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Wondering why the staff are not wearing any protective clothing while handling nuclear devices ?
by nmridul 12y ago
Wondering why the staff are not wearing any protective clothing while handling nuclear devices ?
- ceejayoz 12y agoNuclear bombs aren't very radioactive until they go critical, and at that point you've got bigger things to worry about. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Tickling_the_Dragons_Tail.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Tickling_...
- creativityhurts 12y agoI find it weird that most of them aren't wearing shirts at all.
- patricksroberts 12y agoMy grandfather was a mechanic in the Enola Gay's bomber group. He mentioned that his personal bar for heat and humidity are from some of the islands they setup airfields on in the Pacific. Considering he spent a fair amount of his career following that war in LA maintaining the B52 air wings I tend to wonder why more of them aren't wearing shirts.
- tokenadult 12y agoMost of the local people on Tinian and the other northern Mariana islands historically haven't worn shirts, male or female, although standards of dress on those islands have of course westernized somewhat since Western colonization. The climate there is very suitable for going shirtless at many times of the year.
- creativityhurts 12y agoNice and reasonable explanation, thanks!
- privong 12y agoMost of the radioactivity danger from nuclear weapons and reactors relates to the byproducts of the fission process, rather than to the original fissile material.
- mikeash 12y agoWhat protective clothing would be helpful here?