Nuclear Tourism
Posted By Traveler on 22. September 2010
Just an odd note from the anals of the early nuclear tests in the late 1940′s and early 1950′s:
During the very early days of the Cold War, it was possible, to watch the nuclear tests in the Nevada Desert close up. Quite a few people obviously took the opportunity:
Note the civilians in the backrows
Atomic Blast Reporters
What a very dieselpunk way to spend your free time… And what a quick and safe way to get a good dose of radiation and cancer… Ah well, back in the day, nobody knew, and therefore, it was not all that dangerous…
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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