Who is old enough to remember the "under the desk"

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33. I Will Be 70 Soon And Remember The Drills Well.

The problem is that being under a desk would have done no good if you were anywhere near ground zero. Most Americans do not fully understand what nuclear weapons can do and actually how terrible they would be. Above ground tests have not happened for decades.

At one time it was entertainment in Vegas. People used to go just outside of Vegas to watch detonations in the desert in the 1950's. If you go on youtube you can see videos of some of these tests. For instance in the Bikini Atoll blast they fired a bomb that was mistakenly 3X larger than planned. They had to quickly rescue some scientists in a bunker before they got fried by radiation.

The reason was that the hydrogen bomb contained an isotope of lithium. They used lithium 4 and lithium 6. Lithium 4 was 2/3rds of material packed into the bomb. And lithium 6 was the other third that was part of the active material. What they did not figure was that at detonation the lithium 4 became lithium 6 and the bomb over exploded.

If anyone has watched Heroes on TV there was a character they were pursuing who could explode. Even though it is sci fi it is also actually possible. If you were to release the atomic bonding of a person immediately they would produce enough energy equal to an atom bomb or two.

Everyone and everything is 98% empty space. We all nothing more than atoms held together by atomic forces with empty space in between. Quantum mechanics reveals a far different world than we experience.

Anyone who want to see a really neat youtube video can go to that site and enter Symphony Of Science and look for the Morgan Freeman video about quantum mechanics. You will look at reality very differently. It has the top quantum physicists in thw world in it.