Yucca Flat

Um, we do know, we do have that quote that it said he thought it was time to do some good.

We also, uh, he was in- In the mid-'50s, because he was in charge of civil defense, he was invited to Nevada to the Yucca Flat, uh, series of atomic bomb tests that they had there and while he was there, he also talked with a reporter again about doing good.

And so I think he- when he saw the destructive power of, uh, bombing at, like, a scale that hadn't even been achieved in World War II, I think he was taken aback by that, at least to hear him describe it himself.

So obviously, he had great navigational skills.

So, uh, while I was there I put together the, the big groundwater flow models and also the, some of the train transport, kind of like helping with the closure of those different sites, you know, getting them into DOE Legacy while I was there.

So I kinda helped close Yucca Flat and I was towards the tail end of Frenchman Flat, and did a little...

A lot of my work was focused on Paiute Mesa, and I also worked in Rainier, Rainier Mesa.

Oh, okay.

You know, you go, "Oh, yeah, I did Streetcar Named Desire.

I did this..." "Oh, where?" "I, uh, you know, I did it in Yucca Flats, uh, Idaho." You know? [laughs]

You just made stuff up.

Made stuff... [laughs] And I go, realize everybody does this, and I had no pictures.

Somehow, remembering his father as neither fearless nor exactly alert, anyway, not the way the movies and the TV screens liked to picture the words, he had the impression that cigars looked out of place on FBI agents.

and it was in any case a small sacrifice to make he found his lighter and shielded it from the brisk wind he looked out over water at the jefferson memorial and was surprised that he'd managed to walk as far as he had then he stopped thinking about walking and took a puff of his cigarette and forced himself to think about the job in hand naturally the westinghouse gadget had been declared ultra top secret as soon as it had been worked out virtually everything was these days and the whole group involved in the machine and its workings had been transferred without delay to the united states laboratories out in yucca flats nevada Out there in the desert, there just wasn't much to do, Malone supposed, except to play with the machine.

And, of course, look at the scenery.

But when you've seen one desert, Malone thought confusedly, you've seen them all.

So the scientists ran experiments on the machine, and they made a discovery of a kind they hadn't been looking for.

Somebody, they discovered, was picking the brains of the scientists there.

Not the brains of the people working with the telepathy machine, and not the brains of the people working on the several other Earth-limited projects at Yucca Flats.

They'd been reading the minds of some of the scientists working on the new and highly classified non-rocket space drive.

And he's got shorts as well.

But I would strongly recommend, even ones like the Beast from Yucca Flats or something like that with Tor, that wrestler from Plan B. It's just some really crazy videos.

Is

Starcrash on there?