Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

"I'm gonna walk on out of here and there ain't a thing you can do about it" | "American Made" real life double trouble irony looking back on the last 4 years:




February 13, 1960: France conducted its first nuclear test code-named "Gerboise Bleue" atop a 106-meter tower in the desert at the Saharan Military Experiments Center near Reggane, Algeria, during the Algerian War. The plutonium yield was between 60-70 kilotons. Gerboise Bleue was by far the largest first test of an Atomic bomb up to that date, in the world. Gerboise is the French word for jerboa, a desert hopping rodent found in the Sahara.

A few milliseconds after atomic detonation. Kinda looks like a plasma lifeform or biological cell...


General Pierre Marie Gallois (1911-2010) earned the nickname of père de la bombe A ("father of the A-bomb"). Apparently, radiation did not affect his long life.

Despite French military assurances that the test posed no off-site dangers, winds carried radioactive fallout across Algeria and into Libya, Niger, Chad, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Morocco, southern Spain, and southern Italy.

Algerians and the French military veterans who participated in the 17 French atmospheric and underground nuclear tests in Algeria from 1960-66 continue to suffer from their exposure to radioactive fallout.

France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara

Video: Algerian desert region still struggles with effects of French nuclear tests

In unrelated news, a fatal neuro-degenerative disease was discovered decades later in Algerian camels:

Camels in Africa may have been quietly spreading prion disease for decades


Feb 13, 1964 - Opening this week is "Seven Days in May" a political thriller set in the year 1970 about a military-political cabal’s planned takeover of the U.S. government in reaction to the president’s negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

The film, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, was directed by John Frankenheimer from a screenplay written by Rod Serling based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, published in September 1962.

The book reflects some of the events of the first year of the Kennedy Administration. In November 1961, President Kennedy accepted the resignation of vociferously anti-Communist general Edwin Walker, who had been indoctrinating the troops under his command with radical right-wing ideas. In the film, Fredric March, portraying fictional president Jordan Lyman, mentions Walker as one of the "false prophets" who were offering themselves to the public as leaders.


The authors of the novel also conducted interviews with another controversial military commander, the newly appointed Air Force chief of staff Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was angry with President Kennedy for refusing to provide air support for the Cuban rebels in the Bay of Pigs invasion. The character of General James Mattoon Scott (Lancaster) was believed to have been inspired by both LeMay and Walker.





I wonder if the Reagan Library has the tech to transfer this to something I can read:


GRIMES, JOHN G.: Files, 1985-1988 (PDF)


A British firm has developed a new welding technique which they claim will reduce the "process time" from 150 days to only just 2 hours! They claim the welds will also be higher-quality.


Sheffield Forgemasters Revolutionizes Nuclear Power with Electron Beam Welding


Joe stood up at a podium and said he had a conversation right after he became president with a man who has been dead since 1996. Now, either our president believes himself to be a spiritual medium OR there’s something amiss with his memory. So, which is it?


NY Times (archived)





Which intern is running Biden's account?








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