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xoxoxoBruce · 07-18-2005, 06:14 PM

A friend of mine lives on Stratford. There's been a number of huge articles in the Sunday Inquirer over the years.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-01-2005, 02:35 AM

The wife and I went to the Atomic Museum while traveling cross-country some years back. Man, do they have some exotic shit on display: one B-52, one 280mm Atomic Annie cannon with transporter, bomb casings of about all the types from Fat Man and Little Boy to the enormous thermonuclear fission-fusion (I don't think it was three-stage fission-fusion-fission) bomb that needed the B-36 to carry it, and then the more modern guys -- the B61 bomb casings that I think take the W88 nuclear warhead, or variations on it. They can get clever and adjust any given bomb to deliver any of a range of yields. There's a model of Yucca Mountain, and an exhibit where you can lift a piece of depleted uranium from its radiation sleeve with a T-handle -- very heavy, like you wouldn't believe. I don't remember seeing very much on ballistic missiles.

B61s look -- well -- ordinary. Not quite as pointy as the low-drag Mk80-82-84 series bombs. Often painted silver, though Marine ordnance guards emphatically discourage anybody gawking at ordnance evolutions involving these aboard carriers. You don't have to be there, they will run you right off. An Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class of my acquaintance mentioned to me once that these weapons smell of ozone.

07-18-2005, 06:14 PM	#31
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	A friend of mine lives on Stratford. There's been a number of huge articles in the Sunday Inquirer over the years. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-01-2005, 02:35 AM	#32
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	The wife and I went to the Atomic Museum while traveling cross-country some years back. Man, do they have some exotic shit on display: one B-52, one 280mm Atomic Annie cannon with transporter, bomb casings of about all the types from Fat Man and Little Boy to the enormous thermonuclear fission-fusion (I don't think it was three-stage fission-fusion-fission) bomb that needed the B-36 to carry it, and then the more modern guys -- the B61 bomb casings that I think take the W88 nuclear warhead, or variations on it. They can get clever and adjust any given bomb to deliver any of a range of yields. There's a model of Yucca Mountain, and an exhibit where you can lift a piece of depleted uranium from its radiation sleeve with a T-handle -- very heavy, like you wouldn't believe. I don't remember seeing very much on ballistic missiles. B61s look -- well -- ordinary. Not quite as pointy as the low-drag Mk80-82-84 series bombs. Often painted silver, though Marine ordnance guards emphatically discourage anybody gawking at ordnance evolutions involving these aboard carriers. You don't have to be there, they will run you right off. An Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class of my acquaintance mentioned to me once that these weapons smell of ozone. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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