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Started by Rain Man, Aug 27, 2003, 09:32

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stirfry

How bout the crazy things they were doing at Oak Ridge?
trying to find suitable shielding for nuclear Planes.
Look up Tower Shielding Facility.

These people lifted the reactor out of the ground using four tall towers, while the reactor was suspended in air they turned the thing on. and placed numerous configurations of various metals and substances for shielding.

Fun stuff those whacky guys in the early days.
Sounds like they needed 10CFR26 back then.
YA gotta be SOMEWHERE

SloGlo

quando omni flunkus moritati

dubble eye, dubble yew, dubble aye!

dew the best ya kin, wit watt ya have, ware yinze are!

stirfry

YA gotta be SOMEWHERE

Rain Man

Interesting talk on Israeli nuclear weapons strategy:


http://freeman.io.com/m_online/nov96/beresi.htm
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

HydroDave63

in other words.... "smoke 'em while you've got them!"

MadameCurie

Quoteand its in our food.
http://www.nukes.org/nukefood.html

This is not a site about nuclear history - nor is it about radiating food.

haha... i love this quote from this link.

"It is unethical to expose anyone to nuclear radiations without their consent."

maybe i just have a warped sense of humor...
or maybe i'm just bored out of my goard.

in anycase, i'm a noob here and I need more posts under my belt.
 [smiley=poke2.gif]

Rain Man

Interesting information on "broken arrows":


www.wfu.edu/~marttr2/incidents.htm


In-depth of a specific incident:


www.ibiblio.org/bomb/initial.html
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

One of the former Soviet Union's more embarassing problems:


www.logtv.com/chelya/cheldis.html


.....and if you want a vacation:


http://all-hotels.ru/chelyabinsk/hotels/index.en.html
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

Remember the "football"??  With the demise of the Soviet Bloc is it still used or even necessary??  See:


www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/nuclear-football.htm
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Wolfen

Rain Man,

Good idea on the Nuclear History thing.  This stuff needs to be captured before all of us old guys decay off.


berzio

AWEsome history.  i've been looking at the links.  need more of this before we lose more history.  

FFFFRRRRRAAAAANNNNNKKKKK

where are the heavies from sl-1

Wolfen


Rain Man

QuoteA little history - A lot of insight.


http://www.manuelsweb.com/sam_cohen.htm

Interesting read Wolfen.  Thanx.  A first strike with nuclear weapons has never been official US policy (although military doctrine dictates preparing for that possibility).  Things can change when the heat is on or if you are backed into a corner.  That is why we have organizations like the RAND Corp. to "think about the unthinkable".  See:


www.rand.org


Please note that much of the work performed by this organization is classified and not available to the general public.  They also produced the Pentagon Papers much to the embarassment of the Pentagon and the Nixon administration.
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

QuoteCheck link below for a comprehensive list of nuclear weapons tests.  Nation, GPS coordinates, yield, type...this has some great info.  It's a sh*t load of SNM that went K eff > 1.  The madness of those times.

http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Library/Catalog

The above listed link has been killed.  See the following link for the same information.  Not as detailed but still good.


http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nukexp_query.html



"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

"Tsar Bomba"....the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated:


http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

Ever wonder how underground nuclear tests are contained?  See below link:


www.clw.org/pub/clw/coalition/contain.pdf

Adobe Acrobat reader required.
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

Rain Man

The wonders of science education in the mid-70s.  From The Journal of Chemical Education:

  www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/radio_activity.html
"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt instruments"  -Lester B. Pearson

moodusjack

Driving past the ole SL-1 site dredged up some sobering thoughts.


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