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The Dash was a privateer schooner that vanished in 1815 and soon entered local legend as a ghost ship. For over two centuries, eerie sightings of the Dash have tied it to omens of death and supernatural lore. By blending history, poetry, and folklore, the ship’s story has become one of New England’s most enduring maritime hauntings.
Here’s a “Dr. Strangelove”-sounding idea: drop three consecutive nuclear missiles on the same target.
The Chinese military simulated this shock and awe scenario in a miniaturized lab experiment in order to see what kind of damage would happen, according to the South China Morning Post, and published their findings earlier this month in the science journal, Explosion and Shock Waves.
They found that striking a target with multiple nuclear munitions in rapid succession leaves a bigger crater and causes way more destruction than a single detonation — duh — but the scientists claim that the research is relevant because it’s the first laboratory test to accurately simulate the damage from such a brutal attack.
But the true value from this test is probably that the military could glean data from the paper to build better bunkers that could withstand such an apocalyptic situation — a matter that’s on everybody’s mind as China and the United States size up each other’s weapons arsenal amid rising geopolitical tension.
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