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A Little About This Branch
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Just the word “Atomic Bomb” is enough to instil fear into anyone. Yet, one wonders how these bombs are able to garner so much energy and release them at one go… Little Boy and Fat Man were created as part of the Manhattan Project - US’ assault against Japan as response to the Pearl Harbour bombing. Little Boy functions like a gun, firing a uranium “bullet” and stimulating a nuclear fission (splitting of nuclei of 2 fissile element). Fat Man, however, has an explosion mechanism and consists of a plutonium core!
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Recent NewsElon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, reveals his plans to drop thermonuclear weapons on Mars to prepare it for humans. "There's a slow and fast way, and both," said Musk, "involve warming the planet." The slow way is to flood the planet with greenhouse gases and cause a kind of a Martian climate change over a span of years. "The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles" said Musk - with a straight face - on Sept 9 on Stephen Colbert's Late Show (while Apple was failing miserably in its iPhone Event)!
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