Operation Argus 1958 Nuclear Tests in Space - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2017, 01:41:45 am
content: Operation Argus Wikihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ArgusW25 nuclear warhead Wikihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W25_(nuclear_warhead)Re post of this this video here so it's all together.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2017, 10:29:48 am
content: The second video is the better one, but all nuclear tests all seems to be act of fools and terrorists.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_(1964_film)Any country holding nuclear weapons should be listed as countries who would engage in acts of terrorism. The governments of these countries are far more dangerous than a few Muslims trying to dispatch a few infidels to hell. The problem is the people have no power to stop their government. Trump has the power to end the world within a few minutes of making the decision.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2017, 10:44:03 am
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on March 23, 2017, 10:29:48 amDefinitely, the whole terrorism thing is a massive distraction from the real risks in the world, I think the figures show you're more likely to die of choking on your food than anything terrorist related but of course sensational terrorism plays into the hands of the media and politicians who leverage it to force unnecessary change to our freedoms through fear.(I speak as someone who lives within 8 miles of two cities that were bombed more than once by American funded Irish terrorists, I'm still happy to walk down the streets of either and have no cowardly fear of any religion or race)

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2017, 02:12:51 pm
content: Can we PLEASE keep this crap off of here, I've already stopped visiting one other site I regularly frequent because all I see there is Trump this and Trump that making him out to be every bad guy real or fictional through the whole of human existence.

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2017, 08:17:20 pm
content: Mea culpa, yes, wrong place for this, I agree.

author: yuzuha
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2017, 03:18:57 am
content: Quote from: rrinker on March 23, 2017, 02:12:51 pmI think it is an essential bit of history and a fascinating science topic. You are the only one to mention the golden wombat. LOL

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 24, 2017, 06:05:43 am
content: Yeah. Let's just stick to atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.It's safer.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2017, 12:26:39 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on March 23, 2017, 02:12:51 pmYou clearly missed the point. This isn't about your elected leader. It is about how easy is is for a country to unleash unprecedented terrorism on innocent civilians.http://www.globalzero.org/blog/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-render-earth-uninhabitable.Some will look on nuclear bombs with delight and marvel at the technology, seeing them as necessary for peace. Others look on them as nothing more than abhorrent. To my knowledge the UK and the US are the only countries to have used nuclear weapons on human populations.How does the world rid itself of nukes? If mutually assured destruction happens or we enter a nuclear winter, who, if anyone, will be around to hold the perpetrators to account?

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2017, 01:40:08 pm
content: Quote from: yuzuha on March 24, 2017, 03:18:57 amMethinks you need to check the second post. The videos themselves, no problem. My reply was to the second and third psots, not to the posting of the videos themselves. I find those old, now declassified, videos fascinating from a historical and scientific viewpoint.

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2017, 03:05:07 pm
content: Thank you Homer for a interesting videos.I know the US part in WW2 Japan, but UK? I need reference.Quote from: VK3DRB on March 24, 2017, 12:26:39 pm

author: yuzuha
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2017, 10:09:57 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on March 24, 2017, 01:40:08 pmThou art correct. My oversight, though the poster does have a point.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2017, 12:48:50 am
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on March 24, 2017, 12:26:39 pmEh? The UK has never used nuclear weapons against people, only 'merica has that 'honour'. We might have carelessly irradiated a few of our own squadies and some civilians during tests but we've never dropped a weapon of mass destruction on a civilian population. Anybody who has tested nuclear weapons has to carry the can for dosing some poor bastard somewhere and if that's your criterion then you have to include France, Russia, and all the undeclared nuclear states.On, and another "Thankyou" to Señor Simpson for the various links to old technology videos. I've been meaning to say that for a while.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2017, 09:04:56 am
content: Quote from: Cerebus on March 28, 2017, 12:48:50 amWanna make a bet?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClelland_Royal_Commissionhttp://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/new-generations-of-australian-families-suffering-deformities-and-early-deaths-because-of-genetic-transfer/news-story/5a74b7eab2f433402aa00bc2fcbcbea4http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3695723.htmIMO, the one reason we should have become a republic long ago.

author: CJay
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2017, 10:19:16 am
content: I'll take that bet, while the conduct of the tests left a lot to be desired (which is a wild understatement) and any efforts to clean up the mess afterwards sound like a sick joke, the weapons were never used against people, it still stands that America is the only country which has detonated nuclear weapons against an enemy state and the people of that state.I realise it's a contentious area and I'm not in any way defending the nuclear tests, especially not those where people were exposed to the effects, they were a disgusting time in history, the same as the tests that were carried out on chemical weapons, biological and nerve agents at places like Porton Down.I hope none of them are repeated.As a plaudit for the original poster of the video link, I've watched several now and find them fascinating from a technical and scientific viewpoint, the shiny eyed jingoism and enthusiasm of the 'patriots' as they work toward developing such horrific weapons is rather frightening though