Atomic effects on drone aircraft in flight

[danny_galaga]

 

 

[danny_galaga]

Very interesting footage from the 50's. I've always been impressed with how they were able to radio control such complicated aircraft, pre digital proportional days. 

[onetrack]

Operation Teapot. It's pretty disgraceful the way the U.S. DoD used soldiers as human guinea pigs in all their nuclear testing - let alone the amount of radioactive material they released onto the ground, and into the air.

 

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[danny_galaga]

Poms did this too. A know someone who's father, who used to be in the Navy was exposed to nuclear fallout. He died of cancer, most likely from that.

[onetrack]

The worst part is, the veterans illnesses from nuclear testing were never acknowledged for decades - and all the Govts, U.S., U.K. and Australian, fought to avoid accepting any responsibility, or pay any compensation to the veterans, until it was far too late for many of them. It's a pretty shameful record from people in high places, who enjoyed superior wealth, health and living conditions, compared to the men they sent into nuclear sites as human test dummies.

[facthunter]

The Poms never cleaned up Aus either.  1 Microgram of plutonium will kill you.  The dust  from tests went all over the east.  Lots of leukemia in young people.   Nev

[Cyrano]

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/05-2017/silent_storm_tn.pdf