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A 20-foot vacuum chamber in Albuquerque takes 26 million amps from 2,160 capacitors in about 100 billionths of a second, around 200 times a year, each shot shaking the ground like a small earthquake,
All of it converges on a target no bigger than a spool of thread, sitting in a vacuum chamber 10 feet across and 20 feet tall. The usual target is a set of
Local TV news doesn’t usually get anywhere near nuclear weapons science. Albuquerque’s KOB 4 covers weather, traffic and the Balloon Fiesta, pretty much like every local station in the country. But on September 18, the station aired a look inside one... [5405 chars]
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