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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Mon Sep 12, 2016, 05:50 PM Sep 2016

How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles (in the 1950's, Las Vegas too)

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-atomic-tests-looked-like-from-los.html

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An atomic bomb lights up the night sky over Los Angeles City, on March 7, 1955. The glow lasted 20 seconds beginning at 5:20.

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Los Angeles Civic Center buildings by Nevada A Bomb blast, 1955.

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View of Atom Bomb blast seen in Los Angeles, 1951.

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"Today's atomic explosion, largest yet set off on the Nevada test range, was clearly visible in Los Angeles, as remarkable photo shows. Staff photographer Perry Folwer was ready with his camera on a tripod on the roof of the Herald-Express building when the blast occurred at 5:48 a.m. Reporter Jack Smith, who also saw yesterday's explosion, points towards the great white flash that clearly silhouetted mountains to the east." February 2, 1951

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How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles (in the 1950's, Las Vegas too) (Original Post) steve2470 Sep 2016 OP

From a time when we didn't know better n/t ffr Sep 2016 #1

Oh, we knew better. Some did, at least . . . Journeyman Sep 2016 #2

ffr

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1. From a time when we didn't know better n/t

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Mon Sep 12, 2016, 06:01 PM

Sep 2016

Journeyman

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2. Oh, we knew better. Some did, at least . . .

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Mon Sep 12, 2016, 06:16 PM

Sep 2016

Clement Atlee was the Prime Minister of England who concurred with President Truman’s decision to annihilate Hiroshima. However, 16 years later Atlee wrote:

We knew nothing whatever at the time about the genetic effects of an atomic explosion. I knew nothing about fall-out and all the rest. . .

Yet H.J. Muller had won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for investigating the genetic effects of radiation.

We are at times ruled by cliques as preposterously positioned as Pinocchio explaining himself to the Blue Fairy . . .

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