Q: Why don't blind people skydive?
A: It scares the crap out of their seeing-eye dogs.
Soviet H-bombIn 1953, the Soviet Union released the news that it had detonated its first hydrogen bomb, eight days earlier (12 Aug 1953), in Kazakhstan. The Soviet devicehad their own “layer cake” design of lithium-6 deuteride and tritium fuel layered with uranium. The explosion, with a yield of 400 kilotons (about 30 times the power of the bomb dropped on Japan, 6 Aug 1945), came less than 10 months after the first U.S. bomb test, "Mike," (1 Nov 1952) announced by President Harry Truman on 7 Jan 1953. Notably, the Soviet bomb was more portable than the U.S. device—small enough to fit in a plane, and be easily weaponizeable, though its size limited the amount of thermonuclear fuel and explosive force. It was dubbed “Joe-4” in the U.S.The American test was designed for greater explosive power.« |
