Nuclear Weapons

No nuclear bombs were tested on Easter Island.

Yes. The nukes killed more than sixty thousand people in Japan before so the answer is yes.

Yes... Quite in fact... I recommend asking a Japanese person...

The disease that caused many people to die is Thyroid Cancer, according to doctors, and researchers.

There are a number of different diseases people got from the atom bomb, apart from broken bones, burns, and so on.

The first long term problem to show itself was radiation sickness. This is characterized by loss of hair, nausea, loss of energy, and a number of other symptoms.

After those who recovered from radiation sickness did so, they were susceptible to other diseases because of reduced function of their immune systems, which lead to a variety of other diseases.

The survivors had an increased likelihood of having tumors and/or cancers of many sorts.

The children of the survivors had an increased likelihood of having genetic disorders.

It's certainly not just the USA and it's not the "nuclear power" their concerned about, it's the by-products of making nuclear power that can be made into nuclear bombs and it's just "certain" country's that may use the nuclear plants to make nuclear bombs or to sell the Uranium to other country's that would make bombs. It would be an easy way for those country's to make easy money. And you can bet that money wouldn't make it to the people of the country that sold it.

Think about it a minute, would you like your country's enemy to have access to those ingredients and not yours?

It takes a lot of knowledge and responsibly, to the world in genera,l for a country to have nuclear power and let alone the safety aspects of it. Almost every country has had minor or massive accidents with nuclear power. Just look at Japan now, theirs was considered one of the safest nuclear plants in the world.

You get a rather large explosion.

Most people are killed by the blast and heat as in conventional explosions.

However the radioactivity adds both immediate and long term deaths (e.g. radiation poisoning, cancers). Radioactive fallout can produce deaths many hundreds of miles away from the explosion itself.

Beta Radiation

Leukemia, thyroid cancer, nasal cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer (only in men, of course) are at the top of the list.

Tunguska was a thermal stress explosion of an asteroid or comet in the earth's atmosphere, most likely a comet as no ground debris could be found later. It is now believed that a nearby small lake is the impact crater for the remaining core after the explosion. It happened in 1908.

• Atomic bombs, A bombs, fission bombs
• Hydrogen bombs, H bombs, fusion bombs
• Boosted fission bombs, "dial-a-yield" bombs
• Multistaged fusion bombs
• Clean fusion bombs, reduced fallout fusion bombs
• Salted fusion bombs, dirty fusion bombs, increased fallout fusion bombs
• etc.

Megalodons are giant sharks, not gods.

May 28, 1998

Today, if they're tested, they're usually tested by underground detonation at remote sites. In the early days of testing, they were tested by the method of delivery and detonation - air, artillery, underwater, or ground detonation. As the realization of fallout contamination became known (Alpha Radiation contamination), the tests were performed underground to localize contamination and to prevent airborne spread.

While it is believed that Israel has possessed nuclear weapons since 1975, they neither deny nor admit to possessing any. It's widely believed that they are a nuclear power, although they have stated they will not be the ones to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.

Unless you are involved in governmental policy making, which most of us are not, the second best way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons is to raise awareness of the dangers of nuclear warfare and hopefully that will cause sufficient interest so that the government will act accordingly.

Site construction started in about 1972. Due to the Arab oil embargo in 1973, construction was halted in 1974 until about 1979. Unit 1 was placed in commercial operation in 1985. Unit 2 was placed in commercial operation in 1989.

I know of no nuclear test sites in Florida at all. There was one company in South Florida that at one time made some non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons, but they don't anymore.

The reactors in Japan did a marvelous job holding up to the earthquake that shook the area. As far as we can determine, the reactors did withstand the earthquake and went into a "SCRAM" mode immediately after the event. Shutting down any device that makes this much energy though is not an instant event. Large amounts of heat were still present and water was being used to cool the systems down when the second (unexpected in pre planning) event occurred. A large wall of sea water some 23 to 30 feet tall came and washed out all standby electrical equipment and made cooling the reactors impossible. This event caused the reactors to become very hot and the explosion reduction equipment did not have power to operate.

Nuclear reactors have three containment areas. The first is a center shell that seals the reactor and (normally) all radiation in this dome. This contains the center core of the reactor.

The second chamber is a large cement dome that would normally contain any radiation and prevent an explosion from the outside, from reaching this core. This unit also appears to have withstood the earthquake.

The outer chamber contains a larger area that should capture small amounts of anything that breeches the first two dome. This section also contains little spark plug like units on the ceiling. These help prevent hydrogen, a natural byproduct of the reactor, from building up too much on this ceiling (Hydrogen is lighter than air). These "spark plugs" regularly snap to create a small hydrogen reaction and prevent enough hydrogen from building up and creating a big bang. These units failed to spark due to a lack of electric power.

The lack of power created no way to reduce the heat in the chamber, which in turn produced more hydrogen. The hydrogen built up until a major explosion occurred. The outer containment section was destroyed in these blasts. It is possible (and likely) that the second containment domes were also breached in some of these explosions. This would cause some leakage of the steam inside the reactor which is trying to help cool the reaction. Venting of the dome is also possible to prevent the dome from exploding or cracking. This is a controlled vent, which is different from a leak, as it is needed to prevent a Chernobyl style event.

Currently, two reactors have been restarted. These reactors are being used to drive pumps which are adding seawater to the damaged reactors. We hope this will reduce the core temperatures enough to prevent further venting of the reactors. Time will tell.

There are three absolute failures in the design of the reactors here.

1. No reactors should EVER be built on (or even near) a fault line.

2. Reactors should never be operated near populated areas.

(Indian point reactor in New York City is 30 miles from downtown Manhattan)

3. Standby generators should be placed underground in blast proof areas, like in the U.S.A.

South Korea is not threatening anyone with nuclear weapons; it is North Korea that is doing the threatening. The motive behind the North's activities is to press for humanitarian aid using the threat of nuclear war as incentive for the West to provide this aid (like a ransom).

No, Israel designed their own.

NO!

It's getting down to this deadline. Personally I would not expect Iran to keep to the agreements as arranged. We can sign all the treaties we want they will not keep to it. Now we have Iran and Russia working together. We see these alliances. One day they will try to take over the USA. They may succeed!.

No, both are legal weapons for nations to use in war. Only chemical and biological weapons are prohibited by international law (although that has not stopped certain countries from using them).