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Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-the-powers-of-a-man-sized-snail dept.

slidersv writes "Reuters is reporting discovery of radioactive snails in the area where three hydrogen bombs were lost by US in the 1966. The radioactive creatures crawl up from underground, where authorities suspect deposits of uranium and plutonium may be located."

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  1. Re:Holy fucking shit by vought · · Score: 1, Troll

    conventional explosions nevertheless distributed a large quantity of radioactive bomb guts over a wide area

    Wow. Sounds like a very dirty bomb.

    I sure hope the terra-ists never get a hold of that sort of thing.

    It seems countries with WMD capability have been testing dirty bombs far longer than "W The President" told me! I hope he and his cowboy posse are able to round up the wrongdoers responsible for messing up the escargot crop...wait, that's French, right? I hate escargot.

    Signed, Wingnut

  2. I doubt there were scared at all by georgeha · · Score: 0, Troll

    if it even happened.

    K-129 was sunk because someone (rogue KGB elements?) tried to launch an ICBM at Honolulu, and the internal safeguards they couldn't bypass detonated the conventional explosives used to trigger the nuclear reaction.

    If KGB agents with a fair amount of insider knowledge of a Russian warhead couldn't trigger an explosion, why would a missile falling to the ocean floor detonate?

    But, it probably didn't happen, the CIA probably recovered everything from the sub they wanted to. Check out Red Rogue if you want to learn more.