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To: ReignOfError
Yest, that is why I referred to it as "ground zero."

It is open to tours, now, should you wish to see it - but don't take any souveniers.

50 posted on 11/18/2006 9:50:56 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: patton
Gotcha (by which I mean "I understand you"). I interpreted "Ground Zero for our nuclear tests" as meaning for multiple, or even most, tests. Ground Zero could mean the site of the first event, or the site of any event, and I'll just stop before I get any deeper into semantics.

I've been to the Trinity site, and around the Nevada test site. The Sedan crater at the NTS is particularly overwhelming. If you've never seen a man-made dry hole in the ground a half-mile wide and a quarter-mile deep, well, you should.

In both cases, I had an escort, and trying to take a little something home wouldn't be worth the risk to my life, career and criminal record. I didn't spend a lot of time in the Boy Scouts, but I was there long enough to learn one adage I still like a lot: Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints. That I did.

68 posted on 11/19/2006 1:06:02 AM PST by ReignOfError
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