| The Addams Family Theme (Original 1964) |
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These are the opening credits for the
original run of The Addams Family which aired
from 1964-66.
Introduction Lyrics:
They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.
Their house is a museum
Where people come to see 'em
They really are a scream
The Addams Family.
(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)
So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The Addams Family.
Cast:
Gomez: John Astin
Morticia: Carolyn Jones
Pugsley: Kenneth Weatherwax
Wednesday: Lisa Loring
Uncle Fester: Jackie Coogan
Grandmama: Blossom Rock
Lurch: Ted Cassidy (although he looks like
John Kerry)
Thing: Ted Cassidy
Cousin Itt: Felix Silla (on-screen) and Tony
Magro (voice)
Show sponsored by Crest Toothpaste.
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| China First Atomic Bomb 1964 |
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China First Atomic Bomb 1964
596 is the codename of the People's Republic
of China's first nuclear weapons test,
detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur
test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion
fission device and had a yield of 22
kilotons. With the test, China became the
fifth nuclear power.
History
The People's Republic of China began
developing nuclear weapons in the late 1950s
with substantial Soviet assistance. The order
for the Chinese nuclear weapons program,
designated by the codename of "02", was given
by Chairman Mao Zedong himself, who believed
that without a nuclear weapon China would not
be taken seriously as a world power. The
events of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis of
1954-55 cemented Mao's belief that unless
China had nuclear weapons of its own, it
would constantly be under the threat of
nuclear blackmail from the United States.
Prior to 1960, direct Soviet military
assistance had included the provision of
advisors and a vast variety of equipment. Of
the assistance provided, most significant to
China's future strategic nuclear capability
were an experimental nuclear reactor,
facilities for processing uranium, a
cyclotron, and some equipment for a gaseous
diffusions plant. At one point the Soviet
Union even agreed to supply a prototype
nuclear weapon for analysis by the Chinese;
this agreement was not, however, put into
effect.
When Sino-Soviet relations cooled in the late
1950s and early 1960s, the Soviet Union
withheld plans and data for an atomic bomb,
abrogated the agreement on transferring
defense technology and, starting in 1960,
began the withdrawal of Soviet advisors.
Despite the termination of Soviet assistance,
China committed itself to continue nuclear
weapons development to break "the
superpowers' monopoly on nuclear weapons", to
ensure Chinese security against the Soviet
and United States threats, and to increase
Chinese prestige and power internationally,
especially with France recently emerging as a
new nuclear force in February 1960 (Gerboise
Bleue). The motto at the time was: "Even the
poorest tramp needs a dog-beating stick."
The first Chinese atomic bomb, code-named
596, was detonated on October 16, 1964 at the
Lop Nor nuclear test site. It was an
implosion-style nuclear weapon, though it
utilized uranium-235 exclusively for its core
— most countries which pursue implosion
technology use plutonium for their first
cores, because it is usually easier to
produce than uranium-235 — as at the time
it had not developed plutonium-production
technology. The test had a yield of 22
kilotons. China would manage to develop a
fission bomb capable of being put onto a
nuclear missile only two years after its
first detonation, and would detonate its
first hydrogen bomb only three years later in
1967.
The United States intelligence agencies were
caught off-guard by the Chinese test in 1964.
Despite having photographed pre-test
preparation at the Lop Nur nuclear testing
site, many U.S. analysts believed that the
Chinese were still months, if not years, away
from having a functional nuclear weapon, in
part because they erroneously assumed that
the first Chinese bomb would be
plutonium-fueled and that their Lanzhou
diffusion enrichment facility was not yet
operable (even though it had actually
produced enough highly-enriched uranium for a
number of bombs by that time). The U.S.
analysts additionally misidentified a
facility designed to produce uranium
tetrafluoride as a plutonium production
facility, making their estimates of Chinese
plutonium production significantly off. It
was only after radiochemical analysis of the
fallout cloud from the Chinese test
conclusively demonstrated that the bomb had
been a U-235 implosion device, that these
errors were re-examined in detail.
Specifics
* Time: 07:00 GMT 16 October 1964
* Location: Lop Nur Test Ground, 42.35
North, 88.30 East
* Test Height and Type: Tower, 102 meters
* Yield: 22 kilotons
This clip was taken from the documentary
"Trinity And Beyond"
Directed By: Peter Kuran
Music By: William T. Stromberg
Narrated By: William Shatner
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