Murdoc asks: “How do they verify that an applicant is eligible for this plate? With a Geiger counter?”
Apparently not, according to Eric Felten of the Wall Street Journal:
And Alabama offers what has to be the single most bizarre plate on the road today, a tag that reads “Atomic Nuked Veteran.” Those who would like to advertise this particular fact of their personal history must get a letter of verification from the Defense [Threat Reduction] Agency proving that they “were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation due to atomic bomb and weapons tested from 1946 to 1962.” No Geiger count is required.
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LOL! Thanks for the link.
— Murdoc · Dec 3, 10:46 AM ·
No problem, man.
— Jeffrey Lewis · Dec 3, 10:55 AM ·
As you can imagine, most of those vets records were “lost”
One of our vets was there and will be happy to tell you about it. http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dgwars/
— Don Gwartney · Dec 3, 05:58 PM ·
Not quite as dramatic, but it bears mention that the Nevada Test Site also has its own license plate.
— James · Dec 3, 07:01 PM ·
The name of the agency changed a few years back to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Before that is was the Defense Special Weapons Agency.
— superdestroyer · Dec 4, 10:48 AM ·
Yeah, I should have put the current name in brackets.
— Jeffrey Lewis · Dec 4, 11:02 AM ·
And before DSWA, it was the Defense Nuclear Agency.
— Drew · Dec 4, 04:14 PM ·
I grew up in Los Alamos. Does that count for a special license plate?
— K. Boland · Dec 4, 08:35 PM ·
Your number of hits from Chicago will no doubt surge soon, or at least creep up almost imperceptibly, since I just emailed all my international relations students about the license plate. I had thought that Washington State’s “Square Dancer” plates were the strangest – but how wrong I was…
— Karl Rahder · Dec 5, 08:55 PM ·