[MtnClimber]

Richard Feynman is the star of the Feynman Lecture Series on Physics. Really a great series if you get a chance to see them.

[DannyTN]

[shibumi]

"Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun...

But Mama, that's where the fun is!"

[Ciexyz]

Sobering account. Makes one feel small.

[loungitude]

Ferynman was a pretty smart guy.

[Squantos]

Was present at a conventional test at white sands in the 80’s that simulated a .6kt nuclear weapon using 2400 tons of ANFO ..... HARVEST GOLD was the test name if I remember right. Been to Trinity site many times during my military Explosive Ordnance Disposal career..... both pre-fence and post fence era...:o)

Great read....thanks for posting !!!

Stay Safe !

[dr_lew]

This is in “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” ... Perhaps a record as a title with six punctuation marks. It’s in Los Alamos from Below, pgs 116-117. ... I got it right here!

[Ciexyz]

My parents lived thru that era when the bomb was dropped. They said they believed the US government when it said a million US soldiers would have died if we didn’t drop the bomb and invaded the island instead.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

There was a very big boom and cloud.

[Pelham]

During the war my mom lived with her aunt and uncle in El Paso, TX about 100 miles south of White Sands. Her uncle was outside in the yard in the early morning dark when the sky lit up as if the sun were rising in the north. Hard to hide a test that big.

[CrazyIvan]

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

[The KG9 Kid]

*The* book on the story of the atomic bomb from Marie Curie through the accidental discovery of Fission at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut and Plutonium in UC Berkeley to the Manhattan Project and finally to Hiroshima is the Pulitzer-winning "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.

It's a page-turner you can't put down. You'll know more than a little something about Physics all of a sudden after reading it too.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The eye isn't fast enough to see the really interesting things that happen in the first few microseconds of the explosion. This is really weird stuff.

[TChad]

1945 technology. I hope people remember that it still works.

[raybbr]

Bfl

[cynwoody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOwH55lnA8M

[jpsb]

A must see 1 minute video

The Essence Of Science In 60 Seconds

Richard Feynman debunks NASA

[DungeonMaster]

And that was 20,000 tons worth, Russia made a 50,000,000 ton equivalent H bomb that is all over Youtube.

[TXnMA]

While doing extended reading on this, I saw a statement that said that all of the Purple Hearts we are awarding today -- were actually created in anticipation of the invasion of the Japanese homeland.

Because of the two A-bombs, they were not needed then...

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I do know that, when exploring the Japanese back country on my trail bike; I discovered that even the smallest hill was riddled with bunkers and gun emplacements. That invasion would have been Iwo Jima and Okinawa --to the Nth power!