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Old 08-13-2012, 08:29 AM
 
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^That... is a good idea. I would be up for it for sure.

I still want to take the DOD tour of the trinity test site the have once or twice a year.
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Old 08-13-2012, 08:52 AM
 
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Heck...once a year, Las Vegas should throw an Atomicfest weekend. Maybe even set up an actual test in the desert.

Either every hotel room would sold out that weekend...or else it would be a ghost town.
The Woodstock of Pyrotechnics...

Desert Blast

Back again in 2013!!!
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Old 08-13-2012, 09:20 AM
 
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Desert Blast News Clips - YouTube

desert blast
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Old 08-14-2012, 12:43 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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I remember when the infamous Baneberry test happened. 86 men were exposed, two died withing 4 years of leukemia and the courts said being close to the fissure where radiation was blown into the atmosphere didn't cause it. And later I sold that judge some of my swampland in Florida.

Check out Wiki: During the tour the drove us through 100s of subsidence craters, and we stood on the edge of the Sedan Crater, and got to explore the Icecap Test Tower. Yucca Flat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 08-14-2012, 02:35 PM
 
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I remember, we used to go sit up on the bluffs in St. George to watch the bombs in the desert, it was quite a big event, bringing picnics...kids running around playing, adults laughing and talking.

I don't glow in the dark...yet. No cancer in my family, yet. We used to go to Fredonia, AZ, too.
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Old 09-01-2012, 01:40 AM
 
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I remember, we used to go sit up on the bluffs in St. George to watch the bombs in the desert, it was quite a big event, bringing picnics...kids running around playing, adults laughing and talking.

I don't glow in the dark...yet. No cancer in my family, yet. We used to go to Fredonia, AZ, too.
Ann Coulter swears that radiation is good for you...

"A Glowing Report On Radiation"
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Old 07-27-2013, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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Long time in coming, I just got a hold of the book The Day We Bombed Utah, by John G. Fuller at a thrift store in Salt Lake City. Overwhelmed by curiosities, I read it! One of the scariest books I've ever read!

The AEC already knew of the dangers of fallout from Los Alamos, and yet they continued these tests out here in Mercury, right up until 1970.

More shocking, was the realization there was fallout that spread all the way across the country and up into Canada!

Thank God there were no rainstorms when these tests were performed, as the damages/fatalities would have been even worse!

And to think there's a developer who wants to build a master-planned community/city of 60,000 some 60 miles north on US93 up towards Alamo, in the pathway of the test site! What would you name this community? Glowing Acres?

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