Beyond the mushroom cloud: what planners have in mindPeter Duveen
Up to 21 kilometres from the explosion, people just like you rush to their windows to take pictures of the mushroom cloud, unaware that the shockwave is still coming at them, about to shatter their windows and create a blizzard of sharp glass. The third phase begins in the coming hours ...
A mushroom cloud rising from the first atomic explosion, which was detonated July 16, 1945 near Alamagordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project.(Image credit: Shutterstock) In an intellectual chain reaction, scientists began to realize the possibilities of fission. A letter to U.S. Pr...
The fifth row would do all that stuff PLUS give you a mild dose of radiation.The sixth row would explode violently, destroying the building in a cloud of radioactive, poisonous fire and dust.Do not build the seventh row.We'll start from the top. The first row is simple, if boring:...
It’s probably when people post up infographics on pain and there’s a mushroom cloud, don’t bend over like this and there’s a mushroom cloud coming out of somebody’s back or text neck or texting is the new smoking. It’s usually infographic with a terrible caption. The thing is,...
King of the rice pancakes in Vietnam is banh xeo, a crispy, savory delicacy made with rice flour and turmeric powder, stuffed with pork, prawns, and bean sprouts; banh khoai, the version served in Hue, is famous countrywide. Where to try it: Hue makes the best rice pancakes in the ...
Radiation is the secondary, and much more insidious, consequence of a nuclear blast. The fission bombs dropped on Japan created local fallout, according to "Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century," but modern thermonuclear weapons blast radioactive material high into the stratosphere (the midd...
In a nationwide address, Bush spoke of "the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."After the United States and its allies took control, they found, according to the CIA, "Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capability was essentially destroyed in 1991." Saddam ...
Cloud color is also interesting. Black or dark clouds usually mean a storm is coming because they're packed so full of water, that light can't pass through them. On the other hand, many clouds appear bright white because...
New York–based Ecovative Design uses mushroom roots and plant parts to make packaging that decomposes safely and is just as sturdy as synthetic packaging. A growing number of Fortune 500 companies now use it. 5. Focus on transparency Be clear with the public about your circular practices, ...