ) Chemical Agent Identification Set kits with the names of the chemical weapons in bottles in the kits.
    • CAIS, Gas Identification Set, Instructional, K955, M1
      1. CG simulant ( triphosgene )
      2. CN ( tear gas or chloroacetophenone )
      3. DA ( diphenylchloroarsine )
      4. DM ( adamsite )
      5. HS ( sulfur mustard ) – Banned by the International Treaty (OPCW)
      6. L ( lewisite ) – Banned by the International Treaty (OPCW)
      7. PS ( chloropicrin ) – Banned by the International Treaty (OPCW)
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Chemical, Biological and Radiological Equipment and Chemical Warfare Poisons used by the US Navy for training

Currently Congress is debating the extension of VA benefits to veterans exposed to burning poisons on military bases. Here is the evidence they need to propertly diagnose the illnesses.

This article lists the inventories of the (ABC )”Atomic, Biological and Chemical“warfare training chemicals and devices used by the US Navy for what is now called (CBR) Chemical Biological and Radiological training using the following publications:

  1. United States. Army. Chemical Agent Identification Set Disposal: Environmental Impact Statement. , 1977. Volume F Appendix A
  2. Appendix A of the “ABC Warfare Defense Ashore 1960” – Training manual that lists the equipment including Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare Training with a brief description of how they are used. – Most of the content of this article.
  3. Index of Specifications and Standards used by the Department of the Navy Military Index Volume III 1958 which lists all of the Unclassified inventory of the Navy and their numbers. These are published every year for each branch of the military. I will link it here as it is an index and each item is searchable and to list all of it would be extensive.
Index of Specifications and Standards used by the Department of the Navy Military Index Volume III 1958 Note the Mustard Gas is listed under Or for ordnance

ABC training was conducted in special bases to train INSTRUCTORS who would then go back to each unit and train men on bases all over the country and on ships, submarines etc. These are joint Bases where military personnel of all branches participated and they also conducted joint excercises in offensive and defensive training up until 1968 when it became defensive training due to the Treaty. Note some of the chemicals used in chemical warfare training could not be taken aboard Navy ships as they are too deadly, for isntance the Hydrogen Cyanide Gas (Zyklon B which was used in the Nazi death camps ) found by the State of Calfornia at Treasure Island in 1993 had to be sent to Naval Air Station Alameda to be disposed of and this chemical weapon was in inventories of the entire Navy in 1949.

They include Treasure Island in San Francisco, Fort McClellan Alabama, Edgewood Training Ground in Maryland and then they expanded to other bases all around the country. They engaged in the training using Chemical and Biological weapons and this article details that work. They also engaged in radiological training and managed to contaminate military bases that have since closed and citie shave been built on them. They also purposely dirty bombed 32 major cities in the US in the late 1950’s and early 1960s as part of the natiowide civil defense tests:

US Navy PLUCON team Dirty Bombed Boston, Las Vegas, Tuscon, San Francisco, Gulfport, Burlington, Springfield, Bangor etc

I am documenting the chemicals used on Treasure Island using various publications including US Navy Training manuals and the State of California DTSC survey from 1995 and I will add these to the list, the Chemical Index link is on this Treasure Island website. Note Chloropicrin (PS) is considered today to be a dangerous chemical that damages your lungs and can cause Pulminary Edema so when the text says that something is considered safe, remember these same people exploded a dirty bomb containing Plutonium in 32 US cities for training purposes was safe (see above linked article).

The Navy also operated a Biological Warfare Lab in Oakland CA and the Army’s Biological Warfare Lab was at Fort Baker in Golden Gate National Park but was closed in the late 70s when the biological warfare disease Q Fever broke out of the lab. Today the Park Service uses the Biological Warfare Lab site to teach children about the nature of the National Park.

The Navy let the City of San Francisco place low income housing onto Treasure Island and the residents have died, are dying and just recently a little boy died in June of 2022. This is an atrocity and here is how they did it.

United States. Army. Chemical Agent Identification Set Disposal: Environmental Impact Statement. , 1977. Volume F Appendix A
To make it easier to search the chemicals in this document I will list them here and then the actual pages are below and note this is a chronological list of chemicals over decades:

  • Toxic Gas Set , M1, FSN 1365-219-8574 , DODAC Code K941 ( Figure A1 )
    • 2.48 liters of mustard agent in the 24 bottles, or 103 ml of agent per bottle
      • Mustard
  • Toxic Gas Set , M2 , FSN 1365-563-4146 , DODAC Code K942 (Figure A2)
    • 3.150 liters of mustard agent in 28 ampules , or 112 ml of agent per bottle
      • Mustard
  • Training Set , Chemical Agent Identification , M72 , FSN 1365-051-1807, DODAC Code K945 ( Figure A3 ) –
    • Each plastic case contains six 59 ml plastic – coated bottles of agent dissolved into plastic pellets and enclosed in two – layer laminated plastic bags, two 59 ml bottles of simulant, and three smaller bottles of simulant.
      • GB Nerve Agent (4 bottles)
      • Lewisite (1 bottle)
      • Phosgene-simulant (1 bottle)
      • Potassium Cyanide (1 bottle)
      • Mustard (1 bottle)
    • The three small bottles contain approximately 20 ml of:
      • GB nerve agent
      • VX nerve agent
      • mustard agent simulants
  • War Gas Identification Set , Instructional ; Detonation Ml ( w / cap and w / o cap ) , FSN 1365-025-3273 and 1365-025-3282 , DODAC Code K951 and K952, respectively ( Figure A4 )
    • Each of the 48 tubes contain 40 ml solutions of either mustard , lewisite , chloropicrin , or phosgene agents . The mustard and lewisite are both in a five percent concentration in chloroform sulution ; the chloropicrin is a 50 percent concentration in chloroform solution ; and the phosgene is undiluted a agent.
    • There is a total of 528 ml of lethal agent in each set (chloropicrin is not classified as a lethal agent ) . There are two ml of mustard and lewisite , 20 ml of chloropicrin and 40 ml of phosgene per glass tube , The only difference between the two sets is that blasting caps were issued with the K951 set but packed and shipped in a separate container . – They used blasting caps to set off the agent on the ground which created a cloud of chemical weapons to detect using detection kits which are detailed below in the ABC Warfare Defense Ashore Training Manual documentation.
      • Mustard
      • Lewisite
      • Chloropicrin
      • Phosgene
  • War Gas Identification Set, Instructional : Detonation AN -M1A1 ( w / cap and w / o cap ) , FSN 1365-323-7782 and 1365-338-0735 , DODAC Code K953 and K954 , respectively (Figure A5) .
    • The set contains 8 tubes each of the following agents: mustard, lewisite, phosgene, cyanogen chloride, nitrogen mustard and GA nerve agent simulant. The mustard and lewisite are in a five percent constration in chloroform solution; the nitrogen mustard is a 10 percent concentration in cloroform solution and the cyanogen chloride, phosgene, and GA nerve simulants are undiluted.
    • Agent content: There is a total of 704 ml of lethal agent in each set (two ml of Mustard and lewisite, 4 ml of nitrogen mustard, and 40 ml of cyanogen chloride and phosgene per tube. The GA nerve agent simulant is not considered a lethal agent. The only difference betweent eh two sets is that blasting caps were issue with the K953 set but packed and shipped in a separate container.
      • Mustard
      • Lewisite
      • Phosgene
      • Cyanogen Chloride
      • Nitrogen Mustard
      • GA Nerve Agent Simulant ( GA Nerve agent is Tabun)
  • War Gas Identification Set , Instructional : 1365-368-6154 , DODAC Code K955 ( Figure A6 ) .
    • One bottle contains lewisite, one chloropicrin, and two mustard absorbed in 90 ml of activated charcoal. The fifth bottle contains phosgene simulant. The remaining two bottles contain solid chloroacetophenone and adamsite. The eighth section has the instructions. There is a total of 75 ml of lethal agent in each set. The chloroacetophenone, adamsite ,phosgene simulant and chloropicrin are not classified as lethal agents
      • Lewisite
      • Chloropicrin
      • Mustard
      • Phosgene Simulant
      • Chloroacetophenone
      • Adamsite
  • Set , Gas Identification , Instructional ( Navy ) , FSN 1365-038-5183 , DODAC Code X302 , X545 , X546 , X547 , X548 , X549 , X550 , X551 and X552 ( Figures A7 and 18 ) . – Note the chart below, the codes were used to identify chemical weapons in base inventories.
    • ( 1 ) Outside Configuration : The set is contained in a wooden box with a hinged top . The box measures 19.0 cm by 40.6 cm by 29.8 cm and is divided into two compartments .
    • ( 2 ) Inside Configuration : Inside each compartment are two metal cans approximately 10.2 cm in diameter and 11.8 cm high, surrounded by diameter and 11.8 cm high , surrounded by packing material . Inside each can is a bottle with a ground – glass stopper . The X302 sets have two bottles containing a total of 50 ml of nitrogen mustard–one bottle of nitrogen mustard HN – 1 ( .025 liter ) and one bottle nitrogen mustard HN – 3 ( .025 liters ) . Both agents are absorbed in 90 ml of activated charcoal. Other sample replacement sets contain only one type of material as follows :
      • Set – Material
      • X545 – CG simulant ( contains triphosgene )
      • X546 – CN ( tear gas or chloroacetophenone )
      • X547 – H ( mustard )
      • X548 – L ( lewisite )
      • X549 – DM ( adamsite )
      • X550 – HN – 1 ( nitrogen mustard )
      • X551 – HN – 3 ( nitrogen mustard )
      • X552 – PS ( chloropicrin )
        and the
      • X302 –
        • one bottle of nitrogen mustard HN – 1 ( .025 liter )
        • one bottle nitrogen mustard HN – 3 ( .025 liters )
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US Navy PLUCON team Dirty Bombed Boston, Las Vegas, Tuscon, San Francisco, Gulfport, Burlington, Springfield, Bangor etc

The United States Navy PLUCON (Plutonium Decontamination Emergency) Team, dirty bombed the following US cities in a Civil Defense Exercise where they intentionally detonated about 400 pounds of High Explosive and bomb grade plutonium in order to contaminate an area of 16 acres for training purposes during National Civil Defense exercises that were held each year whereby people in cities were required to go to bomb shelters for duck and cover exercises. The training also included Biological and Chemical Warfare using live agents and I wil be posting the Navy chemical warfare equipment for all Naval Bases in 1960 in another article and will link it here.

This document will include the List of cities, the training manual for the exercise, another publication announcing the drills at SEABEE bases and the letter from the Mayor of Boston John B. Hynes who asked for it to be done to his city in the The 1956 Civil Defense for National Survival Hearings before a subcommittee on Government Operations US House of Representatives January 31, February 1, 7, 8, and 9, 1956,Volume 1 pp 233-235

Here is the list of cities from the Naval Publication “All Hands” January 1961 Pav-Pers-O Number 528 p 14-16:

  • Boston MA
  • Fall River MA
  • Lawrence MA
  • Lynn MA
  • Pittsfield MA
  • Springfield MA
  • Portsmouth NH
  • Manchester NH
  • Bangor Maine
  • Burlington VT
  • Bakersfield CA
  • China Lake CA –
  • Port Hueneme CA – Seabee Base
  • Gulfport MS – Seabee Base
  • Las Vegas NV
  • Tuscon AZ

And then they did this in each Navy District and which were:

  • Naval District Washington DC
  • Boston – Naval District – 1
  • NY District – Naval District – 3
  • Philadelphia – Naval District – 4
  • Norfolk – Naval District – 5
  • Charleston – Naval District – 6
  • Jacksonville – Naval District – 7
  • New Orleans – Naval District – 8
  • Great lakes – North of Chicago – Naval District – 9
  • San Juan Puerto Rico – Naval District – 10
  • San Diego – Naval District – 11
  • San Francisco – Naval District – 12
  • Bremerton – Puget Sound – Naval District – 13
  • Pearl Harbor – Naval District – 14
  • Balboa – Panama Canal – Naval District – 15
  • Philippines – Naval District – 16
  • Kodiak Alaska – Naval District – 17

And here is the article:

“All Hands” – Naval publication
Naval Media Center (U.S.). Publishing Division, United States. Navy Internal Relations Activity, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, and United States. Department of the Navy. Office of the Chief of Information. All Hands. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Naval Personnel , January 1961 Pav-Pers-O Number 528 p 14-16

Here are photographs of the San Francisco Detonation in 1957:

The US Naval Training Manual “ABC warfare Defense Ashore 1960” is an Instruction Manual for this purpose and I will show the instructions below. ABC stands for “Atomic, Biological and Chemical “Warfare Training was started during World War II to train All Naval personnel on what to do in a nuclear attack using radioactive objects for detector teams to find the contamination. After the War the US Navy’s Radiological Defense Lab (USNRDL) at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard (later named Hunters Point Shipyard) conducted large scale training exercises where they purposely contaminated former Navy Bases in Pittsburg and Dublin California and other locations with radiological isotopes to train military Personnel from all branches, civilian personnel and others to clean up after a chemical, biological or nuclear attack.

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Chemical Weapon used at Treasure Island up to 1993 sent to NAS Alameda

This article will be a work in progress as I noticed 4 chemical weapons on this list, probably more and I am still working on the chemical weapons lists from the Training manuals and the 1949 master list of chemicals for ALL NAVY BASES which includes chemical weapons.

Chemical weapons used at Treasure Island WHILE the Navy was cleaning up the base and yet the Navy never mentioned these chemical weapons used and trained with in the Cleanup caused by the Chemical weapons Convention Treaty which only cleaned up Army Bases that used chemical weapons including the Presidio! It is against the law for civilians to be housed on a chemical weapons site and for the site to be handed over to civilian authorities!

United States. Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Western Division, and Inc PRC Environmental Management. Base Realignment And Closure Cleanup Plan: Revision 01. Draft. San Bruno, Calif.: Dept. of the Navy, Western Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 1994. Shows the disposal area for Parcel T 117 as DRMO Alameda which is the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO)

DRMO Alameda – 19908 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 87 / Friday, May 3, 1996 / Notices

BASEWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE SURVEY REPORT FOR
NAVAL STATION TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO,
CALIFORNIA, MAY 19, 1995 list of chemicals page 121 lists Hydrocyanic Acid Gas which is the Chemical Weapon Hydrogen Cyanide (AC) which is banned by the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty.

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Treasure Island is in violation of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty and DOD regulations

Note this article is being updated as other related articles are published.

Treasure Island violates the deadlines imposed in the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty for closure of all bases involved in Chemical Warfare Training and production of chemial weapons. The deadlines are:

  • April 29, 2007 for the cleanup of all bases and places where Chemical wepons were used or stored.
  • April 29, 2012 for the extension made to the treaty by the US because they had found other locations that had chemical warfare materiel and needed that time to clean it up.

The 2007 and 2012 deadlines are outlined in the following EPA Document: Handbook on the Management of Munitions Response Actions, Interim Final Report 2005 which I will cite here in this article Chapter 12 which lso contains information on the chemical weapons and how they were used in training, the devices and kits used in that training used by the Navy and the Army since World Ar II and other important information. Those kits were used by the Navy and I will have a separate article on them, showing Navy films on their use and the Army’s Manuals on how to dismantle them and the limits on how many (less than 10 in most cases) can be placed in landfills for the protection of the public.

Chapter 6, page 6.1 of this document refers to the DOD regulations on Ammunition which were revised in 2008 and I will detail the changes that were required to handle the Chemical Warfare Agents for disposal in the treaty. [previous editions were only concerned with unexploded ordinance and not the Chemical and biological weapons outlawed by the Treaty

Revision of Safety Standards
The 6055.9-STD is currently under revision by the
DDESB. The revised standards are posted on the
DDESB website as soon as they are voted in by the
board (www.ddesb.pentagon.mil). Revisions of the
standard dated October 2004 have been published on
the DDESB website, and its use is mandated by
DDESB. Several important revisions, however,
including changes to Chapter 12 and a chapter on
UXO, have not yet been completed or posted. This
chapter of the handbook will be revised when the
revision of the standards are complete.

DOD regulations DOD regulations outlaw the transfer of this Chemical Warfare Contaminated land to civilian authority and outlaw the placement of civilians on the site, both of which apply to Treasure Island. DOD regulations for Ammunition and Explosives Safety DOD 6055.09-STD for the transfer of chemical weapon encumbered property to civilians, the city of San Francisco, under C12.8. TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE OF DOD CONTROL I will lay out this law in a separate article and link it here.

It is a violation of the Treaty, DOD Regulations and the Nuremburg Code to conduct experiments on civilians without their informed consent and yet the cleanup at Treasure Island was such a violation. The proximity of the civilisans living on the base while the Navy was cleaning it up for radiation contamination is a violation of their rights.

Teh Navy was violating the Treaty and DOD regulations when it detonated unexploded ordinance on the site where they had found radiological contamination, making the site a weapon of mass destruction site and violated Navy regulations on proximity to that type of demolition. they also violated proximity regulations for civilians to plain ordinary demolition of unexploded ordinance and the people were directly injured by that activity.

The Navy refused to acknowledge the history of the base which is also a violation of the DOD regulations on cleaning up a chemical warfare base. Code of Federal Regulations on Chemical Weapons is classified under the Department of the Army, not the Navy.

I will cite the Treaty in another article and link it to here.

The US failed to mention that Treasure Island was a chemical weapons training base for the Treaty. The National Science Foundation was tasked with locating all of the chemical weapons facilities and training locations and failed to mention it in their report which is referenced on page 10-4 of the EPA document below and here:

The Systems and Technologies for the Treatment of Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2002. Systems and Technologies for the Treatment of Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/10407

i ti si clea that if the Navy had complied with the Chemical Weapons convention the EPA would have been placed in charge of this cleanup and no civilians would have been allowed to be exposed to this contaminated site. International Inspections would have been required to conduct a thorough evaluation of the site and by law it would not be transferred to the city of San Francisco. This cover up has led to this violation of the international treaty by the US.

I am creating a CHEMICAL INDEX for this site that lists the chemicals used in (Chemical, Biological and Radiological (CBR) training at Treasure Island which is also called Atomic, Biological and Chemical (ABC) training. I note the following for each chemical:

  • Publications: The training manuals used on Treasure Island that list the chemicals
  • Dangers: PubChem (CDC website) that lists the immediate dangers of the chemicals
  • Toxicity – PubChem (CDC website) documentation of the Human, Animal and Ecoloogical effects of the chemicals
  • Disease: PubChem (CDC website) documentation of the Diseases caused by the exposure ot the chemicals. Note that if the chemical kills outright there are no diseases.

This list can be compared to lists of chemicals used on bases to determine the extent of the CBR training as it includes the chemicals used in training to clean up after a CBR attack as well as chemicals used to support the training. For instance Hydrocyanic Acid (Hydrogen Cyanide Gas) was used in every Navy Base in 1949 and is also listed in the EPA Baseline Report for Treasure Isand in 1995. It is a Chemical Weapon (AC) Outlawed by DOD Regulations and the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty.

And the extent of the training is not confined to Treasure Island, the Navy trained instructors at Treasure Island who then conducted the training on every capitol ship and every Naval Base. The contamination is quite extensive and requires the immediate evacuation and condemnation of land that has been developed for civilian use, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Philadelphia Naval Yard, Mare Island, Alameda Naval Air Station, Charleston Navy Base etc..

Handbook on the Management of Munitions Response Actions, Interim Final Report 2005
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1949 US Navy Chemical List for all Bases including Hydrogen Cyanide Gas

Bureau of Ships manual CHAPTER 30 STOWAGE OF SAFE, SEMISAFE, AND DANGEROUS MATERIALS

This page is in progress:

Hydrocyanic acid gas is Hydrogen Cyanide which is a deadly chemical weapon and it is against the law to convey property that has been used to train or store chemical weapons to the public.

This webpage is laid out as follows:

  1. I show the actual document in screenshots below
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS: I list the chemicals so if you copy them you can search for their listings below, it will be a long document
  3. THE LIST – Alphabetical list of each chemical with their specifications:
    1. NIH listing (PubChem) link
    2. Publications which include other training manuals and publication dates. I am listing my webpages on each publication from which you can find the links to online data. Since these documents come and go as websites change, I thought this would be best as I am making screen shots of the important information because some of these documents are not readily searchable online.
    3. Dangers which include the immediate danger of exposure
    4. Toxicity I am listing the human toxicity below, there usually is animal and environmental toxicity but I am concentrating on the toxic effects for human. If you wish to investigate further you can click on the (PubChem) link above under each chemical
    5. Diseases caused by the chemical. In the case of chemical weapons like Hydrogen Cyanide Gas, there are no long term effects, it just kills!
  4. I will be placing these chemicals onto my Hunterspointshipyard webpage as this list applies to all military bases including Hunters Point Shipyard, as individual posts and I will link to them on the Table of Contents and THE LIST of the individual posts listed below..

I am also compiling all chemicals used in training manuals and items like this on the Chemical Index page of this website. This is an ongoing project and will be expanded every time I add new content. It makes all of the chemicals searchable all in one doucment as some chemicals are compounds of others.

I am also listing these specific chemicals on my Hunters Point Shipyard webpage as individual posts for each chemical because this document applies to the Shipyard and all Navy Bases in 1949. Throughout this document if you click on the “Chemical Name HPS” link it will take you to that specific chemical which is on a separate website.

This document is located on the Hathi Trust page at this address

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Military Chemistry and Chemical Agents 1942

This document is refered to by multiple Chemical Warfare textbooks used on Treasure Island and was the definition of Chemical Warfare Training during World War II. Unfortunately the training chemicals for chemical warfare were deadly poisons and the chemicals used to clean are deadly poisons. Here is a photograph of the gas mask training at Edgewood Arsenal where the plane is spraying “Asbestine” which was asbestos and talcum powder onto the unsuspecting recruits.

Naval Trainign Bulletin 1`5 March 1944

The other training chemical which was used to simulate Mustard Gas was mostly Molasses with sand and Cresols which are a deadly poison. This was dumped on 60,000 soldiers trained in chemical warfare for World War II and the VA made an alotment for their exposure durinig the war. My guess is nobody told the VA that they continued this training after the war and to this day.

All battles of World War II had Chemical Warfare ready to be used if the Axis powers decided to use them. It was the first demonstration of Mutually Assured Destruction in combat and it was not used in the war for offensive conflict against the allies. The Japanese had used it in China when they invaded in the early 30s but did not use it against The US in the war. They knew we had perfected our techniques and were ready to use them!

This is the revised edition for the Training Manual 1942 and the revisions were located at the front of the document. Also understand that these chemical weapons used full laboratories to make the agents, and those other chemicals are listed in this publication. I will post the chemical weapons and the chemicals used directly for working with them in the field whther in combat or in medical treatment in an index at the end and their current status of toxicity.

  • The new agents for 1942:
    • 144.1 Phenyldichlorarsine
    • 158.2 Hydrocyanic Acid
    • 158.3 Cyanogen Chloride – which was made in Linden NJ
    • 158.1 Arsine

In Training manuals the numbering system is for the item numbers and not the page numbers and to provide an index at the and of this document. Thsi is done so the new agents can fit into existing documents with other numbered toxins under their categories without having to number them again. It is important to standardize all training to the same exact specifications so it can be done anywhere. This procedure would continue for all CBR Training on all bases. The main document was printed in 1940 so it uses different terms. Eveyrthing was standardized in the war so the British Chemical Warfare agent names and descriptions matched with the US Names and descriptions. So for instance Mustard Gas was (H) it is now (HS). Later editions would fix this.

Mustard Gas Test at Treasure Island 1964

Mustard Gas Test on Treasure Island by the US Naval Research Laboratory 1964

The Navy applied the Mustard Gas as a liquid onto a field gun, a mock up of a ship and a mock up of an airplane along with several vertical steel placards that they set up on the island to measure the different effects of weathering on an application of Mustard as a liquid onto these plaques. By using it in liquid form the concentration of the vapors from evaporation would be 50 times the lethal amount than from it being deployed as gas. The Training used mustard gas as a liquid and here is the information from this document of the danger. The concentrations at lower temperatures are still multiples of the lethal amount.

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Biological Warfare Defense 1953 Index

The Training Manual Biological Warfare Defense can be found online at this address

It is referenced in many Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare Training manuals thereafter and the training was conducted at the Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama, and at the United States Damage Control and Training Center, Treasure Island, California as found on page 89 of this manual below.

This will present the index to the Training Manual Biological Warfare Defense 1953 that was used on Treasure Island even though the minimum distance for safety is 2 miles from the use of these biological weapons. San Francisco is within 2 miles of Treasure Island. The page numbers are at the end of each item.

The Second Section will list the Chemicals and Biological Diseases used in training and their consequences today. For instance the Navy used biological agents which they thought were harmless but are the major source of infections in hospitals today. The Navy purposely infected the country with these diseases to study how far it would travel and how to clean it up. Who cares if people died it was for them to needlessly kill american citizens to protect them!

245 biological experiments on US citizens in cities and bases, Navy Biological Warfare Lab in SF Bay

The purpose of all of this is to make the terms searchable in this website so that when used in other training manuals you can see the overlap and the changes in use over time.

Part A. Biological Warfare Agents

A1.01 Purpose and scope 1

  1. Purpose 1
  2. Scope 1

A1.02 Responsibility for Biological Warfare Defense 1

A1.03 Biological Warfare Defined 1

A1.04 Biological Warfare Agents 2

  1. Classification 2
  2. Characteristics 2

A1.05 Simulant Agents 2

Bacillus globigii – NIH – Bacillus globigii (Bg) spores are used as a simulant for Bacillus anthracis (Ba) due to their similar shape, size, and cellular makeup
Bacillus Prodigiosus – NIH – A Study of the Toxins of Bacillus prodigiosus 
Serratia Marcescens – Originally thought to be harmless is the major cause of infections in hospitals today. It was used by the Navy all over the country for biological warfare experiments and training. Now we can’t get rid of it! PubMed – Serratia Marcescens– A Rare Opportunistic Nosocomial Pathogen and Measures to Limit its Spread in Hospitalized Patients

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Training manuals of the US Navy for Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare

I will be adding content to this as there are many training manuals and I will provide links to those online. I have to go through all ofthem. Here are some relating directly to Treasure Island, indicated in the documents.

ABC WARFARE DEFENSE 1960 and 1963 photogaphed at Treasure Island

Photographed on Treasure Island. Notice the Marine Headlands in the background and Alcatraz Island. This is near the Arsenic bubble that the Navy had to clean up , it would be in this picture behind and to the right and right next to the mock up ship the USS Pandemonium.

ABC warfare defense ashore: United States Navy 1060

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Chemical Warfare Weapons of the US from US Naval Training Bulletin March 1944

The US had chemical weapons ready to be used in retaliation to any German or Japanese chemical or biological warfare attack. We had various types of weapons shown in thsi chart from March 1944 Naval Training Bulletin.

Source” Naval Training Bulletin 15 March 1944

Naval Training Bulletin 15 March 1944
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Mustard VX and Sarin Gases used in Training for Chemical Warfare Schools 1978 Environmental Impact Statement

Draft Environmental Impact Statement Establishment of the US Army NBC Defense School
16 August 1978 (Revised 21 Nov 1978)

1978 EIS Appendix C-1 – GB (Sarin) and VX Field Identification and Decontamination Exercises
1978 EIS Appendix C-2 – Mustard Decontamination Exercise
1978 EIS Appendix C-3 Biological Field Sampling Exercise
1978 EIS Appendix C-4 Radiological Decontamination Training Facility (Bromine Field)
1978 EIS Appendix C-5 Alpha Field Survey
Diseases and conditions caused by exposure to Mustard Gas and Lewisite

GB is Sarin Gas
VX is a Nerve agent
Mustard Gas burns the skin, lungs, eyes etc
U is Uranium
Pu is Plutonium
Cs is Cesium 137

Background on Joint training and the manuals

The Training at Treasure Island referred to in this Environmental Impact Statement for the creation of a new Chemical Biological and Radiological School which also includes the Environmental impact of a school. The entire book is an instruction manual on the use of Mustard, Sarin and VX Nerve Gas well as biological aand radiological training with step by step instructions.

This has been consistent in all training manuals, they encompass all sites with the training usually at Edgewood Arsenal, Treasure Island and Fort McClelland as shown below from the 1952 Chemical Warfare Defense manual cites those three sites for same training manuals, I will cite more below. Fort McClelland temporarily took over from Treasure Island from 1967 to the early 1970s when they moved the training devices and mock ups from the west side of the island under the present day housing to the north east side of the island.

COVER UP – 1982 CDC Formaldehyde poisoning report at Customs Office on Treasure Island – nobody told them about the Biological Warfare Training

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COVER UP – 1982 CDC Formaldehyde poisoning report at Customs Office on Treasure Island – nobody told them about the Biological Warfare Training

Lists of chemicals including Formaldhyde using in Biological Warfare Defense Training Manual 1953 below

The Navy forgot to mention to the CDC and the NIH its use of Formaldhyde in Biological Warfare Training at Treasure Island and allowed these people to be harmed. The NIH investigated why these people were showing signs of Fomaldehyde Poisoning, but instead of evacuating everyone the Navy decided to COVER IT UP!

Training in Formaldehyde

Biological Warfare Defense 1953
Biologicla Warfare Defense 1953


The training manual Biological Warfare Defense 1953 used on Treasure Island details the use of these toxic chemicals in the cleaning up of biological contamination at the Chemical Warfare School on Treasure Island.

Biological Warfare Defense 1953

As you can see the trainers would purposely infect vehicles for Atomic, Biological and Radiological Defense and this was the method used for Biological Training decontamination. For Chemical and Radiological decontamination they were dressed in chemical suits and washed the contaminents directly off of the vehicles and equipment and that is why this tiny Navy Base had several bus painting facilities to decontaminate and repaint the equipment for reuse in training.

ABC Warfare Defense 1960, 1963

ABC Warfare Defense 1960, 1963 Field Gun at Treasure Iland being decontaminated. That’s Alcatraz and the Marine Headlines in the background.

The CDC Report:
Link to page on CDC website Health Hazard Evaluation Report No. HETA 82-176-1236

PDF report:
Health hazard evaluation report: HETA-82-176-1236, U. S. Customs Service, Patrol Division Office, Treasure Island, San Francisco, California
Worker exposures to formaldehyde (50000) were investigated on April 21, 1982 at the United States Customs Service Patrol Division Office (SIC-9999) at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California. The evaluation was requested by the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 165, on behalf of eight workers who complained of eye, nose and throat irritation. Area air samples were analyzed, and employees were questioned about medical symptoms. Air samples contained 0.15 to 0.23 parts per million of formaldehyde. NIOSH recommends that formaldehyde exposures be kept to the lowest feasible limit. The workers reported eye and respiratory irritation, cough, chest tightness, headache, nausea, and fatigue. The authors conclude that formaldehyde exposure hazard exists at this work site. They recommend improvement of the ventilation system.

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Safety levels of nuclear radiation have changed over the years making previous cleanups are now nuclear accidents

When the government says that a site was cleaned up in the past, remember that the safety standards of the time are nuclear accidents today. It depends on when it was cleaned up. For instance the Nuclear Fuel Rod plant in San Jose was cleaned up to mid 1950s standards when the Atomic Energy Commission was worried about people getting Radiation Poisoniing and not the long term effects of cancer. It is now The Plant shopping center and it has to be re-evaluated for contamination. All of these sites have to be re-examined to determine if people are in danger!

10 CFR § 20.1301 – Dose limits for individual members of the public.
§ 20.1301 Dose limits for individual members of the public.

Source:

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Chemical Warfare locations in the US in World War II, depots training locations, offices, labs etc.

These are lists of locations that are chemically compromised and it is illegal for these locations to be in the hands of civilians. This is the master list of every location using chemical weapons for World War II. All of these locations will have to be evaluated for contamination.
Note this is a long list of locations, it might take a while to download.


1959

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Stauffer Chemical Richmond on list of 153 Sites for the Nuclear Weapons Industry

USA Today had an article on the sites contaminated for the production of the Atomic Bomb. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission came up with this list of 153 sites all over the US in response to the FOIA request.
Memo to Commissioners TAs from J. Craig, EDO re: Staff Evaluation of Sites Indentified in the USA Today Article Dated 09/06/00.

Note that cleanup of nuclear materials before 1959 was concerned with preventing radiation sickness but when people started to develop cancer, the standards changed drastically. So sites cleaned up even a few years ago, including Treasure Island where the standards of the time exceed the safe levels today. This is a preliminary list, there are more.

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Stauffer Chemical in Richmond CA processed uranium NRC records 1962

Stauffer Chemical (now Astra Zeneca) had a uranium processing mill in Richmond CA. This is the Atomic Energy Commission license to process and cut uranium for use in Nuclear Weapons. I am placing this article on my Treasure Island page as Stauffer Chemical Company was a supplier for the US Chemical Warfare Service in World War II and after and Treasure Island conducted training using Mustard Gas, a poison gas which was outlawed in the Treaty of Versailles.

Stauffer Chemical Company was immediately to the East of what is now the UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station, which also includes the US EPA Field Laboratory for Region 9 which encompasses California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, the Pacific Islands and Native American toxic waste sites. It is also less than a mile from the California Department of Public Health and all of these locations are within contamination range of the site. Nuclear radatiion can affect lab equipment.

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Diseases and conditions caused by exposure to Mustard Gas and Lewisite

Veterans at Risk: the Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Survey the Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite, David P Rall, and Constance M Pechura. Veterans At Risk: the Health Effects of Mustard Gas And Lewisite. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1993.

Findings

Compensation for veterans exposed to mustard gas and lewisite in world war II

Mustard Gas alters DNA

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MAP of Mock up of Ship used in Biological, Chemical and Radiological Training at TI

The First USS Pandemonium, a mock up of a training ship was used for Biological, Chemical and Radiological Training at Treasure Island. This article presents the maps of the island, past 1959 and present Google maps with an aerial photograph of the ship from 1969. How the overlay was made.

Map of Ship with current Google Map of Treasure Island

In 1957, the Navy built the first USS Pandemonium to be used as a training vessel built on land for (ABC) Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare Training.

Current map with the ships opacity so you can see the streets below. The ship goes through building 1315 and across the street into building 1316. When the Navy excvates those buildings, they will find even more radiation and contamination.

This image (Below) is from the Figure 8.3-21 Former USS Pandemonium Location on Northwest Corner, Treasure Island Naval Station Historical Radiological Assessment February 2006 page 8-24

Figure 8.3-21 Former USS Pandemonium Location on Northwest Corner, Treasure Island Naval Station Historical Radiological Assessment February 2006 page 8-24 Notice the three tanks in the triangle shape, the lead lines got ot two different tanks from the taink used for the washing off the radioactive materials from the ship during training.

Notice the slanted line in the ship photograph matches up with the slanted line in the 1959 map as well as teh curve in the road adn the dirt road street to the right, including the rectangular structure to the far right all matches up with the map below.

1959 USGS Map of Treasure Island Historical Topographic Map Collection detail of CA_Oakland West_293624_1959_24000

And then the overlay of the present Google map on the 1959 USGS map shows the Avenue B as the road that the dirt road corresponds with on the 1959 map

Historical Topographic Map Collection

Resulting in the map at the top of this blog

Also notice the two tanks in the triangle shape which has a land component in its middle and the tank near the road which was the immediate collection tank from washing chemcial, biological and radiological material off the ship.

The training took place every 2 weeks because the radioactive bromide’s half life makes it “safe” in 1950s standards for safety to be dumped into the bay. Of course if you tried this today it would be illegal.

That tank would have the material sit in it for two weeks before being dumped into one of the other two tanks to sit out for 4 weeks before being dumped into the bay. If you look close you can see the little channels leading to each tank in the large triangle. Three tanks were needed to keep the operation going every 2 weeks.

The Triangle is in the Meadow which is where they found the high concentrations of Arsenic. Lewisite is a chemical weapon made of arsenic and acetylene and fits the description of the toxins.

The pandemonium in silhouette with a self propelled gun used in Mustard Gas Experiments at Treasure Island by the Office of Naval Research in 1964. Note hte Mustard Gas experiments are to the north of the ship in what is now the SWDA site where they found a mortar capable of shelling the Bay Bridge.
TI-The Smoking Gun – Chemical Warfare test at Treasure Island Navy evaluates methods use to clean up Mustard Gas

ABC School means Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare Training School. This text is on page 1 of the of Office of Naval Research Mustard Gas test at Treasure Island:

“BACKGROUND

As a result of the favorable properties reported for the U.S. Army Chemical Corps chemical warfare decontaminant DS2, tests of this material under shipboard conditions appeared desirable. Accordingly, the Bureau of Ships requested the ABC Defense School, Treasure Island, to submit plans for conduct of the tests by its own staff. It was expected that this group would be capable of performing the evaluation both efficiently and from a shipboard point of view.

Test plans were developed by the Treasure Island group and forwarded to the Bureau of Ships. The plans were studied by the Bureau and this Laboratory and approved with minor changes. A target of January 1959, was set for the test period, at which time a supply of DS2 could be supplied through the cooperation of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps.

The chemical warfare agent chosen for the DS2 evaluation tests was mustard gas (HD). Laboratory tests by the Chemical Corps had shown that mustard is the most difficult of the common persistent CW agents to decontaminate with DS2 (1). In addition, mustard was readily available at the ABC school, is safe to handle with reasonable precautions, and is capable of punishing the careless or unprotected worker by burns of varying severity.” Link to the Chemical Warfare Test using Mustard Gas at Treasure Island in 1964.

Below is the full 1959 map:

1959 USGS Map of Treasure Island Historical Topographic Map Collection detail of CA_Oakland West_293624_1959_24000
This map also shows the

Figure 8.3-21 Former USS Pandemonium Location on Northwest Corner, Treasure Island Naval Station Historical Radiological Assessment February 2006 page 8-24

1951 TI-ATOMIC AND CHEMICAL TRAINING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA 1951 https://treasureislandcalifornia.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/ti-atomic-and-chemical-training-in-the-san-francisco-area-1951/

TRAINING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA Naval training bulletin, June 1951 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Bureau of Naval Personnel

TI-Map USS Pandemonium 1 under present day housing at Treasure Island Atomic Biological and Chemical Warfare training site
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Admiral B A Clarey NAVFAC gave order in 1972 to remove radium dials from ships

Radiological Precautions
The Navy Civil Engineer
Spring 1972, p. 16
By GLENN ZIMMER Radiological Safety Officer

“Radiological Precautions” By GLENN ZIMMER Radiological Safety Officer The Navy Civil Engineer Spring 1972, p 16

The Radiological Affairs Support Program has been established by the Chief of Naval Material within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The CNM has assigned Commander, NAVFAC, the responsibility to act for CNM in matters of radiological affairs. This covers all aspects of ionizing radiation except nuclear propulsion, nuclear weapon criticality, and medical applications within the NMC to, in the words of Adm. B. A. Clarey, “collate, coordinate and monitor — all aspects of radiological controls—.”

Part of this program will be to assure that a uniform program of radiological protection is established within all systems commands, with assistance to the fleets on an “as-required” basis.

Focus Responsibility

Up until now there has not been a coordinated radiological program within the Navy. This has led to conflicting regulations in some cases that has ended with confusion and a lack of control. The aim is to bring central coordination to radiological affairs so that the Navy can assure radiation protection of all personnel within the Navy, and of the environment. This program will include radioactive materials that are used under license authority of the Atomic Energy Commission, those occurring naturally (such as radium), and X-rays.

Heretofore, radium has not been controlled within the Navy, primarily because the use of radium has not been regulated by the Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Public Health Service, or any other agency. However, radium is just as harmful as other radioactive materials which have been produced in a reactor, and a control program will be brought into effect on this material.

Industrial use of X-rays is another area that will require attention and control. In the past there has not been a program at all locations for controlling the use of X-rays.

There are needs within the Navy to have instrumentation developed for monitoring to help assure radiological safety. Recommendations will be made from NAVFAC to the appropriate naval activities responsible for development of instrumentation or control procedures.

One of the important reasons for having this program is that it is necessary in the field of radiation protection to have technically-qualified personnel evaluate hazards to personnel and to devise control measures. NAVFAC has a small group of highly-qualified, highly-technical personnel in headquarters and at the Naval Nuclear Power Unit to perform this type of a function.

By having a single central office coordinating radiological affairs and providing technical assistance we can assure radiological control and protection. It is a tremendous responsibility and opportunity for NAVFAC to have been selected to perform this type of a function, because the program is of major importance to the Fleet, and the Navy.

Radiological Precautions
The Navy Civil Engineer
Spring 1975, p. 14

“Radiological Precautions” The Navy Civil Engineer Spring 1975, p. 14

Radiological Training Begun • Ft Belvoir, Va.
In June, 1974, the OIC, Naval Nuclear Power Unit (NNPU) was tasked by Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), with providing radiological training within the U. S. Navy. The Radiological Training Department (RTD) was es- tablished in July, 1974, with the addition of two Medical Service Corps instructor billets from the Chief of Naval Education and Training.

The initial training effort was directed toward the radium removal operations program for inactive Naval vessels. Responsibility for this course was transferred to NNPU following the decommissioning of the Navy Training Unit, Fort McClellan, Ala. The need was established when it was found that many luminescent devices aboard decommissioned ships contained radium in quantities considered excessive and potentially dangerous.

These devices must be removed and properly disposed of prior to transfer of the vessel. The radium removal operations course is designed to enable inactive fleet maintenance personnel to safely locate, remove, and dispose of radioactive materials found aboard inactive ships. Three such courses were conducted in July and August of 1974 with 48 students becoming certified as radium removal operators.

A parallel radium removal course for active ships was then designed in an effort to remove items containing radium from the active fleet and replace them with non-hazardous substitutes. Shore based teams of mainte- nance support personnel have been trained as radium removal operators in an effort to prevent the additional work load from being assigned to shipboard personnel.

Removal and disposal procedures are, therefore, centralized in major home ports where they can be more easily monitored and controlled. Commanding officers can schedule surveys for their ships by submitting a standard work request to the Fleet Main- tenance Assistance Group located in their home port.

The surveys will then be conducted during a convenient in-port period. To date, one course has been conducted on each coast, and radium removal teams are now established in Norfolk, Charleston, Mayport, San Diego, San Francisco, and Pearl Harbor.

Training department personnel have recently completed a nuclear weapons radiological survey operations course – which will enable personnel to conduct radiological surveys in weapons storage areas in ships or shore facilities. Students will learn how to evaluate survey data and determine what actions are necessary in order to ensure current personnel radiation protection standards are met. Classes began in April, 1975, with training being conducted at the Nuclear Weapons Training Groups in Norfolk, Va. Diego, Calif.

Future plans include development and San of a radiation safety officer (RSO) : course which will meet training requirements for individuals filling RS0 billets throughout the Navy. The Course will be approximately two weeks in length and will cover a wide range of subjects including the detection of ionizing radiation, personnel protection measures, the development of standard operating procedures including those for X and gamma ray radiography, and rules and regulations pertaining to radiation sources licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Final Warning Struck in the Eyes – Residents hit by scrapnel from detonating explosives on TI

Video by Caraol Harvey Investigative Reporter

The Navy is currently exploding ordinance including grenades and Japanese mortars in the radioactive waste location at Treasure Island in violation of Navy regulations on proximity of civilians to the explosions. The Navy freely admitted that they were too close to residents in the recent RAB meeting on December 8th where they admitted to using sandbags and shipping containers to try to block the effects of the explosions from the civilians but the Civilians have been hit by the blast and are injured.

In a report on December 8th for the RAB Meeting the Navy mentioned they were exploding ordinance that was too close to the residents but they were mitigating that by placing shipping containers in the path of the explosions. but the shipping containers are not in the way and tehy are needlessly exposing the civilians to the explosions, violating navy regulations on munitions. The Navy doesn’t care, they have no one to supervise this fiasco:

The Navy found a plume of arsenic and are saying it is a natural formation of arsenic in the soil. The Entire Island is manmade, there is nothing natural there, everything there was placed there within the past 80 to 85 years.

The Arsenic plume is Lewisite, a chemical weapon that is usually mixed with Mustard Gas to have a hideous effect on enemy troops. The Navy has a history of considering civilians to be the enemy. Their total disregard for the safety of the people of Honolulu with the whole Red Hill petroium contamination disaster of the past month where Honolulu’s water supply is contaminated with Navy Oil that is stored above their aquifer. The Navy knew about this in 1982 and even documented the contamination but refused to do anything about it.

1982 Report on Fuel Tanks and pipeline leaks at Pearl Harbor today causes oil in 1/8 of Honolulu’s water supply

Now 1/4 of Honolulu is without water up from teh 1/8th a few weeks ago. The Navy secretary got mad at the people of Honolulu saying that she had been in combat and this was nothing compared to that! She has since backpeddled on that admission but it shows the total disregard for civilians.

Location of the USS Pandemonium:

TI-The Smoking Gun – Chemical Warfare test at Treasure Island Navy evaluates methods use to clean up Mustard Gas

The Arsenic in the Meadow corresponds with the location of the first ship mock-up the USS Pandemonium where the Navy conducted chemical, biological and radiological testing using live ammo. Lewisite is a chemical weapon that degrades into Arsenic and Acyteline and was found all over this site.

TI-Map USS Pandemonium 1 under present day housing at Treasure Island Atomic Biological and Chemical Warfare training site
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Radiation Training on Treasure Island using isotopes

From 1970 onwards the Navy used short lived Isotopes that they would paint onto surfaces of a mock up of a training ship the USS Pandemonium where they washed it off and scrubbed it off the ship into the Bay. Here is the training from United States. Army. U.S. Army Nuclear, Biological And Chemical School (AL,MD): Environmental Impact Statement. , 1979. We know it was done at Treasure Island because it says so in this text. We also know this because the training manuals including the 1960 and 1963 “ABC Warfare Defense” Training Manual (Atomic, Biological and Chemical) were photographed on Treasure Island. This is a photograph of the training with Alcatraz and the Marin Headlands in the background.

Note this training was regularly and continuously conducted as they had to train members of all branches of the military. Schedules can be found in navy publications of the times from 1947onwards for ABC Training.

You can see Alcatraz and the Marin Headlands in the background.
TI-Map USS Pandemonium 1 under present day housing at Treasure Island Atomic Biological and Chemical Warfare training site
RADIOLOGICAL AFFAIRS SUPPORT OFFICE
REPORT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE VISIT
TO NAVAL SCHOOLS COMMAND, TREASURE
ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
15 APRIL 1974
RADIOLOGICAL AFFAIRS SUPPORT OFFICE
REPORT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE VISIT
TO NAVAL SCHOOLS COMMAND, TREASURE
ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
15 APRIL 1974

Note the number of miscellaneous radioluminescent devices, held in a plastic bag were utilized as check sources were radium dials and radium foils that were found buried all around the original location of the USS Pandemonium which is under the housing at Treasure Island. See this article on the amounts of radiation dug up exposing the residents to over 90 REMS of nuclear radiation each year with one object that radiated 30 REMS a year found in 2021.

90 REMS of Nuclear Radiation Per Year at Treasure Island – the Spreadsheet and the laws UPDATE

Here is the step by step training and safety precautions below

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Mustard Gas training at Treasure Island

Mustard Gas is a deadly poison that was used in training at Treasure Island. We know this because the US Naval Research Laboratory Washington DC commissioned Treasure Island to conduct Mustard Gas test using two different cleaners to compare their properties and Treasure Island had an ample supply of Mustard Gas, here is the report. Note I will be publishing the other training under separate articles as I am using the images directly from the training manual and this will be easier to upload.

TI-The Smoking Gun – Chemical Warfare test at Treasure Island Navy evaluates methods use to clean up Mustard Gas

United States. Army. U.S. Army Nuclear, Biological And Chemical School (AL,MD): Environmental Impact Statement. , 1979.

Chemical Warfare School at Treasure Island
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Dumping Nuclear Waste at Sea – Sealift Magazine 1968 MSTS based at Fort Mason San Francisco

The removal of nuclear waste from the B-52 Crash in Thule Greenland where they had military personnel clean up the site after an atomic bomb fell and broke apart spilling its nuclear cargo all over the place. Only one crewman survived but was terribly frost bitten. All of the contaminated materials including ice and snow were removed from the site in these containers as shown above and off loaded at Charleston for burial in the US.

This article points out that 4800 barrels of radioactive waste were also unloaded in Charleston from the Palamedes Spain nuclear disaster where a B-52 carrying 4 hydrogen bombs collided with a tanker in mid air, then exploded and the bombs fell on Spain where one ended up in the Mediterranean while another spilled its contents all over the city, the other two parachuted safely to the surface as that is what was supposed to happen in a crash.

Article on the left details the dumping of nuclear waste at sea as if this is a casual thing to do

Left side United States. Navy. Military Sea Transportation Service. Sealift Magazine. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Navy’s Military Sea Transportation Service , 1968
United States. Navy. Military Sea Transportation Service. Sealift Magazine. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Navy’s Military Sea Transportation Service , 1968

My article on the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste disposal sites where the Navy dumped 47500 barrels of nuclear waste into Ocean at the Farallon Islands. They just pushed it all overboard and that was that.

https://disasterarea.home.blog/2020/07/23/farallon-islands-nuclear-waste-sites/

I will be posting more articles on Ocean Dumping.

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Plutonium Cesium Cobalt and neutron sources used in training at Treasure Island

This document lists the resumes with work experience with Plutonium, Cobalt, Cesium, and other radioactive materials and devices. This is a legal document, subjecting the application to comply with all laws and regulations under penalty of perjury.

The Navy would have you believe that the amounts of radiation are small or it’s just Radium. But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has licenses for all materials used on Treasure Island by the US Navy, including the dates and signatures of all officials who signed under penalty of perjury. This is just one example of many others but a good example of how the record shows the materials used and when.

I will list the isotopes used, the quantities used, the isotope name and half lives for Robert E Sleever.

APPLICATION FOR BYPRODUCT MATERIAL LICENSE INDUSTRIAL
US Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)
12 July 1982

Pages 21 and 22 of 151 show the experience of

ROBERT E. SLEEVER
Quality Assurance Calibration Lab

page 21 of 151of PDF file of
APPLICATION FOR BYPRODUCT MATERIAL LICENSE INDUSTRIAL
US Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)
12 July 1982
page 22 of 151of PDF file of
APPLICATION FOR BYPRODUCT MATERIAL LICENSE INDUSTRIAL
US Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)
12 July 1982
IsotopeMaximum Activityisotope namehalf life
Tl208MicrocuriesThallium 2083 min
Ra226MicrocuriesRadium 2261685 years
Th228MicrocuriesThorium 2281.9 years
Ba233Microcuries
U235MicrocuriesUranium 2357,000,000 years
U238MicrocuriesUranium 2384.47 years
Pu239MicrocuriesPlutonium 23924110 years
Co6030,000 CuriesCobalt 605.27 years
Cs13730,000 CuriesCesium 13730 years
PuBe30,000 CuriesNeutron Source
Mn5430,000 CuriesManganese 54312 days
Co5730,000 CuriesCobalt 57271 days
Zn6530,000 CuriesZinc 65243 days
Kr8530,000 CuriesKrypton 8510.7 years
Y8830,000 CuriesYttrium 88106 days
Sr9030,000 CuriesStrontium 9028.9 years
Tc9930,000 CuriesTechnetium 992110,000 years
Cd10930,000 CuriesCadmium 1091.26 years
I13130,000 CuriesIodine 1318 days
Ba13330,000 CuriesBarium 13310.5 years
Tl20430,000 CuriesThallium 2043.77 years
Bi20730,000 CuriesBismuth 20732.9 years
AmBe30,000 CuriesNeutron Source

This is the table for Alfonzo Gonzales. Note the devices listed with the isotopes, these are containers for the isotopes so they can be used to check the counters for accuracy.

The opening three pages of this document:



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REM and Curie Measurements

REMS

The maximum safe level of radiation for Member of the Public for a year is 100 mrems per year which is:

0.1 rem per year
100 mrems per year
100,000 microrems per year (which is 100,000 µrem)

The maximum safe level of radiation for anyone including radiation workers for an hour is 2 mrems per hour

AmountSymbolName
.0002rems/hrrems per hour
2mrems/hrmillirems per hour
2,000µrem/hrmicrorems per hour
Note in the POST-CONSTRUCTION SUMMARY REPORT the Navy use mR/hr to denote microrems. In other reports they denoted it properly.

The Navy in its spreadsheet listing the radioactive foils used the wrong symbol for microrems. The Navy used mR/h for microrems per hour. The proper symbol is µrem/hr and I will use them in the tables below

There is no safe level for handling radioactive objects with your bare hands, if you pick one up, or come not contact with any radioactive substance there is a risk.

This is particularly important as the radioactive objects found on Treasure island were either thin foils of radioactive materials or objects painted with radium paint. These objects have since rusted away and can be picked up on the wind, so everyone within 4 miles of the island can be exposed to the radiation as it travels in the dust on the wind.

Map showing EPA Distances for exposure for Treasure Island, Fort Mason, the Navy Dispensary on Fell Street and Hunters Point Shipyard. The red lines are 4 miles,, the blue-green is 3 miles, the White is 3 miles and the red is one mile. Note Fell Street’s 1 mile radium is in yellow to denote near neighbors to the Radiation site. All of these sites are nuclear radiation sites in San Francisco. City hall is within range of the Naval Dispensary on Fell Street.

Calculating the Maximum Amount of Radiation for a Member of the Public for a year for an hour.

There are 8760 hours in a year and the people who live on the island, live there all year, so to calculate the hourly rate of a safe dose for a year you get:

100 mrems per year divided by 8760 (hours in a year) comes out to a little over 0.0114 mrems/hr.

I am rounding off to make this easier for everyone to figure out. The real number is 0.0114155251141553

So any radiation amount that is more than 0.0114 mrems per hour will exceed the safe maximum level of radiation for individual members of the public in a year.

0.0114 mrems per hour is:

Amount NumberSymbolName
0.0000114 rems/hrrems per hour
0.0114mrems/hrmillirems per hour
11.4µrem/hr microrems per hour
Note in the POST-CONSTRUCTION SUMMARY REPORT the Navy use mR/hr to denote microrems. In other reports they denoted it properly.

So if you compare the radiation levels for each object in the POST-CONSTRUCTION SUMMARY REPORT December 2019. Table 7 lists the Radium objects in this report on pages 163-185. you can see that the objects listed are below the immediate danger level of 2 mrems per hour so the people will not get radiation sickness. But about 86 of them exceed the yearly dose rate per hour and because each object adds to the total amount of radiation, the people of Treasure Island were exposed to over 60 REMS of nuclear radiation for each year and that is a nuclear accident!

The Navy found these objects in 2013 and placed them in boxes to store them underground instead of removing them when they found the danger. They were required by law to remove them when they found them.

Why didn’t they remove the danger to the residents?

Problem is that radiation goes right through the ground and so the Navy needlessly exposed the residents to this radiation for 5 years until they dug it up and removed it in 2018. See my article

But Wait There’s More:

3.5 mrems per hour which is 30 REMS PER YEAR from Anomaly A-G03/A-CDPH 1303A reported May 26, 2021

Here are the Curie tables based on one Curie of radiation

AmountSymbolName
1Ci/gCurie per gram
1,000mCi/gmillicuries per gram
1,000,000µCi/g microcuries per gram
1,000,000,000nCi/gnanocuries per gram
1,000,000,000,000pCi/gpicocuries per gram
The safe level of radiation for the cleanup is 1.69 pCi/g

The following report and description of the radiological area has a number of objects, I am posting one of them in this article, there are more that also exceed safe levels (one is 49.5 pCi/g found 16 inches below the housing) and the Navy found them in 2013 and have left them there to irradiate the people on treasure Island all of these years. Note they were there for decades but when they knew it was radioactive, they did not start to remove it until 2021. Again I ask Why because they knowingly allowed these people to be exposed to the radiation! That’s murder.

FINAL WORK PLAN
Intrusive Investigation – Radiological Areas of Interest
FORMER NAVAL STATION TREASURE ISLAND
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
May 2021
p 2-2

“Anomaly A-G03/A-CDPH 1303A – Sample location 1303A lies near a concrete walkway adjacent to Building 1303. In March 2013, small discrete particles (3,500 mR/hr. on contact) were collected by CDPH during pre-remediation soil sampling and sent to the Drinking Water and Radiation Laboratory Branch (DWRLB) for analysis. The radioactive fragments were sieved out of the soil sample during sample preparation. CDPH also collected soil samples prior to, during, and after remediation activities. The post-remediation 226Ra sample result (i.e., soil sample collected from the bottom of the excavation) was 1.02 pCi/g (CDPH, 2013). However, during a subsequent investigation conducted in October 2013, LLRO #1282 was found and retrieved and a soil sample collected from the same location detected 226Ra concentrations of 2.2 pCi/g, which is above the NSTI screening criteria of 1.69 pCi/g.”

226Ra is Radium226

1.69 pCi/g is 1.69 picocuries per gram the following tables shows the equivalent amounts:

AmountSymbolName
0.00000000000169Ci/gcuries per gram
0.00000000169mCi/gmillicuries per gram
0.00000169µCi/g microcuries per gram
.00169nCi/gnanocuries per gram
1.69pCi/gpicocuries per gram
The safe level of radiation for the cleanup is 1.69 pCi/g

So if you apply this to the foils of radiation used at the US Treasury/ATF building that was located at Avenue M and Fourth Street in Building 233 at Treasure Island, the NRC noted a violation on the storage and leak checking of radioactive foils made of radioactive Tritium and radioactive Nickle.63 They range from 15 to 6,000 millicuries of radiation.

The 6000 millicuries is 6 Curies of Radiation and was used in the Sentex Sensing Technology, Inc. Model 50319 Detector Cell with each foil measuring 150 millicuries of radiation but the device used 40 of them.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission noted many violations on Treasure island. In this case it was violation from 6/23/1987 which was for not leak checking the radiation in these devices and receiving radioactive foils that were not meant to be shipped to them. The ATF had two labs, one in Rockville MD and the other at Treasure Island.

Note that this license was being evaluated while the Navy was writing the 1988 Radiological Survey report for the EPA. No mention of the long term radioactive materials. Nickel63 has a half life of 100.1 years while Tritium has a half life of 12.3 years.

So 150 millicuries of radiation is equivalent to these amounts:

AmountSymbolName
0.150Ci/gcuries per gram
150mCi/gmillicuries per gram
150,000µCi/g microcuries per gram
150,000,000nCi/gnanocuries per gram
150,000,000,000pCi/gpicocuries per gram
The safe level of radiation for the cleanup is 1.69 pCi/g

The Navy underrated the level of contamination in 2013 saying it was safe leaving it there to contaminate the residents when later on they found it exceeded the safe levels of radiation.

So there are four issues here that affects both lists of radiological objects found, and remember this is just two reports, there are more reports of objects found that have to be added to the total amount of radiation on the island:

1. They found radiation in 2013 and did not dig it up until now thus exposing the residents to radiation for years and that exposure is at least 90 REMS per year, a nuclear accident.
2. The Navy admits that they goofed up when they first measured the radiation in 2013, reporting it far less than what it actually is today, so that puts into question the amounts of radiation of all radiation readings on the island.
3. The levels of radiation exceed the safe levels of 100 mrems per year and 2 mrems per hour making the site a nuclear disaster site.
4. These radioactive objects were found buried with bombs and ammunition so if a bomb blows up, the radiation gets spread over a large area in the wind.

The City needs to evacuate these people immediately and stop all construction on the island, because to place people to live there is murder.

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Rear Admiral Montoya’s false claim The Navy had No Nuclear Accidents in Testimony before Congress

Congressional Testimony Battlegroup-cruiser Destroyer Group Homeporting, San Francisco Bay 1987 testimony with Letter to Barbara Boxer admitted to Hearing.

I will show the testimony and then list the nuclear accidents below. I will fill in the references over time as the amount of material is quite extensive.

Rear Admiral Montoya’s testimony

Comment F-4.1 “Regarding your concerns relative to a nuclear weapon incident, all U.S. Navy nuclear weapons are designed with multiple safety features. They are subject to rigorous analyses and testing to ensure weapon integrity even in the event of an accident. Built-in safety features are enhanced by strict administrative, safety and security procedures and controls, as well as the use of trained personnel who are subject to stringent reliability screening.

“The design and operating procedures for nuclear weapon systems are reviewed and approved by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to ensure they comply with U.S. nuclear weapon system safety standards. Periodic audits are conducted by independent Department of Defense and U.S. Navy oversight organizations to verify compliance with safety standards. In view of the multiple safety measures taken for U.S. Navy nuclear weapons, it is not credible that a nuclear weapon will explode accidentally due to a nuclear chain reaction.

“In over 30 years of deploying U.S. Navy nuclear weapons, there has never been an accident involving a nuclear weapon which resulted in a nuclear explosion, nor has a nuclear weapon incident ever occurred which resulted in any nuclear hazard to the public, civilian property or the environment.” SOURCE: Letter to Barbara Boxer from Rear Admiral B. F. Montoya, U.S. Navy, 15 April 1987. IV.3

NAVY NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS AND INTENTIONAL CONTAMINATION

Broken Arrow incidents where the Navy lost nuclear weapons

A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft Carrying Hydrogen bomb fell off of the U.S.S. Ticonderoga Air Craft Carrier into the Pacific Ocean off of Japan December 5, 1965 when the Captain of the ship decided to turn the ship sharply while they were raising the airplane on the elevator, so it fell off the ship and sank 500 miles off the Japanese Coast.

Lost nuclear submarines

U.S.S. Scorpion Nuclear Submarine Sank in 1968
U.S.S. Thresher April 10, 1963
U.S.S. Guardfish radioactive resin accident 1975
U.S.S. Puffer Submarine radioactive water spill at Puget Sound
U.S.S. Proteus (submarine tender) leak of radioactive water at 100 mrems per hour. 100 Mrems is the total safe dose for a civilian in a Year!

Navy Nuclear Reactor Melt downs and tests of nuclear materials

The Seabees nuked Antarctica, they built the nuclear reactor at McMurdo that melted down and exploded
The US NAVY’s Post Graduate School at Monterey the nuclear reactor melted down but did not explode.

Portable nuclear power reactors

The USNRDL exposed fuel rods to neutron and gamma radiation with seawater at depth. The Navy’s SNAP Reactor tests at Hunters Point Shipyard after the Santa Susana nuclear disasters to create a portable nuclear reactor that will withstand sea water at depth and to be used in Spacecraft and other purposes. The program is similar to the Army’s ML-1 Reactor which was also a portable nuclear reactor that could be placed on a truck or an airplane and put into operation immediately to power a whole base. The component Parts of these portable reactors were made all over the Bay Area with reactors that today reside in housing developments.

Nuclear Weapons Tests

The Nuclear Tests in the Pacific which irradiated vast areas causing complete collapse of natural areas and subjecting thousands of people to nuclear radiation at the local level and of course background radiation throughout the world.

The Navy cleaned ships used in Nuclear Tests and thus dumped Plutonium, and other Radioisotopes directly into the Bays of the Bases at San Francisco, San Diego, Port Humene, Pearl Harbor, Mare Island, the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at Hunters Point, Bremerton and Puget Sound, Guam and the Marianas, thus getting into the food chain directly.

The USNRDL, US Navy’s Radiological Defense Laboratory at Hunters Point Shipyard

USNRDL US Navy’s Radiological Defense Laboratory conducted Radiological Experiments throughout the Bay Area including San Francisco, San Bruno, Treasure Island, Mare Island, Pittsburg, Dublin in the Bay Area and at Port Huemene, The Farallon Islands, The Channel Islands, the Pacific Proving Grounds, and they exploded a hydrogen bomb 500 miles off the coast of San Diego, it was an underwater explosion.

The USNRDL also conducted Radiation Shielding experiments on ships in the southern most point of the shipyard which included acquiring neutron radiation sources to bombard the ship components with radiation. At first the neutron device was in the actual USNRDL lab but its neutron radiation (it was rated at 10 billion Rads per second) conflicted with the other experiments even with the protection and so they dedicated a building for it near the largest drydock and controlled that device from another building to save people’s lives.

See my Chronology Page for details on these subjects.

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Navy denial of radiation on Treasure Island – the paper trail of the lie

The Navy has denied that any radiological activity took place on Treasure Island even when they have found 60 Rems per year of Radium from the top 10 inches of soil under the public housing on the site and just recently in May 2021 they found another 30 REMS per year of nuclear radiation under the public housing on the site. They originally made these claims while the Radiological School was still in operation on the Island, so there is no excuse, THEY LIED and the politicians have used this lie to perpetrate a fraud on the people of San Francisco, leaving them holding the bag for the cleanup.!

BASEWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE SURVEY REPORT FOR
NAVAL STATION TREASURE ISLAND
CONTRACT N62474-92-D-3607
DELIVERY ORDER (0005)
Prepared For:
Engineering Field Activity West
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
San Bruno, California
May 19, 1995

BASEWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE SURVEY REPORT FOR
NAVAL STATION TREASURE ISLAND

Parcel Identification Map page 17 of 69 in PDF file

This report resides in multiple PDF files on the Envirostor Database and so there will be many links and it is the denial that was used to whitewash the 1995 report to deny any radiological activity but in the fine print it says the direct opposite, citing dumping of radioactive waste on the site where two examples are listed below and other references to the radiation can be found using a simple search of the documents.

The Paper Trail – the following is a list of people and their correspondence who made the false statement in the report that here was no radioactive materials buried on the island.

Page 2-9 is on PDF file page 55 of 69

“Radioactive Materials/Mixed Wastes. File information was reviewed to identify parcels where radioactive materials/mixed wastes were stored and the period of time they were stored. EFA WEST also provided information to ERM-West regarding radiological activities for all of the parcels on Treasure and Yerba Buena Islands. This information was obtained through the Naval Sea Systems Command Detachment, Radiological Affairs Support Office (RASO). A description of the material was included in the database.”

Page 4-8 p 26 of 35 in this PDF file

This is the letter that DTSC uses to claim no radiation at the site. This paragraph is in reference to a chart of each building and areas defined in the map (above) found at the beginning of the document that broke up Treasure Island into 120 separate areas and another 26 on YBI and this chart has no indication of radiation, no checkmarks in the radiation tab for each site. Why would they have it as an item if there are no checkmarks on it anywhere unless the report was censored?

There are other references to the USS Pandemonium and radiological training on Treasure Island in this overall baseline report. Again I want to emphasize that the reports conclusions do not match up with the content in the document.

Note T102 is the location of the first USS Pandemonium where they lost the Radium Needles and Radium materials (see below)

“Radioactive Materials/Mixed Wastes.  A check mark indicates that radioactive materials or mixed wastes are currently or were formerly used, stored, or disposed of on the parcel. This condition may preclude a parcel from being considered for CERFA-eligibility. Radiological issues were of particular concern to regulatory agencies for BRAC classification. Therefore, in addition to the review of on-site records, EFA WEST requested that RASO search for information on known and potential uses of radioactive materials at the base. RASO concurrence is required prior to nomination for CERFA, for lease, or for transfer. In a March 8, 1995, letter from Lt. Commander Heron of EFA WEST, to Mr. David Wang of DTSC, RASO concluded that there is no potential for residual contamination at NAVSTA TI (NSTI) as a result of licensed activities and no radioactive materials were disposed of on site. This conclusion from RASO applies to all parcels at NSTI and is documented in the results and bibliographic reference databases (Appendices A and B, respectively).”

NAVSTA TREASURE ISLAND LIST OF REFERENCES

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2011 Nuclear Radiation Maps of Treasure Island Housing made by the Navy

Citation: TREASURE ISLAND, SITE 12 GAMMA SURVEY REPORT SURVEY DATES: APRIL 5-7, 2011

In 2011 the Navy conducted a radiological survey and found Radium, Thorium, Uranium, Radioactive Potassium and Radioactive Thallium under the housing at Treasure Island by driving a towed array of radiation detectors over the streets and yards producing a map of radiation for the Housing on Site 12 at Treasure Island Naval Base. This article will show many of the maps created of the Radiation at the housing on Treasure Island.

The materials were not cleaned up at the time, but these isotopes give off radiation at certain frequencies and by reading these frequencies we can know what types of materials are giving off the gamma and X rays of these specific isotopes. The Chart below shows the different frequencies and their corresponding isotopes listed across the top. This is gamma radiation. Alpha and Beta radiation require laboratory work to confirm their presence. So you would not be able to detect Plutonium in this study, which was used in the Radiation Training at Treasure Island.

The radiation was centered on the area of the island where the Navy conducted the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Training using mock ups of a ship, the USS Pandemonium, an airplane, and a field gun. Eventually the Navy would collect Radium objects that were in the first 10 inches of soil and place them in boxes to be sorted out later in 2018.

In response to the increase in radiation, the Navy extended the chain link fences in order to protect the residents from what turned out to be a nuclear disaster. See Survey Findings below.

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ALL NAVY PERSONNEL Exposed to Radium for EYE TESTS 1944-1951

The Navy wanted to test for night vision, so they used a device called the Radium Plaque Adaptometer that used a slab of radium as the light source and exposed all Navy Personnel to this device directed at their eyes and head every 6 months from 1944 to 1951. It was placed 5 feet from their heads and they were to stare at the radiological object to conduct the test. they also were exposed by sitting in the room awaiting their turns to take the test. The Army continued to use this thing in the 1970s.

The device was issued to all ships and all bases and all Naval Hospitals and they were built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard so that area which is currently being developed for real estate was a radium manufacturing facility for the entire Navy.

Treasure Island got 10 of them in 1944 as shown in the orders below. 59.4 Rems/yr. of Radium waste were found on Treasure Island in 2018 exposing the people living on site 12 to deadly levels of radiation since the early 1960s. And to this day the city of San Francisco refuses to evacuate the people!

In 2014 the NAVY denied that this device was used on Treasure Island:

Final
Historical Radiological Assessment –
Supplemental Technical Memorandum
Naval Station Treasure Island
San Francisco, California
July 1, 2014.
p. 6

They purposely exposed all Navy Personnel worldwide on every ship, every base, every hospital to this device aimed at the eyes and head from 1944 to 1951 . Here are the orders that assigned 10 of them to TI in 1944 and removed them in 1951:

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015072851952

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Censored SF Board of Supervisors Meeting official transcript censored


The transcript is provided below. Link to the video of the meeting
The proceedings of the February 8th 2021 San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee Hearing on the Treasure Island Cleanup was censored by someone in the City of San Francisco’s Government to remove sources, change the dialogue to make content appear to be the opposite of what was intended. They censored Board of Supervisors: Myrna Melgar, Matt Haney, Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston.

My testimony on the cancer and mutations of wildlife in the Bay was censored in this hearing. They removed my sources, including the Sausalito Marine Mammal Center and they added content that was not there. I want the person who did this to face the consequences of this crime!

I archived the city transcript. http://archive.today/ESWk0

The question I have is how long have they been doing this and how can we trust the public record if they are censoring it!

I took the hearing transcript made by Investigative Reporter Carol Harvey of The San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper which she confirmed the testimony with the parties that spoke as it was a 4 hour hearing and I compared it to the transcript the city published and it doesn’t match up. The city transcript does not match the video.

The deleted content will be strikethroughs and the added content by the censor will be in blue with square brackets around that text []. There is a lot of bad spelling in the censored transcript and content was added to change sentence structure and so when all of a sudden the censor decided to start a new narrative other than the one presented in the actual hearing, I noted the words changed, so if you see for example “word [Word]” the censor decided to start a new sentence where there was none. The background white text is the transcript by Carol Harvey of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper.

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TI – C-Span Video showing radiation training using Geiger counters at Treasure Island Navy Base JANUARY 30, 1991

https://www.c-span.org/video/?16122-1/tour-naval-station-treasure-island#
This video shows the chemical, Biological and Radiological training that sailors were learning in preparation for the first Gulf War.

Time Stamps of particular training:

4:20 Captain in charge of base: chemical warfare   gas chamber with tear gas

09:33 Commanding officer USS Excel, Minesweeper finding and catching mines.

12:00 mine hunting in south bay area or just outside the golden gate

18:17 NTTC inside the USS Buttercup Alan Larson who heads the NTTC
At 28:16 which is the beginning of the actual drill they are checking for radiological damage notice the yellow box with the wand.

29:23: white smoke no flame

29:52: Radiological damage

49:53: Gas Chamber CS Gas looks like the lower floor of the pandemonium II is the gas chamber

56:28: Pandemonium II explaining the gas chamber test in front of USS Pandemonium II . Note the first USS Pandemonium was located under the current housing and was the site of chemical, biological and radiological training including the use of Mustard Gas training on the site https://treasureislandcalifornia.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/ti-map-uss-pandemonium-1-under-present-day-housing-at-treasure-island-atomic-biological-and-chemical-warfare-training-site/

The Navy moved the ship to the northeast side of the island and used it for gas training after offensive use of Chemical and Biological weapons were outlawed. But it is exactly the same ship

57:43: Fire fighting  left to right Boiler Room Simulator, Engine Room simulator, and foc’sle simulator which is the forecastle the front of a ship simulator

Note: the minesweeper was also featured in this film from 1950 where they are spraying a biological disease into the air in order to determine how far and how effective their methods are in using biological warfare offensively. Same minesweeper used in the training in 1991 as in 1950 https://treasureislandcalifornia.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/ti-film-1951-the-navy-purposely-contaminating-san-francisco-with-a-biological-disease-to-prove-it-can-happen/

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TI-The Smoking Gun – Chemical Warfare test at Treasure Island Navy evaluates methods use to clean up Mustard Gas

“Field Decontamination Studies with Chemical Warfare Decontaminating Solution DS2,” G. H. FIELDING Protective Chemistry Branch Chemistry Division, NRL Report 6191,U.S. NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY Washington, D.C.

In 1964, the Navy decided to test its new cleaning agent DS2 to compare it to “DANC” which was used in all Navy Bases as a cleaner ashore. Treasure Island Damage Control school was chosen at the site because they regularly train in radiological, chemical and biological decontamination on two week intervals since 1948. Up until 1970 the decontamination area was located on the northwest corner of the island which contained a mock up of a ship (the first USS Pandemonium), a mock up of an airplane, and a 5 inch gun which was used for general training and for decontamination. In 1970 they tore down the first USS Pandemonium and built housing over the site and rebuilt it to the Northeastern side of the Island. The fire fighting school which was a separate location and was also replaced to be further to the north east of the island in 1988.

Also it should be noted that Treasure Island was designed to train instructors in how to conduct training on their ships and bases so the contamination must be checked for every military base in the world. https://treasureislandcalifornia.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/ti-graduates-of-abc-school-went-on-to-train-their-shipmates-uss-macon/ Here is a map of their facilities including the CHEMICAL WARFARE SCHOOL – Building 269

1951 TI-ATOMIC AND CHEMICAL TRAINING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA 1951 https://treasureislandcalifornia.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/ti-atomic-and-chemical-training-in-the-san-francisco-area-1951/

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TI-1952- Chemical Warfare Defense course and manual, Treasure Island CA update

Chemical Warfare Defense
Civil Engineer Corps, United States Navy Tp-PL-3
Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department of the Navy Washington, D. C. 1 January 1952
p. 12 and p. 6 below

Chemical Warfare Defense
Civil Engineer Corps, United States Navy Tp-PL-3
Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department of the Navy Washington, D. C. 1 January 1952
p. 6

B3.02 Training Courses
A three-week chemical warfare course is conducted at the Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama, (formerly located at the Chemical Center, Maryland) and at the U.S. Damage Control Training Center, Treasure Island, California. Details on courses are given in NavPers 15795 List of Naval Schools and Courses. These courses are designed for key personnel of the defense organization to prepare them to conduct necessary training of station personnel. A proposed course for personnel to be assigned to decontamination operations is outlined in Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-40, “Defense Against Chemical Attack”

Agents used

FM 21-40 Defense Against Chemical Attack 1940 by United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service Page 6

Mustard
Nitrogen Mustard

Blister Agents
Lewisite
Ethyldichlorarsine
Methyldichlorasine
Phenyldichlorasine
Mixed Blister Gases

Choking Agents
Phosgene
Diphosgene
Chloropicrin

Systemic Agents
Hydrocyanic Acid
Cyanogen Chloride
Arsine

Nerve Agents
G Gas

Vomiting Agents
Adamsite
Diphenylchloroarsine
Diphenylocyanarsine

Tear Agents
Chloroacetophenone
Chloroacetophenone (solution3)
Chloroacetophenone (training solution 4)
Brombenzyloyanids

Screening Smokes
Hexachlorethane Mixture
Sulfur Trioxids in chlor-sulfonic acid
Titanium tetrachloride
White phosphorus

Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-40, “Defense Against Chemical Attack” 1940
Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-40, “Defense Against Chemical Attack” 1940

Describes the actions of live training for chemical attack by using glass containers of chemical agents in trenches wired to explode so the glass does not injure personnel but the chemical agent is sent into the atmosphere to be carried by the wind and the methods for training personnel to diagnose the type of chemical agent and how to deal with it.

Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-40, “Defense Against Chemical Attack” 1940
SECTION IX, TRAINING IN DEFENSE AGAINST CHEMICAL ATTACK, Sections 59-68, pages 96-113

Senator Josh Hawkins – Uranium storage upstream from contaminated Jana elementary School

Senator Josh Hawkins of Missouri in a hearing in early 2023 noted the contamination of Jana Elementary School at 405 Jana Dr, Florissant, MO 63031 which is directly downstream from a Uraniumwaste storage location near St Louis Airport that was the MALLINCKRODT NUCLEAR CORP Nuclear waste dump site. Mallinckrodt operated a uranium processing plant in Downtown St Louis, on the riverand everyone in that city would have been contaminated from that site.

Note this is one of over 6000 sites that existed (154 in Missouri) and most were closed down when the radiation standards for safety for civilians was put into effect on Jan 31 1961. Before that date, there were no standards for civilians and the safe level of exposure of a nuclear worker was 1.5 REM per week, 0.3 rem per week for organ exposure while today the safe level for civilians is 0.1 REM per year! During World War II it was twice that!

The Mallinckrodt nuclear waste facility was offered for sale by the Atomic Energy Commission on March 7 1962 and this document includes the notice and the sealed bids, I will provide the notice below.

This document indicates that the roads to this facility were made of the Uranium residues of the Uranium Processing plant in downtown St. Louis. Those roads and buried nuclear waste are probably still there! If there ever was a flood, and there were many, this nuclear waste would have contaminated everyone in the flood plain and hence why the school is contaminated and the stream Coldwater Creek is irradiated.

This posting is not about the Navy’s chemical Weapons training facility at Treasure Island Navy Base where the city of San Francisco placed low income housing on the site in violation of Federal Law and the people hav edied, and are dying because of the base was used in chemical, biological and radiological weapons training using live chemical weapons from 1947-1970, a joint base that the Navy forgot to include in the declarations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty and the US will be in violation when the treaty deadline is Dec 31 2023.

No this is just another atrocity!

NAVY violated DOD regulations, CFR and the Chemical Warfare Convention making it Illegal to transfer to SF

This map shows the valley of Coldwater Creek, from the airport (the uranium waste facility was to the direct north of the airport) to Jana elementary School to the Missouri River.

This document details an atrocity.

DESCRIPTION OF RESIDUES

They used Nuclear waste for Roadways, they are probably still there.

Note “Some of the existing roadways are constructed on residues offered for sale:

I thought this would be helpful in getting congressional oversight to the Treasure Island cause by providing the materials here. Note the original document is extremely overexposed so you cannot see the content clearly. I had to darken all images and hence this long post. Whenever the government over-exposes a document they have something to hide and storing nuclear waste upstream from an elementary school is why it is over exposed. Note that if there ever was a flood at this location then yeah it has happened, the radiation would have been spread all over the city.
Original document at NRC website:
“Accepts 620409 bid to purchase & remove govt-owned site. Notice to proceed w/removal of residues will be issued when license obtained. Invitation AT-(23-2)-46 encl.”

Instructions for Using Gas Indentification Sets 1941

CWS Pamphlet No. 4, Instructions for Using Gas Identification Sets showing the detonators on the vials for outdoor training. Presented here is the Text and then the screen shots of each page

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING
GAS IDENTIFICATION SETS

(This pamphlet supersedes pamphlet No. 4, April, 1940)
SECTION I – Description of sets – 1-3
II – Instructions for use – 4-7
III – Suggested schedule of instruction – 8-10

SECTION I DESCRIPTION OF SETS

General – 1
Set, gas identification, instructional, M1 – 2
Set, gas identification, detonation, M1 – 3

  • 1. GENERAL. –
    • a. Two types of gas identification sets are manufactured and issued by the Chemical Warfare Service. The set, gas identification, instructional, MI, consists of seven glass bottles. Four are filled with approximately 50 cubic centimeters (3 .7 cubic inches) of granular activated charcoal saturated with a chemical agent. Three contain solids without charcoal. This set is commonly known as the “sniff” set. It is intended for use indoors in instructing military personnel in recognizing the odors of chemical agents.
    • b. The set, gas identification, detonation, MI, contains forty-eight 1 -ounce tubes filled with liquid chemical agents. It is designed for use outdoors in instructing military forces in the field to identify chemical agents by odor and other immediate effects.
  • 2. SET, GAS IDENTIFICATION, INSTRUCTIONAL, M1. –
    • a. This set consists of seven 4-ounce wide-mouth glass bottles, including two bottles containing charcoal saturated with mustard (HS); one each containing charcoal saturated with chlorpicrin (PS) and lewisite (M-l); one each containing adamsite (DM) and chloracetophenone (CN) as solids; and one containing simulated phosgene (CG) (solid triphosgene, which upon contact with the air decomposes, giving off pure phosgene).
    • b. The charcoal used in these bottles is standard gas mask type activated charcoal which has been thoroughly dried. Enough chemical agent is added to saturate the dry charcoal.
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Gas Identification Sets US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 1945

Department of the Navy. 1945. Ordnance Pamphlet, OP 1447, Gas Identification Sets. Department of the Navy details how to use Chemical Weapons in training. This is for the instructors to use, to detonate the chemical ordnance for the students to use identification sets to diagnose the Chemical Weapon and then clean it up. These are the chemical weapons used on all military bases for training with Treasaure Island as the base that trains the instructors to use all of this equipment.

The latest version of this document which lists all chemical weapons since World War I and the CAIS Chemical Agent Identification Sets used by all military forces including the Navy. U.S. Chemical Weapons and Related Materiel Reference Guide FINAL January 2022

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Chemical Weapons unsafe distances at Treasure Island

NAVDocks P-90 Ammunition Storage February 1962 pp 420-1 – Treasure Island violated Navy regulations on safe distances for the storage of all weapons and especially for chemical weapons which are listed here for all Navy Bases. When the City of San Francisco placed civilians and commercial interests on the base the Navy violated distance regulations for ammunition as shown here. The Safe distance from civilians not on the base is 1275 feet according to the chart on page 42-17 Table 42-8E

This also means that there is an unknown bunker for chemical munitions that must be a specified distance from the ammunitons bunkers found under the housing. This unknown bunker has not been found. The use of Mustard Gas on Treasure Island would have required this bunker to exist.

This is further evidence of Chemical Weapons facilities throughout the Navy have not been declared in the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty.