Author Topic: My favorite nuclear explosion (Read 1151 times)

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #30 on:** April 01, 2004, 07:59:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
The treaty prohibiting atmospheric, underwater and space nuclear tests was signed in 1963. However, China didn't join it for a long time. I remember that they had an atmospheric thermonuclear test in 1982, the radioactive cloud crossed the Soviet border and caused a lot of trouble in Far East.

BTW, USSR was the first country to ban nuclear tests completely in 1984. US didn't join the ban, and later we had a period when some tests were performed.

FYI those US underground experiments were built and carried out by people from my hometown, fathers of friends, etc.

The first nuclear ramjet was also developed here. http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

hawker238 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 01, 2004, 08:59:17 PM »

Very interesting link.... thanks.

Wolfala · « **Reply #32 on:** April 01, 2004, 09:30:17 PM »

Thats one hell of a story. Thanks for the link!!

LAWCobra · « **Reply #33 on:** April 01, 2004, 10:08:12 PM »

Mine is the one that I hope never happens

Halo · « **Reply #34 on:** April 01, 2004, 10:27:16 PM »

Fascinating link, Funked1, thanks.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 02, 2004, 06:46:00 PM »

Glad you guys enjoyed it. I'm kind of obsessed with cold war technology.

-MZ- · « **Reply #36 on:** April 02, 2004, 07:16:32 PM »

"Pluto's namesake was Roman mythology's ruler of the underworld -- seemingly an apt inspiration for a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)"

And to think something like that came out of Berkely

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #37 on:** April 02, 2004, 08:33:45 PM »

Not Berkeley, it was UCRL aka LLNL. Berkeley's lab is LBL.

Cerceuilvolant · « **Reply #38 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:10:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen10
lol Cerceuilvolant

Always nice to se an island paradise turned into a nuke desert.

Yeah, I wrote a letter to Chirac to ask him if we couldn't test them in a more appropriate place, say, Texas, but got a letter from his secretary, saying that of course, they didn't wait my suggestion to study it. In fact, they won't test the nukes in Texas because it would make detonate the redneck's ammo stocks, add to this the natives' grease, the fire would never stop

NUKE · « **Reply #39 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:16:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Cerceuilvolant
Yeah, I wrote a letter to Chirac to ask him if we couldn't test them in a more appropriate place, say, Texas, but got a letter from his secretary, saying that of course, they didn't wait my suggestion to study it. In fact, they won't test the nukes in Texas because it would make detonate the redneck's ammo stocks, add to this the natives' grease, the fire would never stop

Im just guessing, but you are probably some disgruntled person banned from the BB and taking it out on Texas in a childish attempt to get back at HTC or Skuzzy.

The fact is that France would be wiped out faster than they could surrender if they tried to attack the US.

edit: or of course I may be wrong.....that happens too.

Montezuma · « **Reply #40 on:** April 03, 2004, 01:32:00 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Not Berkeley, it was UCRL aka LLNL. Berkeley's lab is LBL.

Whatever. Can you imagine that thing screaming over the parking lot at a Dead show?

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #41 on:** April 03, 2004, 02:42:57 AM »

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Originally posted by Montezuma
Whatever. Can you imagine that thing screaming over the parking lot at a Dead show?

A Dead show... Do you honestly think that anything could take the attention away from the nitrous tanks?

If I were a worm, I'd avoid Jerry Garcia.

bigsky · « **Reply #42 on:** April 03, 2004, 05:02:38 AM »

the explosives used in this strip mine have been mistaken for underground warhead testing.
http://community.webshots.com/album/32800887mMRhob/0

you can tell the scale by the huge scraper. i worked for a company that put a new roof on on coalstrip 1, the first of 4 generators, built in 1973. they pump nitrate and diesel fuel into the ground.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #43 on:** April 03, 2004, 10:30:37 AM »

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Originally posted by bigsky
the explosives used in this strip mine have been mistaken for underground warhead testing.
http://community.webshots.com/album/32800887mMRhob/0

you can tell the scale by the huge scraper. i worked for a company that put a new roof on on coalstrip 1, the first of 4 generators, built in 1973. they pump nitrate and diesel fuel into the ground.

I thought it was impossible to mistake stripmining for atomic testing due to the chain-sequence of blasting that they do, as opposed to a single big thud generated by an atomic explosion. I do recall hearing that it was an issue, however, as rival as well as friendly nations keep a close watch on seismic occurances.