Reply #9: Well, I need the Brain-Bleach now...

[onager]

Thanks, it was...entertaining. And you did great work in that...thing.

Not to mention that a nuclear blast would alert, oh, I dunno, every nation in the western hemisphere. BP's powerful, but not powerful enough to hide a nuclear explosion that close to American soil.

No kidding. Just last night I caught the "Seconds From Disaster" episode about Chernobyl - an accidental nuclear explosion that the Russians tried to hide.

Within a few hours, a U.S. satellite passing over the Ukraine had photos of a big...RED...GLOWING...radioactive blob.

That could have had serious repercussions, since US intelligence didn't know what to make of it. At first they thought the Russians had gone bonkers and had an accident while launching a nuclear weapon, probably at us.

A few more hours, and Swedish engineers at a nuclear plant couldn't get in to work - the radiation detectors at the front door kept going off, saying they were all contaminated.

One engineer looked for the source of contamination, and discovered it was on his shoes. Courtesy of the radioactive cloud passing over northern Europe.

But nobody would have ever known anything if Chernobyl had only been one of those Minimized nuclear plants...

:rofl: