A French Nuclear Test on This Day in History

 

This day in history: France became the fifth nation to successfully explode a hydrogen bomb on this day in 1968, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China as a thermonuclear superpower. The test, codenamed "Operation Canopus", took place over the Fangataufa Atoll in French Polynesia at 8:30 in the morning local time after heavy rains had caused six postponements.

One nuclear test alone is considered devastating for the environment, yet governments have conducted thousands of nuclear tests while at the same time shaming us for our carbon footprint.

Even without nuclear testing, government is still the greatest enemy of the environment. Even the EPA is guilty. "The EPA, which supposedly protects the environment, is one of the worst environmental offenders. Look no further than last year's befouling of the Animas River in Colorado. The EPA dumped a million gallons of mining wastewater into the water, turning the river orange and creating a health hazard. If this had been done by a private company, indictments would have rolled. But it was a government project, so government officials got a pass. Over the decades, government has left a trail of environmental degradation behind it while carrying on a crusade against the private sector. It's probably not a stretch to say that governments are the worst polluters on Earth." Source

Also, "compared with private firms, governments violate the 'U.S. Clean Air Act and Safe Drinking Water Act' significantly more frequently and are less likely to be penalized for violations." Source

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A Bomb on a Plane on This Day in 1972

 

On this day in 1972, TWA Flight 7 was half an hour into its flight from New York to Los Angeles when the airline's officials were notified that it had a time bomb on board. The plane landed back at JFK at 12:10 pm. A trained German shepherd named "Brandy" sniffed out the explosive found in an attache case in the cockpit. With five pounds of C4, the device would have destroyed the Boeing 707 with 52 on board, in midflight at 1:00 pm. Police defused the explosive with 12 minutes to spare.

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