Environment & Energy

... and was sent scrambling across the desert as the mushroom cloud was rising overhead.

Our military wanted to see how soldiers might fare in actual atomic warfare. When the exercise was over they washed off the radioactive dust in camp showers.

All the men were all sworn to secrecy and were not released from that vow until the Clinton Administration.

My father-in-law, who is in his nineties now, is visiting for the holiday, apparently suffering no ill effects from the experiment. Some of his fellow servicemen were not so fortunate.