Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Snowbird Syndrome


When I picked up this book, I assumed it was about bacteria. Not so. It's actually a scary book about plutonium! Just listen to the chilly titles of some of the papers included: "Determination of Americium and Plutonium in Autopsy Tissue: Methods and Problems", "Deposition of plutonium in the lungs of a worker following an accidental inhalation exposure", "Deposition and retention of plutonium in the United States general population", "The influence of environmental factors on the gastrointestinal absorption of plutonium and americium". The book is published in Utah, arguably the most spooky U.S. state, and the publishers actually call themselves Snowbird. Sounds like some kind of super-classified Cold War experiment. "Let's depose plutonium in the lungs of lilac blackbirds and see what happens". That kind of stuff, still classified until the year 2567 by executive orders of the National Security Agency a.k.a. Eisenhower.



The guy who invented plutonium. Mr Snowbird himself, I presume? 

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