Just goes to show ya... Don't play with nuclear matches:yep:

I work in the IT dept. here at work... I downloaded the "Damage and Destruction" vid and renamed it "Dell Laptop" and emailed it to my boss.... :rock:

I swear I cant help myself sometimes.... :smug:

The "oops" shot was Castle Bravo- it was supposed to yield 6 megatons but due to miscalculation (read about it on the nuclearweaponarchive) it resulted in an 18 megaton shot. One of my high school shop teachers was in the atmospheric test program and was present. Also met two other weapons engineers when I was in the service (working on nukes) who were present at the same event.

Yours, Mike

:o That's a BIG oops......

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Here's a link to the Nuclear Weapon Archive and the article on the Castle series; also shows the test device (the physics package was later modified into the Mk14, Mk17, and other thermonuclear bombs)-

http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/...ts/Castle.html

Yep, that's one BFMC (Big Freaking Mushroom Cloud). It's about three miles across...

Yours, Mike

Of course, that's not as crazy as the Soviets who did a 50 MT test intentionally. In a design that could be easily scaled up to 100 MT.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...q=nuclear+bomb
:o:o