More world atomic explosions and tests than I realised. Bloody hell!

[oldrider]

I found this a little slow but interesting none the less! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=LLCF7vPanrY

God help us when all the other nutter's start firing them off too!

[Subike]

first saw that about the time of the quakes here in chch
a bit scary really.
and agree if tem other fells start, the cracks will start too

[mashman]

God help us when all the other nutter's start firing them off too!

If they're gonna do it, I wish they'd hurry up and get the fuck on with it... the suspense is killing me

[Mental Trousers]

Watch the Trinity movie. Scary stuff.

[mashman]

Watch the Trinity movie. Scary stuff.

I saw that the other night on the History Channel... some stunning explosions but FFS

[unstuck]

[Kickaha]

I'm more worried about the Atomic bombs that they've managed to lose

[gunnyrob]

It certainly is interesting to look at the atomic bombing museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously the cities have been rebuilt, but they have preserved some areas as artefacts. Nagasaki particularly reminds me of the hutt valley. Ground Zero is the blueish statue to the left of the photo, on the centreline.

What brings it into perspective is looking at the photos in the Peace Museum of the Schoolgirls doing bayonet practice on the morning of the bombing. Partial justification perhaps, but hopefully nukes never get used in anger again.

Speaking of Christchurch, check out this animation of the earthquakes in 2011. ChCh is 21 Feb, but check out the earthquake that kicked off the Tsunami in mid March......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a--NC4Nong

[Winston001]

If you are interested in this stuff, its worth knowing about the Castle Bravo test on Bikini Atoll in 1954. This was an early test of the hydrogen bomb as compared with the atom bomb, which is what was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hydrogen bombs use fusion instead of fission (which is what operates nuclear reactors), are cleaner and vastly more destructive.

So Castle Bravo is all set to go. The reactive isotope is lithium deuteride 6. Mixed in was lithium deuteride 7 which is stable and is part of the yield when you run these isotopes through the cyclotrons. No problem.

The explosion was planned to be 5 megatons. Big, interesting, and safe enough to watch.

Not exactly...

The explosion was 15 megatons, nearly sank observing ships, destroyed most of the data instruments, and killed some Japanese fishermen over the horizon. It remains the largest atomic test ever conducted by the USA.

One interesting consequence - Neville Shute wrote "On the Beach" which is a sombre effective novel about the world just after nuclear exchanges.




And all because lithium deuteride 7 changes to 6 when the atomic energies are high enough. Who knew...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

[240]

Just wait till the fucken Muslims get the bomb then we are all fucked..... real quick.You can't reason or frighten people who want to sacrifice themselves.

[Pussy]

Always liked this scene....

[superman]

Just wait till the fucken Muslims get the bomb then we are all fucked..... real quick.You can't reason or frighten people who want to sacrifice themselves.

*fundamentalist Muslims*

Geeze be PC about it instead of generalising all 1.6 billion of them into suicidal maniacs.

[oldrider]

If you can sit through the whole thing, it does make you gasp at how many tests have been carried out though!

I was alive before this all started and frankly I had no idea just how many there have been .... left me feeling a bit numb!

[Swoop]

Also a few comments here.

[Winston001]

Just wait till the fucken Muslims get the bomb then we are all fucked..... real quick.You can't reason or frighten people who want to sacrifice themselves.

Too late. Pakistan.