See. He’s really a wonderful guy. Yes, I know he wants me dead, but that’s just the fault of Reagan/Bush/Bush/Cheany. Once we buy enough Che t-shirts, mugs, and posters, he will see what wonderful neighbors we are, and allow us to adopt his perfect political system.

And I’ll be the illegal alien, trying to sneak into Mexico to find work once this happens.

The test shot was “dubbed” Trinity. The location was the Alamogordo (N.M.) Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert. How dangerous was the fallout if Oppenheimer and Gen. Groves toured & posed for photos at ground zero only a month later?

Other than being a nut, how do you feel?

http://www.commondreams.org/

Published on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 by LiveScience.com
First Atomic Bomb Test Exposed U.S. Civilians to Radiation

by Ker Than

The world’s first atomic bomb test might have exposed unaware civilians in New Mexico to thousands of times the recommended level of public radiation exposure, according to reconstructed data in a new study.

The research, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that ingestion of radioactive materials-primarily from irradiated rainwater and goat’s milk-might have been a substantial contributor to public radiation exposure that was largely not accounted for.

The findings come on the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first atomic explosion and were presented at the recent annual meeting of the Health Physics Society.

‘Trinity’

The world’s first nuclear weapons test took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico. In a cryptic reference to a John Donne poem that he knew and loved, J. Robert Oppenheimer, lead physicist of the Manhattan Project and scientific director of the test, dubbed the location “Trinity.”

At 5:29:45 a.m. local time, a plutonium-based atomic bomb was detonated atop a 100-foot steel tower erected at Trinity specifically for the test. Scientists hoped that exploding the bomb at an elevated height would reduce the amount of radioactive dust raised by the explosion. They also needed to simulate the air-drop method of deployment that was eventually used by the real bombs.

(SNIP)

Exploding with an energy equal to about 20 kilotons of TNT, the blast carved a crater in the Earth more than 1,000 feet wide and 10 feet deep. Radioactive fallout from the blast was detected as far away as Indiana.

Heat from the explosion was so intense that sand grains fused to form a reflective layer of radioactive, green glass, called “Trinitite,” on the desert floor.

—No other president, save possibly one, would have been as comfortable telling the lies this one does.

Do I see consistency here? One goal, various methods to achieve socialistic upheaval. Restrict capitalism, celebrate “change,” increase the span of government to “take care” of the people.

http://www.americanthinker.com.....ber_5.html

Reagan’s Military Budget was never more than 8/10th of 1 percent above the 46 year average of 5.3% of GDP since 1962.

That would mean his “build-up” was less than 1% * 8 of a single year’s GDP. Using the 1984 GDP of $4 trillion as the average, the “build-up” could not have been more than 8% * 4 trillion = 320 billion.

But I have several advantages over the Slime’s reporter. I had 10 minutes of free time. I’m not blinded by ideology. I can do simple math. And I’m not an idiot.

Funny, I could only find $124 billion.

Here from http://www.armscontrol.org/print/1615

“Twenty years and $124 billion since Reagan’s 1983 speech, the old strategic missile defense program continues[3] and the ABM Treaty is gone.”