Posted on 03/17/2017 1:35:15 PM PDT by NYer
The government would never lie to us
I always wanted to see an exploded view of an exploding explosion.
Always in the Dr. Strangelove mood.
Bkmrk for later.
* * *
You saw similar effects on tower mounted devices with guy wires. The soft x-ray pulse traveled ahead of the fireball, vaporizing the wires. Dr. John Malik called it the “rope trick”.
These things are the only defense we have against a threatening comet or meteor impact. The Cold War nuclear arsenals may one day be praised as having saved the entire planet’s bacon.
These things are the only defense we have against a threatening comet or meteor impact. The Cold War nuclear arsenals may one day be praised as having saved the entire planet’s bacon.
I’ll second #37.
Some were detonated on towers or balloons for elevation studies. The blast was able to progress down the guy wires faster than thru air, leading to the “spike” effect.
bkmk
I’m not so sure that those men were riding into the nuke blast area. Maybe, but it wasn’t obvious, and easily could have been done just for propoganda purposes. The one shot that does have a blast cloud in the background is much smaller than the one from the nuke.
I got a kick out of the wooden chairs in front of the computer, and the guys with sabers on horseback as they enter the Nuclear Age.
Start blinking your eyes at 55 if you don't see it :)
“The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs during war. In 1945, at least 100,000 men, women, and children were instantly killed when bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in addition to tens of thousands more who later died because of the bombs after effects.”
....and thereby saved the lives of a least 1,900,000 Japanese and 1,000,000 Allies who were expected to die in Operations Olympic - Coronet, the Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands.
I once asked a former WWII Japanese Field Artillery officer about the universally accepted estimate of a total of 2,000,000 Japanese dead in the invasions. He said, “No. That number is wrong. It would have been much higher, perhaps as many as 8 t0 14 million. Every Japanese man and boy, and I mean every one, would have been honored to die for the emperor.”
The part of the physics I always was the most amazing is that all the nuclear fission reactions are complete in a few millionth of a second. All the rest is aftermath.
It wasn’t in anger, it was out of necessity. Kinda like George Zimmerman having to shoot Trayvon Martin. It’s too bad that it had to happen but it did.
***at least 100,000 men, women, and children were instantly killed when bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki***
So? it was WAR. Almost the same number were killed when Tokyo was bombed with conventional bombs. Don’t see Leftists and Liberals weeping and wailing about them!
Amazing. I imagined Mecca at the epicenter.
Google the words "rope trick" and you'll get complete explanation.
This is some fascinating stuff.I always thought that a nuke going off was instant destruction of the entire immediate area.
They ought to make a movie about that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.