While ordinary nuclear weapons are based on the process offission –the splitting apart of heavy Uranium or Plutonium atoms – hydrogen bombs – more correctly known asthermonuclear weapons –exploit the process offusion –combining lighter hydrogen atoms to form heavier helium atoms. As hydrogen atom...
According to Toon, the answer isno. One large bomb wouldn't be enough to cause a nuclear winter. He says in order for a nuclear winter to occur, you'd need to have dozens of bombs going off in cities around the world around the same time. ...
Then there was the fellow named Alfred, who invented dynamite(炸药). When Alfred’s brother died, the city newspaper confused the two and printed an abituary(讣告)saying that the dead’s most notable act was the creation of bombs. Surprised to consider that his name wo...
Mark Muir Mills was an American physicist who developed atom bombs. He died on April 7, 1958 after the helicopter he was flying in crashed due to bad weather. Mark Muir Mills (August 8, 1917 – April 7, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and a developer of atomic bombs. He was...
Norwegian Sondre Norheim is said to be the inventor of the 'telemark turn'. He first showed off the turn in a race in 1868. Before then he had already invented
Johnson delineates the relatively small number of deaths due to the bombs versus the incredible carnage of deaths and maiming of workers in the factories. He does make the point that James Watts’ steam engine could be seen as the true infernal machine. The great irony of the era, as he...
Nuclear weapons make another hot world war undesirable, so this one takes the form of resource control, economic warfare, staging coups, arming oppositional militias to use as proxy armies, expanding military presence in key geostrategic regions under the pretense of fighting terrorism, and “humani...
Neocon Jews are saying, “Yeah, we can nuke Iran, and the whole world be too intimidated by the prospect of all out nuclear war, that NO country will strike back!” That is the theory. Does anyone believe that nuking Iran will get the “deer in the headlights” response from the ...
And Marcinko took his job dead seriously, kidnapping high-ranking personnel and even their families, "mildly torturing" them to get nuclear codes and wound up kidnapping one admiral twice. Red Cell, moments before ambushing President Ronald Reagan on vacation in the Hamptons. It wasn't long ...
like how an alphabet invented in the Sinai by a handful of literate turquoise miners became the conceptual model for nearly all the world’s alphabets thereafter. Thus was the urban design deliberately laid out by the planners of Ur over five thousand years ago imprinted upon civilization. Only...