"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.
Nothing says "divine" quite like a mushrooming blast of radioactive smoke.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of the great Eric Cartman...
ReplyDelete"Screw you, hippies!"
Test away, I say. It's all legal. :-)
KABOOM!
Paul
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.
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