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...Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims "the Pentagon has sprung it on everybody with...
...soul of Chicago in a way the South Siders could never match. They play, badly, in the ivy-clad splendor of Wrigley Field and boast alumni like Ernie Banks and Billy Williams. The anonymous Sox play in a soul-challenged modern bowl on a site that was once downwind of the city's now vanished stockyards. One poll found that 36% of Cubs fans will cheer for the Astros. Sox fans might well retort: Fine, but who stinks...
...Airline Pilots Association has asked Los Angeles officials to stop allowing planes to take off with the wind, a practice the group considers dangerous. It argues that the procedure may make it harder for the aircraft to gain altitude. Federal authorities rejected the pleas and have approved taking off downwind for night flights...
...everything went according to the terrorists' plan, radiation could begin spewing into the nighttime sky within 20 minutes, says Lochbaum, now a nuclear-safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear-watchdog group. The lethal plume, drifting hundreds of miles downwind, could kill tens of thousands within a year and hundreds of thousands eventually...
With 10:30 to go in the fourth quarter, the group released little squares of paper torn from programs and halftime marching orders to the shout of “Confetti”—much to the dismay of those fans seated downwind in sections...