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May 21, 2013 02:09 pm PDT
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When America issued dogtags to kids to help identify their nuke-blastedcorpses
Matt Novak hits some highlights from Joanne Brown's 1988 Journal of American History paper A is for Atom, B is for Bomb (paywalled link), which discusses the weird, grim stuff that America contemplated at the height of the cold war, and worried about how it would identify the charred corpses of children after a nuclear [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hR2115_T384/story01.htm
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