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Posted: 11/29/2018 11:43:36 AM EDT
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NICE! I've got a copy of that. Take care of that book--when they do show up on Ebay, they run about $150. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: YES! That is the book! Thank you! Awesome book. Chuck Hansen - "U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History". Take care of that book--when they do show up on Ebay, they run about $150. 
BTL also had a very interesting set of books about the US nuclear weapons industry, 8-10 volumes IRC. History, technology, the science, lot of good stuff. Ring any bells? "Nuclear Weapons Handbook" maybe? I'd like to see if I could find a copy for myself. |
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Posted: 11/29/2018 11:44:15 AM EDT
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I lived on Guam many decades ago and traveled to Tinian with some local people.
This was before they had the covers on the bomb pits and we spent the day climbing in and out of the pits picking up junk. I know, cool story. |
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Posted: 11/29/2018 12:47:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't think that's quite right... Quote HistoryQuoted: Project A (Alberta) member CDR A. Francis Birch (left) numbers Little Boy Unit L-11 while Norman Ramsey (right) watches. This is the actual unit which was dropped on Nagasaki. |
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Posted: 11/29/2018 12:56:00 PM EDT
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Cool pics....thanks for sharing. |
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Posted: 11/29/2018 8:52:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I wonder if they had the firing devices in them? Might have been checking to be sure there was a near 100% chance of them going off. It would have been bad for an undetonated one to fall into enemy hands Quote HistoryQuoted: I wonder if they had the firing devices in them? Might have been checking to be sure there was a near 100% chance of them going off. It would have been bad for an undetonated one to fall into enemy hands The JPN drops, if I recall correctly, (and, I'm probably not) had conventional HE fill only, and were supposed to be a ruse to get them to not pay attention to the Fat Man, just another type of yankee ordnance. I think. lol Quoted: YES! That is the book! Thank you! Awesome book. Chuck Hansen - "U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History". It's strange, 99% of the nuclear weapon researchers in the field today are STRONGLY anti-nuke. (I have to be careful what I say to them, lol). Quoted: Perhaps we are getting too far afield, but: - every August 6th, a wretched cabal of leftists, anti-Americans, hippies, peace-nics, and many in Japan, wail and gnash their rotten teeth over our bombing of Hiroshima. Sorry, not sorry. I've always wanted to counterprotest. I've always been in jobs where I can't take an arrest, even for civil disobedience. But I'd like to. Anyway, if y'all want the end all / be all book on LB and FM, it's this: https://www.amazon.com/Atom-Bombs-Secret-Inside-Little/dp/B0006S2AJ0 His story is also interesting, but sadly, another anti-nuker. Two more books any person serious about this topic would have, no question: https://www.amazon.com/Los-Alamos-Primer-Lectures-Atomic/dp/0520075765/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0520075765&pd_rd_r=dacb4d39-f439-11e8-970d-eb7b55e679a8&pd_rd_w=2gzQT&pd_rd_wg=4Auww&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=Y52B22T02KN5W5BRB249&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=Y52B22T02KN5W5BRB249 and https://www.amazon.com/Curve-Binding-Energy-Alarming-Theodore/dp/0374515980/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543539034&sr=1-1&keywords=curve+of+binding+energy |
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Posted: 11/30/2018 2:20:47 AM EDT
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NICE! I've got a copy of that. Take care of that book--when they do show up on Ebay, they run about $150. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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YES! That is the book! Thank you! Awesome book. Chuck Hansen - "U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History". Take care of that book--when they do show up on Ebay, they run about $150. |
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Posted: 11/30/2018 4:09:43 AM EDT
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I would love a shirt with that logo if they are made.
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Posted: 12/1/2018 7:53:04 AM EDT
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I’m going to work on getting shirts made up.
With or without Badger Ordnance Works? Color of shirt? Stenciled or vinyl JANCFU FM logo? Cast your votes gents |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 8:33:45 AM EDT
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I'm going to work on getting shirts made up. With or without Badger Ordnance Works? With Color of shirt? Gray, Dk blue, tan, green. The usual colors. Stenciled or vinyl JANCFU FM logo? Whatever one looks better and has more durability. Cast your votes gents |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 8:51:10 AM EDT
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I'am a professional modelmaker and here's a kit I built for a physicist customer of mine. It's a 12th scale model sold by Masterpiece models.
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Posted: 12/1/2018 9:20:59 AM EDT
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I'am a professional modelmaker and here's a kit I built for a physicist customer of mine. It's a 12th scale model sold by Masterpiece models. https://i.imgur.com/dx1KNZDl.jpg 
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Posted: 12/1/2018 9:49:38 AM EDT
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Love this stuff. Just watched the Paul Newman movie last night, hadn't seen it in a long time. Pretty good flick even with all of the long hair hand wringing.
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Posted: 12/1/2018 12:58:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holly hell now days some E9 would come up screaming about no PT belts and threaten to shut it all down and UCMJ for everyone not in full uniform and covered. |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 1:23:25 PM EDT
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I'am a professional modelmaker and here's a kit I built for a physicist customer of mine. It's a 12th scale model sold by Masterpiece models. https://i.imgur.com/dx1KNZDl.jpg |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 1:30:45 PM EDT
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I’m going to work on getting shirts made up. With or without Badger Ordnance Works? With Color of shirt?White Stenciled or vinyl JANCFU FM logo?Stenciled would be cool Cast your votes gents |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 1:42:51 PM EDT
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Love this stuff. Just watched the Paul Newman movie last night, hadn't seen it in a long time. Pretty good flick even with all of the long hair hand wringing. 
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Posted: 12/1/2018 1:49:28 PM EDT
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These are the types of images that get stuck in a craw in the brain and never leave. Fascinating. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: I also find it fascinating (thx again, OP). I'm especially intrigued by the photos of the very earliest stages, where mass is being converted to energy and conditions mimic the early universe: https://i.stack.imgur.com/2mt4P.jpg What a strange moment in time. Fascinating. |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 1:59:32 PM EDT
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The incident where a technician dropped a tool in a silo and caused an enourmous explosion (though not nuclear) is detailed in this excellent documentary, which also briefly touches on several other "broken arrow" incidents we have experienced: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Command_and_Control_%28film%29.png It is well-worth the watch. And it begs the question: how many close-calls / broken arrow incidents did the Russians and Chinese have? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My parents have an excellent coffee table book back home called "Nuclear Weapons" (I know that doesn't help much, I'll get the author & info next time I'm back home), which is the best book to date that I've ever seen on the subject. It goes into as much detail as legally possible (probably) about the 3-stage Teller-Ulam device (a design that was "fiendishly clever"), eye-witness accounts of nuclear tests, how Castle Bravo was MUCH bigger than expected and nearly blew away the observers, and a number of accidents that occurred (like one where a guy dropped a socket wrench down a silo, rupturing the missile fuel tank and causing a huge fire). I love reading that book. As far as Castle Bravo, it didn't so much blow anyone away as blast radius doesn't increase that much with increased yield. It was more that the fallout quantity was much larger and covered a larger area than anticipated. They learned a lot about high yield thermonuclear devices. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Command_and_Control_%28film%29.png It is well-worth the watch. And it begs the question: how many close-calls / broken arrow incidents did the Russians and Chinese have? |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 2:18:56 PM EDT
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I'am a professional modelmaker and here's a kit I built for a physicist customer of mine. It's a 12th scale model sold by Masterpiece models. https://i.imgur.com/dx1KNZDl.jpg i built the fins out of card stock and painted the whole thing dull dark green I thought it was cool, but she rolled her eyes 
that looks much cooler . |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 2:26:53 PM EDT
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Fascinating
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Posted: 12/1/2018 2:36:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A Fat Man, Little Boy lowers pair would sell like hotcakes in a lumber jack camp, somebody could make a good amount of money and send a message all at the same time. |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 4:11:39 PM EDT
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I'am a professional modelmaker and here's a kit I built for a physicist customer of mine. It's a 12th scale model sold by Masterpiece models. https://i.imgur.com/dx1KNZDl.jpg I am familiar with that company's products, have several of the riverine kits, all unbuilt so far. |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 4:19:36 PM EDT
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It's on Prime.
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Posted: 12/1/2018 4:21:31 PM EDT
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It's on Prime. |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 6:52:31 PM EDT
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I’m going to work on getting shirts made up. With or without Badger Ordnance Works? Color of shirt? Yellow of the bomb, with orange JANCFU FM Stenciled or vinyl JANCFU FM logo? Stenciled Cast your votes gents |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 9:31:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neat!! How did you do the inscriptions? another picture. I didn't have the best reference materials when built so the signatures aren't 100% accurate but pretty close. The rear stabilizing fins are a mix of brass P.E. and plastic card so when I saw the kit I thought this is gonna be an easy build, not so the fin section was a bitch. I included the customers name on the right side fin too. I like rear admiral WR Purnells inscription left side front, " A Second Kiss for Hirohito" 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:23:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A dull pencil applied over a rough matt surface, without the dullcoat the pencil wouldn't work on the glossy painted surface. another picture. I didn't have the best reference materials when built so the signatures aren't 100% accurate but pretty close. The rear stabilizing fins are a mix of brass P.E. and plastic card so when I saw the kit I thought this is gonna be an easy build, not so the fin section was a bitch. I included the customers name on the right side fin too. I like rear admiral WR Purnells inscription left side front, " A Second Kiss for Hirohito" https://i.imgur.com/Qe3KBSHl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZWUMlbOl.jpg thread legal: wanna watch one of my most favoritest movies in the early 80's? Think I'm gonna try and find the thing on the net tonight... https://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Project-John-Lithgow/dp/B01CJ5WWU4 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:49:51 PM EDT
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Why did you put the RADAR antennas on top? |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:36:24 PM EDT
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I noticed that immediately as well. Should be four sets of antennas for the radar, spaced equally around the circumference. 
THIS IS WHY AS-BUILT DRAWINGS WERE INVENTED FOR! lol Pretty model, at any rate. I occasionally trawl the 3d repositories looking for nuke cutaways. It'll happen one day |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:19:40 AM EDT
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Making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes is a very good read, as well
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Posted: 12/7/2018 2:27:32 PM EDT
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I need to go back to Wright Patt...
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Posted: 12/7/2018 7:22:20 PM EDT
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would one of you historian-types explain the complete absence of dog tags on anyone in any picture?
safety reasons? not actually .mil people? navy guys who ditch wearing their tags right after boot? here's the link again: http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loading/Bomb_Guide.htm example: 
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Posted: 12/9/2018 7:59:28 PM EDT
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would one of you historian-types explain the complete absence of dog tags on anyone in any picture? safety reasons? not actually .mil people? navy guys who ditch wearing their tags right after boot? here's the link again: http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loading/Bomb_Guide.htm example: http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loading/77-BT-B.jpg |
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Posted: 12/9/2018 8:08:49 PM EDT
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would one of you historian-types explain the complete absence of dog tags on anyone in any picture? safety reasons? not actually .mil people? navy guys who ditch wearing their tags right after boot? here's the link again: http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loading/Bomb_Guide.htm example: http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loading/77-BT-B.jpg |
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