Comments on: What the hell were we thinking?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:30:03 +0000

Ever wonder why Cancer rate started climbing in the 60′s and 70′s?

By: jim sadler

jim sadler — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:32:33 +0000

There is a tone in some of these responses that suggests that the US should not have bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That action saved endless American and Japanese lives and was more than justified. Further, demonstrating a willingness to use the atom bomb kept us out of a war with Russia in the months following the end of WWII. It also helped to contain the Korean War as that war would have been much more radical without North Korea and China realising that pushing harder probably meant atomic bombs were going to strike them.
So far the atom and nuclear bombs have been the greatest tools for peace and prevented more suffering than anything else ever has.

By: john

john — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:35:25 +0000

If so many (2053 to be precise) nuclear bombs did go off and considering that earth is a closed system. It is possible that the current global warming crisis can be related to these tests. Well, too bad, nature doesn’t go to nevada to conduct its tests.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:52:32 +0000

Can some one explain how any one could survive in California if these bombings are real? If the area is unsafe from fallout alone until about ten times the half life (about 5.5 years half life for nuclear radiation, means about 55 years that area should be completely diseased if anyone can live there…) then how can ANYONE have lived in California? Is this just how they justify draining tax dollars?

By: ashley

ashley — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:03:46 +0000

America did what it had to do, it is just staying on top of everything you think if we had let our guard down for a second we would have avoid the Cold war? we are luck we caught Russia when they were about to plant missiles in Cuba, and we all know North Korea is waiting for the world to let its guard down.

I can clearly say im proud to be a American.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:18:54 +0000

The past is another country. They do things differently there. (The Go-Between)

And they never ever learn.

By: Paige Brown

Paige Brown — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:40:37 +0000

And all these bombings didn’t go without their effects on our health… millions of girls are missing after radioactive fallout disturbed human birth sex odds – http://blogs.nature.com/from_the_lab_bench/2011/06/12/radiation-and-sex-odds

By: Thopter

Thopter — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:12:06 +0000

I guess in a “hot” war, you blow up your enemies. In a cold war, you blow up yourselves.

By: john

john — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:44:09 +0000

I seriously don’t understand why it was nessseary to test sooo many times, I mean clearly to everyone the a-bomb worked!! so why?

By: Martin Rosales

Martin Rosales — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:55:05 +0000

That just made me sick, it takes disgusting to a hold new level…

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:01:49 +0000

This was beautifully done, and entirely heartbreaking. I just kept thinking, “I will be so disappointed in my country if we break 1000″… And then we did… There toward the end (12:15, onward) I literally teared up, seeing all of the damage we had all wrought on ourselves.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:17:46 +0000

All I can really say is “Wow” that was eye opening to me,

By: Ol Ron

Ol Ron — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:03:36 +0000

In the sixties I was in Europe and carried a Top Secret Clearance during the Cold War, Cuba Missale Crisis, The Building of the Berlin Wall, etc. and I thought the World had gotten dangerous then but now it is time to realize that the biggest danger of Global Warming is not the environment. You can only put so much air in a balloon before it pops. The real danger of Global Warming is the movement of people. India can only produce enough food to feed about 16% of its people. Even the Berlin Wall was built to stop the rush of people into West Germany when the air routes were opened from the Templehoff in Berlin into West Germany which at the time had a very strong economy and so many were crossing the border that it begin to disrupt their way of life. Chinese that are starving are moving across the borders into Russia at the rate of Tens of Thousands and the Russians do not like it. At this very time Russia and China could walk into a Nuclear Exchange against each other. Then there is Pakistan and Afghanistan. Lets not forget Iran and Isreal. The biggest threat is the movement of people and this country usually only complains about the borders with Mexico and what they have done to the Calif Economy. The movement of people from Mexico and Canada into the US is a very small plate as to what is happening in other countries. Not just the US but the whole world is Bankrupt and might survive if and only if the population numbers decrease in very high numbers. I am now 70 years old so have lived from The Great Depression to the New Great Depression. Only this time there will not be just a World War but a Golbal Nuk Exchange. Hunger can cause a Government to fail and is usually the root cause of war. I hope I never have to see it but the day is coming. The baloon will pop.

By: STEVE

STEVE — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:30:06 +0000

We were thinking, let’s not let the USSR be first and turn the entire country into a crater. I think that’s a sufficient excuse.

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By: Frantic

Frantic — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:49:34 +0000

All that testing, and we’re to afraid to lift some into orbit to build Orion. Mankind has the capability to explore our nearest neighbour stars, and we simply don’t.

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By: Andy K.

Andy K. — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:02:45 +0000

Fireflys of the apocalypse

By: David

David — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:11:09 +0000

My father and hundreds or thousands of others died from working in the atom bomb plants, Oak Ridge, TN, Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, NM. Also, check out the book “American Ground Zero” by Carol Gallagher which details the experiences of the people immediately downwind from the Nevada test site. Also know that radioactive falllout coated the entire nation. In Rochester NY a production batch of Kodak film was destroyed when a passing cloud of radioactive material encountered a rainstorm, washing it out onto the ground. Voila, fogged film. In Oak Ridge, TN the radiation alarms sometimes went off in response to fallout drifting over the facility from Nevada. For an easy to read history of our bombs read Richard Rhodes’ books, “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.” Oak Ridge’s facility, Y-12, is currently upgrading components on warheads so that they will last longer in storage. We don’t count those in our weapons inventory even though they could be mounted to a delivery vehicle in a reasonable amount of time. If you want to really be scared look up pictures of the original thermonuclear bombs and compare their size to larger yield units today. Each missile carries a number of MIRV’s, Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles: several thermonukes per missile, each independently targetable. Then look up the effects of a 10 megaton bomb. The government’s recent attempts to reintroduce training for nuclear war is based on WWII bombs of kiloton yield. Thermonukes or hydrogen bombs are of an order so far above those bombs that no reasonable protection for survival is available. If you’re within 40 miles of the drop you’re dead. From 40 to 100 miles you’re pretty sure to die. Beyond that range you’re probably going to experience a lingering death from a variety of causes beginning with nuclear effects and ranging to starvation as society collapses.

By: qed

qed — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:19:28 +0000

Let me see now.

Nuclear weapons do not kill people. People do.

Or how was it, NRA?

By: Me

Me — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:48:45 +0000

It seems as though everyone points at the US dropping the bombs in Japan as though if they had not dropped them everyone would have forgotten the science. I doubt it and someone would have used them since and probably far more devastatingly. The reality is though many died in the Japanese bombs and nukes are fairly indiscriminate non the less, last time I checked history they were the aggressors and the US was not.
I would find it OK if they would morn for all the people they killed and destroyed the lives of the same as they memorialise those who died in Japan during the war.

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:40:29 +0000

So, since when did the USSR exist up until 1997?

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By: kmashr

kmashr — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:49:14 +0000

It is alway the mindless first step that people take. They do not stop and think about the consequences of that first step. Example. Give a man a fast car and he will speed. Despite the fact that speed can kill. The power of the atom was discovered and the logical conclusion as above is how do you use it cause maximum damage. Then everybody wants it since somebody has it. And the result of all this is MAD, remember that?