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To: frankiep
"On 10 March 1945, one of the last paper balloons had descended in the vicinity of the Manhattan Project's production site at Hanford, Washington. The balloon landed on a power line that fed electricity to the building containing the reactor producing plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb, and shut the reactor down!"
 
The Fire Balloons

164 posted on 05/20/2006 10:27:46 PM PDT by wolficatZ (Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle -"You'll hang for this!")
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To: wolficatZ

Apparently actual facts like that aren't enough for some people.


167 posted on 05/20/2006 10:31:33 PM PDT by frankiep (Visualize Whirled Peas)
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