Your father was a participant in some military experiments to determine the effects of exposure of nuclear explosions on humans, my mother, Anna Burak, told me many years ago when my dad was stationed at an Air Force base in Neveda. âDon t say anything to him about my telling you this. He might get mad. Â
Many years later, I was fortunate enough to do a local access tv interview with Cornell Prof. (Emeritus) Hans Bethe, after he went public about his opposition to the nuclear arms race between the west & the Soviet Union. M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) was one of the descriptive acronyms used by Bethe and his allies to characterize the buildup of nuclear arsenals. Among the details we discussed re: preparation for nuclear was the cycle of continual reinforcement - i.e. enhancing the thickness of the concrete silos which protected nuclear missiles from first strike destruction. This had the result that each side would then amp up the destructive power of its next r