{"id":3607,"date":"2012-08-06T18:20:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2012-08-24T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T03:03:51","slug":"uranium-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"Uranium bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hiroshima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3609\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" title=\"hiroshima\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hiroshima.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>Lest we forget: the attack on Hiroshima occurred 67 years ago today. Little Boy was one of the few uranium bombs ever made (using plutonium that is produced in a nuclear reactor is a much cheaper alternative.)<\/p>\n<p>I remain hopeful. Yes, it was exactly 67 years ago today an atomic bomb was first used in anger against human beings. But in three days, we will celebrate (if that is the right word) the 67th anniversary of the <em>last<\/em> use of an atomic bomb in anger against human beings.<\/p>\n<p>[PS: One of these days, I&#8217;ll learn basic arithmetic. 2012\u00a0\u2212 1945 = 67. Not 77.]<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3607' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget: the attack on Hiroshima occurred 67 years ago today. Little Boy was one of the few uranium bombs ever made (using plutonium that is produced in a nuclear reactor is a much cheaper alternative.) I remain hopeful. Yes, it was exactly 67 years ago today an atomic bomb was first used in <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3607' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics","category-25-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}