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Originally Posted by bobabode
Contractual downwinder? At least you got one of those cool dosimeters out of it! 
An unfunny incident happened in the L.A. basin in 1958 when I was just a year old. They popped off one of those nuke weapons and the fallout swirled back into the L.A. basin instead of heading east and sat there for two weeks under one of our infamous inversion layers. Oldest brother had his thyroid removed and my older sister died from ovarian cancer. Is there a connection? Who knows? Thanks DOE...  |
No DOE back then. 'Twas the Atomic Energy Commission. They were far more irresponsible (though probably more effective in their mission) that today's DOE, created by Jimmy Carter in a fashion similar to Dubya's Dept of Homeland Security (both are loose amalgamations of previously unrelated sub-cabinet level agencies).
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Last edited by finnbow; 11-23-2012 at 05:29 PM.
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