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Offline Larry

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65 years ago today...
« 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)
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Offline TOMCAT21

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Re: 65 years ago today...
« Reply #1 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.
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Offline Drive

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Re: 65 years ago today...
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2010, 12:06:29 AM »
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.

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