It makes me cringe to think of all the -- how many: dozens? hundreds? -- nuclear 'tests' that have been done around the earth. It doesn't matter whether it's a 'war' or a 'test' ... it still a nuclear explosion raining little bits of radioactivity into the entire atmosphere. -- People think that Chernobyl was bad (and it was), but there was a far worse plant meltdown in the Urals in 1954 -- like 5x to 10x worse. In 1954. All that radiation is nice and evenly spread around the Earth now. -- Does anyone remember the series of 1950's nuclear test explosion images that someone posted awhile back? Posted info on them too, interesting stuff. Big, early, messy bombs, exploding in mid-atmosphere. We all breathe it today.

We are soaking Iraq, like we soaked Croatia, in a pretty fine dust of radioactive munitions. They will be suffering, like Vietnam is suffering today, for generations to come. So much for sparing the truly innocent.