Betelgeuse is actually quite an awesome name for a nuclear test. Naming them after stars at all, like the French did: Betelgeuse, Canopus, Aldebaran, Sirius
actually, the manhattan project involved a vast number of foreign scientists, the french, german, british and others were working on atomic weaponry before WWII, the reason of the Narvik expedition in 1940 by a franco/british force in norway was to keep the germans from setting their hands on the "heavy" water produced over there. the russians were working on it, the japanese were probably too...
France bought the world stock or heavy water before WWII, in 1939 Frederic Joliot Curie was the first to think to use uranium 235 for weapon, he got an validation from the french defense ministry and for that reason France bought the stock from Norvege, they was the only country to know how to extract the heavy water.
c'est vrai que c'est magnifique mais je me demande toujours pourquoi un test comme celui si à été super bien filmé alors que des test genre Canopus on été filmé comme une merde c'est bizarre
One good thing about the atomic bomb is that you cannot truly credit it's invention to any one country. France, Britain, Germany, Poland, USA etc. if any of those countries did not exist the bomb wouldn't either.
nope, we're not great britain. algeria was french when the first tests were conducted, and polynesia still is (actually, there was a referendum done just months ago: and it'll remain french because it's people wants to).
of course i take everything i read seriously otherwise why read? , you talk about things tha u don't know........french nukes were realised in french territory (in polynesia)...i know that you, americans do not friends with history and geography but stillll............
One should put De Gaulle's then declaration back into the context. If it was not so deadly and ravaging, yes indeed a nuclear blast is truly magnificent to watch. I would not call it progress but it's one of mankind most terrible achievement. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended WW2 and as appawling as it sounds nuclear power certainly prevented a few wars until then. And France certainly could not afford yet another conflict with Germany not mentionning USSR was also posing a potential threat in Europe, so the nuclear program acted like an insurance policy no more no less. If no one wants another Hiroshima it's not by wisdom but by fear of global annihilation. It worth mentionning it was not until the late 90s that France had the technology to simulate a nuclear blast without blasting the whole Pacific or Algerian desert. The Americans and English did the same in the Bikinis. They all used their own population and others. When you read the conclusions of the Manhattan Project, you realise there is no small sacrifice for the politicians'.
well..assuming you're referring to hiroshima--that was necessary to end wwII--as for deliberately missing the target directly: that was important to learn about the effects of the bomb; otherwise we wouldn't know the threat it posed on us or how to prepare for it; -at least we took something informative from it
the basis for the bomb was the theory of relativity which was at that point public knowledge_the concern was that the germans would figure out how to do it after knowing that it was possible--which is derived from energy-mass relativity--it's presumably the main reason the US took to einstein's theory in the first place (in the way that spain searched for the fountain of youth---it's probably bogus but very enticing)--i mean you'd have to be smart to make the connection, but we did so..
First of all Japan was for all intents and purposes defeated before the Hiroshima bomb and they had been driven back even from their own islands (Okinawa). Japan tried to negotiate for surrender but they wanted some provisions, the most important one being to keep their emperor. However Truman wanted unconditional surrender and that was something very humiliating for the Japanese so they'd rather die and fight to the last man. The real reason the bomb was dropped was to test its effects.
Jared Dennis it was a 200kt nuke test in the 60's,and the french president charles de gaulle when he was looking at the mushroom just said..it is magnificient..you know at this period he was nothing else but an old silly bastard good for retirement..
