A-Bomb Blast Effects (1959)
Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at
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Well, if you are contemplating a nuclear battlefield in your future, it might be useful to know how it affects infantry troops, how easily they can maneuver in its presence, whether there are unknown effects caused by the bomb, and so on. For example, it would unfortunate if the enemy fired a tac nuke and it had the effect of breaking bones of soldiers in fox holes a mile away, or that it destroyed the use of walky-talkies for an extended time. These things are found out by trial.
Didn’t happen that way. There were some slightly-higher-than-usual probabilities of cancers 20 years downtime in the troops that had the most exposure (test John), but no cases of acute radiation poisoning or immediate effects. Almost all livelihoods have some extended risks; being a soldier is one of these, unsurprisingly. Most were happy that they avoided WWII and Korea.
No it’s not. It is dust picked up by the blast wave as it traveled across the desert floor. The fallout is high in the air, eventually to descend under the wind aloft. The blast wave contains no appreciable radioactivity, just air pressure, following the heat wave.
i’m happy for them, die slow, die hard, suffer
No. There are two places where radiation shows: in the milliseconds of the blast there is gamma, x-ray and neutrons; these are mainly absorbed by the atmosphere within a mile. The solid fallout is rising in the mushroom cloud, to begin falling on the close area of the blast and downwind. That will begin in a few hours.
The point of the maneuver is to see how the soldiers react to a bomb burst. It wouldn’t be very healthy for your side on the battlefield to run away from a tactical nuke, any more then running away from a howitzer shell.
Some may have, but some do around highrise apartments every day as well, trying to fly through glass windows.
Really. And how, exactly, did the kids determine his cancer was nuclear related, since doctors can’t do that? In our times of modern medicine, about 1/3 of all people everywhere die from cancer in late years, since we eliminated infectious diseases as a primary cause of earlier death. If they actually believe that his cancer was caused by a tour in Nagasaki, then we are probably just as well off without their genetic contribution to mankind.
No, it’s not Christmas Island, it is Operation Desert Rock in Yucca Flats, Nevada. Christmas Island was all high-altitude rocket and bomber dropped thermonuclear tests, no ground bursts. The rest of your post seems to follow the same truth-free, story-telling mold.
No, cancer has always been endemic in humans, but is mainly a disease of old age. Since modern medicine has eliminated much of the early death from infectious disease, cancer claims a larger proportion of death cause, as people live to be older on the average. How do you claim to know what they were told? Mainly, they’re trained to follow orders, and this is the military, not a preschool.
No – it’s probably has a slightly higher yield than Fat Man. The fact that there is nothing in its vicinity makes it look harmless.
Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Truth-free? Everything i said was true, my uncle did get exposed to radiation during the christmas island tests. You god damed ignorant bastard.
q interesante en el 2:24 usan un chemstrail mm para q sera?…
Dude first of all I speak on behalf of all those you just replied is to “Calm down” we came here to express our views freely not to get pummeled by your long hard work of “facts” but thank you for sharing your views “Mr Wikipedia” {O.#}
And you’ll never know any of the names of the men who were there.
@puncheex Dude first of all I speak on behalf of all those you just replied is to “Calm down” we came here to express our views freely not to get pummeled by your long hard work of “facts” but thank you for sharing your views “Mr Wikipedia” {O.#}
thank you sir
Then, of course, you won’t mind if I continue expressing my views freely? Sorry about the facts, but it’s really hard for me to determine what else a disagreement might hinge upon. Sorry again if that doesn’t work out for you.
No less than you yourself.
Look- there are lots of claims about having been irradiated among British troops at CI. The government, after explaining till blue the consequence of physics, that there is no way anyone could have been irradiated by thermonukes beyond appreciable blast range and at high altitude, finally gave in, but physics is physics. The two sources of irradiation are from the blast itself and from fallout; the blast was well over the distance needed for air to absorb the gammas and neutrons of the event,
…and there was no major fallout, as there was no ground to provide the materials.
Neither can you claim that he must have gotten cancer (or whatever illness) from radiation of whatever source. While there is a statistical possibility for all of us, there is no way of knowing individually whether it was from radiation or a bad day of city smog.
Sorry, there just isn’t. Calling me ignorant, when you don’t know all this, is rich.
I’m not doubting your uncle’s involvement in tests, but he’s right; this isn’t Christmas Island, it is in fact Nevada. Watch the video “Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #55″, it covers the test in detail. You can even find the site on Google earth.
Oh.. some of them do require a wire. Guess your comment makes sense too.
No one really knew the effects until Chernobyl.
No one really knew the effects of radiation until the Chernobyl disaster (and that wasn’t until 1986, so that’s even worse),