http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/atomicbomb/ en-us Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:54:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009319/posts CINCINNATI (AP) -- A popular southwest Ohio air show has canceled plans to stage a re-enactment of the devastating World War II atomic bomb attack on Japan after protests, officials said Thursday. Dayton Air Show spokeswoman Brenda Kerfoot said the June 22-23 event at Dayton International Airport will keep a planned "Great Wall of Fire" pyrotechnic show but not as an event meant to re-enact the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima. The B-29 plane "Fifi," similar to the Enola Gay B-29 bomber used to attack Japan, will remain in the show but in a separate role. Air show officials... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009319/posts#comment Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2969646/posts Subject: C5c) Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them? Contributed by Chris Landsea During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea. Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective... National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration - Hurricane Research Division http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2969646/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:50:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2966338/posts This week marks the 70th anniversary of a turning point in human history. It was on December 2, 1942, that Enrico Fermi ordered the control rods pulled from the nuclear reactor he had built under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field stadium, thereby initiating the first artificial sustained-fission reaction in human history. A cryptic message flashed the electrifying news back to Washington. “The Italian navigator has landed in the new world.” The consequences of Fermi’s success were profound. Within two and a half years, the Manhattan Project advanced to build both uranium-isotope-separation and plutonium-manufacturing facilities on... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2966338/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2012 22:00:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2964830/posts The story begins with a letter from Albert Einstein to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. The celebrated physicist warned the president that Nazi Germany was developing the makings of an atomic bomb. Roosevelt knew what would happen if Hitler got such a weapon. The president ordered a massive secret project to make sure the U.S. beat him to it. Scientists from all over the country were enlisted in the effort. Early in 1942 Enrico Fermi and a team of physicists gathered at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. Their goal was to develop a self-sustaining nuclear pile. This was the... WBEZ91.5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2964830/posts#comment Sun, 2 Dec 2012 04:05:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2962899/posts Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union - Scientists were hoping for giant flash on the moon that would intimidate the Soviet Union - Aim of mission was to launch the nuke by 1959 - Plan was later scrapped due to possible danger to people on Earth It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s. At the height of the space... Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2962899/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:28:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2952365/posts Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It? To save lives and reduce costs, there would be tremendous advantage if science had a way to stop a devastating hurricane like Sandy. And scientists have thought of it before. One idea that rears its head almost every hurricane season recently is the notion of bombing a hurricane into submission. The theory goes that the energy released by a nuclear bomb detonated just above and ahead of the eye of a storm would heat the cooler air there, disrupting the storm's convection current. Unfortunately, this idea, which has been around in some... Live Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2952365/posts#comment Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2921349/posts It wasn't a movie poster for a monster or disaster film. It was an illustration of America's worst nightmare - that an atomic bomb would strike a major U.S. metropolis. The harrowing image of the New York City skyline marred by a giant mushroom cloud splashed the cover of Collier's magazine on August 5, 1950 - at a time of heightened American anxiety. The Collier's issue was spotlighted recently on Smithsonianmag.com, which ran the same pictures that appeared in the same 1950 issue of the magazine. While recent films like The Avengers, Independence Day and Cloverfield touched on a fictional... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2921349/posts#comment Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:00:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920846/posts Aug 20 (Reuters) - People who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as children continue to have a higher-than-normal risk of thyroid cancer more than 50 years after radiation exposure, according to a U.S. study. Thyroid cells are particularly vulnerable to ionizing radiation, the kind produced by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown or the atomic bombings in Japan. The study published in the International Journal of Cancer tracked new cancer diagnoses in people who were in Japan during the bombings in 1945 and those who were not. In total, there were 371 thyroid cancers diagnosed between 1958 and 2005... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920846/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:47:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2916976/posts We now mark the 67th anniversary of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WW II. The generations which developed the information and made the decisions for World War II, including dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, have passed away. The generation which faced the tragic violence required for carrying out those decisions is rapidly leaving us. As this personal knowledge becomes ever rarer, we must listen increasingly to revisionist contra-factual analyses as they expound on what a needless, tragic and profoundly immoral decision the United States had made. In support of dropping the atomic bombs historians often... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2916976/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:02:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2915022/posts This is a telephone conversation transcript between Colonel Seaman of the Manhattan Project and General Hull of Marshall's staff that took place on 13 August 1945. The subject is atomic bomb deployment and production timeline. National Security Archive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2915022/posts#comment Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:49:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912630/posts Clifton Truman Daniel will visit Japan from August 2, and attend ceremonies in Hiroshima August 6, and Nagasaki on August 9, according to Kyodo News as reported in the Nihon Keizai Shinbun. It is the first time a member of the late president’s family will attend the ceremonies, and will holds a deep symbolic meaning for the Japanese. Public papers from his time in office reveal a man with no regrets about using the A-bomb, but his grandson told Kyodo News that the late-president was horrified by the destructive power of the Bomb. The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912630/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:10:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912037/posts Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was such a well-kept secret during World War II that most Americans still don’t know that it sits off one of busiest highways in the South. Every year, streams of vacationers whiz by the complex that enriched uranium for America’s first atomic bomb project. It’s on the way to Great Smoky Mountains National Park — the most-visited U.S. national park. And every year, right about this time, the city of Oak Ridge, just west of Knoxville on Interstate 40, holds a Secret City Festival, crying out to potential tourists. “They don’t even know we’re here,”... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912037/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:53:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2911276/posts A Los Alamos Story Worthy of Stephen King Ever heard of The Demon Core? It was named by Los Alamos scientists — who are generally not a superstitious lot — after it claimed multiple lives, in a series of strange and horrible accidents. Discover a legend of science... that's worthy of a horror movie. When I was reading Stephen King stories, I was constantly amazed at the things he made scary. It was like reading the legend of the monkey's paw over and over again, with increasingly weird objects. His most famous evil objects are the hotel in The Shining... IO9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2911276/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:37:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2906914/posts In 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter (written largely by Leó Szilárd) to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The pressing concern was that Nazi Germany might be conducting research to create atomic bombs, and the letter suggested that the United States should begin researching the possibility itself. This was the impetus for the Manhattan project, which culminated in the explosion of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. Socorro, New Mexico, a little more than an hour’s drive south of Albuquerque, is one of the meeting places for those who plan to visit the Trinity Site. Socorro,... travelthruhistory.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2906914/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:18:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2876211/posts In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls’ playhouse For certain rural residents of the Carolinas during the Cold War, apocalyptic anxiety hit disturbingly close to home. In 1958 and 1961, the American Air Force lost nuclear weapons over the skies of South and North Carolina, respectively, raining potential apocalypse on the folks below. In both incidents, complete catastrophe was avoided thanks to that ever-potent combination of foresight and unmitigated dumb luck. And in the former incident, the bomb fell square on some unsuspecting children's playhouse. The first accident occurred over Florence, South Carolina on March... IO9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2876211/posts#comment Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2850776/posts U.S. intelligence agencies don't believe Iran is actively trying to build an atomic bomb. A highly classified U.S. intelligence assessment circulated to policymakers early last year largely affirms that view, originally made in 2007. Both reports, known as national intelligence estimates, conclude that Tehran halted efforts to develop and build a nuclear warhead in 2003. The most recent report, which represents the consensus of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, indicates that Iran is pursuing research that could put it in a position to build a weapon, but that it has not sought to do so. Senior U.S. officials say Israel does... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2850776/posts#comment Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:35:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2700289/posts Actual Test Was Success Japan developed and successfully tested an atomic bomb three days prior to the end of the war. She destroyed unfinished atomic bombs, secret papers and her atomic bomb plans only hours before the advance units of the Russian Army moved into Konan, Korea, site of the project. Japanese scientists who developed the bomb are now in Moscow, prisoners of the Russians. They were tortured by their captors seeking atomic "know-how." The Konan area is under rigid Russian control. They permit no American to visit the area. Once, even after the war, an American B-29 Superfortress en... Atlanta Constitution via reformation.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2700289/posts#comment Wed, 6 Apr 2011 02:20:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2590339/posts They risked their lives to capture on film hundreds of blinding flashes, rising fireballs and mushroom clouds. The blast from one detonation hurled a man and his camera into a ditch. When he got up, a second wave knocked him down again. Then there was radiation. While many of the scientists who made atom bombs during the cold war became famous, the men who filmed what happened when those bombs were detonated made up a secret corps. Their existence and the nature of their work has emerged from the shadows only since the federal government began a concerted effort to... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2590339/posts#comment Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565766/posts Sixty-five years after the United States dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II and ushering in an era of nuclear dread, the US sent its first delegation to the annual ceremony to remember the over 100,000 Japanese who lost their lives in the bombing. Britain and France also sent representatives for the first time. While some Japanese hailed the presence of the US and other nuclear powers as a sign of commitment to eventual nuclear disarmament, for others it was too little, too late. Some Japanese still want an apology for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and... CS Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565766/posts#comment Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:59:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2565734/posts Here are video reports on today’s observance in Hiroshima, Japan of the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb by the United States on Japan. President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the bomb after warning Japan repeatedly the terrible weapon was coming and would be used if they did not surrender. Truman dropped the bomb to avoid an already planned invasion of the Japanese home islands that would have brought an estimated 1 Million+ U.S. casualties, and even more Japanese casualties. Yet, despite the obvious historic justification for the dropping of the bomb, President Obama... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2565734/posts#comment Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:11:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565522/posts Sixty-five years after dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and killing more than 140,000 people, the United States will send its first ever delegation to a ceremony commemorating the attack. On Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Roos will join representatives from 75 countries at the Hiroshima event, but he is not expected to speak. World War II allies France and Britain will also send delegations to the ceremony for the first time. AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565522/posts#comment Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2564617/posts EXCLUSIVE:  The son of the U.S. Air Force pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb in the history of warfare says the Obama administration's decision to send a U.S. delegation to a ceremony in Japan to mark the 65th anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima is an "unsaid apology" and appears to be an attempt to "rewrite history." James Tibbets, son of Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., says Friday's visit to Hiroshima by U.S. Ambassador John Roos is an act of contrition that his late father would never have approved. "It's an unsaid apology," Tibbets, 66, told FoxNews.com... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2564617/posts#comment Wed, 4 Aug 2010 19:45:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2548765/posts When it comes to nuclear weapons, oldies are goodies. Take, for example, the American B61 nuclear device. About the same shape as a 1,000 pound (455 kg) bomb, many NATO fighter bombers were equipped (with the electronics) to use this bomb during the Cold War (and many can still do so). Some 3,200 B61s were built since it entered service in the late 1960s, and about a third of those remain available for use. Some are to be refurbished, but politicians are still debating doing this just to keep B61s good for another two decades. Without the refurb, all these... Strategy Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2548765/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jul 2010 05:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437402/posts PAKISTAN, citing a 'clear and present danger' from its nuclear-armed rival India, ruled out on Monday global negotiations to ban the future production of material to make atomic bombs. Confirming a Reuters report from Jan 22, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Zamir Akram, said such a treaty would leave Pakistan - the most recent member of the nuclear club - at a permanent disadvantage. Pakistan's stance, triggered by nuclear and arms deals between India and the United States as well as with other nuclear powers, is a blow to the Obama administration's efforts to revive global disarmament.... Straits Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437402/posts#comment Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2422790/posts Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at the age of 93. Mr Yamaguchi, known as 'Lucky', was in Hiroshima on a business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on August 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body as well as temporary blindness and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, about 190 miles to the southwest, which suffered a... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2422790/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jan 2010 04:59:27 GMT