Today's the Day

[Menelaus]

Give him a tenner and he might let you

IGMC etc (cab on speed dial)

[RichardCranium]

Considering I'm a "child of the bomb" I knew nothing about the applied civil engineering uses of nuclear devices that have been done, nor of the fallout on USA citizens by the USA.

(I knew about Australia and the Bikini Atoll so at least I'm not completely fick.)

[Menelaus]

Considering I'm a "child of the bomb" I knew nothing about the applied civil engineering uses of nuclear devices that have been done, nor of the fallout on USA citizens by the USA.

(I knew about Australia and the Bikini Atoll so at least I'm not completely fick.)

One of the two dive sites I've yet to dive in the world that I absolutely, definitely must before I shake off this mortal coil is Bikini Atoll.

Some crackin' wrecks there, apparently.

[EternalOptimist]

Ten people, I believe. I've never managed to find out if any of them survived the second bomb. But it's salutary to remember when you think you've had a piece of bad luck, just how bad luck can get.

I am sure one of them was a British POW.

I read his account as a kid but I cant remember too many of the details

[zeitghost]

Here's a nice piece of lunacy...

http://www.archive.org/details/a-bomb_blast_effects

It goes on a bit...

Why anyone in their right mind would have people walking around ground zero that soon afterwards is quite beyond me...

Then again, it really was MAD, in more ways than one...

[Menelaus]

One of they guys I worked with in the 70s had been a POW in Japan... he said he'd been at Nagasaki on the day... dunno if it was true or not though.

When the plant had Japanese visitors, they had to hide him away coz he didn't have much of a regard for them...

That I can understand.