[CrazyIvan]

Here’s a hint for those students. Use the same technique the United States used to detect the first Soviet detonated atom bomb.

I don’t know what that is, but I’ll bet Doc does. We’re
both from the “duck and cover” generation.

[Milhous]

This might prove useful.



Strangelove Slide Rule
Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer
Online Edition
by John Walker

[Red Steel]

According to the graphic above, the radioactive plume is measured in kilometers from the surface. The US, as I recall, used high altitude balloons carrying detection equipment...

And I took a quick look around and I found the Air Force used B-29s equipped with filters to trap airborne debris. But I was thinking of a more practical way for students was to use balloons that the USAF also employed to air sample at altitude:

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2006/4/2006_4_44.shtml

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/balloons.htm

[NoLibZone]

I don’t know what that is, but I’ll bet Doc does. We’re
both from the “duck and cover” generation.

LMAO.

I renumber all those drills too