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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.

  • Kell
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  • Date 1/25/2007 3:15:11 AM
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SunSpotsAndSarcasm : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

SunSpotsAndSarcasm

1 votes NegativePositive

1035 days ago...

That horse went from animal to glue in 4.8 seconds. This explosion was alright, but not as cool as the underwater one.

flying_spaghetti_monster : LVL 4: VP 1.3: said:

flying_spaghetti_monster

-1 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 23 hours ago...

Simultaneous blasts compresses the weapons-grade ball of uranium 235 until it's unstable atoms split and set off a cascading chain reaction of energy. Hiroshima blast was the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT...they got hydrogen bombs now 1000x more powerful.

thespringmouse : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

thespringmouse

5 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 22 hours ago...

Pretty nice. Except the first nuclear test was preformed at night...

PIGMAN : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

PIGMAN

1 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 22 hours ago...

Goodness gracious.......

bobismeisbob : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

bobismeisbob

4 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 22 hours ago...

In regards to Kell's comment: The alpha and beta radiation don't travel much further than the fireball but the gamma radiation is high energy photons and would travel for more than a few miles through air. The gamma radiation effects people immediately giving burns. If they stayed around (especially down wind), the alpha and beta radiation would give them cancer/leukemia (thats what happened in Hiroshima).

Makave18 : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

Makave18

1 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 21 hours ago...

Not cool

Vicsand : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Vicsand

7 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 21 hours ago...

I'm suprised the scientists didn't get super powers later on

READY_FOR_WAR : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

READY_FOR_WAR

1 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 20 hours ago...

LOL^^^

Onisama : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

Onisama

-2 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 19 hours ago...

this is nothing... usa can now make supernovas. shit I said too much...

SilentBard : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

SilentBard

0 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 16 hours ago...

It is amazing how close and in person scientists get to things that they do not know anything about. That would be the scariest scene for me to ever see. Knowing that if I saw that, I will die shortly after, would rather be at the drop site, then be able to see that cloud.

sixstringking : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

sixstringking

0 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 16 hours ago...

Yeah. Had these guys been testing a modern nuke, they would have been disintegrated. The first a-bombs, like the one in the vid, only had an initial blast radius of about 1-1.5 miles. Modern ones, scary enough, push about a 35 mile radius. By initial blast, I'm talking complete destruction. I'm sure nowadays they're even more powerful than that.

frade : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

frade

0 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 16 hours ago...

Fission itself is soft this bomb was obviously massive and stupid nuclear weapons are just a show of how we stupidly use science. The Tzar Bomba the russians developed could of yielded 100megatons the did a test drop with 50mt. I was a Fission-Fusion-Fission bomb but they kinda took out the third stage which would of made it too powerful. The fact that it ended with fusion also meant it was one of the cleanest nuclear bombs. The scary part is that the fuel for fusion reactions can be found in a regular glass of water!

Liranan : LVL 4: VP 1.3: said:

Liranan

-3 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 15 hours ago...

You're right Miles, the BBC is so full of shit. It's much better to be America's favourite colony instead. I'm so impressed with your country I'd rather slit my wrists than set foot in the UK again. It's a backward, disgraceful country still stuck firm in the Middle Ages and in Feudalism. Go to a decent civilised European country and you will see why so many people flee the UK.

The explosion was very impressive. Always sends shivers down my spine watching the immense power of these weapons.

The scientists resonsible for the original explosion died 5 years later due to radiation poisoning.

Mud : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

Mud

-1 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 14 hours ago...

Doesn't the flash instantly blind people? I don't remember correctly.

Relatora : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Relatora

-3 votes NegativePositive

1034 days 12 hours ago...

Scary huh ... Terror ... Terrorists.

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