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They had no real intelligence about where they were on the german bomb project. carr: and so, if they dont crack the plutonium problem, they may not have a bomb in time. norris: oppenheimer shifted the laboratory into, you know, full-speed panic mode. wellerstein: they had had some ideas for other types of bomb designs which they had thrown around at the very beginning of the project but dismissed cause they seemed too difficult. but one of them was called implosion. the way implosion in a nutsh...

So that when they explode, theyre gonna end up sort of focusing a blast wave onto this ball, pushing on the top and pushing on the bottom and pushing on both sides of it every angle of this is gonna be being pushed upon with a lot of explosive force. what you want to do is get this pressure to squeeze the plutonium target evenly. if it were asymmetrical, it probably wouldnt work. you had to have enough pressure quickly enough to smash these subatomic particles together hard enough to get them to...

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Nuclear war is unthinkable, but also uncontrollable once a spark is lit. There’s no turning back once that big misstep occurs. Indeed, the film Dr.

Nuclear war is unthinkable, but also uncontrollable once a spark is lit. There’s no turning back once that big misstep occurs. Indeed, the film Dr.

Finding a safe place quickly will be imperative since the time between the explosion and the blast wave is only a few seconds.

Joining us now three army officers who were in the pentagon when flight 77 hit. dr. and retired colonel jerry kitzhaber, retired colonel mark lewis and retired colonel roy wallace join us now. gentlemen, thank you for being with us this morning. forgive, so much attention by the way appropriate attention on new york city but not often perhaps given to what happened ha day at the pentagon as well. forgive me for not completely having my arms around the geography, appears to me, colonel wallace yo...

Like sitting and watching ing somebody kicking a dog for no reason, and kicking a dog in the head, its crying and you dont stop it, its a human thing. >> reporter: age 21 and trained as a paramedic, she is in a unit of many americans and germans where a quarter have actual military experience. but that has not held them back. >> about two weeks ago, i was first time i saw combat. i had my big medic bag on and everyone had all the gear, it was raining and miserable and we were klclimbing a hill o...

Russians saying right now a that if the u.s. continues to offer this military id a -- aid up to ukraine, it are not only be cross aring a line, but there could be more bloodshed due to these actioning. take a look at some of this video, it really highlights the devastation left behind by russian forces. this is the scene in kharkiv. officials say a missile hit a five-story administrative building. you can see blown out windows and bricks scattered all over as crews try to put out fires burning. ...

Watch by going online to foxnation.com to begin a free trial. all right, big concerns over the types of bombs russia may be dropping in ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon. what can you tell us at this hour, jennifer? >> sandra, we talked to a senior u.s. official who did confirm they had seen evidence of thermobaric weapons, they have not seen they have been used, but they are known as vacuum bombs. more devastating and conventional explosives a...