I've seen a program/documentary/movie on PBS here in Austin that 
included footage of those pigs, as they were being scorched and 
were squealing.  I suppose it could have been faked, but it looked 
real enough.  The pigs were in box-cages.  The idea was that the 
thermal radiation (not to mention gamma, x-ray, etc.!) got there 
and fried them to varying degrees before the shock wave.  The show 
was titled (if memory serves) "Dark Circle" and was vigorously 
anti-nuke -- thus the carnage was intended to disgust the viewer.  
Another interesting thing I seem to recall in the film is jabs it
made at some corporations it said were involved in the production 
of nuclear weapons, etc.  I'm pretty sure it included G.E., along 
with their slogan ("We bring good things to life.").  I think it 
did the same with Westinghouse and some other companies.


-- ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Jun 15 02:47:17 1995