From: "Robert Comer" 

> safety my ass,

Safety, yes, therwise a lot more civilians would have died just from the
radiation.  (probably some did die because of that.)

>they had people standing out in the open with goggles on
> watching the explosions.

Yep.  Our bombs got much bigger after that...

> Get on emule and download a file called "Imax - Trinity And Beyond (The
> Atomic
> Bomb Documentary).avi" if you want to get a real idea of what was going
> on.

I actually have a pretty good idea what went on -- I've seen the
documentaries and I had a relative that worked there.

You're focusing on the first small bombs...

- Bob Comer



"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer" 
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>
>> Think Chernobyl sized problems from a tenth of each bomb and have them go
>> off totally uncontrolled rather than totally controlled experiments which
>> safety was a VERY important consideration.
>
> safety my ass, they had people standing out in the open with goggles on
> watching the explosions.
>
> Get on emule and download a file called "Imax - Trinity And Beyond (The
> Atomic
> Bomb Documentary).avi" if you want to get a real idea of what was going
> on.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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