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Offline 1K3

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6 of August, 1965
« on: August 05, 2005, 09:03:46 PM »
40 years ago, Voting Rights Act changed America

I would also salute the "forgotten heroes" (or is it:)) who made this possible.
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6 of August, 1965
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2005, 10:59:58 PM »
Can't forget August 6, 1945

Enola Gay dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.


Thank god nothing like that has happened since Nagasaki!
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2005, 11:28:57 PM »
Heard that on news radio tonight, except the woman referred to it as a "nuclear" bomb instead of "atomic" bomb.  

If it was nuclear, many more people would of been dead
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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2005, 09:07:29 AM »
Why do you think a nuclear fission weapon is not a nuclear weapon?
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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2005, 08:04:45 PM »
He thinks that way because the atomic bomb is a nucular weapon not a nuclear one.  :rolleyes:
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« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2005, 10:47:21 PM »
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Heard that on news radio tonight, except the woman referred to it as a "nuclear" bomb instead of "atomic" bomb.  

If it was nuclear, many more people would of been dead


Atomic bombs are  nuclear bombs. The original 'atomic' bomb was a simple fission device based on ramming a uranium projectile into a uranium core. Modern 'nuclear' bombs are a little more fancy (and more efficient), but still use uranium or plutonium cores, they are just detonated differently. In my opinion, the media just used 'nuclear' instead  of 'atomic' just to sound more scary (apparently it still works for some people).
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2005, 11:00:39 PM »
Actually the original was a spherical plutonium implosion device.  The second was a uranium cannon, the third was another plutonium spherical implosion weapon.

The first uranium cannon design was over Hiroshima.  Little Boy was more cylindrical than Fat Man, Fat man being more sperical shaped.  

The plutonium design was more difficult so the need for the Trinity test before sending another to Nagasaki.

But I think the thread was commenting on the 40th anneversary of the 1965 voting rights act, not the destruction of Hiroshima.
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« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2005, 11:30:18 PM »
Yes, your right, I was just on the actual 'detonated in aggression' order.....
but yes, having the voting rights was so important.
I just wish we will have a day when there' no more of this '1st black' or '1st woman' or even 1st anything anymore. I like to hear when it's 'the 1st person ' to accomplish something, not race or sex to determine how much news you get.
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