Then, the day after the nuclear explosion, the contaminated dust and water rain down and contaminate a large area. This rain is known as the fallout. The head wave comes from the gigantic energy that develops from the detonation. In the center of the detonation, the temperature can reach several million degrees. The head wave only takes a few seconds, but it kills everyone within a three-mile radius.
The identity of the attackers still had not been determined tonight. Truck Loaded With TNT According to a Pentagon spokesman, a Mercedes truck filled with some 2,500 pounds of TNT broke through a series of steel fences and sandbag barricades and detonated in the heart of the Marines' administrative headquarters building shortly after dawn. The explosion collapsed all four floors of the building, turning it into a burning mound of broken cement pillars and cinder blocks. Although a marine sentry was able to fire about five shots at the suicide driver and another marine threw himself in front of the speeding, explosive- filled truck, neither could block its entry into the headquarters building, where it exploded in a fireball that left a crater 30 feet deep and 40 feet wide. In a haunting scene late tonight, rescue workers using blow torches, pneumatic drills and cranes worked furiously under floodlights to pry out the dead and wounded still crushed beneath the smouldering debris.
There was an explosion at the mine and that massive explosion would change Centralia residents forever. The cause of the explosion was due to the build-up of coal dust. (Stillman, 2010) Identify and explain four (4) logistical alternatives Scanlan could have addressed Driscoll Scanlan and Robert Medill were appointed by Governor Dwight Green and
The reality of the threat is echoed by the researchers at Los Alamos who were taking bets shortly before the bomb’s test on whether the entire state of New Mexico would be incinerated by the bomb’s successful detonation; or the possibility that the atmosphere would be ignited by the blast and “blow up” the world. What is more horrifying—stating these events with the belief that they were genuine possibilities and continuing with the test or making these statements in the context of a kind of gallows humor with no basis in reality? In this case, as well as the case of the Monitor, those involved with developing a new, technologically superior weapon were only interested in achieving their goal. The possibility of negative consequences due to the nuclear blast was given no consideration; as if the headlong charge to achieve the goal of developing the atom bomb any possible negative consequences for those living in the vicinity of the laboratory and those it would be used against were not worth
The B-29 Bomber dropped the Uranium-235 called Little Boy on the Town. Ten square kilometers of the city were flattened and 78,000 people killed. Three days later the Fatman Plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagaski, killing 35,000
Hydraulic Fracturing was invented by Halliburton in the 1940’s. The method injects a mixture of sand, water, and chemicals (a large amount of them toxic) into deep underground rock formations to rupture them and release natural
Between the hours of 12:00AM and 1:00AM on April 19th Dzhokar and Tamerlan were spotted and they engaged in a shoot-out with the officers. During the pursuit improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged. Tamerlan was killed by police during the exchange. Dzhokar, while escaping the scene ran over his brother’s body and got away from the police. Britannica.com 23 July 2014 Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 This was the start of the manhunt that shut down the city of Boston.
On September 13th, 1848 a man named Phineas Gage was working as a foreman blasting rock to lay bed for a rail line. Gage had to pack gunpowder into a hole in order to blast the rock. On a particular occasion as he was doing just this it exploded sending an iron rod, 1 ¼ inch in diameter and over 3 feet in length through his head. The rod entered the side of his face, passed behind the left eye, and finally exiting at the top of his head. Gage amazingly was lucid and speaking after only a few minutes.
Rock dusting is the applying of pulverized stone to the walls and roofs of the passage ways, which would have killed the explosions by throwing a cloud of rock dust that is incombustible into the air with coal dust. Why weren’t any methods like that implemented if it was known for more than twenty-five years prior to the incident and it was known about the mine being
This produced an immense amount of energy casing a massive explosion in the reactor. The explosion completely destroyed the reactor and released harmful radioactive agents into the environment. The explosion at reactor 4 was immediately followed by an even bigger explosion that completely destroyed the reactor building structure. Super heated graphite and other reactor components