The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, which satisfied an adult curiosity into how that weapon of childhood nightmares came to being, and first introduced the writer to Leo Szilard. Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts, edited by Spencer R Weart and Gertrud Weiss Szilard, which ...
The security set up around the A-bomb development and test had a very composed and easy appearance, from the front gate to the dozens of labs where the bomb was being built. Beneath the genteel surface, however, stood a hard-as-nails network to protect the secret. Dorothy McKibbin typifi...
The most powerful nuclear weapon ever built and detonated was the Tsar Bomba (Tsar Bomb). The 50 Megaton AN602 hydrogen bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, by the Soviet Union, in Sukhoy Nos, a cape, that is part of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, situated in the Arctic Ocean, towards...
Wells mentioned “uranium and thorium” and wrote a reasonable account of the destructive power: Continue reading “Predicting The A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair” → Posted in Featured, History, Misc Hacks, Original Art, SliderTagged atomic bomb, nuclear bomb, science fiction ...
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bomb being first. Either way, if you take the potential possibility of the Germans having set off not just one, but a total of three nuclear devices practically before the U.S. even built the drop tower at Trinity site as being accurate, you have to admit it is mighty, mighty ...
The bomb saved thousands upon thousands of American and Japanese lives that would have been lost if the war continued or an invasion occurred. The bomb was the only way to end the suffering of the millions who were being held captive by the Japanese oppressor. The weapon of mass destruction...
From Wikipedia: “"Fat Man" was the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked th...
for more than 45 days and nights, troops built docks, airport runways, barracks, an administration building, oil storage facilities, weapons depots, an air-conditioned bomb assembly building, and two bomb loading pits. The result, North Field, was the largest airport in the world at the time...
But any lump of seetee will function as a bomb, if you can just deliver it on anything terrene—and I'd bet that every major planet has engineers at work right now on methods of delivery." "I did hear war talk, even back on Earth.' She nodded reluctantly. "And I can see that ...