Name: Cruel Bombs
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:24:59.000Z
Duration: 8 min 24 s
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Except nuclear mushroom clouds, which have a lining of Strontium-90,

Caesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes.

Upon detonation, atoms are literally gutted

and glutton at temperatures exceeding that of the surface

of our Sun. In the 1950s, Harold Edgerton's

rapatronic camera caught nuclear fireballs less than a

thousandth of a second after detonation. Using a special magnetic shutter,

each exposure lasted only a billionth of a second and captured

an other-worldly creature, its energy vaporising the metal wires

on the ground. Now, roughly visualized, here is a conventional

actually fissioned. The rest was blown away before

that could happen, which means, as Eric Schlosser points out, the

of uranium, that's less than the weight of a banknote, was enough to kill

of city's buildings. When a country has tens of thousands of nuclear weapons

This was a problem during the Cold War and it still

is a problem. What if there is a fire or a miscommunication or a rogue

set one off. Or what if someone just drops

The acceptable probability of a nuclear weapon

of the detonation of a nuclear weapon in an accident is one in a million.

in a commercial airliner accident were about one in forty

million. So that's even more remote than the accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon.

There have been 'oopsie daisy' moments with nuclear weapons

on US soil. Luckily, none that resulted in critical mass

but accidents nonetheless. Just like when you

pee your pants, except your pants are the entire planet

the year my father was born, a US B-52 bomber carrying

from the sky. A loose lanyard in the cockpit snagged the bomb release

switch. Each bomb contained a greater explosive yield

than all munitions ever detonated by mankind

combined. Lieutenant Jack ReVell discovered that only

one safety mechanism didn't fail that day.

A single low voltage arming switch remained

untouched during the crash. And that one switch is why,

The uranium-rich Secondary of one of the bombs was

never found. To this day it remains buried

underground in North Carolina. Here's something you can try

In 1994, a 17-year-old David Han attempted to build

a nuclear reactor in his mother's backyard

in Michigan. It wasn't that difficult. For instance,

common everyday smoke detectors contain small amounts of

radioactive Americium. And old glow in the dark paint

contains Radium. His reactor never reached critical mass but it did succeed

of background radiation. It was declared a Superfund hazardous materials cleanup

and all of his work was confiscated by authorities and buried

arrested for stealing smoke detectors from an apartment building.

His face was covered with sores believed to be caused by constant exposure to

Three days after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay

Charles Sweeney was ordered to drop Fatman

on Kokura. He flew boxcar over the city for nearly an

hour with the bomb bay doors open, but it was cloudy.

Sweeney couldn't achieve visual confirmation of the target and was

to go to the secondary target - Nagasaki,

that mimics the furnace of our Sun and the winds of Neptune but yet we can't

predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time.

During World War 2 Japanese soldiers spot for their

emperor in ways that made allied troops speechless.

Kamikaze planes and torpedoes, driven by a single pilot,

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