Re: [Epic] Nukes

From: Chris White <chris_at_...>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:54:13 -0700

At 09:57 AM 8/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 12:53 AM 8/28/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>"Miller, Chris" <CMiller_at_...> has carefully scribed:
>>
>>>-----> Hey, just because their reactors had problems (ex: Chernobyl,
>>>several subs) doesn't mean their bombs are bad ! After all, the bomb
>>>only has to work once...
>>
>>That's what I didn't really understand about nuclear testing. "Yup, that
>>one worked. And that one. That one too. That didn't, so throw it away.
>>Damn, we've run out!"
>
>
>The test were more to see what would happen around the nuclear decive.
>such as an underwater bursts effect on 20 ships, Yes they actually did
>this, They took a whole bunch of retired shipsp from pre WWI and
>denjotated nukesd around them. There is an old 1950's book about it that
>shows some nice pictures, a water mushroom cloud and a battleship, one of
>the old huge buggers. The thing looks like a fly compared to the mushroom
>cloud
        <snip>

        These tests were performed near the Bikini Islands (an atoll, actually).
That is where the name for the wildly popular (at least in my book) bathing
suit style came from: ironic...

        Maybe there was some collective subconscious thing about UV ray poisoning
associated with the naming...


>>
>><emblem of Slaanesh>
>>
>>'Mad Dog' McAlister
>Timothy J. Kilgore
>tkilgore_at_...
>
>I'm an american!
>do you know waht that means?
>it means my forefathers got
>kicked out of every decent country in the world!
>
>
>


Nickles
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 17:54:13 UTC