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Fireworks we can do without. But wow.

In the summer of 1962 (I was probably a gleam in my Dad’s eye, but my mom was still in high school!), the rocket’s red glare was from a hydrogen bomb, detonated 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. (in case … Continue reading

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