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From that paper:
> Weapons research often entails testing on convenience groups of nonenemies outside of the context of war. Testing serves to gauge the effects of proposed weapons on intended and unintended human targets, to develop support operations, and even to protect those involved in weapons production and delivery. For example, in 1945 Manhattan Project scientists became concerned about the exposure of bomb production workers to plutonium. J. Robert Oppenheimer authorized a metabolic study of plutonium on unwitting hospital patients, which continued at least until 1979.
There is some link too I think between primordial regression/becoming a lizard & becoming exposed to radiation poisoning. They're not the same but they're linked.
The nuclear blast as the "pre-dawn chaos" (Thompson, Fear & Loathing). Red sky at dawn. Apocalyptic collapse of civilization, so that, in our twilight as a race, we discover our infancy as a race. Las Vegas as "animalistic," We are primitives of a future culture unknown. The poetshaman travels to strange places exposes himself to strange poisons and mutates, regresses to a Viconian prehistory, returns a freak.
(And Thompson describing his lawyer Dr Gonzo as "a high powered mutant never ever considered for mass production")
@mvuent very astutely pointed out that all the Nickelodeon characters are radiation freaks. Mutant Ninja Turtles. Or how all the Spongebob characters are living in BIkini Atoll and when it's bombed they turn into talking sponges and starfish. This stuff is obviously common in comic books.
There's also the radioactive-green slime thing Nickelodeon does
That's interesting actually because I think our understanding of radiation sickness was pretty underdeveloped in the 60s
I was reading about the Lucky Dragon No5, really amazing firsthand account written by one of the fishermen. That was the ship that was near Bikini Atoll. No one knew what was happening when their hair started falling out it was terrifying. Granted that was 1950s
The link between the BIkini Atoll nuclear tests, and the invention of the bikini, important I think? Good job whoever tagged the thread.
In the first Gidget film (1959) all the gals are wearing one-pieces, but by the mid-60s TV show, they're wearing two-pieces.
Also I have to log off and read this paper on Weapons Research Ethics before my German Foreign Office deep state sponsored class on strategy & intelligence/deception.
From that paper:
> Weapons research often entails testing on convenience groups of nonenemies outside of the context of war. Testing serves to gauge the effects of proposed weapons on intended and unintended human targets, to develop support operations, and even to protect those involved in weapons production and delivery. For example, in 1945 Manhattan Project scientists became concerned about the exposure of bomb production workers to plutonium. J. Robert Oppenheimer authorized a metabolic study of plutonium on unwitting hospital patients, which continued at least until 1979.
There is some link too I think between primordial regression/becoming a lizard & becoming exposed to radiation poisoning. They're not the same but they're linked.
The nuclear blast as the "pre-dawn chaos" (Thompson, Fear & Loathing). Red sky at dawn. Apocalyptic collapse of civilization, so that, in our twilight as a race, we discover our infancy as a race. Las Vegas as "animalistic," We are primitives of a future culture unknown. The poetshaman travels to strange places exposes himself to strange poisons and mutates, regresses to a Viconian prehistory, returns a freak.
(And Thompson describing his lawyer Dr Gonzo as "a high powered mutant never ever considered for mass production")