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Or, at a minimum, not excreting it.

But for all that, I do have, sealed under a glass dome here on my desk, a small piece of Trinitite -- the glassy green fused sand of the Alamagordo desert floor, created in the 'Trinity' test explosion of the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945. A former business colleague who is a physicist assures me it is now safe, this long after the event. Though he suggests not ingesting it.

"Did you hear that?" "Not a thing to worry about dear, we're perfectly safe"

It's a good thing we all like different things and different places. That "terrible" Casa Urich has 62 reviews on Trip Advisor and most of the reviews are very good to excellent - Of the 62 reviews, 16 rated it excellent, 39 rated it very good, 5 rated it average, 1 person rated it poor and 1 person rated it terrible. Here is a link to the Trip Advisor ratings and a little more about the restaurant. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g303506-d2352693-Reviews-Casa_Urich-Rio_de_Janeiro_State_of_Rio_de_Janeiro.html -

Hey guys...I will be in Rio in July and looking for some unique, different restaurants... I would love to experience something that I cant find here in the States and something that you found interesting, amazing, or just different... Huge foodie here so totally open to experience.... Would love to try a restaurant with a hot waitstaff or several courses or just something out of the norm.... Thanks in advance...

You can UNWRAP it Yourself !

The boys are READY !

The remains of Armageddon: Revisiting the sites of America's atomic arsenal By Nicole Crowder June 18 The Washington Post The Mosler bank vault, built to determine the effects of nuclear weapons on civil structures, survived a 37-kiloton blast in 1957 at the Nevada National Security Site. After the explosion workers removed the vaults door and discovered that the simulated currency inside was undamaged. (Jim Lo Scalzo) The remains of Hanford High School, which will become part of the upcoming Manhattan Project National Historical Park, are seen at the Hanford Site in Hanford, Wash. The site was used to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and is now one of the most toxic nuclear sites in the Western Hemisphere. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) Sprinkled throughout the back roads of America are the remains of Armageddon. Or what could have been Armageddon had the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union suddenly gone hot. In the coming months, the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of Energy will establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park preserving once-secret sites in Los Alamos, N.M., Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash., where scientists raced to develop the worlds first atomic bomb. Public tours at these sites are already intensely popular, selling out within days. The Park Service is trying to improve access to these sites to meet the increasing public interest. Veteran photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo of European Press Agency has been documenting many of these sitehidden in plain sitefor the past year in a project titled Next Exit: Armageddon. Yet elsewhere in the United States, the ruins of the Manhattan Project, and the arms race that followed, remain overlooked. In North Dakota, pyramid-like anti-missile radar, built to detect an incoming nuclear attack from the Soviet Union, pokes through the prairie grass behind an open fence. In Arizona, a satellite calibration target used during the Cold War to help U.S. satellites focus their lenses before spying on the Soviet Union sits covered in weeds near a Motel 6 parking lot. In South Dakota, decommissioned nuclear missiles still aim skyward; in Nevada and New Mexico, the remains of nuclear testing still scar the desert. And in a suburban Chicago park, where visitors jog and bird watch, nuclear waste from the worlds first reactor developed by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi for the Manhattan Project in 1942 sits buried beneath a sign that reads CautionDo Not Dig. From Next Exit: Armageddon by Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA Two rocket fuel handler outfits, which were worn by propellant transfer system technicians, are displayed at the Titan Missile Museum, which preserves a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile, in Sahuarita, Ariz., in April. (Jim Lo Scalzo) The control room of the X-10 graphite reactor, the worlds second reactor after Enrico Fermis so-called Chicago Pile, is seen at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Built in secret during the Manhattan Project, the reactor supplied plutonium to nuclear scientists working at Los Alamos. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) The loading face of the X-10 graphite reactor is seen through the window of the control room at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) Tourists are seen in a long-exposure image visiting Trinity Test Site, where on July 16, 1945, scientists working with the Manhattan Project detonated the worlds first atomic bomb, on White Sands Missile Range just outside San Antonio, N.M. The Department of Defense allows the public to visit the site on just two days a year. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) A decommissioned Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile sits in an underground silo at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Ariz., in April. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) The room that would have served as the House of Representatives in the event of a nuclear war is seen in a once-secret nuclear bunker built for members of Congress beneath the Greenbrier, a four-star resort near White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The 112,544-square-foot bomb shelter included enough beds and supplies to accommodate all the lawmakers. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) Decontamination showers inside a once-secret nuclear bunker built for members of Congress are seen beneath the Greenbrier. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) The assistant launch control officers station is seen at the Delta 01-Launch Control Facility, the former control center of a Minuteman missile, just outside Wall, S.D., in March. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) A pressure monitor panel is among some of the vintage switches and indicators inside the main control room of Hanfords historic B Reactor, the worlds first, full-scale nuclear reactor, on the Hanford Site in Washington state in May. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) The atomic cloud logo of the Richland High School Bombers, which reflects the pride in the Richland area for the communitys role in the development of the Manhattan Project and the end of WW II, decorates the floor of the high schools gymnasium in Richland, Wash. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) Tourists walk through a blast door at the Delta 01-Launch Control Facility, the former control center of a Minuteman missile, just outside Wall, S.D. After the missile site was deactivated in 1994, the National Park Service turned the facility into the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) The remains of a pyramid-like anti-missile radar, part of the the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, which was completed in 1975 during the Cold War to detect an incoming nuclear attack from the Soviet Union, are seen just outside Nekoma, N.D. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) The world's first, full-scale nuclear reactor, the historic B Reactor, is seen from the window of a bus tour on the Hanford Site in Washington state in May. (Jim Lo Scalzo) Western wheatgrass has grown in and around the former launch site of a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile just outside Wall, S.D., in March. All that remains of the launch facility is a barbed-wire fence around an empty field. (Jim LoScalzo/EPA) http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/06/18/the-remains-of-armageddon-revisiting-the-sites-of-americas-atomic-arsenal/

As per the old joke about what to do in the case of nuclear attack. Get under your desk, bend over and kiss your ass good-bye. Best regards, RA1

One can hope they have Hanford safe but I'm happy to be 2000 miles away, That's the Einstein letter text all right. You can see the original typewritten document in the PDF I first linked above. Re: formality, this was the tone of many such letters and memos I read in the various histories of the bomb and of WII-era doings in general. Interesting how contemporary it all feels. Suggests that ca. 1940 was the beginning of our own era in many ways.

...known by the company you keep. Leader of group cited in 'Dylann Roof manifesto' donated to top Republicans http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/21/dylann-roof-manifesto-charlston-shootings-republicans

Hey guys....getting ready for my first trip to Rio in over a year...I want to find out if this info is still pretty accurate in regards to the saunas in Rio.... Meo Mundo - Toweless nights are Monday, Weds and Sat. BTW, for those who havent' been there, toweless nights means the boys not the customers! :-) They are closed on Sundays. Club 117 - Tuesday and Thursday nights are really busy and last time I was there a couple weeks ago, Saturday night was very busy. In the past Sunday nights at 117 have been busy because they are closed on Mondays. Pointe 202 - is fairly busy on Tuesday nights and than Friday and Sat. This last trip I was leaving on Monday night and rather that sit in the hotel to wait for my cab to come at 8:00 pm, I walked over to Pointe figuring that it would be really slow on a Monday at 5:30 but it would be more interesting to sit there having a drink than in the lobby of the hotel! IT WAS! there were quite a few guys working already and a number of customers, all Brazilerios, who it appeared were coming from work and stopping there before heading home! One guy who I personally think is one of the hottest bestlooking guys I have ever seen or been with in Rio was there! So I guess on any given night you can be surprised, but the nights listed above are usually pretty consistant in quanitity and quality! Spazio Sauna which is only a few blocks from 117 and Galleria Sauna(the former Spa 73 ) I don't/havent' gone to so I have no idea if they have any busy nights. Several years ago Spa 73 used to be one of my favorites, even though it was in Centro and a old facility, I met some very hot guys there including a couple who are porn stars now for Alexander Pictures which has primarliy Brazilians in it's casts.

Amazing....

The nerve of it! Hmmph. Here's one: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-ein39/

Einstein's letter telling FDR to get cracking on making a Bomb: http://manhattanprojectbreactor.hanford.gov/files.cfm/AlbertEinstein.pdf