Showing posts with label Atomic bombs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atomic bombs. Show all posts

Friday, 3 December 2021

WHEN PHYSICS HELPED THE US WIN THE WAR: HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB

 

 


We all know what happened on August 6, 1945: the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, destroying an entire city and killing thousands and thousands of people.

What could exist only in fantasy books became true: mankind touched its lowest bottom.

Wednesday, 25 November 2020

ONE OF THE MANY TIMES THE USA RISKED A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE

 


Our story is set in the peaceful countryside of Arkansas , here underneath an anonymous white lid there was an entire missile facility , the base 374-7 , with the most terrible nuke owned by U.S.A. ( the a-bomb w53) .                                 

On 18 September 1980 some technicians should have gone there and see if everything worked properly. During the servicing one of them , made a 4 kg bolt fall down by mistake , this bolt tore the basis of the rocket and a lot of fuel started to spurt out , and here is the problem .The fuel started to sprout out because the rocket itself was relatively light and thin . Actually, most of the weight of a rocket  is due to the fuel . The rocket had two tanks with two different liquids , since during a hypothetical crisis it should have set off in a few seconds. The only thing needed to activate them is that the two fuels got in contact .