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My name is Alexander and this is my nuclear themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.
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B-36 bomber flight engineer pulling himself on his back on a trolley as he travels hand-over-hand along rope fr. the plane's rear compartment to its nose. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White.
«Huron» thermonuclear explosion, 250 kilotons, barge, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:12, 22 July 1956.
The radar domes at RAF Fylingdales are re-painted by a Darlington firm. 1977.
«Tewa» thermonuclear explosion, 5 Megatons, barge, Bikini Atoll, 5:46, 21 July 1956. The «Bassoon Prime» device was a «dirty» three stage design (87% fission). The crater left in the reef was 1220 m in diameter and 40 m deep.
500 tons of TNT are detonated in Alberta, Canada on July 17, 1964 as part of Operation «Snowball» to simulate the effects of a nuclear explosion.
Arco was the first city in the world ever to be lit by electricity generated solely by nuclear power. This occurred for about an hour on July 17, 1955, powered by Argonne National Laboratory’s BORAX-III reactor.
80 years ago, on July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion «Trinity» was conducted by the United States.
«Small Boy» nuclear test, 1.65 kilotons, land-surface burst, Nevada Test Site. 14 July 1962. Test of missile silo hardening principles, specifically EMP.
«Sunset» thermonuclear explosion at an altitude of 1500 m with a yield of 1 Megaton, Christmas Island area, 7:33, 10 July 1962.
«Starfish Prime» high-altitude (400 km) thermonuclear test, 1.44 Megatons, Johnston Atoll, 23:00, 8 July 1962. These photos were taken from Maui Station, Hawaii, 1300 km from the explosion.
«Sedan» peaceful underground thermonuclear explosion, 104 kilotons, -194 m, Nevada Test Site, 6 July 1962. The explosion displaced ~ 11 million tons of soil and created a crater 100 m deep and 390 m in diameter.
John Miller, Health and Physics foreman, wearing his protective «space suit» at Hunterston Atomic Power Station in Ayrshire. 1964.
«Hood» thermonuclear explosion, 74 kilotons, balloon 457 m, Nevada Test Site, 4:40, 5 July 1957.
French thermonuclear explosion «Licorne», 914 kilotons, balloon 500 m, Mururoa Atoll, 3 July 1970.
«Able» nuclear test, 23 kilotons, air burst 160 m, Bikini lagoon, 1 July 1946. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.
«Bluestone» thermonuclear explosion at an altitude of 1517 m with a yield of 1.27 Megatons, Christmas Island area, 6:21, 30 June 1962. The XW-56X2 Prime device test.
«Oak» thermonuclear explosion, 8.9 Megatons, barge, Eniwetok Atoll, 7:30, 29 June 1958. Photos were taken on Parry Island, 37 km from the epicenter.
«Elder» thermonuclear explosion, 880 kilotons, barge, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:30, 28 June 1958. TX-43 bomb test.
«Bighorn» thermonuclear explosion at an altitude of 3600 m with a yield of 7.65 Megatons, Christmas Island area, 6:19, 27 June 1962.
«Minor Scale» explosion utilized 4744 tons of ANFO to simulate 8-kiloton air-burst nuclear device. With a total energy release of 4.2 kilotons this test was reported as "the largest planned conventional explosion in the U.S. history". New Mexico. 27 June 1985.
