Saturday, March 13, 2010

The work of Stephen Klein and his colleagues.

In my last entry I mentioned the kind of work my grandfather would do. Here, I will elaborate a bit to make things a little easier to follow. Several years ago, I think in the 60's or 70's,the US government put together a project to attempt to make nuclear weapons a viable war tool. They wanted to be able to blow up the bad guys without annhialating everything in a 50 mile radius of the bad guys. My grandfather, along with Dr. Lauren, Dr.patterson and Dr. Smiley would facilitate these
tests and expieriments.

Generally, this meant unbearably long stays in secluded mountain labs, crunching numbers. Sometimes,this meant exploding bombs. My grandad always said watching them go off was worth the three months of
prep work.

In order to test the bomb sites for living people, they would place common objects from a persons home near the test site and test it for Radio Activity at different incrememnts. The cool thing is, sometimes the bombs would be way too powerful and destroy whatever they put out. My gramps has a treasure chest full of cool, mangled, melted and otherwise unrecognisable stuff. The coolest of all are the recordings he called "godspeech". I'll go into more detail about that later, but trust me, it's really fascinating.

That is my grandads job description in a nutshell. He blew stuff up and did a lot of math, he couldn't have picked a better profession.

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