detroit in on Christmas Day 2009 he got the bomb on the plane he attempted to detonate the bomb didn't go off but in that case it went back to al-qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and hola key againthe threat is serious from most of these individuals what I'd like to do in addition to looking at some of the ways
So he approached Tsar Nicholas I with plans for a new kind of explosive device, one that would float in the harbor and detonate on contact with enemy ships. A sea mine.
He would have known that if he had Googled it. They detonated a nuclear weapon underground.
through security and then as they approached either American or Canadian airspace detonated and destroyed the airplanes the idea was to to to do ten of them at the same time now what was
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. So can you still detonate it?
If it helps, we are allowed one concession. We can detonate some bombs, as long as we're left with some good, un-detonated bombs. From our everyday experience of how the world works, this is an impossible problem to solve.
and transmitted with 50% probability when it hits a beamsplitter. You're allowed to detonate some bombs.
Because if we don't know what they're made of, well, some ideas, like you know "Armageddon," if you've seen the Hollywood movie, they actually go and detonate some explosive inside the asteroid to blow it up. Well, it depends what you're dealing with.
So in addition to all of the radioactivity and all of everything, if you just flip through a chemistry book, and you can point like anything, And so they detonated the bomb and they
and transmitted with 50% probability when it hits a beamsplitter. And so even a single photon will detonate the bomb.
crude nuclear device a hiroshima type bomb that could be delivered in a truck in a plane in a van detonated with relative ease so the trick is to stop the terrorists from getting the stuff from preventing them from getting the highly enriched uranium or possibly plutonium that they need to
- In 1852, when Alfred returned to Russia, he moved into a cramped apartment with his brother Robert, and he turned their kitchen into a makeshift lab. He was searching for a reliable way to detonate nitroglycerin, dreaming it could one day power his father's sea mines. But when the Crimean war ended in 1856, the Russian government refused to honor the contracts they'd signed during the war.
is a extremely serious threat and in fact in the case of Faisal Shahzad as well as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to detonate a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight from amsterdam to detroit in on Christmas Day 2009 he got the bomb on the plane he attempted to
the bomb that senior you many bomb maker put together for him was hidden in his by a metal detector and the way he was going to detonate it was through a
- I wasn't ready for that either. I made it moist so that it's less likely to self-detonate , but clearly I was wrong. - Clearly Wöhler had made a mistake.
Far from fearing its power, he believed he'd be the one to unlock it and solve one of nitroglycerin's greatest problems. - If I had a jar sitting right here and I wanted to detonate it, how do I do that? - Need a long fuse.
See, while a fuse can heat nitroglycerin, which makes its molecules vibrate faster, and it might even break a few no bonds, it usually doesn't break enough of them at the same time to detonate the rest of the liquid. So it doesn't explode.
Then when the fuse was lit, the gunpowder inside would explode, blasting down into the container. And it was that sudden impact that delivered the shock needed to detonate the nitroglycerin. It was just like the hammer striking the anvil.
He's ahead 1/3, conserving the battery. They actually go under, and then they detonate .
Pakistan got the bomb into times square on a Saturday night exactly where he wanted parked it across the street from a new york city police car and then detonated a bomb now function didn't go off but tests afterward that kind of of that kind of bomb had at work at the
He ignited it and tossed it into the water. That's crazy. He had finally found a way to reliably detonate nitroglycerin, and its finished form, it works something like this. Alfred took a container of nitroglycerin and inserted a wooden plug and packed it with gunpowder.
That's awesome. His invention, the blasting cap, was refined to use an even more consistent explosive than gunpowder, mercury fulminate. It became the first reliable way to detonate nitroglycerin on command. The design was so effective, it remained virtually unchanged for decades.
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. So now when it's bumped or shaken, the mixture won't detonate .
- But there are some realistic scenarios where staying true to a worse option could have deadly consequences. On the 29th of August, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated the RDS-1 bomb as part of their first nuclear weapons test. This sent the US and the USSR into a furious arms race.
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. But the problem with using gun cotton or any high explosive mass in small arms is that it detonates all at once,
of the blast site and left an eerie glow that could be seen in the skies above the earth for several days. While nothing has ever successfully proven Tesla's involvement in the ass-destroying huge explosion, it is pretty awesome that this guy could have potentially detonated a weapon 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and had done it before they had invented the submachine gun.
But that power comes at a price. Nitroglycerin is so sensitive that if it's dropped, shaken, or even just bumped, it can detonate . And as a result, hundreds of workers died trying to handle it.
and transmitted with 50% probability when it hits a beamsplitter. And these bombs have triggers that extremely sensitive, so sensitive that even a single particle of light falling on it will detonate the bomb.
and transmitted with 50% probability when it hits a beamsplitter. Half the time, the photons are going to hit this block, and half the time, the bomb is going to detonate .
much how the setup looks. And when the helium has been filled they release the balloon and it just takes off. Takes about five hours to get to the upper stratosphere and in the upper stratosphere it just goes around and around the South Pole for two weeks, the experiment does its thing, and then they detonate
So that's what makes it so sensitive to shock. A single impact can collapse many bubbles at once, which releases enough energy to trigger the chain reaction that detonates the entire liquid. Now, you might think to make nitroglycerin safe, Alfred just has to get rid of those bubbles, right?
would soon play a major role in one of the most important developments of the 20th century. On the morning of the 16th of July, 1945, the United States detonated The Gadget, the world's first nuclear bomb. The six kilogram plutonium bomb created an explosion that was equivalent to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT.
that was sniffing around our part of the solar system over the last 500 million years. It was about six miles wide, about 10 kilometers wide or so, so a pretty sizable rock, and it smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico in a split second. And I mean that in a literal sense, in a split second, it detonated with more energy than a billion nuclear bombs put together, and it punched a hole in the face of the earth over a hundred miles wide, a crater that we can still see in parts of Mexico today. It's largely covered by the Gulf of Mexico, the parts of it are visible
Wardenclyff Tesla Tower, a giant building shaped like an erect penis that would have housed the largest Tesla coil ever built. The massive structure, ostensibly designed to wirelessly transmit power, has been cited as a potential cause of the mysterious 1908 Tunguska event, a ten-megaton blast that detonated in the waste lands above central Russia, completely deforested everyone, everything, OK, that was an effect
for the ten-megaton blast: alarms going off, a true multi-media presentation. Ah, so ya, Tunguska, a ten-megaton blast that detonated in the waste lands above central Russia, completely deforested everything unlucky enough to be located within 830 square miles of the blast site and left an eerie glow that could be seen in the skies above the earth for several days. While nothing has ever successfully proven Tesla's involvement in the ass-destroying