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Weaponeer on Nagasaki A-Bomb Dies at 94
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| 12/6/05
Posted on 12/06/2005 12:59:00 PM PST by Borges
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To: section9
Yer busted. Bock's Car is at Wright. I saw it on line. My wife and I were going to visit her, but Katrina was blowing through Ohio when we were there....
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posted on
12/06/2005 2:47:46 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: zencat
Little Boy was tough to measure. I think it was the only U-235 bomb built. I could be wrong. I've been called an imbecile before....
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posted on
12/06/2005 2:51:01 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: MineralMan; Paleo Conservative
http://www.cloudnet.com/~jfb/
(Briol was wifey's uncle)
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posted on
12/06/2005 2:58:48 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(403-3)
To: ErnBatavia
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posted on
12/06/2005 3:04:03 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey hey ho ho Andy Heyward's got to go!)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
12/06/2005 3:11:10 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(403-3)
To: zencat
According to the official papers of the Manhattan Project, Little Boy was between 12.5 and 15 kilotons. More recent calculations have put it at closer to 12.5 kilotons than to 15.
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posted on
12/06/2005 4:10:53 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Those Who Want to Impeach President Bush Are the Party of Treason.)
To: Al Gator
Mecca works just fine. During the Haj is even better.
Thats what I call carpet bombing...... ;-)
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posted on
12/06/2005 5:35:40 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: Borges
Rest in peace, shipmate......
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posted on
12/07/2005 10:17:01 AM PST
by
stm
To: A Jovial Cad
Thought you may be interested.
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posted on
12/07/2005 11:59:48 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Cyber Liberty
One of a few. There were some uranium-only weapons tested in the various programs following the war. Operation Ivy, for example, had the Ivy King test, a 500 kt uranium bomb, that was part of the program that produced the first thermonuclear explosion (Ivy Mike).
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posted on
12/07/2005 12:09:09 PM PST
by
chimera
To: MineralMan
My dad is a WWII pilot too, he's 82 and failing also. I found a neat Christmas present for him
here.
Check it out
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posted on
12/07/2005 12:18:20 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Bad Lawmakers = Bad Law = Infinite Lawyers)
To: katana
very correct!
The plutonium bomb was the only weapon that was tested.
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posted on
12/07/2005 12:19:55 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Bad Lawmakers = Bad Law = Infinite Lawyers)
To: Borges
Thank you for the *ping; I hadn't heard this sad news.
R.I.P., Admiral Ashworth.
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posted on
12/07/2005 12:56:36 PM PST
by
A Jovial Cad
("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -General Curtis LeMay)
To: Borges
Haven't seen any articles yet today, the 61st Anniversary of Nagasaki, so I thought I'd bump this.
Happy Nagasaki Day, y'all! ;>)
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posted on
08/09/2006 5:39:08 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a b!tch. The gun went off. I don't know why.)
To: zencat
Little Boy was 12.5-15 kilotons. Trinity and Fat Man were around 20-22 kilotons.
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posted on
08/09/2006 5:41:08 AM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: namsman
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posted on
08/09/2006 5:41:58 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: katana
I hate AP. Bockscar dropped "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. "Little Boy" was the Hiroshima bomb.I wondered if anyone was going to point out their mistake. Good looking out.
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posted on
08/09/2006 5:49:35 AM PDT
by
Mark17
To: Borges
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posted on
08/09/2006 6:12:28 AM PDT
by
MrTed
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