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I had already, in my heart, given up on Google. It's just not worth it. Let me outline the reasons.

Once again, the US government has gotten itself into a bad situation over the supposed secret of the hydrogen bomb.

Some time ago I happened upon a list of all of the fatal accidents that occurred at Los Alamos between its inception in 1943 through September 1946. There were exactly twenty-four, an even two-dozen ways to die while working at an isolated nuclear weapons laboratory.

We have preserved far more heinous sites for the historical record, because preservation does not mean endorsement. In fact, preservation often can mean an opportunity to reflect upon the past, warts and all.

I get annoyed with poorly-used mushroom cloud photos, and repetitive photos, because there are just so many good options out there if the graphic designers in question would just search beyond the first thing that comes up when you Google "mushroom cloud." But re-using known clouds is not as bad as, say, mistaking a fake, computer-generated mushroom cloud for a real one.