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When I was in junior college I worked part-time for SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) as a draftsperson in their nuclear instrumentation division. While there I worked on three underground nuclear tests:
- Midas Myth/Milagro, 02-15-1984, <20 KT yield
- Mist Rain, 04-05-1985, <20 KT yield
- Mighty, Oak 04-10-1986, <20 KT yield
These were a series of tests for the MIRV warhead on the MX missle (which at the time was being designed to run around the country on a rail car and launched from random locations).
The DOE gives everyone who works on tests a certificate that is a cartoon depicting the story of the test. Weird.
Nuclear weapons are bad :(