Kirghiz light

Mike Weaver pic at gn.apc.org
Sat Dec 18 17:22:36 CST 1999


>Jeremy Osner wrote:
>> 
>> Is the Kirghiz light a nuclear explosion? -- Because it sure sounds like
>> one. But what I want to know is, who would be setting off nuclear
>> devices in central Asia in the early days of WWII? 
rj wrote:
>It is Enlightenment of some description. I don't think it is the bomb,
>although it could be, I guess.

I was going to ask if anyone knew where in the area the first soviet tests
took place.  Somewhere in that region.  I've always assumed the Light was
more important as metaphor/symbol of meaningful quest or whatever but could
also be a precursive echo of later nuclear brightness...

Night night all.

Mike




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