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Originally Posted by Hugh R
What is amazing is those were in the kiloton range, they're now in the megaton range. As a kid, one of my Dad's friends was Harold Edgerton, (co-founder of EG&G) who invented the strobe light and I believe the high speed cameras used in the filming of the first milli-seconds of nuclear blasts.
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It's funny, Hugh, after my father stopped running around in the boonies, he became a nuke...taught in Idaho and later, as a civilian SES, managed the Savannah River Plant in SC.
We'll have to compare notes...he spent a lot of time at Oak Ridge, Livermoore, Scandia, etc.