PRESS RELEASE

POISON FIRE USA -- INTERACTIVE TIMELINE OF NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES ON CONTINENTAL US SOIL

July 6th, 2004

The Animated Software Company has just completed an exciting new animation showing all major nuclear-related events in the continental United States, 1941 to present.  It is written in Flash, the animation language of the web.

Called Poison Fire USA, the timeline/map includes:

***** All nuclear bomb blasts on continental United States soil (including in Mississippi, Colorado, New Mexico, and of course, Nevada)

***** All pressurized water type nuclear reactors in the United States

***** All boiling water type nuclear reactors in the United States

***** All nuclear submarine launches in the United States

***** All nuclear aircraft carrier launches in the United States

***** All nuclear cruiser launches in the United States

***** All major nuclear weapons facilities, research facilities, mines, dumps, etc..

We still would like to add all missile silos, SAC bases, food irradiation sites, and probably some other things, too, but accurate data is very hard to collect.  We will also be adding "hot links" for every icon on the map.

The speed of advance of the timeline can be adjusted by moving the slider bar under the date display.

If you are interested in posting a link to the Poison Fire USA web site, I've created an icon for doing so.  Here's the directory where you can find a pre-built icon to use to link to "POIFU":

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/poifu/

If you are interested in hosting a copy of Poison Fire USA at your web site, that can usually be arranged, too -- and thanks in advance!

Thanks to everyone who has helped put this project together, including Marc Page of lovarchy.org, who had the original idea for it, Kevin Kamps of NIRS who supplied much of the bomb blast data, Jennifer Viereck, Ron and Christy Schnier, my wife Sharon, who put up with my many sleepless nights as I tried to get the first release finished in time for a film project Marc was working on (Sharon also providing technical and editorial assistance), and also, thanks to many others who have provided information about nuclear activities to me over the years, or specific suggestions about "PIOFU".

Warmest regards,

Russell Hoffman
Curator,
Poison Fire USA Interactive Map of Nuclear Activities
Carlsbad, CA

Please visit these web sites:

POISON FIRE USA:  An animated history of major nuclear activities in the continental United States:
www.animatedsoftware.com/poifu/poifu.swf

STOP CASSINI web site:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/index.htm

NO NUKES IN SPACE: (FLASH animation):
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/mx/nasa/columbia/index.swf
or try:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/mx/nasa/columbia/index.html

Internet Glossary of Nuclear Terminology / "The Demon Hot Atom":
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/hotwords/index.htm

SHUT SAN ONOFRE!:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/onofre/index.htm

List of every nuclear power plant in America, with history, activist orgs,
specs, etc.:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist.htm

List of ~300 books and videos about nuclear issues in my collection
(donations welcome!):
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/mybooks.htm

Learn about The Effects of Nuclear War here:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/tenw/nuke_war.htm

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