(no subject)

About halfway through The Atomic Times I ran across a chapter in which the author was given orders to process. One was a requisition order for new furniture for the colonel's house on Eniwetok, and this was classified, because classified orders got processed faster. The other was an order to cancel the requisition for reinforced protective goggles for the enlisted men to wear during the upcoming Redwing tests. When he asked about this, given that his major had gone into great detail about how important eye safety was and how useful those goggles were, he was told that Important Visitors to the testing site would be staying at the colonel's house and they couldn't have them seeing old, worn out furniture and sleeping on lumpy beds, and that there was only room on the plane for either furniture or goggles, so the enlisted men would just have to not look at the tests, and turn around to face away from the explosion- and probably put an arm over their eyes.

GOD DAMMIT REAL WORLD HISTORY, STOP SOUNDING LIKE YOU WERE WRITTEN BY THE WRITERS OF FALLOUT.