Thursday, March 30, 2006

Pentagon Plans Explosion at Nevada Site





"I don't want to sound glib here, but it's the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," James Tegnelia, director of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, told a small group of reporters.

(Via Boing Boing.)


Oh, this is encouraging.

4 comments:

Mac said...

Nothing says "divine" quite like a mushrooming blast of radioactive smoke.

JohnFen said...

I hope some folks are planning to measure radioactivity downwind after the tests. I wouldn't put it past the War Dept. to pull a sneaky and test one of those fancy new nukes they've been designing.

Paul Kimball said...

In the words of the great Eric Cartman...

"Screw you, hippies!"

Test away, I say. It's all legal. :-)

KABOOM!

Paul

Mac said...

I wouldn't put it past the government to test a nuke with the concealed intention of dosing a city with a little radiation. You know, for the good of science.