{"id":5221,"date":"2013-07-17T18:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2013-07-17T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:13:28","slug":"deadly-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5221","title":{"rendered":"Deadly dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minor_Scale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5222\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Minor_Scale_test_explosion.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Minor_Scale_test_explosion.jpg 400w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Minor_Scale_test_explosion-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The beauty of the picture is misleading.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1980s, atmospheric nuclear tests were passe. To find out the effects of a low yield nuclear blast on newer military hardware, the US military resorted to the next best thing: a large conventional explosion, codenamed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minor_Scale\">Minor Scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How large? About 4.2 kilotons of TNT equivalent. Or roughly 30% of the Hiroshima bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting fireball may look like some wildflower at first sight, but the 19-meter long airplane in the foreground of the picture (just barely visible) helps put things into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Reassuringly, the US military stated that &#8220;Minor Scale&#8221; would not be followed by an even bigger, &#8220;Major Scale&#8221; test explosion.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5221' 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>The beauty of the picture is misleading. By the 1980s, atmospheric nuclear tests were passe. To find out the effects of a low yield nuclear blast on newer military hardware, the US military resorted to the next best thing: a large conventional explosion, codenamed Minor Scale. How large? About 4.2 kilotons of TNT equivalent. Or <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5221' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-25-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\/5221","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=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}