[lefty-lie-spy]

I love nukes and eat up a I can about the nuke testing era. I had never heard of this particle incident either. The article is sensational though, because it sounds like the safety systems worked as designed. They got banged around a hell of a lot and didn’t detonate. That’s what was supposed to happen.

[Vigilanteman]

FWIW, my father was a USDA Field Agent in SW Utah and eastern Nevada when I was a tot. His job was just to check livestock diseases. They told him all the mysterious sheep deaths which were occurring at the time had nothing to do with the atomic testing.

When he insisted that it was a probable cause, they demoted him to an office job in Denver. He quit soon thereafter and got a real job in the private sector.

[Know et al]

I had heard of an A-bomb being lost off the coast. The details would indicate that it was a separate incident. I can't remember exactly where it was lost though.