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Topic: The Conqueror - A Sad Tale
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Paul Adsett
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Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 17, 2014 01:54 PM
It is amazing, in retrospect, the cavalier attitude that the US Government had in the 1950's towards nuclear testing. Not only did radioactive waste snow down on the crew of The Conqueror but also on a number of towns in Utah. Of course everybody was assured that it was all perfectly safe. And then you look at the Hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific, with a whole 3 mile wide island being vapourized and ash deposited hundreds of miles away on Japanese fisherman. And who can forget the Nevada test where they set off an A-bomb and immediately marched soldiers to ground zero! Of course the Russians were no slouches either - remember they set off the biggest bomb ever, 100 megatons, up there in the arctic, and threatened the west with a much bigger doomsday Cobalt bomb which, thank God, they never tested. Very scary stuff, and God only knows how we survived it all.
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