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I went to the museum last year but somehow didn't see this walk outside. I though the museum to be overall good, but somehow I thought it didn't quite convey the enormity of potential nuclear war.

10 years ago.

slgwv ^club

Well, it caught the flavor of the time. "The enormity of nuclear war" didn't really get mainstream until the 70s or so!

That said, they have a number of oral history interviews with the (by now) old men who worked on these projects. One commented that the number of people who've actually _seen_ a nuclear detonation is dwindling every year, and he worried that a new generation of politicians might find nuclear weapons more "thinkable" once living memory is lost and they've faded back into the abstract.

10 years ago.

Don Barrett (aka DBs… ^club has replied to slgwv ^club

The most moving talk I've had about the Nevada nuclear industry was actually with a bartender in Pioche who talked about her working on nuclear bomb-making for many years. What was memorable about it was how it came across as just ordinary work.

Related, I'm a Vietnam-era veteran (never in Vietnam), and find it frightening the lack of people who have any personal experience with the military and thus have very shallow views about it.

10 years ago.

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