Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear weapon, nicknamed "First Lightning", at a test facility on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan (formerly the Kazakh SSR). The test site, named the Semipalatinsk Polygon, would go on to host 456 atomic explosions over its 40-year existence. Residents in the surrounding area became unwittin […]
Submitted by Eric:Carly was a retail worker in a video/electronics store at the local mall. We talked a lot whenever I went in there and I finally got the nerve to ask her out.At dinner, she asked me all sorts of questions. Questions like, "Do you have a lot of friends?" "How many of them are girls?" "Do you hang out with them a […]