61 years ago- first atomic explosion.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
Whats unsettling is so many countries now have the desire to build their own and use them.
Twitch
Staff Sergeant
Hehehe!
Henk
Master Sergeant
Is the area where it was tested still radio active?
syscom3
Pacific Historian
Henk
Master Sergeant
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?
syscom3
Pacific Historian
They died of old age.
Henk
Master Sergeant
So they did not get any radiation?
syscom3
Pacific Historian
Yes they got radiation, but obviously it wasnt enough to cause a premature death.
Soundbreaker Welch?
Tech Sergeant
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.
Henk
Master Sergeant
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.
Soundbreaker Welch?
Tech Sergeant
Yes it is. Is there anything much more powerful than an exploding atom?
Fusing atoms - fusion is much more powerful than fission (also a lot harder to do)...
Henk
Master Sergeant
Correct Gnomey.
the lancaster kicks ass
Major General
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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................
Soundbreaker Welch? said:
Matter/Anti-Matter? If the theory is correct, Matter and Anti-Matter duked it out in the begining of the Universe and Matter won. These two forces/existences/particles???) whatevers canceled each other out and by doing so, released gobs of energy. Unlike Fission and Fusion, the interaction was 100% efficient. Here's the inevitable link:
Matter and Anti-matter
Nobody has ever done it. But in theory, only a little bit makes one helluva big bang.
