Philosophy
The nastiness of nuclear war. The cobalt bomb was never made but the thermonuclear device would seed the landscape with radioactive cobalt 60 that would hang around for a little over 5 years. A few of these would certainly complicate life and worse yet destroy all life. Was it reason or economics that curtailed its production?
Cobalt bomb [Wikipedia]
The Never-Tested Doomsday Bomb
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To new words like big-box, biodiesel, mouse potato, ringtone, sandwich generation, spyware, supersize...add "upcycling" where "...the finished product has a much higher value than the initial materials." "Scientist turns plastic bags into batteries"...
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- "nuclear Secrets Spread Around The Globe"--slide Show
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Philosophy
Cobalt 60 with a half-life of 5 years=annihilation
The nastiness of nuclear war. The cobalt bomb was never made but the thermonuclear device would seed the landscape with radioactive cobalt 60 that would hang around for a little over 5 years. A few of these would certainly complicate life and worse yet destroy all life. Was it reason or economics that curtailed its production?
Cobalt bomb [Wikipedia]
The Never-Tested Doomsday Bomb
- Space Food
"Space-age food served up with seeds of success" by Xin Dingding and Jin Zhu September 4th, 2012 SPAVE TRAVEL An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world. They are, literally....
- Should Have "out Sourced"
"AERB to probe presence of radioactive material on campus" by Urvashi Sarkar May 1st, 2010 The Hindu Two days after the source of radioactive material that killed one and left several others ill was traced to Delhi University's Chemistry Department,...
- "upcycling"...add To Your Vocabulary
To new words like big-box, biodiesel, mouse potato, ringtone, sandwich generation, spyware, supersize...add "upcycling" where "...the finished product has a much higher value than the initial materials." "Scientist turns plastic bags into batteries"...
- Pathos And Irony...children Of Radiation And James Yamazaki
Kobayashi Masao "They fled with their arms raised in front like a procession of ghosts." Year of Birth: 1899 Age at time of blast: 45 Age when image created: 74 Will humanity learn? Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physicians Memoir of Nagasaki,...
- "nuclear Secrets Spread Around The Globe"--slide Show
Yuliy Khariton, director of the Soviet A-bomb project from its inception in 1945 through 1992, sitting next to RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb. Internally, it was an exact copy of the American Fat Man. A slide show presentation from The New York...