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In addition to extensive video and images, Sonicbomb also has a forum dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of the history, development and testing of nuclear weaponry.
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| Unit 731 - The Asian Auschwitz |
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1932, Pingfang Northern China was the home of Unit 731, the world’s first biological war complex. Masterminded by army doctor General Shiro Ishii, who believed that biological weapons were so powerful, that the normal doctrine of medicine to save lives should be reversed. Today the world is still threatened by the technology pioneered by unit 731, one of this century’s most murderous collaborations between scientists and soldiers. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Monday, June 15 @ 13:17:10 BST (986 reads)(Read More... | 11494 bytes more | Score: 4.37) |
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| Fritz Haber - The Father of Modern Chemical Warfare |
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When WW1 broke out in 1914, the German high command were confident of an early victory. However the war quickly stagnated into a trench-bound war of attrition, before one of Germanys leading scientists Fritz Haber, offered the Fatherland a way out of the impass.
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Posted by sonicbomb on Thursday, May 14 @ 12:27:45 BST (2069 reads)(Read More... | 11834 bytes more | Score: 4.9) |
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At the dawn of the atomic age, scientists began work on what might have been the nastiest weapon ever conceived. The SLAM was a failed U.S. Air Force project conceived at the height of the cold war. Although it never proceeded beyond the initial design phase, in the event of nuclear war it was intended to fly below the cover of enemy radar at supersonic speeds delivering thermonuclear warheads.
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Posted by sonicbomb on Thursday, April 16 @ 19:37:52 BST (4730 reads)(Read More... | 9439 bytes more | Score: 4.46) |
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| Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier |
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On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, dignitaries and VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy gathered in Nevada to witness an historic event. They had come to observe the "Little Feller I" test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam. The main attraction was a secret device bolted to the roof of an armored personnel carrier, a contraption called The Davy Crockett.
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Posted by sonicbomb on Thursday, March 19 @ 16:29:34 GMT (4247 reads)(Read More... | 8153 bytes more | Score: 4.9) |
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| We Were Trapped by Radioactive Fallout |
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Bikini Atol 1954 during Operation Castle, nine scientists are caught twenty miles from ground zero when one of the the biggest thermonuclear bombs of all time was detonated. This is the amazing account of their experience...|Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Monday, February 23 @ 14:51:56 GMT (4679 reads)(Read More... | 26966 bytes more | Score: 4.82) |
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January 21st 1968, a US Air Force B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed into the frozen ocean in Greenland near Thule Air Base, causing widespread radioactive contamination. Controversially, the components of only three of the four bombs could be accounted for, leaving a radioactive legacy that haunts the inhabitants of North Star Bay to this day..|Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Saturday, January 17 @ 21:35:59 GMT (4469 reads)(Read More... | 8358 bytes more | Score: 4.46) |
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On 22 September 1979, a US satellite recorded a pattern of intense flashes in a remote portion of the Indian Ocean. Moments later a distant, muffled thud was overheard by the US Navy's undersea Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS). Evidently something violent and explosive had transpired in the ocean off the southern tip of Africa. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Sunday, December 21 @ 09:23:17 GMT (7566 reads)(Read More... | 9037 bytes more | Score: 4.66) |
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| The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator |
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As a 36 year old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Anatoli Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the synchrotron U-70. On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms..|Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, November 28 @ 14:26:56 GMT (16385 reads)(Read More... | 4285 bytes more | Score: 4.56) |
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| Did Nazi Germany possess the Atom Bomb? |
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The very threat of a German nuclear weapon was the driving force behind the Manhattan Project, which developed the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ultimately ended the war. But how advanced was the Nazi bomb program, and how close was it to creating a usable weapon in 1945? |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Tuesday, October 21 @ 23:20:38 BST (7966 reads)(Read More... | 8508 bytes more | Score: 4) |
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| Vasili Arkhipov - The Man Who Saved The World |
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In 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile Crisis, a Soviet Naval ofiicer prevented the launch of a nuclear armed torpedo, and therefore a possible nuclear war. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Monday, September 29 @ 05:00:51 BST (7493 reads)(Read More... | 9040 bytes more | Score: 4.86) |
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Most kids have hobbies, but David Hahn's was slightly more exotic - atomic chemistry. While he was working on his Atomic Energy merit badge for the Boy Scouts, he built a nuclear reactor in his garden shed...|Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, September 05 @ 16:29:28 BST (8298 reads)(Read More... | 7388 bytes more | Score: 4.27) |
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| Mars Bluff ''Broken Arrow'' |
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On the afternoon of March 11, 1958, the children of the Gregg family were in their playhouse in the woods behind their house in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. About four o’clock they tired of the playhouse and moved 200 feet to the side yard. This kept them from becoming the first Americans killed by a nuclear weapon released on U.S. territory. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, August 08 @ 11:35:15 BST (14559 reads)(Read More... | 14895 bytes more | Score: 4.58) |
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Shortly after the creation of the first atomic bombs, the US became interested in weapons with 'limited' yield that could be used tactically, rather than strategically. One of the more interesting of these developments was atomic artillery, first tested in Nevada on May 25th 1953. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, July 11 @ 10:56:55 BST (8959 reads)(Read More... | 11919 bytes more | Score: 4.25) |
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| Ford Nucleon - The Atomic Car |
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During the 1950s, there was almost limitless enthusiasm for all things nuclear. There was no energy problem that the mighty atom could not tackle during that glorious and modern Atomic Age. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Saturday, June 07 @ 00:09:42 BST (7379 reads)(Read More... | 4055 bytes more | Score: 4.1) |
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Tybee Broken Arrow incident. On the 5th of February 1958 during an exercise, two U.S.A.F. planes collided resulting in the loss of a Mk-15 nuclear weapon in U.S. coastal waters off Savannah, Georgia U.S.A. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, May 16 @ 15:41:46 BST (11539 reads)(Read More... | 7057 bytes more | Score: 4.76) |
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The Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred at Baikonur Cosmodrome during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM. The prototype missile exploded on the launch pad, killing over 100 military personnel, including the Strategic Rocket Forces Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin in the world's worst rocketry disaster. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Saturday, April 26 @ 19:25:17 BST (12368 reads)(Read More... | 7120 bytes more | Score: 4.66) |
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| Project Orion - To Saturn by Atom bomb |
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During the 1950's, a project was set up to study the posibility of a spacecraft powered by nuclear weapons. Though this might seem farcical, the physics are actually sound, and small scale models using conventional explosives actually flew. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Tuesday, April 01 @ 19:38:06 BST (9024 reads)(Read More... | 6928 bytes more | Score: 4.46) |
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During the dark days of World War II, the British government took over a small island in Scotland and tested
the world's first anthrax bomb. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Saturday, March 08 @ 10:56:08 GMT (8019 reads)(Read More... | 6509 bytes more | Score: 4.73) |
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| Did nuclear fallout Kill John Wayne? |
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The tragic tale of the "The Conqueror" and the deaths of those involved in its making. The brain child of eccentric billionaire and aviator Howard Hughes, the historical epic cast John Wayne as Temujin aka Genghis Khan.|Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Saturday, February 09 @ 15:21:10 GMT (8122 reads)(Read More... | 10185 bytes more | Score: 4.2) |
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Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the Palomares Incident. A mid-air collision that caused the loss of four US hydrogen bombs in one of the most high-profile accidents involving American nuclear weapons outside the U.S. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Tuesday, January 22 @ 21:39:46 GMT (13077 reads)(Read More... | 7778 bytes more | Score: 4.46) |
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| Skydiving from the Edge Of Space |
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In the late 50's and early 60's Joseph Kittinger participated in a number of record breaking jumps from the
edge of space, setting records that stand to this day: the highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump,
longest free-fall, and fastest speed by man through the atmosphere. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Wednesday, January 16 @ 00:24:00 GMT (7474 reads)(Read More... | 5435 bytes more | Score: 4.82) |
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| Apocalypses That Might Have Been |
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Since the inception of the nuclear missile and early-warning systems, the US and Russia have each had at least two instances of faulty information leading to a near-launch of a nuclear volley. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Monday, December 10 @ 17:48:09 GMT (12287 reads)(Read More... | 9654 bytes more | Score: 4.68) |
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| The Tsar Bomba - The King of Bombs |
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On October 30, 1961, the most powerful weapon ever constructed by mankind was exploded over the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Sea. The device was code-named "Tsar", a multi-stage hydrogen bomb built in only sixteen weeks by engineers in the USSR at the order of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Sunday, November 25 @ 10:53:15 GMT (18852 reads)(Read More... | 6336 bytes more | Score: 4.72) |
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| British nukes were protected by bike locks |
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It has been discovered by the BBC that untill as recently as 1998, the RAF's nuclear bombs were armed by turning a bicycle lock key. There was no other security on the Bomb itself. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, November 16 @ 10:30:27 GMT (7927 reads)(Read More... | 4889 bytes more | Score: 3.83) |
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| Hiroshima pilot dies aged 92 |
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Paul Tibbets, the commander of the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, has died at the age of 92 after several months of failing health. Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr died at his home in Columbus, Ohio.. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Thursday, November 01 @ 18:31:59 GMT (4688 reads)(Read More... | 3392 bytes more | Score: 4.61) |
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The Vulcan bomber XH558 has taken to the skies again for the first time in 14 years. She flew for the last time in 1993. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Friday, October 19 @ 00:13:51 BST (11813 reads)(Read More... | 3076 bytes more | Score: 4.51) |
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| 60th Aniversary of the Breaking of the Sound Barrier |
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October 14th 1947, Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than sound. Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis", named after his wife. He was able to reach 670-mph or Mach 1.015 at Muroc Dry Lake, California. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Sunday, October 14 @ 17:57:18 BST (4381 reads)(Read More... | 4339 bytes more | Score: 4.8) |
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| Windscale: The UK's biggest nuclear disaster |
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On this day in 1957, Britain was host to a nuclear reactor accident of potentially disastrous level. Due to its flawed design resulting from bureaucratic mismanagement and unrealistic demands. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Wednesday, October 10 @ 16:18:44 BST (5054 reads)(Read More... | 6118 bytes more | Score: 5) |
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| Sputnik Launched on this day 50 Years Ago |
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50 years ago the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik went into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957, in the midst of the Cold War. It was a surprise to the world, a devestating shock to the Americans, and the starting gun for the space race between the superpowers. |Read More|
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Posted by sonicbomb on Thursday, October 04 @ 19:37:15 BST (3327 reads)(Read More... | 3995 bytes more | Score: 5) |
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Old Articles
| Thursday, September 27 | | · | AP Grenade attacks increasing in Iraq |
| Wednesday, September 12 | | · | Russia Tests 'World's Most Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb' |
| Thursday, September 06 | | · | Musluymovo - Nuclear Village of the Damned |
| Tuesday, August 21 | | · | Will Israel Bomb Iran? |
| Thursday, August 09 | | · | The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki - 9th August 1945 |
| Monday, August 06 | | · | The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima - 6th August 1945 |
| Sunday, July 29 | | · | £3.8bn ''Future Carrier'' order confirmed |
| Wednesday, July 18 | | · | Did Nazi Germany possess the Atom Bomb? |
| Sunday, July 01 | | · | The Flying Crowbar |
| Friday, June 29 | | · | Nuclear-powered rockets could cut cost of Moon base |
| Sunday, June 17 | | · | Czech Nuclear weapon Hoax |
| Tuesday, June 12 | | · | Blue Peacock - The chicken-powered nuke |
| Saturday, June 09 | | · | New UK nuclear submarine launched |
| Wednesday, June 06 | | · | June 6th 1944 - ''The Longest Day'' |
| Saturday, June 02 | | · | Russia tests new ICBM |
| Friday, June 01 | | · | Kola – An accident waiting to happen |
| Monday, May 28 | | · | Prompt Global Strike: Non-nuclear ICBMs & hyper-velocity scamjets |
| Friday, May 11 | | · | Hafnium Bombs - The Next Superweapon |
| Thursday, March 22 | | · | India launches 1st nuclear submarine |
| Wednesday, March 14 | | · | UK to update its nuclear deterent |
| Wednesday, March 07 | | · | U.S. moves to refurbish its nuclear arsenal |
| Monday, December 11 | | · | Atomic Archive Updated |
| Thursday, June 08 | | · | Chuck Norris facts |
| Wednesday, March 22 | | · | Jesus Christ Supercop |
| Sunday, June 26 | | · | Atomic Test Archive |
| Saturday, June 18 | | · | Steve Ballmer |
| Thursday, January 20 | | · | Parkinsons Law |
| Tuesday, November 16 | | · | Chavs... |
| Thursday, April 08 | | · | American Cheese |
| Thursday, March 11 | | · | Normandy 2004 |
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