[vienna]

Yeah, it's nice to know it's (hopefully) not going to be lethal any more, but seeing a detonation of such device would be totally awe inspiring, seen many videos in my previous career and they're all jaw-dropping things.

Same here; I saw a great number of bomb test films during the sixties in school, including some directly from the pentagon archives in my senior year in high school (I took Jr. ROTC and our Army Sargeant had connections and could get us some rather interesting films and speakers for our classes). I do remember reading an article written by a news reporter in the 1980's who had witnessed, at ground level, quite a few above ground tests. He told in the article of one particular test of a newer, more powerful device. This particular test brought out the top Pentagon brass replete with uniforms festooned with ribbons to strut and crow about their newest "toy". Most of these VIPs had never seen an actual test in person before and had no real idea of what was to occur. The test went off and the veteran reporter turn back to see if he could get comments from the Pentagon brass and found most of them huddled on the far side of the observation bunker cowering in fear and awe...