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07-17-2006, 03:47 AM
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| 61 years ago- first atomic explosion. 16 July 1945, 5:29:45 am- the first atomic bomb test, code named Trinity, was detonated in the first atomic explosion in history. The explosive yield was 20-22 Kt (initially estimated at 18.9 Kt), vaporizing the steel tower...
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07-17-2006, 03:11 PM
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| Whats unsettling is so many countries now have the desire to build their own and use them.
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07-17-2006, 05:02 PM
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| Hehehe! 
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07-17-2006, 08:06 PM
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 | Is the area where it was tested still radio active?
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07-17-2006, 09:00 PM
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07-18-2006, 04:42 PM
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| Cool, but tell me guys I saw a picture of two men standing at the little stumps of the tower after the nuke were tested I do not know how long afterwards, but did any of the men involved in the testing die?
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07-18-2006, 05:42 PM
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| They died of old age.
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07-18-2006, 07:36 PM
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| So they did not get any radiation?
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07-18-2006, 08:27 PM
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| Yes they got radiation, but obviously it wasnt enough to cause a premature death.
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07-20-2006, 05:57 PM
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|  But seriously, it must be a somewhat foreboding feeling to see the first spot of atomic mayhem, even though it was only a test. Nice pics.
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07-20-2006, 06:30 PM
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| To think guys that it is a little thing that makes such a bomb and the cloud the A-bomb makes is great and it is very fascinating for me.
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07-22-2006, 06:52 PM
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| Yes it is. Is there anything much more powerful than an exploding atom?
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07-22-2006, 06:57 PM
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 | Fusing atoms - fusion is much more powerful than fission (also a lot harder to do)...
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07-22-2006, 10:33 PM
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| Correct Gnomey.
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07-23-2006, 05:52 AM
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| hence the hydrogen bomb, a combination of fusion and fission, and to put it into context, fusion is what happens in the sun and look how much energy that gives out, it needs a temperature of 20 million degrees C to get it started though................
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