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Einstein and Szilárd (source)


The Dear Leader’s Gaze…

Looking at dinner




Looking at atomic test site (source)

What’s Up, Doc?…


Radioactive rabbit trapped near Richland

A radioactive rabbit caught at Hanford [see here] just north of Richland had Washington State Department of Health workers looking for contaminated droppings Thursday…




There have been a couple of cases in the past two decades of contaminated animals in areas where they potentially could come in contact with the public.  In 1996, a contaminated mouse apparently crawled into a box of food collected by an employee food drive in central Hanford. It was trapped and tested in an abandoned Hanford building previously used by the Tri-Cities Food Bank.

Two years later, gnats and flies were suspected of eating a sugary coating used to fix some radioactive contamination. They then spread the contamination to waste left by workers in offices, such as banana peels and apple cores. That required 35 tons of trash that could contain the office waste to be dug up from the Richland landfill and returned to Hanford.

Read the full story at Tricityherald.com (and more,  here or here).

As we contemplate the prospect of Easter egg hunts after dark, we might recall that it was on this date in 1989 that a failing east German regime opened the Berlin Wall, allowing free East-West passage.  A few weeks earlier Hungarian officials had opened the border between Hungary and Austria,  effectively rendering the Berlin Wall redundant, as East German citizens could then circumvent it by going through Hungary into Austria, and thence into West Germany.  Virtually immediately, Germans on both sides began to demolish the Wall.

Germans climbing the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in celebration of its demise (source)


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