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I wonder why they didn't travel further to dump it. The ocean in particular was a popular dumping ground in Europe after world war 2 for anything toxic related
by belorn 4y ago
I wonder why they didn't travel further to dump it. The ocean in particular was a popular dumping ground in Europe after world war 2 for anything toxic related to the war. Old warships was loaded to max and intentionally moved and then sunk in an undocumented regions in order to make sure that no one could recover it.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoLos Alamos is a long way from any ocean. The amount of security needed to haul this stuff outside the secret city (at that time) would have been prohibitively expensive and a distraction from the mission. In later years when the city was no longer secret, the excuse was mostly the lazy one of "we've always done it this way."
- code_duck 4y agoThe military basically threw anything anywhere until the 60s. There wasn't much of a concept of being careful with it.