P3D Re: Another Pot-Shot Question

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:29:53 -0700
>From: Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D Another Pot-Shot Question

>So here's the question - has anyone ever seen an accidental or deliberate
>hyperstereo of the fireball or cloud from a nuclear detonation?  

Last I heard they exist, but they're pretty expensive.

>No I am not interested in taking one myself, thanks.

If you know of a place where old explosives are destroyed, if they set off
enough conventional explosives at one time it will make a mushroom cloud.
Perhaps a 3D photo could be taken by remote control. (You could tell them
that it would help in analyzing the explosion.)

>More generally, is the technology of nuclear war a subject that has been
>stereographed to any degree, to anyone's knowledge?

I think the Enola Gay is still on exhibit in the Air and Space Museum in
DC, with a mockup of (I think) Fat Man. And of course plenty of missiles.

I'm sure the folks at the DOE National Labs have lots of 3D images from
computer simulations, but they might not want to show them to you. :-)

John R


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