the 1963 nuclear test band treaty and my father who helped write it

[Ichingcarpenter]

It was the the thing that he thought was important in his life working under the joint chiefs in his life. I'm from a real nuclear family.


Any way my dad had a stroke a year ago and they said he was gone and could'nt ever walk again. or fuction................. he said fuck that

I got the news today................ he's walking and fucking up their illusion.

[merrily]

1. A triumphal K & R glad to hear it, Iching!

[RobertEarl]

2. Way to go

Maybe he knew Rickover?

**********



Adm. Hyman Rickover, the Father of the Nuclear Navy and of Shippensport nuclear reactor. In the twilight of his career, he testified before Congress in January 1982. Below is an excerpt from his testimony. Given who this man was and what he did, his statements were profound.

Here’s an excerpt from Rickover’s testimony:

“I’ll be philosophical. Until about two billion years ago, it was impossible to have any life on earth; that is, there was so much radiation on earth you couldn’t have any life — fish or anything. Gradually, about two billion years ago, the amount of radiation on this planet and probably in the entire system reduced and made it possible for some form of life to begin…

Now when we go back to using nuclear power, we are creating something which nature tried to destroy to make life possible… Every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a certain half-life, in some cases for billions of years.

I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it… I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation.

Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. Have I given you an answer to your question?”

On the hazards of nuclear power.
Testimony to Congress (28 January 1982);
published in Economics of Defense Policy:
Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee,
Congress of the United States, 97th Cong., 2nd sess., Pt. 1 (1982)

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover

[Brother Buzz]

6. Perhaps he was closer allied with Robert Swann and the Committee for Nonviolence

I know I was when I became involved with Project Everyman.

https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/206164

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. my birth in New mexico

at the only atomic base in the nation may tell you somethingl

[csziggy]

25. YOu may have known my husband's cousins who were also born there!

His uncle was one of the young physicists brought in after the war. They lived in Los Alamos before the public knew it existed. My husband's father had clearance to go visit and could take his family to see his brother's family while it was still secret.

Unfortunately, his uncle was one of the men who could not live with what they were doing and he committed suicide at a pretty young age.

[MineralMan]

3. Good news!

[malthaussen]

4. Good for your old man.

But you might consider changing the "test band" typo in your headline.

-- Mal

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. while do............ just a little jazzed

right now.

[Greybnk48]

5. Your Dad's work impacted the entire world

for generations! How proud you must be.

[WillyT]

9. (((((((Ichingcarpenter)))))))

Tell your Dad... Thank You.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. I'm just everyone' naive fool

[Codeine]

10. Nuclear Test Band.

I think I saw them open for Pixies back in '89.

[MineralMan]

12. Wait. I think I saw them in 1964 at the Rose Bowl.

But, then, I'm old and I forget, sometimes.

[eggplant]

11. "he's walking and fucking up their illusion."

Thanks, Obama!

(best wishes to your dad, btw)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. I wonder if he knew my dad...

He worked on the Manhattan Project.




Congratulations and happy applause to your dad!

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. he was at Tinan base

and senator came there and asked the troops what they thought

He spoke up as a B 29 crew leader and said they have been there too long beyond what they were promised.


he said that cost him 4 years of his rank. but they went home

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. wow, he helped them get home...

Respect.


My dad was in the labs in Manhattan. He was a chemist, PhD at age 21!

I don't know if he met any of the important people...he didn't talk about anything he did.

[Omaha Steve]

15. Way to go

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. the power of your conscionsnes

can heal over what others tell you my friend.

[zeemike]

16. Great news.

I love it when someone fucks up an illusion.

And you have lots of reasons to be proud of your father.

[madokie]

18. You meet the greatest people on DU

I do mean that in a most wonderful way too.

My hope is for your father to keep on kicking some real nuclear ass going forward

Oh and tell him thanks. I feel I can say that for many of us here so I am.

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. Time is all we have here right now

some more than others but it is a great question\

[calimary]

21. EXCELLENT!!!

I had no idea we were in such distinguished company!

Hope he sticks around, walking, talking, and squawking for a long time!

[Ichingcarpenter]

23. I can be the asshole of the grandest kind

[Warren DeMontague]

24. That was one of the most important pieces of international agreement in the last century.

The world's children, in particular, thank him.

[Hekate]

26. Congratulations to him, and I hope he is pleased with the progress with Iran.

I've been thinking a lot about those days, and that string of treaties and agreements that helped walk the world back from the brink of destruction. Every step is incomplete, but every step is vitally important. Thank him for me -- I was in high school in 1963, and used to worry a lot about nuclear annihilation. His life's work was important beyond words for all of us.

[bananas]

27. Tell him thank you!

That is one of the most important treaties in history.
Glad he's walking again.