sometimes you get through reading all these neat things about infrastructure development, or emergency repair after natural disasters, by an engineer brigade of the us army and then you get to “among the six battalions within the brigade were Atomic Demolition Munitions units armed with man-portable nuclear weapons”
Chalk River, 1954. Here are two workers wearing the protective clothing after the big reactor sprang a leak 15 months ago. They had to dissemble the reactor and decontaminate the building of radioactive particles. [TPL Archives]