Manhattan Project faces backlash over nuclear weapons-themed beers

I'm officially ISO these now, and I'd never even heard of this brewery before. I guess it's true what they say about any publicity being good publicity.

 

I just listened to a story on NPR (WUNC-The State of Things) about nuclear testing in The Marshall Islands and Nevada. There was/is a large cohort of men that manned these sights and many have experienced very serious health issues, some from the following generation of these veterans. The government has given them a certificate for their service. The VA has provided some medical care for some cancers. It was very poorly operated and no one really knew what the effects would be. It is a dreadful story and these veterans were literally guinea pigs for a terrible legacy. I think the brewers of these beers will ultimately truly and fully regret the decision to use these names on a commercial product.

 

All this makes me believe that none of those guys were alive back in the day when the threat of nucular war was quite real... Movies I've seen show how children were regularly dirlled to see the flash and then immediately drop under their desk in a duck and cover. Having lived through the TMI accident I'm well aware of what could have happened to the greater Philly area had that blown and the wind was blowing this way rather than over the coal mine areas where they half life of some of the fall out would have made the unusable by humans for roughly 10,000 years.

 

I have zero issue with the brand or cans. I have more of an issue with the constant crying from the masses about everything offending. It's becoming borderline annoying. Here is a solution, just don't buy their beer if you feel upset about this then move on, next!

Hey if I put a picture of a WWII bomber on my Stout is that going to cause distress due to folks seeing them fly back in the day? If I see a movie on TV about the war is that insensitive? WOW

Cheers

 

Viewing history through the myopic lens of PC cultural always yields humorous results. The nuclear bomb didn't kill 100,000 of innocent civilians, it prevented the deaths of billions of people in another global world war*. We should be celebrating it!*

*At least until they go off and kill us all

At this point when I hear the name "Bikini Atoll" all I can think about is the horrible pain and suffering of the islanders and so I think they should change the name of their island to something that doesn't have negative connotation and historical emotional triggers.

 

Agree.

It is part of the our history, period. People need to get over it already and realize life was not always as simple as facebook and the internet. People had to make decisions and big ones at that, to sit today and pick them apart is a laugh in my book.

 

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill

Rather than pretend things did not happen or PC them out of existence maybe kids/people today need to study history and understand it rather than trying to whitewash it out of existence.

Now back to beer.
LOL

 

These guys are out of Texas, I hope AZ gets some cans. I will be happy to sample them all. They are cool looking to boot, dig the art. The key is are they good, or just a fly by night place.

 

That tells me you never lived in an area where there was a real possibility of actual raidioactive waste or where that had already happened to you as it did in a few populated areas of the US.


BTW, in the US what you want to put on your mug is not a US good guy plane but a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero. But be careful not to show your mug to a Marine Corps combat vet from the pacific theater of WW II. A few are still alive and kicking. Or try putting German Junker dive bomber on the mug in the Netherlands, the have some very long memories there.

 

Understood, but the possibility of fallout was thought real by pros at that time.

 

I don't see them joking about history or using funny sayings? They are using art on their cans, if that art/symbol somehow upsets you or others then I cannot help that. When I look at their cans I see nothing new, nothing I have not seen a million times in books, on tv, etc. No one raises a hair when movies come out about this or other topics from our past?

It would be different if this brewery was MOCKING something or denying things, I don't see that? Are they? Can you or someone show me how they are opening mocking this?

Beer companies use art like this all the time, in one form or another. I see zero wrong with this company or the cans.

Cheers

 

What exactly is it about the Manhattan project that these people are upset with? Are they disappointed ****** didn't get the bomb first? The historical ignorance of our society is nauseating. I do have to admit the natives of the Marshall islands may have a point. I probably wouldn't like it if someone used the crater where part of my home used to be to sell beer.