The flight tests were mainly at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, home of Chuck Yeager and "The Right Stuff." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base
I imagine Soviet authorities frowned on any decadent capitalist attempts at portraying their secret cities and dealings with alien invaders cinematically. Scott Sent from my iPad On Oct 12, 2010, at 11:11 PM, "Jochen Fromm" <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't know that. It looks like the inhabitants of Las Vegas and Nevada > should be much more affected by radiation than those of Los Alamos and New > Mexico. Probably > the drug wars in Juarez are a more severe > threat today. > > Nevada, this is where the famous Area 51 > is located, right? I guess the secret bomb and flight testings in Nevada were > partly responsible for the myth of Area 51? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51 > > I wonder why no secret city in the > Sovjetunion became a myth, although > they are named similarily: Semipalatinsk-21, Krasnoyarsk-26, or Sverdlovsk-44 > http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/secret-cities.htm > > -J. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott R. Powell To: The Friday Morning > Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:41 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Semipalatinsk and Los Alamos > > [..] only one weapon was ever detonated in New Mexico, > in 1945. Many more were tested in Nevada in the 1950s and the fallout from > those tests did cause cancers, notably leukemia, most visibly in Utah. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
