The Missile Defense Agency's Thermonuclear coloring book

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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1348


Michael Winship: My Thermonuclear Coloring Book

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Then I recalled a much more recent event in May 2003. The government held a Public Service Recognition Week on the Mall in Washington. A hundred or so Federal agencies put up booths and displays, extolling their work and honoring their employees' contributions to America.

One of those represented was the Missile Defense Agency. At their exhibit, the MDA handed out a document that, to me, has come to symbolize everything twisted and wacky, to use the technical phrase, about the Bush Administration's obsession with the "Star Wars" anti-missile system.

It was a coloring book.

I'm not making this up. The mini opus began with a simple portrait of Ronald Reagan, who "led U.S. efforts to develop missile defenses." Presumably, the kiddies could dig into the big Crayola box (the one with the built-in sharpener) for a crayon that approximated Reagan's hair color, a shade the late, great Pete Lisagor of the late, great Chicago Daily News once described in my presence as "prematurely orange."

But then it got complicated, with dense pictures depicting interceptor missiles, a "ground-based midcourse defense" and an "exoatmospheric kill vehicle." Hard enough to say, much less color.
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men will be men

sigh

[Canuckistanian]

1. How about this - "The CIA Kid's Page"

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/index.html

With sections like "K-5th Grade", "6-12th Grade", "Games", "Parents and Teachers"

And the games? "Break the Code", "Word Find" and "CIA Seal Puzzle"

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2. nausea

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