Physics 10 - Lecture 07: Nukes

Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006] Credits: lecturer:Professor Richard A. Muller, producers:Educational Technology Services

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[thantawa]

Hiroshima in my view was so get the Soviets to bow down to the US. It had nothing in my view to do with a military victory. It shows the start of the cold war.

[ThatMan0verThere]

Ah Chernobyl, the Ford Pinto of nuclear power.

[tekproxy]

When he says "homework is due tonight" I get a sinking feeling and I'm not even in the class. :(

[downsideupgoesgroar]

@buzzie244 he doesn't. I payed attention to the whole thing.

[limegut]

@thantawa Of course one reason for the bomb was to prevent Russia from invading Japan, but I believe that the use of the bomb was primarily to protect our attacking forces, then to protect Japan. The choice was thought out by smart men, and I believe it was the best choice.

[jvl4289]

@NANOFORGE Wow, you seriously need a history lesson. By the time the option to drop the bomb was available, the Japanese were already forced back into their own country and encircled.

The US was doing just great, the British and the Russians had nothing to worry about as Germany already surrendered. The Japanese Empire couldn't do anything offensive by that point.

Check your facts...

[NANOFORGE]

@jvl4289 If the bomb was'nt dropped then the war would of lastest alot longer and more would of died plus the US was barely holding it's own against the Japanese empire not to mention the russians and the british were having a hard time too. Dropping this bomb helped defeat a seemingly unstoppable foe.

[jvl4289]

@NANOFORGE Tell me how that is relevant at the time when the bomb was to be dropped.

[NANOFORGE]

@jvl4289 Tell me which is worse, the Death of 60,000 people or the deaths of 100s of millions of people and the enslavery of the entire Human race?.

[jvl4289]

@NANOFORGE Do you realize you just rationalized away 60,000 lives? Yeah, in the long run, who cares if we killed 60,000 lives, I mean we didn't care if millions of indigenous people in North America were decimated, what's 60,000 lives?