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Posted: 13 Jun 2013

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 slgwv
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Sort of--my dad (on the right) worked at the Nevada Test Site for over 30 years and participated in most of the tests there during that time. The fellow on the left is one of his coworkers who now works as a volunteer at the museum.
When I was a small child back in the 50s, I saw a couple mushroom clouds. Watching the above-ground tests was a popular activity among Las Vegas residents!
11 years ago.
 slgwv
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Well, they have a number of oral history interviews with the (by now) old men who worked on these projects. One commented that the number of people who've actually _seen_ a nuclear detonation is dwindling every year, and he worried that a new generation of politicians might find nuclear weapons more "thinkable" once living memory is lost and they've faded back into the abstract.

Maybe we should make all world leaders watch a nuclear detonation, say once a year. The additional fallout may be worth the trade-off!
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