dagblog - Comments for "William K. Wolfrum&#039;s Morning: Just a Hairy Guy" http://dagblog.com/world-affairs/william-k-wolfrums-morning-just-hairy-guy-7240 Comments for "William K. Wolfrum's Morning: Just a Hairy Guy" en Wolfie, thanks for linking to http://dagblog.com/comment/89339#comment-89339 <a id="comment-89339"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/world-affairs/william-k-wolfrums-morning-just-hairy-guy-7240">William K. Wolfrum&#039;s Morning: Just a Hairy Guy</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Wolfie, thanks for linking to Five Times We Nearly Nuked Ourselves. All true, all super scary -- and despite the official story, I've read suggestions the "broken arrow" off Savannah was (and presumably still is) live. And these are just the incidents they couldn't cover up. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, is known to have lost subs with <em>dozens</em> of nuclear weapons on board.</p><p>Anyone interested in issues of nuclear safety or proliferation <em>must</em> read Richard Rhodes's two riveting books, <em>The Making of the Atomic Bomb </em>and <em>Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. </em>Anecdotes from those books are mind-blowing -- like Edward Teller, on the day of the first A-bomb test, being the only scientist who thought to bring sunscreen.</p><p> </p></div></div></div> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:22:16 +0000 acanuck comment 89339 at http://dagblog.com Three things, Wolfrum:  We http://dagblog.com/comment/89293#comment-89293 <a id="comment-89293"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/world-affairs/william-k-wolfrums-morning-just-hairy-guy-7240">William K. Wolfrum&#039;s Morning: Just a Hairy Guy</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size: small;">Three things, Wolfrum:  We hear that the (bald) spot <em>isn't really all that small; </em>Rest assured, in another ten years <em>the tonsured look </em>will be considered sexy; but We Won't Like You Any Longer for now, so...get a baseball cap.</span></p></div></div></div> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:59:26 +0000 we are stardust comment 89293 at http://dagblog.com