Ed Helms

In blast.

I guess everyone understood that would be a nuclear blast.

And for some reason they didn't want to say nuclear in the headline.

I don't know.

I can think of some reasons why you want to spruce it up a little bit.

Let's save on some ink on that one and blast.

It was even reported that the time was set for 11 p.m.

and that, quote, the white fireball is expected to spread across the sky, changing colors as it grows.

I mean, that sounds kind of festive.

Again, let's give it a positive spin.

John Wayne, let's go shoot the Conqueror in an old nuclear testing site.

And everybody is involved.

A lot of folks ended up getting cancer.

And it's...

Kind of like that's another Hollywood tragedy we need to cover at some point.

There was not a lot of understanding around the nuclear.

There's a radiation disposal site that's not very well managed in the San Fernando Valley over by Woodland Hills that I didn't know about until I lived there briefly.

Spooky.

And what did they know about the effects of nuclear testing like this at the time?

Like, did they had enough time passed since, you know, they were actually detonating these bombs that they understood the long term health effects on people?