January 15, 1943, completed construction of the Pentagon is a single of the headquarters of the U.S. Department of defense. The legendary five-pointed building has already become a world landmark and just the largest office building in the world.
The Pentagon in January 2008
The consolidation of employees of the Ministry of defence in a single room, came up to the American government, when the country began to participate in the Second world war. When the office became too cumbersome and inefficient in operation (a command in time of war promptly), U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had commissioned for the Ministry of defence is already under construction office building in nearby Washington.
The unusual design of the Pentagon strikes so far: five floors above and two underground, five office sections, so wisely United by corridors that anywhere in the huge building can be reached in 7 minutes. Not without black humor in the construction of the Central lawn has long been nicknamed “Ground Zero”, I mean “the epicenter of a nuclear explosion” or a kind of “shoot here”. Employees of the Ministry of defence were well aware that in the event of war with the USSR the first bomb falls on the military command.
The Pentagon’s Scheme
During the day, the Pentagon has time to send 40 thousand emails and make 200 thousand phone calls. And some “landmark” building has become incredible the number of toilets during the construction of power conceived of separate toilets “for white” and “black”. Later, racist idea was abandoned, and the former intentions were only ridiculous architectural feature.
Successful attack on the Pentagon once even took place in reality and not in hurrah-Patriotic films-action movies, as they always had. In the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001, a passenger plane Boeing 757 crashed into the left wing of the building. All 64 passengers of the liner were lost, and the total number of victims has reached 125 people. Rumor has it that after the restoration of the building, the Pentagon has acquired unprecedented effective fire-extinguishing systems and even generators of hindrances to missiles.
January 15, 1955, the Chinese government decided to develop nuclear weapons. Initially, Mao Zedong, Chairman of PRC, was asked for assistance in the production of weapons by the USSR, but Soviet colleagues only promised protection on China’s assistance to its nuclear Arsenal and production of such weapons abroad is not welcomed. And according to the Secretary-General of the USSR, Khrushchev, the Chinese simply would not have enough for this project financial resources and scientific potential. Therefore, the PRC decided to act independently.
To quickly complete the ambitious project, the government convened a huge number of Chinese who were educated abroad. To help China, in particular, came physics and mathematics from the science University in the USA.
Mao Zedong has always stressed that nuclear weapons are being built in China to protect, not attack. First of all, protection of the U.S. nuclear Arsenal. China boldly came into conflict with the Americans during the Korean war (1950-1953 gg.), and the Taiwan conflict, with the protracted 1958 for decades, also threatened a nuclear strike from the United States.
China’s nuclear Arsenal
The research base for the creation of Yao was founded in China since 1950, when it was opened the Institute of modern physics in the USSR of the delegation went to study nuclear technology.
After China has remained firm on the conduct of hostilities against the United States, Khrushchev agreed to help Chinese engineers in research and teachings. Not free, though, and in exchange for a portion of the uranium was extracted from mines in China.
Therefore, in 1956, the Chinese government announced the creation of atomic bombs, and strategic missiles. To help the engineers from China was attended by 10 thousands of Soviet specialists in nuclear research, with the help of the USSR deployed in the country, almost a hundred research centers and a dozen test sites.
In 1958 in China there was a nuclear testing ground, and after three years the Armed forces of the PRC was supplemented with 20 missile regiments. And as a carrier of nuclear bombs, the Chinese used a modified Soviet Il-28 and Tu-16.
It is true, then in the Soviet Union began to notice the one-sided nature of aid to China — the Chinese government had asked all new technologies, not already on mutually beneficial terms. The Chinese even refused to host the submarines of the USSR — they were satisfied with only the option of transferring the completed weapons, which will be managed by the government Zedong. So since 1960, when China became the fourth nuclear power after the USSR, USA and great Britain, relations between the Chinese and Soviet leadership have cooled.
After the collaboration the development of nuclear weapons in China has slowed dramatically, and new breakthrough in technology the Chinese made only after the collapse of the USSR and industrial espionage.
January 15, 2008 Apple released the slimmest laptop — MacBook Air. Unlike most laptops of that time with the philosophy of “everything and more”, Apple has focused on compactness and 19.4 mm thick and only 1.3 kg for a 13.3 inch models have been a record amount. For example, presented earlier MacBook (which also was considered one of the lightest laptops) weighed 2,27 kg.
Steve jobs demonstrates the Apple MacBook Air at Macworld Conference & Expo in 2008
A lot of buyers and almost all the competitors met the strange laptop a barrage of criticism — unthinkable in 2008, the refusal of the optical drive, the lack of connectors for connecting flash drives/mice/peripherals, non-removable battery, and RAM were not to many’s taste. But the commercial success of the model was deafening, causing several years later the processor giant Intel has developed a low-voltage processor and began to oversee alternative option compact slim MacBook laptops — ultrabooks appeared.
Apple MacBook 2008
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In 2016 the MacBook Air is still produced, but today, the model cannot be called avant-garde — it is, rather, is a typical representative of the compact class of notebooks. As the ideological successor and the most ambitious laptop Apple MacBook today became the sample of 2015, with outlandish yet and the only USB connector C on the base.