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HEMP: The Venomous Fangs
Arthur Holly Compton: The Manhattan Project
The threat-within-the-threat was actually discovered before the threat itself (deployed in 1945). Back of twenty-five to thirty years ago, exposure to this inner threat and its ensuing impact would have been much less of a cause for concern. Today, however, marks a brand-new chapter, in a nation heavily dependent upon both the crutches of electricity and sophisticated electronics. This other half, if not the ‘better half’, of the nuclear threat officially established in 1945, is called Compton Effect, or Compton scattering.
In 1923, a physicist named Arthur Holly Compton stumbled onto the discovery of this phenomenon named in his honor independent of any work leading directly to the development of the atomic or nuclear bomb (although years later in 1941, he would chair a committee of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned to explore atomic energy in search of any application which might have military implications and ramifications. Together with physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, it was he who was instrumental in the launch of The Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb.).
The work for which Mr. Compton is best known won him the Nobel Prize. This work centered on the strange reaction achieved when bombarding atoms, having low atomic numbers and weights, with streams of photons from high-energy electromagnetism in the range of X-rays and gamma rays. It seems that whenever these energetic packets of light particles strike atoms of the aforementioned type, they do so at the point of the loosely held electrons in the atoms’ outermost shells and rings (that, is where the chemical bonding of everything matter in the universe takes place). When the photon strikes the electron, it does so as when one marble strikes another on a tabletop. During this contact, an energy transfer takes place so that the photon gives up some of its energy. Hereby, the tiny electron becomes saturated with energy—more than it can handle so that it cannot remain in its orbit—or, super-charged. The excessive excitement and a recoil throws the electron out of its orbit, driving it away from the atom at a speed near that of the light, with which it was struck. This phenomenon is the driving force behind that which will in all likelihood spell the doom of Babylon the Great—God’s justifiable pseudonym of choice for the United States of America.
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
While it was neither observed nor understood with the dropping of the first two atomic bombs on the Japanese in 1945, Compton scattering (or, recoil) is an inevitable occurrence that accompanies any nuclear explosion. This was first confirmed accidentally in 1958 and in 1962, during high altitude hydrogen bomb explosions over the Pacific Ocean (there were ten total; all were the so-called exo-atmospheric tests, in that the blasts occurred in outer space, outside the earth’s atmosphere).
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By Alvin MitchellHEMP: The Venomous Fangs
Arthur Holly Compton: The Manhattan Project
The threat-within-the-threat was actually discovered before the threat itself (deployed in 1945). Back of twenty-five to thirty years ago, exposure to this inner threat and its ensuing impact would have been much less of a cause for concern. Today, however, marks a brand-new chapter, in a nation heavily dependent upon both the crutches of electricity and sophisticated electronics. This other half, if not the ‘better half’, of the nuclear threat officially established in 1945, is called Compton Effect, or Compton scattering.
In 1923, a physicist named Arthur Holly Compton stumbled onto the discovery of this phenomenon named in his honor independent of any work leading directly to the development of the atomic or nuclear bomb (although years later in 1941, he would chair a committee of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned to explore atomic energy in search of any application which might have military implications and ramifications. Together with physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, it was he who was instrumental in the launch of The Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb.).
The work for which Mr. Compton is best known won him the Nobel Prize. This work centered on the strange reaction achieved when bombarding atoms, having low atomic numbers and weights, with streams of photons from high-energy electromagnetism in the range of X-rays and gamma rays. It seems that whenever these energetic packets of light particles strike atoms of the aforementioned type, they do so at the point of the loosely held electrons in the atoms’ outermost shells and rings (that, is where the chemical bonding of everything matter in the universe takes place). When the photon strikes the electron, it does so as when one marble strikes another on a tabletop. During this contact, an energy transfer takes place so that the photon gives up some of its energy. Hereby, the tiny electron becomes saturated with energy—more than it can handle so that it cannot remain in its orbit—or, super-charged. The excessive excitement and a recoil throws the electron out of its orbit, driving it away from the atom at a speed near that of the light, with which it was struck. This phenomenon is the driving force behind that which will in all likelihood spell the doom of Babylon the Great—God’s justifiable pseudonym of choice for the United States of America.
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
While it was neither observed nor understood with the dropping of the first two atomic bombs on the Japanese in 1945, Compton scattering (or, recoil) is an inevitable occurrence that accompanies any nuclear explosion. This was first confirmed accidentally in 1958 and in 1962, during high altitude hydrogen bomb explosions over the Pacific Ocean (there were ten total; all were the so-called exo-atmospheric tests, in that the blasts occurred in outer space, outside the earth’s atmosphere).