[Ditto]

Nearby are places with names like Lumberton and Purvis, towns that rest atop a local salt dome where nuclear bombs were test-detonated near the height of the cold war.

I call BS on that line, but what do you expect from the NY Slimes? IFAIK, every underground test on US soil was done on the Nevada test range.

[packrat35]

Wrong. There really ere two bombs there’ Look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Site

[SuziQ]

Actually there WAS testing done in the Tatum Salt Dome. I remember feeling the effects of one, while in elementary school, in the early 60s. Our desks slid across the floor several inches. We had no clue what had happened; we only found out later about the explosions.