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15 Megatons of Hell: The Castle Bravo Nuke Test
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| March 2, 2015
| Paul Huard
Posted on 03/02/2015 6:55:46 AM PST by C19fan
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Awesome videos of this test on YouTube or watch the movie "Trinity and Beyond".
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posted on
03/02/2015 6:55:46 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
A true “blast from the past,” back when America still had the b@lls to do things like this and not feel ashamed about it.
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posted on
03/02/2015 6:59:05 AM PST
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:00:41 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: C19fan
Scientists messing with things they don’t fully understand.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:04:47 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Scientists messing with things they dont fully understand.To be a scientist, I would think, would entail messing with things one doesn't fully understand: if they were fully understood, there would be no need for scientists to understand them.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:07:13 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: chajin
Thermonuclear weapons require more understanding than normal, don’t you think?
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:09:03 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
To: C19fan
What the scientists didn’t know at the time was that the “dry” lithium deuteride had much more explosive potential when the neutrons it released split the atoms in the uranium-238 “jacket” much higher than anticipated. That’s why the original yield estimate was around 6 MT, when in reality it came out to 15 MT.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:09:08 AM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:09:31 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: C19fan
Teller watched a seismograph wiggle in a basement at UC Berkeley and knew immediately that the test had been successful. He declined to attend the test in person because he was PO’d about something.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:10:15 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: C19fan
As they used to say during the Cold War, “a test a day keeps the Reds away.”
To: C19fan
To: Blood of Tyrants
Looked good on paper.....What could possibly go wrong?.........................
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:12:51 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: deoetdoctrinae
Most of the yield was from U238 fission. It was a very dirty detonation.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:13:36 AM PST
by
rsobin
To: Steely Tom
Better to be PO’d than blown to smithereens!.....................
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:13:57 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: RayChuang88
The scientists learned that tritium effect could allow more yield from less core materials which would eventually would lead to the ability to have the MIRV warheads on the large land- and sea-based missiles. The size reduction of the actual warhead was also enhanced by the use of smaller electronic components.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:19:05 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: chajin
To be a scientist, I would think, would entail messing with things one doesn't fully understand: if they were fully understood, there would be no need for scientists to understand them. I don't understand.
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:21:20 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Well, you realize that the duration of nuclear Fallout and designing Fallout shelters was a byproduct of nuclear weapons testing, right? I hate to say it, but the overall testing of such weapons was bittersweet. We gave people radiation poisoning (downwinders in NV, UT, AZ) but at the same time, figuring out how long residual radioactivity lasted for professionals such as Cresson Kearny was a byproduct of the work.
To: C19fan
Was this the test where a decommissioned battleship was blow vertical standing up in the water?................
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:22:11 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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posted on
03/02/2015 7:22:33 AM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: T-Bird45
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