Toolbox
  • User rankingRating: 3.4
  • Add to favoritesBookmark
  • Save as PDFSave as PDF
  • PrintPrint
  • EmailEmail
  • Blog ItBlog It
  • Stumble ItStumble It!
Digg It Reddit del.icio.us Save to Yahoo! bookmarks Save to Windows live Share on facebook Save to MySpace Slashdot it science news feed Add to google
- size +

Supercomputers Can't Mimic Nuke Blast

View of the Tera 10 computer at the Atomic Energy Missions military arm in this Sept. 7 2006 file photo in Bruyeres le Chatel south of Paris. The computer carries out nuclear simulations that replace the underground tests in the South Pacific that we ...
View of the Tera 10 computer at the Atomic Energy Mission's military arm, in this Sept. 7, 2006 file photo in Bruyeres le Chatel, south of Paris. The computer carries out nuclear simulations that replace the underground tests in the South Pacific that were halted in 1996. While North Korea was detonating an apparent nuclear bomb deep inside a mountain last week, France was verifying its nuclear arms, too , with a battalion of soundless black calculators bunkered beneath a meadow. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

(AP) -- While North Korea was testing a nuclear bomb, France was verifying its nuclear arms, too - with a battalion of soundless, black, cabinet-sized calculators buried beneath a meadow.




Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .




» Next Article in General Science - Other: Scientists urge use of video games

would you recommend this story?

 

User Rating

3.4 out of 5 after 16 total votes
  • not at all
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • highly

Leave a Comment or

Relevant Stories