"tsunami bomb" experiments-- experiments in natural "weapons of mass destruction"

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Devastating tsunami bomb viable, say experts



http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=14884


30.06.2000

By Eugene Bingham

Tsunami experts believe a bomb secretly tested off the coast of Auckland 50 years ago could be developed to devastating effect.

University of Waikato researchers believe a modern approach to the wartime idea tested off Whangaparaoa could produce waves up to 30m high.

Dr Willem de Lange, of the Department of Earth Sciences, said studies proved that while a single explosion was not necessarily effective, a series of explosions could have a significant impact.

"It's a bit like sliding backwards and forwards in a bath - the waves grow higher," Dr de Lange said yesterday.

He was responding to a Weekend Herald report of experiments at Whangaparaoa in 1944-45 to create a tidal wave bomb. The top-secret work by the late Professor Tom Leech was detailed in 53-year-old papers released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Dr de Lange said a coastal marine group from the university recently studied the likely impacts of underwater volcanic explosions.

Their work concluded that the next eruption in the Auckland region was likely to be under water, given the large amount of water around the city.

But tests showed a single explosion in the Hauraki Gulf would not trigger much of a tsunami.

"For most places the wave was less than 1m high, but it could be a bit more in the Tamaki Estuary."

Dr de Lange said the waves were not high because the energy was projected upwards, not sideways. He believed the same principle would be true for a tsunami bomb.

"You can't confine the energy. Once the explosion gets big enough, all of its energy goes into the atmosphere and not into the water. But one of the things we discovered was if you had a series of explosions in the same place, it's much more effective and can produce much bigger waves."

dsekou said...

peace , good blog man ... excellent work...

the more i read about this , the more my own "intuition" tells me the Us is using the tsunami disaster as a cover for a greater military presence in the area .

emerging local powers China and India can't be too pleased with the prospect of more Us military might focussed near energy supplies vital to regional industrial and technological modernization.


hope you don't mind if i post those "tsunami bomb" news articles at my "deskRat chronicles" blog at

http://www.deskrat.blogspot.com

--of course i will gratefully mention that the articles are courtesy of "Rigorous Intutition"...thanks and keep up the excellent work...peace
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