misrepresenting what was going on to people who who would never stood forward if they knew what was going on and and we we see that i mean you see it locks in lots of times it's surprising how many times that we see that uh in the uh we talked about one in grand forks north dakota that you know the mayor is asking you know what's going on there should i be evacuated in town and they will tell the local civil defense official and this is an american town you know next to an american air base and they won't tell the local civil defense official you know whether they they need to be considering evacuation and of course the most common one comes up in the damascus instance who wouldn't tell a vice president if you're clear this is not high enough you're not i'm the vice president of the united states yeah no i can either confirm nor deny what's going on what's going on here in these episodes i mean we talk about you know what would have happened if there'd been a nuclear detonation because that's you know that's part of the drama of the era but people rightfully will say on you know this as they talk about these episodes the the possibility of nuclear detonation is actually extraordinarily remote uh though extraordinarily remote is still scary when you when you know the the impact would be extraordinarily bad but mostly the rich is really the risk that we had at palomaris and that is that you're going to contaminate several square miles of arable land and that's you know depends how popular but many people at risk over decades of exposure yeah which is why they took all the soil out supposedly that's you know preventing but they're still fine every time you do that you end up finding residual that's i don't know how much we've talked about that in lots of places and and in that same episode right they just dropped one in the mud in north carolina and it was so deep in the mud they couldn't dig it out of there because the mud kept classic and so they just basically just put the mud back on top of it got an easement of that little spot put a little fence around it said you know i don't think here don't take care and and as far as we know that all the physical parts all the parts of the bomb that would make a bomb are still down there somewhere yeah just it shouldn't explode yeah it's not it's not gonna detonate but i mean who knows you know if if there's some ill effect to the soil to having that material in there i mean you know the experts are going to tell us that's why we buried it but i mean but i mean there's only there's only so much you can do for safety and so so i i think it's extraordinary what these crews did i think that they are truly heroes because they were truly serving their nations and they were putting their lives at risk and every time they got on a bomber they didn't know if that would be the time when they might be asked to you know do something horrible and very likely not have anything to come home to you know assuming that they that they didn't die in the attempt uh and so you know these are people that were true patriots in that that you know
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