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During the atmospheric testing era, still and motion picture photography were the primary method of recording and analysing nuclear explosions. Photographs provided data essential in ascertaining their yield, efficiency, effects and how best to deploy them.... |Read More|
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| Hypothetical nuclear attack on London - |
A detaled description of a hypothetical thermonuclear attack on the UKs capital city London. It's easy to get caught up in spectacle and science of nuclear weapons. It's a good idea balance this with remembering what their use case is... |Read More|
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An interesting phenomena can be seen during some US pacific nuclear tests during the 1950s, where a pimple or complete miniature fireball is ejected from the top of the main fireball. New data has shed light on an explanation... |Read More|
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Sundial was the codename for a ten gigaton 'doomsday' weapon system proposed by physist Edward Teller during the Cold War. A vast 'back yard' bomb designed to bring an end to the world, the ultimate conclusion of the policy of mutually assured destruction... |Read More|
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October 1961, the most powerful weapon ever constructed was detonated over the island of Novaya Zemlya. Soviet Code-name 'Tsar', it exploded with the force of 50 million tons of TNT. Within one second the fireball was 6.5km wide, hotter than the suns core, the light visible 2,500km away.. |Read More|
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SLAM was a failed USAF project conceived at the height of the cold war. In the event of nuclear war it was intended to fly below the cover of enemy radar at supersonic speeds, spewing radiation and dropping nuclear warheads... |Read More|
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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... |Read More|
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| We Were Trapped By Radioactive Fallout - |
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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More than fifty years after the US military's nuclear testing in the Pacific ended, the residents of the Marshall islands are still living with the legacy of a decaying nuclear waste dump known as the Runit Dome... |Read More|
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A company called EG&G became a prime contractor for the AEC the 50s and 60s, having a major role in photographing US nuclear tests. A task for which they developed the Rapatronic camera, capable of capturing images only a few millionths of a second in duration... |Read More|
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Named after the American folk hero, the Davy Crockett was a nuclear armed recoilless rifle deployed by the US during the Cold War. The wahead capable of between 10 and 20 tons of TNT, it remains one of the smallest nuclear weapon systems ever built... |Read More|
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The Huron King test was conducted as part of Operation Tinderbox to ascertain the resistance of space hardware to the damaging effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by a nuclear detonation... |Read More|
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