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> That reads like a scene from a disaster movie.

That was my day job, designing building, field testing seismic mapping systems. Lots of coding, lots of firmware, some hardware.

> Also, your use of India / Pakistan while you could have used any other nuclear power smells of prejudice.

Or simply that I'm not old enough to have been over the Monte Bello's test site when it was live, whereas we were contracted to fly radiometric surveys over the Pokhran-II test site on the day of the first explosion, and crew were detained until after the completion of the Chagai-I response.

If it helps, I've flown over many a former test site, many a tailings pond for a uranium mine in many parts of the world. It's a dull fact that the Pokran-II site is the only such place that went 'live' on a work day (in my experience at least).




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