For you Inteli- intalgn- intelang- SMART People

[TheVTCGuy]

So, I hear about this (supposed) TRUE story today on Satelite Radio. The year is 1951 and the place is the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, where the US is doing nuclear weapons testing. A Navy photographer was assigned the duty of taking pictures on a small island that had been involved in one of the tests. Although the Island is hot with radiation, he is safe if he doesn't eat anything, drink anything, or dig into the sand of the island, and as long as he'd not there for an extended period of time, something like 8 or 10 hours or something. Well, accidentally he gets left there over night. Now, here is the point/question. SUPPOSEDLY, his ROLEX stopped during the night, DUE TO THE RADIATION.

I find that very hard to believe. If there was enough radiation to stop a mechanical watch, there certainly would be enought to kill a human being... wouldn't there? Why would radiation effect the workings of a watch anyway?
It's not magnetisim...