St. George is now a popular tourist gateway to Bryce Canyon and Zion National parks. Nobody seems to catch the irony. OK, India and Pakistan have now tested some big big bangs, and everyone's worried about how their future nuclear stuff might visit all sorts of horror on their enemies. India tested its nuclear weapons within literally walking distance from several small villages. And already hundreds of Indians are showing some of the classic symptoms of radiation poisoning.
Officials say the sick folks are just looking for a handout.
Which doesn't explain why livestock is keeling over as well. Even if Pakistan and India avoid a hot war, innocent casualties of their conflict have already begun to mount. But they're ordinary folks. If you or I knowingly, recklessly, and needlessly kill a single innocent person, we then stand guilty of manslaughter and deserving of contempt. Humankind will someday abolish nuclear weapons.