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60th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb
An anonymous reader writes "On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear bomb exploded at Trinity Site, New Mexico, marking the beginning of the Nuclear Age. Manhattan Project veteran Herb Lehr has no regrets: 'In a lot of respects I felt as if I had done something worthwhile. I am in no way ashamed of what I had done in any way, shape, matter or form. I did what I was told to do. I did it to the best of my ability.' Lehr will return to Trinity Site for the first time since the explosion. He said, 'I'm just interested in going and seeing it and maybe getting some memories back. Los Alamos was a whole interesting experience. It was something unique. I worked very hard down there.'"
It's going to be the bomb!
60 happens to be the base of the Babylonian number system and the second Unitary perfect number. You insensitive clod.
They have set us up the bomb all your base are belong to us
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Herb Lehr set up us the bomb!
"If it does detonate, remember to duck and cover." "Afterwards, shadows burned into walls will make great conversation pieces at parties. Arming your car and grow a crazy Mad Max-hairdo will help you and your family prosper in the nuclear wasteland."
I agree with you. Lately, it seems they have had to compromise their morals:
Do I stay honorable and defend the public, or do I get insanely wealthy by selling out to the corporations? Well, I think I'll sell out!
See? There's compromise right there!
What if at a silo, a crazy Air Force colonel decides to take his silo into lockdown, no communication in or out. He then conveys a presidential order to launch. Can he get away with it? And what about nukes that are on air force jets, how are they launched? Could the pilot decide to launch his nuke?
Then you''ll just have to send the recall code prefixed by a combination of the letters "POE". And if *that* fails, there's always the limestone mineshafts you can flee to in order to preserve the human race.
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"If you've become a radiation mutant with a deformed hand, remember to close the window. No one wants to see that."
US Deparment of Laughts