IVY MIKE - Novemeber 1, 1952

[MissouriFree]

Ivy Mike was the first H Bomb test, it was exploded at 7.15 am local time on November 1st 1952. The mushroom cloud was 8 miles across and 27 miles high. The canopy was 100 miles wide. Radioactive mud fell out of the sky followed by heavy rain. 80 million tons of earth was vaporised. Mike was the first ever megaton yeild explosion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQX033V_M

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The MIKE SHOT Einewetok Atoll which ceased to exist in the shot. The yeild astonished even Dr. Edward Teller, who had invented the Hydrogen Bomb while in the process of ptoving it could not be done. Dr. Teller explained that once he had the Eureka moment and proved it could be done he immediately realised that the yeild of a Thermo Nuclear device was actually unlimited. Really nothing more than a small fissionable "pit" a hollow sphere of Plutonium with a "Physics Package" of several acceleration stages, need more power? Just add more stages. Eventually resulted in a number of selectable yeild deliverables.

The largest operational one deployed by the U S being the Nuclear Gravity Bomb B53 with a yield of 9 megatons. The warhead version of which was a re-entry vehicle used only on the Titan II. These were the original "bunker-busters."

[Teg]

I always appreciated Oppenheimers comments at the end of this clip Link (http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/8728/Robert_Oppenheimer_s_Speech_Creator_of_Atomic_Bomb/). "...now I am become Death [Shiva], the destroyer of worlds..."

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I always took Oppenheimers comment to be self-serving PC bravo sierra so he could justify the "balance of power movement that took hold in the less than patriotic nuclear scientists.

Thank God we hadd Teller who understid goodness vs evil and the fact that an inanimate object regardless of its purpose, is neither inherently evil nor inherently good.

The good or evil reside sloely in the heart and mind of the craftsman who puts the tool to use. Oppenheimer showed by his speech which of the two lurked in his heart.

[Teg]

I always took Oppenheimers comment to be self-serving PC bravo sierra so he could justify the "balance of power movement that took hold in the less than patriotic nuclear scientists.

Thank God we hadd Teller who understid goodness vs evil and the fact that an inanimate object regardless of its purpose, is neither inherently evil nor inherently good.

The good or evil reside sloely in the heart and mind of the craftsman who puts the tool to use. Oppenheimer showed by his speech which of the two lurked in his heart.

I never took it as a comment for or against the weapon itself, just as a comment on the power of the weapon, but I understand where you are coming from.