Posted on 05/11/2005 5:27:36 PM PDT by Graybeard58
My great-uncle was in the Navy during some of the nuclear tests in the Pacific. They had all the crew come up on deck and lie down. He said he could see the other crewmembers' skeletons through his closed eyelids.
He died from complications of radiation exposure at 65.
Time-Life Books has a picture of him taken from above standing right there. He was a Japanese-American doing translation work at the time.
He died of leukemia a few years later.
These days they don't let you spend more than a few minutes at Trinity, the site of our first atom bomb, even though it's been completely cleaned up.
We are much more careful now.
My uncle was philosophical about the whole thing ... they just didn't know any better at the time.
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