Lasers Creates New Forms of Metal and Enhances Aircraft Performance

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Air Force, Aircraft Performance, Black Metal, Creating Technology, Creation, Lasers, New Aircraft, New Horizon, Radiation

Dr. Guo and his team have been working on creating technology that may enable the Air Force to create an additional kind of metal. The black metal they created absorbs all radiation that shines upon it. With the creation of the black metal, the researchers opened up a whole new horizon for various applications in [...]

Fallout shelters were the rage in the ’50s and ’60s | Hudson Star-Observer

Posted by Matt in December 3rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Shelters, 1950s, 1960s, 50s, 60s, Aftermath, Buzz Word, Casualties, Civil Defense, Defense Initiative, Fallout Shelters, fallout-shelter, Hudson Star Observer, Hudson Wisconsin, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear War, Occupants, Radiation, Radioactive Fallout, Radioactivity, Rage

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the buzz word in American homes was “fallout shelter.”
A fallout shelter was a civil defense initiative intended to reduce casualties in a nuclear war. It was designed to allow occupants to avoid exposure to harmful radioactive fallout from a nuclear blast and its likely aftermath of radiation until radioactivity [...]

China Looks to Undermine U.S. Power, With ‘Assassin’s Mace’

Posted by Matt in July 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Military, Airpower, Assasin's Mace, Assassin, China, Emissions, High Speed, Mace, Military Trade, Missile Sam, radar, Radiation, Ramo, Surface To Air, Surface To Air Missile, Trade Show, weapons, Wings, Zhuhai

U.S. airpower depends on the ability to overcome surface-to-air missile (SAM) defenses, and one of the key weapons for this role is the AGM-88 High Speed Anti-radiation Missile (HARM), which homes in on radar emissions. (You can see them, under the F/A-18’s wings in the picture, above.) The defenders can either turn off their [...]

British planners feared tea shortage after nuclear attack

Posted by Matt in May 4th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Britain, Aftermath, British Tea, Contingency Planners, Dramatic Shortage, Hydrogen Bombs, Nuclear Attack, Radiation, Shortfall, Tea

Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed Monday.
The shortfall of the staple British beverage would be “very serious” if the country were to come under attack with atomic and hydrogen bombs, said according to a [...]

Doomed Chernobyl reactor to be buried in giant steel coffin

Posted by Matt in April 27th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, April 26 1986, Chernobyl, Chernobyl Disaster, Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Chernobyl Reactor, Coffin, Disaster Work, Explosion, Former Soviet Union, Hundreds Of Thousands, Italy, Northern Europe, Nuclear Accident, Power Plant, Pripyat, Radiation, Radioactive Contents, Soviet Union, Swath, Ukraine

Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.
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The explosion at reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986 was the world’s worst nuclear accident, spewing radiation over a large swath of the former Soviet [...]