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I don't think Wikipedia is a waste of time but it certainly caters to those with time to waste.

IMAGE PERMISSIONS

Almost all of my images have been released into the public domain (the only ones that haven't are derived from other images which had different licensing requirements). If the image description page says it is in the public domain, you may feel free to use it for any purpose or reason. If you need to credit somebody, credit "Wikimedia Commons". Otherwise, leave it uncredited. Thanks. --Fastfission (talk) 15:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Teller-Ulam design

Hello, I see that you are still somewhat active. I am working on a rewrite of Teller-Ulam_design. (See my sandbox at [1] for the work in progress.) I would like to modify your excellent image by closing in the top of the secondary. I am reluctant to tamper with an image that has been a Featured Picture, and I don't know how to use .svg format. The modified image at right is in .png format, which I do know how to use. I don't think my modification adversely impacts the aesthetic of this stunning image. What do you think? The reason for the change is that an essential part of Teller-Ulam is that the interior of the secondary has to be protected against premature heating from the primary. The secondary's heat comes from the sparkplug after compression (radiation implosion). Ideally, the modification could be made in your .svg format and incorporated into [2]. What do you think? Thanks again for the great artwork. HowardMorland (talk) 05:18, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In response to your message on my talk page. Thanks for responding. Here are the two .png files which I have uploaded to commons. You can see how I plan to use them in [3]. The text is still under construction. The altered .png images display exactly like the .svg originals, so I don't know why .svg is superior (except I could not have drawn either image from scratch in .png). The only change in the image at right is the cap shielding the fusion fuel from direct impact of the primary radiation. The US News and World Report image of the W-87 was deleted by User Sandstein for copyright issues, so I modified your W-88. As a pair (W-87 & W-88) they make a nice illustration anyway.

If you could direct me to an online tutorial on how to use inkscape, I would love to learn it. Thanks. HowardMorland (talk) 18:55, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Teller-Ulam device firing sequence.png has wrong description

Greetings. Your description for the Teller-Ulam device is wrong, the polystyrene only acts as a support, as it's completely transparent to X-rays. And it would not provide enough pressure to compress an uranium/lead tamper. What compresses the tamper is the evaporation of the surface of the tamper by the X-rays ( a process known as ablation ). For more info check http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq4-4.html#Nfaq4.4.3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryoandr (talk • contribs) 05:02, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I know. The PNG is not used any more anyway. I am not going to bother to correct it. The descriptions at Teller-Ulam device are more than enough, I think. --Fastfission (talk) 21:43, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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HowardMorland's derivative work on one of your creations

Hello Fastfission...
Regarding this image, I would very much like to recreate\convert that HowardMorland's work to SVG format ,but for doing so, I need your fabulous original vector drawing of the bomb.
can you please send it to me or upload it to wikimedia commons? Yar2 (talk) 23:01, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not Fastfission, but...

The original Fastfission version is already on commons: [4]

The more detailed version that Howard did is a non-vector scan of John Coster-Mullen's book illustration, which Howard then colorized to match Fastfission's older version here. It's never been in vector format hereabouts.

John Coster-Mullen may have drawn it with a vector drawing program for his book. I could ask him if that's so and if he'd be willing to donate it. But if not, you'll have to redraw from scratch. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 01:05, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The original Fastfission version is, of course, completely different. If you would be so kind to ask John Coster-Mullen to donate the original drawing, it would be great. thanks.. Yar2 (talk) 02:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just convert it using the original SVG drawing as a starting point? It is not so different from a graphics point of view. The original is based on the one in Chuck Hansen's book with input from what Sublette's Nuclear Weapons Archive had at the time about the sabot. At the very least, the original gives you the LB outline to work with. The internal components are just a series of differently sized squares (from an SVG perspective) so it is not really all that complicated a drawing to replicate. In Inkscape you could import the Howard Morland version and then put the SVG version on top of that, set the opacity to 50% or so, and re-fit it. --Fastfission (talk) 21:41, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Documentary Inquiry - National Geographic Channel

Dear Fastfission,

I work as an assistant producer for a television production company called Blink Films based in the UK. We are producing a documentary for the National Geographic Channel and WNET looking at the US/Soviet arms race during the 1950s and 60s. We are exploring the variety of different weapons that were tested and as a way of illustrating the bombs we want to use some animation to show the function of the bomb. I saw your fission bomb animation and wondered if we could talk about the possibility of us using it in our film. I was hoping you could send me a suitable telephone number and a convenient time to call to my email: crispin.green@blinkfilmsuk.com so we could talk in more detail about your images. Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Crispin

Crispin Green Assistant Producer Blink Films crispin.green@blinkfilmsuk.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.136.224.203 (talk) 16:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Ernest J. Sternglass WP:NPOV issues

Re your objections here [5], I'd appreciate your review of my changes, to see if they provide adequate objectivity and balance. The article is still pretty bad, but I think it's better now. Yakushima (talk) 08:20, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Binding energy per nucleon graphic

This otherwise excellent graphic lacks the nuclide with the highest binding energy per nucleon, Nickel-62. If you were kind enough to include it, I think it would be great. Ni 62 isn't as abundant as Fe 56 so has missed out being included, but you have made exceptions to the abundance criteria for good reasons to include other nuclides such as U 235, so for similar reasons Ni 62 must surely be even more important to include. As you have the graphics skills for this, please could you do this for us? SciberDoc (talk) 12:59, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I have seen a kind of graph in the paper as of 2010 May 22 "A new energy source from nuclear fusion" of prof. S. Foccardi and A. Rossi <http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf>. They do not refer to any source, so the original visualisation of the relationship - MeV/c^2 vs number of nucleons - might be up to them... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.227.102.26 (talk) 10:21, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Project 4.1

I note you started the article Project 4.1 and included a quote by Barton C. Hacker:-

In March 1954, the AEC had quickly decided that learning how the Marshallese victims of Castle Bravo responsed to their accidental exposure

This was takem from Hackers Elements of controversy: the Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994) pp. 226-228.
I can't find a copy to check the quote - did he really say "responsed" or is this a typo?
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It was a typo. I have fixed it. --Fastfission (talk) 23:06, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. It began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (the equivalent of about $26 billion now). Although it operated under a tight blanket of security, it was penetrated by Soviet atomic spies. The first device ever detonated was an implosion-type nuclear weapon in the Trinity test (pictured), conducted at New Mexico's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945. Project personnel participated in the Alsos Mission in Europe, and in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war the Manhattan Project conducted weapons testing in Operation Crossroads, developed new weapons, established the network of national laboratories, supported medical research into radiology and laid the foundations for a nuclear navy. It was replaced by the Atomic Energy Commssion and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project in 1947. (Full article...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Hey, I'd just like to salute you for giving all of those images to the public domain. Thanks for giving them up to make everyone else's time a little easier. Justsitrightback (talk) 03:51, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you about "time to waste," but... could you help me out a little on Abdul Qadeer Khan ?

I've read and admired your work on nuclear weapons-related issues here in Wikipedia for years, and noted your comments on our article on Abdul Qadheer Khan.

It's in connection with that article I'm asking for a little help (and yes, I'm being lazy). I'm hoping that you have readily available a good, WP:SOURCE reference on A.Q. Khan's time in the Netherlands with FDO and URENCO. The original editor quotes a popular-audience book promoting A.Q. Khan,

Rehman, Shahidur (May 1999), "§Dr. A. Q. Khan: Nothing Succeed like Success", Long Road to Chagai, Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory: Printwise Publications, pp. 47–60, ISBN 969-8500-00-6

to support the following statements about Dr. Abdul Qaheer Khan contradicted by other reputable sources on this part of Dr. Khan's career:

"Khan joined the senior staff of the Physics Dynamics Research Laboratory in Amsterdam from a recommendation by his mentor, Martin J. Brabers.[16] His initial studies were on the high-strength metals used in the development of centrifuges.[16]",

"When Urenco offered him to join the senior scientific staff there, Khan left the Physics Laboratory where he performed physics experiments on uranium metallurgy,[16] to produce reactor-grade uranium usable for light water reactors.[16]" and

"Khan's leading-edge research in metallurgy brought laurels to Urenco, which had him as one of the most senior scientists at the facility where he researched and studied.[16] His pioneering research greatly improved the technological efficiency of the Zippe method; eventually, Urenco gave Khan access to the blueprints for the Zippe centrifuge to find mathematical solutions for the physics problems in the gas centrifuges.[16]"

First, are these statements true at all to your knowledge?

I'm thinking "no," but reading a few critical reviews on the books I've leaned on for information on this part of Khan's life made me want to find better references.

I'm not asking you to do my work for me on this, if you haven't done it already. I'm just hoping you'd have that information readily accessible. I'm going to look it all up, anyway, but since you've looked into a lot of this stuff, I had hopes....

Thanks for your time! loupgarous (talk) 19:24, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Permission to use figure in a book.

Dear Fastfission,

I am working with Prof. Steven LaValle to help obtain permissions for borrowing figures or pictures in his upcoming book Virtual Reality, to be published by Cambridge University Press. The book is online here:

http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu/

We are hoping to include the picture of yours (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Duck-Rabbit_illusion.jpg) in this book (Chapter 6, Figure 6.26b). Could we please have your permission for this? Thank you.

Please contact me at awarkoczewski@yahoo.com.

Sincerely,

Adam Warkoczewski — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.25.191.254 (talk) 10:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Permission to use figure in a book.

Dear Fastfission,

I am working with Prof. Steven LaValle to help obtain permissions for borrowing figures or pictures in his upcoming book Virtual Reality, to be published by Cambridge University Press. The book is online here:

http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu/

We are hoping to include the picture of yours (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Duck-Rabbit_illusion.jpg) in this book (Chapter 6, Figure 6.26b). Could we please have your permission for this? Thank you.

Please contact me at awarkoczewski@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Adam Warkoczewski — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.8.251.175 (talk) 10:10, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for creating Nordicism.

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