HERMANITY PRESS COMMITTEE · DOSSIER NX-7 · LIVE ARCHIVE
Decades of suppressed evidence — until now.
For nearly two hundred years, the Smithsonian has refused to release the photographs. The Church has declined to comment. Three graduate students who got too close have not been seen at a faculty meeting since 2019.
Until yesterday — when a pallet of long-forgotten ledgers was found beneath a Nauvoo temple cornerstone, and the world changed again.
Photographs, ledgers, depositions, geiger logs, and one unfinished thesis.
From the 1823 first anomaly through the 2026 cornerstone recovery.
Witnesses, silencers, and the four people who tried to publish.
Three daguerreotypes from a Nauvoo photographer's unmarked studio, dated July 1844, depicting a mushroom-shaped cloud rising above Carthage.
→ READThe single most consequential page of nineteenth-century American accounting: a six-line entry that nobody has ever been able to explain away.
→ READThe 38-page sworn testimony of the Carthage city marshal, taken six days after the events of June 27, 1844 — and quietly sealed until 1978.
→ READA previously untranslated Catawba ledger entry, dated 1843, describing an object that fell into the Mississippi near Keokuk and the men who retrieved it.
→ READField measurements from a 1971 U.S. Geological Survey expedition, suppressed for forty years, showing sustained anomalous radiation across three Salt Lake Valley sites.
→ READA 1986 chemistry thesis, completed by a Brigham Young University graduate student and never publicly defended, on the unusual isotopic composition of seer-stone fragments.
→ READA 2014 forensic chemistry memo claiming the iron-gall ink on Ledger page 47 matches a batch mixed after 1845 — two years after the page claims to have been written.
→ READA 1963 construction core sample from the temple foundation, later found to contain a thin layer of sintered silica glass consistent with a localized high-temperature event.
→ READ"The seer stones, when properly stacked, produced a critical mass that could not be denied. Brigham saw it. He simply chose not to write it down."— Testimony attributed to Oliver Cowdery, manuscript page 47 (unpublished)
A field note on register, probability weights, and why the Files refuse to wink.
→ READWhy the committee refuses the cartoon villain model of coverups.
→ READA living list of unresolved problems. Updated when we learn something; never deleted when we don't.
→ READDisclaimer. This is a work of satire. Joseph Smith did not have nuclear weapons. See the FAQ for the full editorial position. The institutional critique is sincere; the mushroom cloud over Carthage is not.
The archive is open. Start with the evidence locker, walk the chronology, or read the personnel files. For editorial posture and the satire disclaimer, see the FAQ.