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About LinkBacks16 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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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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Whats unsettling is so many countries now have the desire to build their own and use them.
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
Is the area where it was tested still radio active?
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Its safe to visit, believe it or not.
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"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
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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They died of old age.
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
So they did not get any radiation?
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Yes they got radiation, but obviously it wasnt enough to cause a premature death.
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"
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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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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Yes it is. Is there anything much more powerful than an exploding atom?
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
Fusing atoms - fusion is much more powerful than fission (also a lot harder to do)...
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Correct Gnomey.
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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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