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Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in... by iaw on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @08:15PM (#8398686)
Other way around. We had the Trinity test, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and then we set off the rest. Unless you meant "preparations" for killing more people with our nuclear weapons, in which case you may be correct.
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Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in... by logicallee on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @08:30PM (#8398748)
(It's completely obvious that's what he meant.)
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Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in... by iaw on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:41AM (#8399455)
The latter tests arguably weren't performed to improve the killing capabilities of the bombs but rather to understand the physics and physiological impacts of bomb blasts. Given that it's possible (albeit unlikely) we never see a nuclear weapon used in war again I don't see it as being completely obvious.
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Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in... by Confusion on Friday October 03, 2014 @02:46AM (#8404552)
It's completely obvious that it's not completely obvious, as someone honestly misunderstood.
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