Breaking news - Mushroom cloud?????????

[wx247]

Kim Jong Il is nuts... I wouldn't put anything past him.

[Stephanie]

Mmmkay, when Osama bin Laden's body is found and it's determined that he died 5 days prior, I won't post it as breaking news because it's "5 days old."

Hey, it's North Korea. Remember -- it takes DAYS for news to get out of that country.

Exactly Duck!

[Aslkahuna]

Utah and Arizona to the list of States that had fallout problems from the above ground testing in NV plus CO (kind of hard for fallout from NV to reach NM without going through UT or AZ first). However, and this is important, the reason atmospheric testing was banned in the 1960s was because it was discovered that fallout contained isotopes such as strontium90 with long half lifes so that although the amount that made it around the world from a given test was minute, the effects were cumulative. This was especially true to the larger fusion devices which put radioactive debris into the stratosphere where the fallout time was much longer and although the US weapons were much cleaner than others, the Russians torched off particularly dirty ones. Although, it's been many years since I last did a fallout plot (or chemical/bio plume plot), the fallout from a standard size nuke that we were dealing with at the time (mostly thermonuclear) could extend pretty far downrange depending upon the winds aloft-same for a fission device if the cloud caught a jetstream.

Steve