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Trinity Nuclear Weapon Test

Excerpt from the BBC drama about the worlds first nuclear explosion at the Alamogordo test range in 1945 showing the test detonation.

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1/25/2007 3:15:11 AM

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pint : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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1018 days 10 hours ago...

thats scary shit at how destructive those things are

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Kell : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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1018 days 10 hours ago...

This one was a firecracker compared to what was developed later.

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numnums : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

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1018 days 9 hours ago...

Oh the bbc....that's so credible...LMAO

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Flynn_2006 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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1018 days ago...

I thought the horse would be smart enough to run away.

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maedrarle : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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1017 days ago...

There is a difference between an atom bomb and a nuclear bomb.

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Kell : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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1016 days 4 hours ago...

^ Feel free to explain that statement..

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Xantalias : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

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1016 days 3 hours ago...

there basically the same, release of energy from the breakdown of a large atom into 2 or more smaller ones, however the componants are different in a nuclear bom and an atom bomb. one uses refined plutonium and Neutronic inducers the other uses Uranium and a uranium bullet that starts the reaction

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Wr3ck : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

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1016 days 3 hours ago...

I was about to say that.. ^
Nuclaer is like a one time use gun.. in simpler words.

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Ayle : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

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1016 days 3 hours ago...

They are still based on the princilpe of the fission so who cares about the specific name of the bomb......But I have one question : They the scientist there survived? Or where they killed later by the radiations?

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Bishop_Vick : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

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1016 days 2 hours ago...

^good question, i was wundering that

lord help us all

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Kell : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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1016 days 2 hours ago...

Atomic weapons and nuclear weapons are one the same thing, in fact nuclear is more accurate as the actual reaction itself involves the nucleus of the atom. What you seem to be confusing is fission and fusion weapons. A fission weapon can use either plutonium or uranium and involves the "fissioning" or splitting of an atomic nucleus. This releases a vast amount of energy as described by the famous equation e=mc2. Fusion weapons on the other hand use fission weapons to create the required heat and pressure to induce hydrogen nuclei to "fuse" together again liberating vast amounts of energy. The Trinity device used a plutonium core and an implosion assembly to crush the core inwards untill it was super-critical, then an initiator introduces a burst of neutrons into this super-critical mass to kick off the chain reation. The bullet device you are talking about was the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima which fired a bullet of enriched uranium 235 into another larger piece of U235.

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Kell : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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1016 days 2 hours ago...

Regarding the radiation that the scientists viewing this recieved, it was neglagable as they were several miles away. The prompt radiation from a fission weapon of this type and yield does not actually travel very far, the majority gets absorbed by the air heating it to tens of thousands of degrees creating the fireball. There is of course some lethal short range radiation, but if you were close enough to be injured by it, the blast and heat would have turned you to charred meat anyway.

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Teddyslayer86 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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1016 days ago...

Radiation poison FTW

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Miles : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

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1016 days ago...

I'm pro nuclear holocaust and everything, but this was pretty pathetic. Being a Briton myself, let me state that I do not subscribe to the quite blatant anti-American slant of the BBC.

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