Showing posts with label Atom Bomb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atom Bomb. Show all posts
Monday, July 05, 2010
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
France: Why don't they just die off already, save us all some francs
Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to compensate people affected by the fallout....
...Only now, with many of the veterans dead or dying, is the French government drawing up a bill that starts to satisfy their demands...
..."For decades they told us that unlike others, the French nuclear tests were clean, and that there were no health consequences for the veterans or the local populations," says Jean-Paul Teissoniere, a lawyer who has represented the veterans.
Read more here.
...Only now, with many of the veterans dead or dying, is the French government drawing up a bill that starts to satisfy their demands...
..."For decades they told us that unlike others, the French nuclear tests were clean, and that there were no health consequences for the veterans or the local populations," says Jean-Paul Teissoniere, a lawyer who has represented the veterans.
Read more here.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Nagasaki
Wired is running a series of images about the atomic bomb.
One of them is the picture above "The exact moment of detonation at Nagasaki is captured in this remarkable photograph. Notice the three people in the foreground, as yet unaware that anything has happened. "
I've never seen this picture before....my first feeling is it is a fake.
Read more here.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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