feck me that was scarry

I just watched the BBC2 program on the dropping of the first Atomic
Bomb, jeez I'm still shaking.

**** thats done my head right in


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Champ wrote

He has eaten, drunk, smoked or just plain absorbed, a zillion
radioactive particles from that very blast and it may well be that he is
going to be one of the god knows how many thousands of people who are
going to get cancer over the next hundred thousand years as a direct
result of it?

 

And they were only Japs.

 

Yeah right, If you want to be frightened by men with big toys, small
penis' and a belief system to prove watch The War Game circa 1966-85.

 

someone who looks like you do, with an Oirish name really should know
better than to show their face on the streets of Stokey...

 

Penii ?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

<nods in agreement>

 

Wot, as in http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rscarry.htm ?

And there was me blaming Enrico Fermi and Paul W. Tibbets all this time. How
wrong can you be?

 

good point.

 

I find it more worrying that a bunch of blokes with slide rules and
hand tools were able to build the thing ... and we don't believe that
the Koreans etc. can possibly have nuclear weapons today ...

 

AIUI it's actually pretty tricky to build an A-bomb, stuff to do with
acquiring the fissible material, then containing it, shaping it, and
generally getting it to have its little party at just the right speed; and
H-bombs are even harder, not only do you have to get all that heavy hydrogen
but you've got to get yer A-bomb to go off just so to set off the fusion
reaction in that fireworks kind of way. Dunno how truly difficult all of
that is, got sod all experience in that field, but it seems pretty certain
that to date it's not as if you can just cobble either of them together in
your shed and despite plenty of effort most of the nutjob countries in the
world don't appear to have managed to build their own... though I suppose
it's only a matter of time.

ZK

 

As Kolonie says. And the blokes may have had slide rules, but they also
had the best machine tools in the era, and it was still the biggest
single industrial endeavour the country had done, surpassed only (I
think) by the space programme.

Building a working fission bomb is still *incredibly* hard, otherwise
loads of people would have done it by now.

Building a dirty bomb that showers radiation around is, worryingly, much
more simple.

 

No doubt a party popper reloaded with summat that glows in the dark, plute
dust or whatever, would be nasty enough if popped in a busy rail carriage.
Though I imagine that you're actually talking about much more heinous acts.

ZK

 

You could always just throw it at people, it would give them a nasty bruise
if nothing else.

 

http://www.cdi.org/russia/211-4.cfm
http://www.wral.com/news/971165/detail.html
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&x=531157&y=179946&scale=
100000&width=700&height=410&multimap.x=326&multimap.y=208

 

snip

"Just as we though G'uvnor ....... A straight-forward case of premeditation.
Besides, 'e even *looks* guilty, the b*stard".


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