Galen Winsor

Galen Winsor
Galen Winsor
Born	4 June 1926; Morgan, Morgan Co., Utah
Died	19 July 2008 (82) ; West Richland, Benton Co., Washington
Nationality	American
Religion	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Alma mater	Brigham Young University (1947)
Workplace(s)	General Electric; United Nuclear

Galen Hulet Winsor (June 4, 1926 - July 19, 2008) was an American chemist and nuclear plant safety manager who publicly denounced strict controls on atomic energy. Winsor argued, among other things, that there has been a conspiracy by an energy cartel to misinform the public about the dangers of radioactive materials, which he proposed are largely harmless, extending to include claims that the 1979 partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Pennsylvania did not occur and the event was fabricated to stoke public fears, and that programs for the apparent disposal of radioactive waste are used by criminal elements to dispose of human bodies. A lecture tour during the early 1980s where Winsor spoke on these viewpoints was funded by the American Opinion Speakers Bureau, a committee of the John Birch Society.

During the 1990s, Winsor discussed the possibilities of highly-portable nuclear weapons and their potential applications, including their possible use in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.^[i] Following the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, Winsor appeared as an expert at a news conference held by Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key, where he expressed his opinion the blast was caused by a neutron bomb and that federal authorities, including President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno, would have been aware in advance that the attack would occur.

Selected Filmography

The Nuclear Scare Scam, 1985, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqHTbXm3rs

Reading

Van Broekhoven, Michaël (30 Apr. 2014), The Spectrum of Nuclear News – PART 2: A look at Galen Winsor's 'Nuclear Scare Scam' (+ Video Transcript!), allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com, https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/nuclear-news-spectrum-galen-winsor-nuclear-scare-scam/ — appears offline, no archival copies found

Press Coverage

"Winsor tours for Birch Society", Tri-City Herald (Pasco, WA): 36, 22 May 1984, https://www.newspapers.com/article/tri-city-herald-winsor-tours-for-birch-s/146039503/
"Physicist to Speak Against Undue Nuclear Regulation", Press of Atlantic City (Atlantic City, NJ): 25, 2 Nov. 1984, https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-of-atlantic-city-physicist-to-spea/146039658/
"Health Physicist Talks About Energy Production Monday", Pacifica Tribune (Pacifica, CA): 28, 5 Jun. 1985, https://www.newspapers.com/article/pacifica-tribune-health-physicist-talks/146040158/
"Some scientists claim effects of radon gas improves health", The West Milton Record (West Milton, OH): 4, 19 Oct. 1988, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-west-milton-record-some-scientists-c/146039887/, "This infor[ma]tion confirms a report by Galen Winsor, a nuclear expert who says that warnings on radon is a hoax, that radon is not harmful, and that the current radon scare is a 'scam' to divest the American people of their money[...] radon dangers are the biggest hoax since the swine flu vaccine." — re: Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine in Boulder, Montana
"Oklahoma lawmaker: April 19 blast caused by neutron bomb", The Grand Island Independent (Grand Island, NB): 31, 1 Jul. 1995, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-grand-island-independent-oklahoma-la/146040618/ — re: Winsor's claims that the 1995 OKC Bombing was a neutron bomb, and that both President Clinton and A.G. Janet Reno were aware it would happen in advance.

Notes

↑ In a 23 Mar. 1993 guest appearance on Tom Valentine's Radio Free America, a right-wing shortwave program broadcast from Clearwater, Florida, Winsor cited John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), and in particular Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist, who was credited with the statement that "someone was going to blow up the World Trade Center with a small nuclear device, the size of a stick of gum." Winsor went on to discuss Israeli briefcase bombs and related matters.

References

↑ "Obituary for Galen H. Winsor", Tri-City Herald (Pasco, WA): 14, 22 Jul. 2008, https://www.newspapers.com/article/tri-city-herald-obituary-for-galen-hulet/146115454/, "Galen Hulet Winsor, 82, of West Richland, died July 19 in West Richland. He was born in Utah, and lived in the Tri-City area since 1950. He was a retired chemist for General Electric."
↑ "In memory of GALEN HULET WINSOR (June 4, 1926 to July 19, 2008)", Tri-City Herald (Pasco, WA): 13, 23 Jul. 2008, https://www.newspapers.com/article/tri-city-herald-in-memory-of-galen-hulet/146115799/

[3] In a 23 Mar. 1993 guest appearance on Tom Valentine's Radio Free America, a right-wing shortwave program broadcast from Clearwater, Florida, Winsor cited John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), and in particular Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist, who was credited with the statement that "someone was going to blow up the World Trade Center with a small nuclear device, the size of a stick of gum." Winsor went on to discuss Israeli briefcase bombs and related matters.

[1] "Obituary for Galen H. Winsor", Tri-City Herald (Pasco, WA): 14, 22 Jul. 2008, https://www.newspapers.com/article/tri-city-herald-obituary-for-galen-hulet/146115454/, "Galen Hulet Winsor, 82, of West Richland, died July 19 in West Richland. He was born in Utah, and lived in the Tri-City area since 1950. He was a retired chemist for General Electric."

[2] "In memory of GALEN HULET WINSOR (June 4, 1926 to July 19, 2008)", Tri-City Herald (Pasco, WA): 13, 23 Jul. 2008, https://www.newspapers.com/article/tri-city-herald-in-memory-of-galen-hulet/146115799/

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