re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Wasn't this fight the inspiration for Stallone to write Rocky?

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1. This guy had some weird gadgets

2. Early comic book artists definitely had some proportion issues

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Of the girls in this photograph, only 13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) would live to see the age of 30.

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Don’t know if I believe this. There were people a lot closer than 40 miles that had no effects.

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The girls were awoken early that morning by a strange, bright light and a distant, thunderous sound. Confused and frightened, they gathered outside their cabins, unsure of what had happened. Some of them thought it was a massive thunderstorm, while others speculated about military exercises, given the ongoing war.

Julia Carter, one of the senior campers, later recounted, “It was the brightest light I had ever seen, even though it was still dark out. We were terrified but also strangely mesmerised. None of us could have imagined that it was an atomic bomb.”

In the hours and days following the Trinity test, a peculiar phenomenon occurred. Fine, white particles began to settle over the camp, resembling snow. The girls, unaware of the true nature of these particles, danced and played in what they thought was a rare desert snowfall.

“We danced in the so-called ‘snow,’ laughing and twirling,” recalled Betty Lou Parker. “It was magical to us. We had no idea we were playing in radioactive fallout.”

Barbara Kent, aged 13 at the time remembers it as follows: “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”

Kent says that, since the blast, she began to hear of her fellow campers falling ill. By the time she turned 30, she says,

“I was the only survivor of all the girls at that camp.”

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