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You need a special kind of attitude to be willing to fly one of these things over your own country America tested nuclear weapons in its own country https://en
by gaius 9y ago
You need a special kind of attitude to be willing to fly one of these things over your own country
America tested nuclear weapons in its own country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29
- adventured 9y agoThe primary nuclear powers stopped doing nuclear tests decades ago for very good reasons. We're coming up on 30 years since the US or Russia has detonated a nuclear weapon. At the time of Trinity, there was a very poor understanding of the consequences.
- heavenlyblue 9y agoNo; there wasn’t. We clearly didn’t know the exact numbers to expect from the detonations, but we could clearly predict that exploding bomb A is going to cause a fallout of scale 5 to 10. In the case of war you’d want to know if you’re about to kill 500k vs 1m people, but ethically speaking this number is already vastly over something to be considered OK.
- IntronExon 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, due to unforeseen additional reactions involving 7Li,[3] which led to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll.