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.
Murdoc | December 3, 2006
LOL! Thanks for the link.
Jeffrey Lewis | December 3, 2006
No problem, man.
Don Gwartney | December 3, 2006
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/
James | December 4, 2006
Not quite as dramatic, but it bears mention that the Nevada Test Site also has its own license plate.
superdestroyer | December 4, 2006
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.
Jeffrey Lewis | December 4, 2006
Yeah, I should have put the current name in brackets.
Drew | December 4, 2006
And before DSWA, it was the Defense Nuclear Agency.
K. Boland | December 5, 2006
I grew up in Los Alamos. Does that count for a special license plate?
Karl Rahder | December 6, 2006
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…