The Enola Gay was accompanied by two other B-29s, Necessary Evil which was used as a camera plane to photograph the explosion and effects of the bomb and carry scientific observers, and The Great Artiste which was the blast measurement instrumentation aircraft. The aircraft was accepted by the ...
An explosion refers to a rapid expansion of gases that releases energy in the form of high pressure shockwaves, heat, sound and kinetic energy. It results from a chemical reaction that occurs when an explosive made of reactive substances decomposes to produce gas products. Explosions can be inte...
Silicon crystallizes into a four-sided cubic structure, which can be seen in the crease lines on the tops of silicon boules, which always have four creases. This one has nine. That is utterly inexplicable to me. Source: Andrew Goodall Contributor: Andrew Goodall Acquired: 8 April, 2009 Text...
At Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945 the atom was split and the atomic bomb explosion in the desert blasted that Law of Science out of existence. Now, if a Law of Science is so unreliable, I ask you, why is a mere theory like Evolution regarded so highly? Simple. It is about political...
of B-17s surviving battle damage widely circulated, increasing its iconic status. Despite an inferior range and bombload compared to the more numerous B-24 Liberator, a survey of Eighth Air Force crews showed a much higher rate of satisfaction in the B-17. With a service ceiling greater ...
Hiroshima, Japan, after the atomic bomb strikeAftermath of the atomic bomb strike at Hiroshima, Japan, November 17, 1945. Hiroshima, whose name means “broad island,” is situated on thedeltaof the Ōta River, whose six channels divide it into several islets. It was founded as a castle ...
be far more dangerous than the radioactive material, with most scenarios attributing the bulk of casualties to people in close proximity to the explosion, rather than to radiation damage. While a dirty bomb is certainly nothing to treat lightly, the threat of a nuclear bomb is far more severe...
How brave was that dropping an atomic bomb on innocent civilians, 150,000 killed in Iraq and how many have you killed in Vietnam and all the other places where you really don't belong. So yeah, it's sad, but you brought that upon yourselves. We are all bystanders of a corporate ...
Elements in the same column in the periodic table share many chemical properties with each other. They are in the same column because they have the same number of electrons in their outer shell, and by and large it's outer shell electrons that determine chemical bonding behavior. Because sil...
The atomic bomb is one of the most dangerous things that mankind has ever invented. But it is also one of the most clever. The atomic bombs used in WW@ were incredible feats of engineering. This fact often gets lost when we think about what the bombs were used for. ...