The nuclear bomb loomed over everyone and everything. Schools conducted nuclear air raid drills. Governments built fallout shelters. Homeowners dug bunkers in their backyards. Eventually, the nuclear powers became frozen in a standoff. Both had a strategy of mutual assured destruction — basically ...
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As severe as these examples seem, nuclear winter theorists provided a far bleaker forecast should nuclear war erupt between the nuclear superpowers of United States and the then-Soviet Union. In the 1980s theorists predicted decade-long temperate decreases of as much as 72 degrees F (40 de...
KI-TEK (CONT’D) One must reach into the heavens. Up. KI-WOO Yes, Father. Ki-Woo raises the phone high as he heads into the -- BATHROOM The bathroom is long and narrow and has a raised ‘altar’ at the far end where the toilet sits. The odd placement is necessitated by t...
A nuclear bomb uses a nuclear reaction to generate energy (heat and radiated particles). The energy released is millions or in some cases billions of time stronger than TNT; the whole process is carried out in a very short time, providing huge destructiv
The B-2 was designed to perform missile strikes far behind enemy lines. Its two internal bomb bays had less radar visibility than other bombers, which mounted their ordnance externally. It was armed with nuclear cruise missiles and was capable of carrying 40,000 pounds of ordnance. With a 172...
What's more, the Nazi bomb effort certainly wasn't helped when one of their leading nuclear physicists (and eventual Nobel Prize winner), Walter Bothe, made a miscalculation. Bothe concluded that a crucial mineral used to moderate or control a nuclear chain reaction, graphite, would not work...
french scientist, david grimley, and his team placed transmitters on the birds and wondered how long they would need to fly to their usual plankton meal which was now far away at the edge of the retreating ice. so when they gathered around to collect the first batch of data from their ...
long time before people trust robot surgeons commanded by distant humans, Rygaard said. But there are other places for remote-control operators who need real-time interaction -- a robot crawling around the radioactive Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster site, perhaps, or examining a possible bomb. ...
See How Nuclear Radiation Works for details. The Pentagon has developed tactical nuclear weapons to reach the most heavily fortified and deeply buried bunkers. The idea is to marry a small nuclear bomb with a penetrating bomb casing to create a weapon that can penetrate deep into the ground ...