Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 May 2023 Acquired Lockheed Martin
“Not only were there recent nuclear tests happening right nearby, I believe that nuclear testing continued right nearby while they're using this site, Groom Lake, to test the U-2.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Lockheed Martin
Transcript context
…How insane is it that this is where we were testing nukes? I actually do not understand how there was no radiation poisoning. I don't fully understand the half life and all that needs to be done, but how was that safe? Yeah, it's insane. Not only were there recent nuclear tests happening right nearby, I believe that nuclear testing continued right nearby while they're using this site, Groom Lake, to test the U-2. A hundred percent. It's the craziest thing. They had to, sometimes, take some time between the most recent nuclear test and when they wanted to go fly because these sites are12 miles away from each other or something pretty close. If you're curious, listeners, there's this great documentary on Amazon called Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works that has a bunch of footage of all of this.…
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