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U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility
jonerik writes "According to this article from the Associated Press, the US government is this week permitting the public a rare glimpse of its high-security Y-12 nuclear weapons plant as part of Oak Ridge, Tennessee's annual Secret City Festival, which is being held this coming weekend. Although the plant is still associated with ongoing nuclear weapons work, members of the public will be permitted to see parts of the facility associated with its work on the Manhattan Project's 'Little Boy' bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The facility produced the uranium-235 which was used in the device using 1,152 massive calutrons across nine separate buildings in 1944 and 1945. 'Don't you know the people in Knoxville wondered what in the world was going on out here,' Department of Energy guide Ray Smith said on Monday. 'All this material was coming in, truckload after truckload, and nothing ever left.'"
Nothing like being ignorant eh.
Racist.
Nothing's more racist than pointing out that Al Qaeda makes its home in desert areas.
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bomb builds you! Sorry... couldn't help it. http://www.utnow.com/ slashdot me as punishment.
Nope, you would be thinking of the festival celebrating that other great American contribution to warfare - napalm. Coming soon to the Harvard Napalm Festival.
Dontcha just love the smell of burnt baby flesh in the morning?
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
And now kids on the right are the weapons we used against innocent civilians. Does anyone know what a horrible death by radiation is?
IMO the US can build as many nukes as they want.
Why is it considered bad for a warmongering dictator (Saddam) to have weapons of mass destruction whilest it's ok for a warmongering dictator (Bush) to have weapons of mass destruction?
http://blog.nexusuk.org
What else could a reasonable observer conclude about their point of view? Every time anything is wrong in the world, it must be the US's fault.
big lifetime achievment of developing more and more weapons and mankind developing more and more evil feelings and actions towards each other...
... the only thing mankind brought to perfection
big news, mankind is more savage than ever before...
you can really be proud. humanity doesnt deserve any better.
kill kill kill
only republicans are willing (cawf cawf) to protect the population by force
That's entirely correct.
All the Democrats want to do is sit down, hold hands with the terrorists, sing Kumbayah, then slip off to the bathhouse for some hot man-on-man action before deciding to make their country the bottom in a submissive relationship with Islam.
Too bad they forgot that Muslims don't like queers.
Do whiney self important people who say such things even know the true definitions of the words they use?
If the US was really decadant we would have not stopped with bombing two Japanese cities.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
You stopped after two cities because you ran out of bombs. There were only three bombs made, one was used in the first test, the two others dropped on civilians. But you have a point, I wouldn't call that decadent, it was clearly still in the barbaric phase.
You are a complete idiot. Please go away.
"So, in short, yes, I think 100,000 lives were worth it. I happen to like Japan, and am glad that we dropped the bombs on them"
spoken like a true american. the ends justify the means and i guess you can sort of rationalize the horror out of your past. in retrospect its far easier to say with certainty what COULD HAVE happened, because anything *could* have happened. thats the beauty of the word "could". what actually did happen was the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians. then of course the next step is to jump up and down shouting, see see we actually *saved* lives by killing thousands! they should thank us!
and i now recall the following words
Myrick: "If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn't you have to do that?" "Those men are heroes."
Luthan: "But you chose for them." and "You're a doctor, not God."
-extreme measures
I am become death destroyer of worlds.
and deep down you _know_ it, and in some sense it makes you proud. the sickness of the republic of the united states of america.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...