When I say it wasn't mentioned, I meant in later interviews and also during that conference. This is strange seeing as it is what is preventing space flight today. The radiation in the belts is so intense it can't even be measured by geiger counters but we're supposed to believe that the metal of the command module was sufficiently thick enough to shield the astronauts inside - I'm sorry but it's patently ridiculous. You would need 10 inches of steel to protect yourself from that amount of radiation and the walls of the command module were only an inch thick in places. And they were in the belts for long enough to get wet, that is for sure.
Where are you getting this knowledge you have of the existence of the VAB, its intensity, 10 inches of steel shielding is required, etc?
I'm just making it up as I go along.
Good to know.
Just joshing. The information regarding the geiger measuring of radiation in the belts is recorded knowledge which I can fish out for you if you need it. The amount of steel you'd need to shield you from excessive amounts of radiation such as in a nuclear incident is to be found in the 'NATO Handbook On The Medical Aspects Of NBC Defensive Operations'. The thickness of the command module steel is also documented but I'm hoping you're not going to want me to go looking for it for you.
First off, work on your quoting. I kinda fixed it for you, it's a mess.
Secondly, you are making it up as you go along.
Thirdly, you say, "The radiation in the belts is so intense it can't even be measured by geiger counters..." Well it was, NASA's Explorer I had a Geiger counter at Van Allen's request and it recorded something they didn't expect, a lot of radiation we didn't know was there. In other words, it was measured, that's how they knew it was there. You're statement is completely illogical.
As well, as AATW pointed out, what's with even bringing up the VAB's when it's creepy NASA that supposedly discovered them, with a rocket no less, 900 miles above Earth? Isn't NASA not at all to be trusted in your eyes? It's always funny when conspiracists say that NASA is just a bunch of lies, but then cherrypick something and say, "Except for this..."
And as for you somehow divining the amount of VAB radiation, though you claim it can't be measured, and somehow applying info from the 'NATO Handbook On The Medical Aspects Of NBC Defensive Operations', found here,
https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm8-9.pdf, to calculate the necessary protective thickness, 10" of steel, needed for the Apollo command module's skin, when there is no mention of anything regarding Apollo in the document. And again, you claim to not know the intensity of the VAB's. Umm, all of which makes little to no sense at.
So no, you're not just joshing. You are actually making it up as you go along.