Trinity Day,...
 

...am I the only one who missed it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_test

Yes...it's true...we used nu-clear weapons on Japan. :lol:

Um, that's not Trinity Day.

Nice try though.

I am wearing my tee shirt today.

http://scribe.fork.org/cellar/trinitee.jpg

Trinity Day gets marked on my calendar.

Oppenheimer was very much in touch when he thought of the Hindu scripture:["Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds.".....]
..But Bainbridge hit the nail on the head when he said: [" Now we are all sons of bitches"].
Hard to believe its been that long ago. This bomb was a joke compared to what could happen now. Really scary. :worried:

Nice.

I really need to get that shirt.

National Atomic Museum

I ordered from the website, although when I finally get to the Southwest I am SOOOO going there.

I wanted the colored one but they were out of it. I also have the Fat Man and Little Boy shotglasses.

Who declared it Trinity Day? :question:

True.

To put it in a perspective from my personal experience:

1) the weapon used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now used as the detonators for our present weapons

2) today's weapons are so prodigious that a Trident ICBM submarine, one vessel in the whole fleet carries twice the firepower expended in all of WWII, including all of the nuclear weapons dropped as well as the test detonations.

The Trident II missile carries 8 MIRVs with 100 kt of explosive capacity, whereas Little Boy yielded 13 kt.

And just to add to the :tinfoil: factor, any submarine can launch a Tomahawk (TLAM-N) with a payload of up to 200 kt, not to mention air launch, surface craft and so on.

Bomb geeks.

:question: Evidently a man of the cloth there was looking out the window and said "the Father, the Son, and the Holy shit!!"
:ipray: :shocking:

I have some fused sand, called Trinitite, from the Trinity site.

It is my understanding that I'm not supposed to, but I do.

Just don't handle it for the next 100,000 years or so. It'll be fine.

Uh, Els... you really sure that's healthy for your family to have that just lyin' around? :worried:

When I was a kid, we had this old wind-up alarm clock that had hands that would glow in the dark without holding it up to the light first. Really cool. My dad took it away from us though. He's a physicist, and brought home a geiger counter one day from work. The thing went absolutely nuts when he held it close to the clock. Cool. Never saw that clock since then.