Yikes! Edward Teller plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the. Moon! Luckily the idea was too crazy, even for the Airforce...
Edward Teller’s “Moon Shot” by @wellerstein back in 2011http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/12/12/edward-tellers-moon-shot/ …
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Well, y'know if you give a two-year old a toy hammer, suddenly *everything* needs a little hammering...
he named one of his largest designs "Little Edward" tells you something about him, I thinkpic.twitter.com/214ZA6RYi8
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Teller (and his design) was bloody brilliant but damn, does that sound like compensating for something.
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the main deuterium-deuterium charge it was meant to set off was called "Daddy" if someone tried to write fiction with this stuff in it, it'd sound ridiculous
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Recently learned British called their primaries Tom and their secondaries Dick in their Hydrogen Bombs... This scientist seems a little loose with some of the details too, but nothing shocking revealed. HT:
@Ganed_Ddraig for link to this excellent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAX7EujOYI …pic.twitter.com/YtLrn4J3Zj
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Finally got to finish the video. A lot better than the Equinox version! Thanks!
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How big is "bigger"... and how big did he go? Or do I not want to know?
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his ambition was essentially limitless... but the highest-yield design he ever proposed was 10,000 megatons. I don't know how high-yield "Little Edward" was — it was a multi-crit gun-type bomb meant to set off an H-bomb.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bigger-boom/ …
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Great post! Thanks!
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