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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Larry on July 16, 2010, 06:47:49 PM

Title: 65 years ago today...
Post by: Larry on July 16, 2010, 06:47:49 PM

The world changed forever as it entered the nuclear age.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

Title: Re: 65 years ago today...
Post by: TOMCAT21 on July 16, 2010, 06:49:51 PM

time sure does fly by. Unfortunately it was a necessary evil, given the circumstances at that time.

Title: Re: 65 years ago today...
Post by: Drive on July 17, 2010, 12:06:29 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test))

Its amazing what they did given the tools that they had...

 :salute

Nowadays a couple of good physics majors can design a working device in less than a year or two with no prior nuclear weapons knowledge.

Strip