Posted on Jul 14, 2016
Reconstructing the first atomic bomb test from a chunk of scorched earth
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It is amazing what science can do today, even with events that happened in the past.
Reconstructing the first atomic bomb test from a chunk of scorched earth
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That really is amazing SSgt Mark Lines. I wonder what Werner von Braun would think of this.
The Manhattan Project was so closely guarded.
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The Manhattan Project was so closely guarded.
FYI I though you might be interested in this discussion: COL Mikel J. Burroughs COL Jean (John) F. B.LTC Stephen C. CW5 (Join to see) CSM Charles Hayden SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) SGT Randal Groover SGT (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski CPL Patrick Brewbaker SrA Christopher Wright PO1 John Miller PO3 Steven Sherrill SN Greg Wright SGT Robert Hawks SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SGT Forrest Stewart PO2 Ed C.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin
This is the true story recounted in the fat man and little boymfilm, he was played bynjohn Cusack, pretty much the only thing that film, which was actually pretty abysmal, in my view, actually got right, and which was not recounted in day one, for whatever reason....
This is the true story recounted in the fat man and little boymfilm, he was played bynjohn Cusack, pretty much the only thing that film, which was actually pretty abysmal, in my view, actually got right, and which was not recounted in day one, for whatever reason....
Louis Slotin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910– 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project. During World War II, Slotin conducted research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He performed experiments with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values. On 21 May 1946, Slotin was conducting a demonstration when he accidentally initiated a fission reaction, which released a burst of hard...
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SSgt Mark Lines Interesting stuff... I spent 12 years overseeing para-military security forces tasked with protecting our nuclear weapons complex sites and did a lot of studying about the Manhattan Project and up to the present day. Very fascinating, particularly when you work at the facilities in that history.
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