Last time I went, years ago, there vast majority of the crowd were… ordinary people playing dress up, as you say. Similar to Henley, probably. But since I row, I’m usually in one of the boat clubs (n… (View Post)

It's acknowledge in all the semi-serious histories. The post war stuff is actually more screwed up. A lot of authors followed the line that the UK was blundering around, trying to get an H Bomb worki… (View Post)

FPT What Heisenberg *ass*umed, seems to be that by the time physical assembly had happened, the nuclear reaction would be done. I'd recommend https://nuclearweaponarchive.org - it has quite a bit mor… (View Post)

Incidentally, Orange Herald was a classic airburst- (View Post)

It is beautiful. It’s born from the concentric symmetry of the device itself. The metals named after the Kings of Hell. The elegance of the physics. Of storms of neutrons denser than rock. Of X-rays … (View Post)