insane

... and their balls only got bigger in years to come. Maybe more numerous as well.

In Las Vegas, casinos used to host atom bomb parties for patrons to watch from the Strip.

Also, I wonder if the guy smoking the cigar knows how dangerous smoking is.

From Wiki. Plumbbob was a series of tests; this vid documents one of them. The only hard numbers about actual human disease rates in the Wiki entry needs a citation:

Plumbbob released 58,300 kilocuries (2.16 EBq) of radioiodine (I-131) into the atmosphere. This produced total civilian radiation exposures amounting to 120 million person-rads of thyroid tissue exposure (about 32% of all exposure due to continental nuclear tests).

Statistically speaking, this level of exposure would be expected to eventually cause between 11,000 and 212,000 excess cases of thyroid cancer, leading to between 1,000 and 20,000 deaths.[3]

In addition to civilian exposure, troop exercises conducted near the ground near shot "Smoky" exposed over three thousand servicemen to relatively high levels of radiation. A survey of these servicemen in 1980 found significantly elevated rates of leukemia: ten cases, instead of the baseline expected four.[citation needed]

*vintage

Adding video to channels (Vintage) - requested by lurgee.

Man, just imagine the fallout that fell on them. Scary... urgh.

Retrospective *eia

Invocations (eia) cannot be called by raverman because raverman is not privileged - sorry.

Air to air???

>> ^WaterDweller:

Air to air???


Yeah, a missile meant to shoot from one airborne object to another. So one aeroplane to another. OR, as in this case, fired from in air and detonated in air.

As compared to air to ground or ground to air weapons.

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^WaterDweller:
Air to air???

Yeah, a missile meant to shoot from one airborne object to another. So one aeroplane to another. OR, as in this case, fired from in air and detonated in air.
As compared to air to ground or ground to air weapons.


You mean, like, there were flying cities they had to shoot down?

Precisely.

>> ^WaterDweller:

>> ^spoco2:
>> ^WaterDweller:
Air to air???

Yeah, a missile meant to shoot from one airborne object to another. So one aeroplane to another. OR, as in this case, fired from in air and detonated in air.
As compared to air to ground or ground to air weapons.

You mean, like, there were flying cities they had to shoot down?

^ which explains why we don't have flying cities anymore

My eyes! The goggles do nothing!