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Just in the last decade hundreds of thousands of people well over a million have been killed due to our wars. Nuclear weapons are sufficiently risky all by themselves. I have imagined what it would be like if They were Dropped so many times. Maybe that makes it more likely -paradoxically enough. We could drop a Bomb. Perhaps there are times when we even should drop a Bomb.
To prevent others dropping it perhaps. I have been to Hiroshima. The peace park, peace bell and museum. Seen the clothes schoolgirls wore when the First Bomb hit. Seen a eucalyptus, gum tree that survived the A-bomb. Hiroshima is flourishing now, reminding me very much of my own Australian home city. It was almost totally levelled worse. May we and our children and their children and so forth for the indefinite future for so long be wise. I really do wish we had high def footage of these things.
The grainy footage from the 50s and 60s adds a bit of unrealness not sure the right word to it. Hiroshima was almost totally levelled, worst destruction? Worth mentioning that the excess radiation hanging around in LEO from this test also complicated manned space exploration and influenced the type of mission the moon landing would be. Wired had a good story about it a while ago: While a nuclear war would undoubtedly start wildfires, which together with together with the burning cities would cause nuclear winter, those would be caused directly by the nuclear detonations themselves.
I very much doubt that enough radioactivity would be spread globally to effect mass death of trees. For the radiosensitivity of pine and other trees, see e. Thus, the capacity of the plant population to maintain itself could be damaged at acute doses lower than those required to cause mortality. It is worth the two minutes to read it.
The Starfish Prime video is just a youtube video, and all you do is, well, start at the beginning of a youtube video. Your survey problem is not related to this site. Although not an atmospheric test, the British were also conducting tests at Maralinga, in South Australia, at about this time. This test was in early I was born later in , and suffered a significant cancer event when I was Was there a relationship?
I will probably never know. My family lives in California. There had been many bomb parties that week but the launch had been delayed due to bad weather. We waited patiently listing to a portable radio and were told the rocket had been launched. It took a long time 10 minutes before the blast occurred. The skies were partly cloudy in the late afternoon but the whole sky lit up, white! Then blue, then green, then yellow, shrinking from the full sky back down to a hand size region. It turned red and then blood red and started to slowly expand back outward.
As it expanded it faded. It was gone after about 5 minutes. The initial blast out and back was quick.
The radio station we had been listening to went silent. As we drove back down the mountain with the rest of the bomb viewers it was very quiet.
Everyone was very subdued. A movie set during the Cuban Missile Crisis, about a boy having nightmares about Commie nukes useage of A-test footage, houses being blown away, and Hawk missile batteries being set up on the town beach , and a Roger Corman-oid movie producer played by John Goodman touring an atomic-mutant-horror flick.
Does anyone remember the doomsday clock from the 70s and 80s? I do and those things scared the hell out of me. When I was a kid I was convinced as I suspect many others were that nuclear war was an inevitability. While Helen Caldicott seems to be an alarmist, the work of others is harder to wave away. I discount Ernest Sternglass because he made unwarranted assumptions, although some, including Freeman Dyson, felt that he was at least pointing in the right direction. Alice Stewart is a little harder to dismiss, and her work showing a correlation between fallout levels and infant mortality is widely accepted as sound.
I am not aware of who Busby is, or was. Yes, there are survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki alive even today, but those were very low yield bombs, tactical nukes by current standards. This is not the same thing as an all-out exchange with hundreds or even thousands of warheads, most of which are far more powerful. If the majority of major cities in North America, Europe, and China were destroyed the death toll would extend far beyond those killed by the effects of the bombs.
Nuclear winter and radiation would cause massive crop failures, among other things. The loss of transportation, financial institutions, government and corporate offices, universities, major hospitals, industrial plants, and so on, would quickly lead to widespread economic and societal collapse, which would kill many millions more, albeit indirectly. That said, what really makes it spectacular is that the bomb design was actually capable of producing a megaton blast the practical maximum yield for a nuclear weapon with massive amounts of fallout to go with it and it was a deliverable weapon.
The slight mention of China seems to suggest that they have little potential or threat. Yet most people now believe they can reach most of the world, including the US, are accelerating their performance rapidly, and have unusual activities in the 2nd Artillery that suggest far more advancement. Especially after the recent space launches it would be most unwise to underestimate them, and really stupid to think that they are passive.
Their unannounced ICBM launch several years ago to demonstrate an anti-sat capability was upsetting to even their own civilian leadership, plus a secret ICBM launch anywhere in the world puts everybody on full alert — hardly responsible. The Doomsday clock is still around and currently reads five minutes to midnight Not sure if I recall that one exactly but reading books about it such as the SF post apocalypse novel Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence among others.
Seeinga play by a group of my high school classmates imagining the nuclear armageddon. Yeah, those had me scared silly too. The whole world chagned ina the space of a year or less. So much seemed possible and optimistic then. Guess it wa snever really realistic but for a short space of time.. I recall an interview with somebody who worked at the periphery of the Starfish Prime test — I believe he was at a monitoring station somewhere a long ways away, maybe Midway? I actually feel the same way about all of this nuclear stuff… What the hell were people thinking?
My father was one of the authors. The resulting paper was the only non-classified paper that was published since no US Government funds were used to perform the work. Funny how many people inferred from the article that bombs were dropped on the United States. Well that would make them less scary. We could make the problem go away tomorrow by changing the name to Marshmellow bomb.
No one would be scared and we could actually use science and math to deal with a technology instead of hysteria. Operation Fishbowl sure provided some spectacular pictures, but no picture is pretty enough to outweigh the threat nuclear weapons have been for almost 70 years now.
Looking at how close the cold war came to getting really hot on more than one occasion is really scary.
It's not an E male. I knew a man who served on a ship near a nuclear test site. I imagine it would have been apocalyptic… July 9, at 9: The US, worried that a Soviet nuclear bomb detonated in space could damage or destroy US intercontinental missiles, set up a series of high-altitude weapons tests called Project Fishbowl itself part of the larger Operation Dominic to find out for themselves what happens when nuclear weapons are detonated in space. And there are lots of others.
The Atomic Bomb movie has a lot of cleaned up footage of nuclear blasts. They are terrifyingly beautiful. The EMP effects in Hawaii were not significant. The streetlights that went off were likely ones that were controlled by photosensors. According to reports at the time I was there the lights went back on as the glow from the detonation subsided. Prior to detonation I found a California based VOA station near the same frequency as the countdown coming from Johnston Island the launch site of the Thor missile, nm away.
At the moment of detonation there was less than a second of static. Both remained loud and clear with no dropouts. The sky was overcast so the point of detonation was not visible. But the sky instantly lit up in a brilliant chartreuse yellow-green color. It was much brighter than the brightest full moon. In about 4 or 5 minutes the edges of fading chartreuse turned into a deep crimson blood red and eventually all the chartreuse turned red and after about 10 minutes faded out. I think the worries of EMP damage are overblown, but not the desructive power of a 1.
Fortunately, the USA did not notice. Also fortunately, once the British government learned about Walt Disney, we gave up. You guys can keep him. But it all can be erased in one afternoon. Tehanu 35 — I seem to remember reading something about a link between childhood leukaemia and the pelvic X-ray examinations that pregnant women were given in the past as a standard procedure. Since the late seventies, pelvic X-ray examinations have been supplanted by ultrasound scans.
You can watch the whole thing on Youtube,. Sorry, but from my part of the world, this is the way I see it. The Mt design was not really a deliverable weapon as even the 50 Mt design weighed 27 tonnnes although the Mt design would not have been twice the weight, as the way they reduced the yield was to replace the uranium tamper with lead, so the Mt design would probably only have been a few tonnes more. If nuclear weapons can kill billions as opposed to a comparatively paltry million killed on account of faulty intelligence , then we may not have a choice…. Only two of the nine orders of trilobites, the agnostids and ptychopariids, died out during the end Ordovician extinction.
The Devonian extinction wiped all the remaining orders except the proetids which finally perished during the Great Dying at the end of the Permian. The only way I see to stop buildup of nucler wepons is to controll the radioactive meterial needed for them. The particles from nuclear testing probably impacted baby boomers, causing their children to have autism, etc. You cannot distinguish between bomb test and actual use of nuclear weapon in war. If Starfish Prime had not taken place, we might not know how dangerous EMPs are … and the next Carrington event might destroy civilization.
That would depend on whether it was possible to improve the yield to mass ratio if they had weaponized the design. What is ironic is, today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1. Launched the day after Starfish Prime and eventually destroyed by the new artificial radiation belt from the tests. NOT some lowly private who releases classified information to foreign persons for publication out of revenge for pending separation from the military. Indeed, much of the US is out of those missiles range.
What was unexpected was the severity of the EMP when detonation occurred in space. Ben and anybody else wondering why so many tests, It is necessary to make sure your operational weapons still actually function, so a certain number for a given time period are swapped out from thier delivery vehicle and detonated. It also serves to remind any would be attackers that you still have working units.
And yup if all the pine forests were dying then so would we be, but that is a rather anthropocentric view of things. Does nothing living have any value other than to serve humans? There was a time in this country when science was less politicized. Same goes for your ridiculous suggestion to rename it the Marshmellow Bomb. Not that any of your post made sense but your last sentence there is critically flawed.
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Writers were moving away from rhyme only in song and moving into free verse and then poems. So was constantly making them up and posting them on the. Mystic Falls in Verse. Inner Scan-Scam By Dorothy Mehaffey of faith Author loves to read and write this is her fourth book and have poems in various books.
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The known could beleaguer her more than the unknown. The sweetness of the new lay in its surprises. Could the Rabbi see it? Is that what you want, Rabbi?