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To: hirn_man

More like a VW beetle.


17 posted on 09/02/2017 6:03:29 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

This is from Wikipedia, I originally read it somewhere else, but it was some ago and I don’t have that reference.

The 82-ton “Mike” device was essentially a building that resembled a factory rather than a weapon. It has been reported that Soviet engineers derisively referred to Mike as a “thermonuclear installation”.

The US just wanted to prove a fusion bomb was possible and smaller weapons were soon developed.


56 posted on 09/02/2017 9:56:31 PM PDT by hirn_man
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