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Post by CGisNuts on Dec 20, 2013 18:51:50 GMT
The Hood shot (shot is what they call a detonation) was the largest device ever tested within the continental united states. It went against the law of no thermonuclear (hydrogen bomb) allowed to be tested within the 48 states.
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Post by Eleanor Rigby on Dec 21, 2013 16:55:12 GMT
I watched the 1988 documentary "Radio Bikini" last night. It is deplorable to me how many times those soldiers were lied to. John Smitherman was a Navy Seaman present at the dropping of the atom bomb on Bikini Atoll and the things he suffered were horrific. They also caged up some sheep at the drop site to see the effects it had on them, most of them I believe died but, one they showed was still alive. It had blisters on the inside of it's ears and it's skin was charred black. The poor little thing was grazing on hay as they were examining it and from the looks of the poor thing it couldn't have lived much longer.
How could they not know what would happen? If they had no idea of the devastation it would cause then why did they take any precautions at all? I do not trust the US government and never will. I know certain things have to be done and kept secret for our safety but much of what the government does is just jockey for position and power to laud over everyone else. They say it is for us but it's only to benefit themselves.
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Post by CGisNuts on Dec 21, 2013 17:55:15 GMT
Yeah I saw that.
Netflix?
Check out "Trinity and beyond", and "Secrets of the Dead, Worlds Biggest Bomb", 2 other great films.
Most scientists, officials and doctors did know, but they were driven out of fear of Communism and the power they had. And also the military industrial complex which drove that whole time period.
I have read one story of soldiers who say they saw prisoners in chain linked fence near ground zero which of course the government lied about.
In the same area of the animals you saw, so they'd see and feel the bomb up close, and their dead bodies used to measure results.
The gov also tested radiation on prisoners and did so much more horrible stuff.
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Post by Eleanor Rigby on Dec 22, 2013 0:48:14 GMT
Yep, Netflix lol. I have seen the other two titles pop up and I will eventually watch them. I can take only so much of that stuff before it wears me down emotionally.
I understand the fear having been born and raised in the last half of the Cold War and I know certain actions had to be performed but that doesn't make it any easier for me to accept. In many ways we still have that mindset.
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