"That's why I got cancer," Noelan “Mac” McCormack said as he set a copy of Leatherneck magazine on his kitchen table.
A mushroom cloud rose into the air in the black and white photograph on the page, an image from Operation Tumbler–Snapper, where a teenage McCormack and his fellow Marines in March 1955 were instructed to be as close as possible to the nuclear testing site as the military conducted experiments with this new and powerful force.
"We were 3,000 yards away from ground zero on that one," he said.
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Here s something that might cause you to drink. The price of whiskey has gone up, thanks in part to the trade wars of the Trump era.
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Mac McCormack of McCormack s Big Whiskey Grill in Richmond says when the former president imposed his whiskey tariff, the price of one of his high-end bottles went from $2,000 to $2,500. I don t know why Trump felt like putting tariffs on Scotch whiskeys and Irish whiskeys would make people drink more American whiskey because that s not really the way the world works. Making Scotch more expensive to the consumers of the United States doesn t make them drink American whiskey, McCormack says.