pinkStardust : my search for time and space continues... Why the name pinkStardust ? Very shortly after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 the US (in collaboration with the UK) began a frenzy of atomic testing. That testing was taking place in two major areas in the US (Utah and Nevada) and in the south Pacific. 60 miles south of the Nevada testing site lay Las Vegas. A map found online As the propaganda machine revved up in earnest, the following message became embedded in our Cold War psyche with the USSR. Our bombs "good" (the US), their bombs "bad" (the USSR). And it worked. We became fascinated with everything atomic, including atomic testing. After all, our fascination was necessary if we, the public, would be willing to tolerate the radioactive fallout that came along with nuclear testing. I would have been fascinated, wouldn't you? And, we needed to be fascinated if we would also continue to believe that we were "safe"
