All of the Area 51 and space alien hype is lots of fun, but let's remember that over that ridge behind me is where the early atomic bombs were tested during the Cold War. Sure, our country gained the ability to blow up tbe world several times over and to deter the Soviet Union from attacking, but there was a cost. For example, people who lived downwind in Nevada and Utah suffered elevated risks of cancer.
The Soviet Union fell apart a few years before I was born so I never experienced that sense of dread that others felt, but it sure looks like a mutual suicide pact to me. I hope we humans learn to make peace in the future.
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