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Bombs and Explosive Materials
Bombs are explosive weapons that are detonated by a timing mechanism or other means to release a destructive material. Explosive materials, or simply explosives, are substances containing huge amounts of stored energy that produce explosion.
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A scorpion bomb is exactly as it sounds. It is believed that its first use was in 198 AD by the people of Mosul, Iraq to fight back Roman invaders.
The actual scorpion bomb consisted of a terracotta vessel roughly the size of bowling ball. The vessel was then filled with scorpions and sealed. The "bomb" could then be thrown at the invaders. The vessel would break and several very irritated scorpions would go to work.
There are several references that you can check out if you are still interested in more information. National Geographic ran an article on them at one time. You can also check out a really interesting book titled Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs that was written by Adrienne Mayor.
Sorry- urban legend. The FIRST bombing of Berlin took place on 25 Aug 1940, using 81 aircraft. The bombing that damaged the zoo (and, unfortunately, the elephant) was a later bombing raid, night of 22 Nov, 1943, performed by 444 aircraft. This raid produced massive damage and multiple deaths. See the link below.
All bombs are reactive. If they weren't they wouldn't be bombs.
The question 'Can you make them' is NO: 'I can't make them' is my answer to you. Can you?
a V-1 rocket was one of the three V (Vengeance) weapons weapons used by the Germans to bomb the country.
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the V-1 (known to the British as a doodlebug) was an unpiloted flying bomb with a Argus As 109-014 pulse jet engine.
the only British fighters fast enough to intercept them were the hawker typhoon and tempest.
V-1s were launched from a large launch ramp and guided with a gyro compass autopilot
It was very dangerous to shoot a V-1 bomb because the plane behind the bomb would have to fly though the explosion, so most skilled pilots would "topple" the V-1s by getting along side it and tipping it upside down with their wingtip.
upon reaching their target the V-1s engine would run out of fuel and dive downwards towards its target with a 850kg warhead causing a large amount of damage over a large area.
The other V weapons were the V-2 rocket which was just a massive rocket on a transportable launch ramp
the third V weapons is one not many people know about it was the V-3 coastal gun, also known as the super gun.
built in France by the Germans it was designed to fire directly over the channel at London. others were made but never used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
information about the v-3 i found in a book.
There are a few who claim the idea, but president Harry Truman first approved one to be built for the Korean war, 1950-1953. Richard Lawrence Garwin, American physicist, produced a design in 1952 at IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University.
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The original ideas for the hydrogen bomb came up early in the Manhattan Project, but it is unknown who first proposed them.
Edward Teller became fixated on the idea of the hydrogen bomb and the only way that Oppenheimer could get Teller to continue doing any work on the atomic bomb and stop taking other scientists away from their critical atomic bomb tasks to work on Teller's hydrogen bomb ideas was to just let him work on his hydrogen bomb ideas and just contact Teller as needed to consult on the atomic bomb work.
Edward Teller completed his first hydrogen bomb design, which he called "The Super" in the fall of 1945. This design was tested by numerical simulation on the newly completed ENIAC in december 1945 through january 1946, and shown to be not workable. Further work on hydrogen bomb designs was effectively suspended (although Edward Teller was allowed to continue "dabbling" at designing one).
In 1950 Stanislaw Ulam (a mathematician working with a team on producing higher yield more efficient atomic bombs) went to consult with Teller on an idea his team had proposed to use the explosion of one atomic bomb to compress and trigger a second atomic bomb. Teller suddenly realized this was the idea he needed to make his "Super" bombs work: use an atomic bomb not just to heat his hydrogen bomb (as he had done in all earlier designs) but to compress his hydrogen bomb too. Computer numerical simulations confirmed this would work. Serious design work on hydrogen bombs resumed at Los Alamos.
The first hydrogen bomb using the new "Teller-Ulam" design was built and tested in 1952, but by then Teller was fed up with his working arrangements at Los Alamos and quit. He convinced the military and AEC that they needed a second nuclear weapons development lab that he would have absolute control over. Slightly later in 1952 Lawrence Livermore Labs opened with Edward Teller as director.
They can be thrown at the target, or used to make boobytraps.
To stabalize the bomb in the air and to guide the bomb to the target.
Who had more bombs dropped on them cambodia or laos?
Cambodia had more bombs dropped on them than Laos during the Vietnam war. North Vietnamese solders would retreat into Cambodia and attack from there. Finally the US bombed North Vietnamese bases in Cambodia. They also established supply bases in Cambodia. Finally the US bombed the supply bases and supply lines into Cambodia.
See these sites:
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?s=d2454e2185e696ab94a5be2efbfda5da&p=934954#post934954
http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/insects/g1447.htm
As "weapons" encompasses a vast array of items, I'm going to assume that the question refers to weapons which use some sort of explosive in them, e.g. guns or bombs.
The detection of explosives other than by direct inspection (e.g. using X-Rays or similar methods to actually "see" the item) is done by chemical "sniffing" - that is, detecting trace amounts of vapors that explosives give off constantly.
In the case of cartridges used in guns, there's no real way to have a portable explosives sniffer be sensitive enough to detect ordinary mass-produced cartridges for firearms. These cartridges are sealed quite well, and only give off exceedingly small amounts of gases - so small, that even very large static scanners have an extremely hard time detecting it. Even items such as military grenades are likely to be sealed well enough to avoid giving off enough gas to be detected except by extremely sensitive equipment.
In the case of attempting to detect residue and vapors from hand-assembled explosive devices (handmade bombs and I.E.D. and such), there are several hand-held "sniffers" available. However, they are generally at least the size of a 1990s-era cell phone themselves. Also, remember that these devices generally have a range of a couple of feet - much less if the explosive items are inside something, or have only just been placed in the location.
As a practical manner, there is no way to build an explosives detector small enough to fit into a cell phone.
What element is used to make matches and grenades?
It used to be sulfur or phosphorous in World War 2.
How many bombs does the Messerschmitt drop?
During WW-II, Messerschmidt produced many aircraft fulfilling many military roles, including bombers. Without knowing which airframe you have in mind, there's no way to answer this question.
Actually almost all Messerschmitt aircraft were designed as fighters, even the notably underpowered Me 110. Many versions of the Me 109 could carry 1 x 550 or 4 x 110 pound bombs. The Me 110 E, G and H models - could carry 4,400 pounds in various configurations. (my father has many photos of them in Libya carrying 4 -1,100 pounders.) but was very slow with this load. - The Me 210 had under fuselage racks to carry 2 x 2,200 pound bombs, but seldom did. The Me 410 could carry 2 x 2,200 internally and 4 x 110 pound bombs under the wings. - Having said all that, remember that almost all of these aircraft were in fighter units and fighter pilots do not like to be weighed down with bombs. -That was up to the Dorniers and Heinkels in their opinion !
Why did the US drop a hydrogen bomb on the Marshal Islands?
Some 43 nuclear tests were detonated at Enewetak from 1948 to 1958. The first hydrogen bomb test, code-named Mike, was tested on November 1, 1952. The explosion vaporized the island of Elugelab. This was done for testing.
In most cases, yes, they will work in a vacuum. It will depend on how the grenade was designed. If the firing mechanism is designed to work without the need for air, it should work just fine. Many explosives are made with the oxidizing materials as part of the explosive so they don't require oxygen.
What are the three common characteristics hand grenades share?
1. they are light so you can carry them
2. they are thrown at a target
3. they explode
During dirty bomb attack what are the decontamination methods could be used?
Personal Decontamination: As a standard rule-of-thumb, removal of clothing removes 98% of an individuals particulate contamination.
If no detection equipment is available this is the best method.
A shower and an scan with a hand held detector is a good folow-up.
Quick Decon scientifically-formulated products, used by nuclear power plants and nuclear waste facilities for radiation decontamination, are available to first responders and the general public for use after a dirty bomb attack or other radiological events.
Bombs (foggers) are NOT a solution for bed bugs. A recent research study showed three over-the-counter foggers labeled as bed bug products were not effective against bed bugs. (Experts have known this for years.)
Bombs can also make bed bugs spread deeper into your home-- so it might SEEM like they're better for a short time, but they are still there and will be harder to eliminate because you just spread them around into places they aren't normally found.
What medicine to have in case of nuclear bomb attack?
There is no medicine that can protect you from nuclear weapons in any way, all of the direct effects can be fatal and the damage is not reversible. However one indirect delayed effect can be prevented: if you are far enough away at the time of the attack so that none of the direct effects have caused you injury, iodine-131 in the fallout is easily ingested and will be concentrated in the thyroid gland and its radiation will kill the thyroid. So keeping potassium iodide tablets and taking enough of them after the attack but before fallout arrives to "overdose" the thyroid on iodine will prevent it from taking up any of the iodine-131 from the fallout.
But this only protects the thyroid, fallout can also hurt you in many other ways that no medication can treat. Including radiation poisoning, skin burns that do not heal and become bleeding ulcers, etc.
What is the origin of the phrase to pull the pin?
It refers to the end of the day's work on the railroads where the wagons were uncoupled
