Gallery of Nuclear Explosions

[Sayeret]

http://www.vce.com/cgi-bin/Images/AtomicArt/Ivy/Ivy-Mike_Cloud.jpg

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Wasp 2/18/55 Airdro 1 Kt

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Moth 2/22/55 tower 2 Kt

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Tesla 3/1/55 tower 7 Kt

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Turk 3/7/55 tower 43 Kt

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Hornet 3/12/55 tower 4 Kt

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Bee 3/22/55 tower 8 Kt

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Ess 3/23/55 Crater 1 Kt

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Apple-1 3/29/55 tower 14 Kt

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Wasp Prime 3/29/55 Airdro 3 Kt

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HA 4/6/55 Airdro 3 Kt

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Post 4/9/55 tower 2 Kt

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MET 4/15/55 tower 22 Kt

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Apple-2 5/5/55 tower 29 Kt

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Zucchini 5/15/55 tower 28Kt

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Lacrosse 5/5/56 surface 40Kt

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Cherokee 5/21/56 Airdrop 3.8Mt

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Zuni 5/28/56 Surface 3.5Mt

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Erie 5/31/56 tower 14.9Kt

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Seminole 6/6/56 surface 13.7Kt

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Flathead 6/12/56 barge 365Kt

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Blackfoot 6/12/56 8Kt

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Osage 6/16/56 airdrop 1.7Kt

http://www.vce.com/redwing/dakota.jpg

Dakota 6/26/56 barge 1.1Mt

http://www.vce.com/redwing/mohawk.jpg

Mohawk 7/3/56 tower 360Kt

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Apache 7/9/56 barge 1.85 Mt

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Navajo 7/11/56 barge 4.5Mt

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Tewa 7/21/56 barge 3.5Mt

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Huron 7/22/56 barge 250Kt

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Boltzmann 5/28/57 Tower 12 Kt

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Franklin 6/2/57 tower 140 tons

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Lassen 6/5/57 balloon .5 tons

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Wilson 6/18/57 Balloon 10 Kt

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Priscilla 6/24/57 balloon 37 Kt

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Hood 7/5/57 balloon 74 Kt

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Diablo 7/15/57 tower 17 kiloton

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John 7/19/57 rocket 2 kiltons

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Kepler 7/24/57 tower 10 kiltons

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Owens 7/25/57 balloon 9.7 Kt

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Shasta 8/18/57 tower 17 kiltons

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Smoky 8/31/57 tower 44 kiltons

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Galileo 9/2/57 tower 11 kiltons

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Fizeau /14/57 tower 11 kiltons

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Whitney 9/23/57 tower 19 kiltons

http://www.vce.com/cgi-bin/Images/AtomicArt/plumbob/charleston2.jpg

Charleston 9/28/57 balloon 12 Kt

[ZeroPositive]

sweet :)

[droopy]

sweet :)
Horrible beauty.
Any high res please especialy the megaton bombs.

[PRES_00]

Holy Mother of Pearl! There have been that many :cantbeli:

[ZeroPositive]

sweet :)
Horrible beauty.
Any high res please especialy the megaton bombs.

I double the demand for high res pics of Nuclear testing :)
nice one

[He219]

Look Here (http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/photolib.htm) for Hi-Res images ...

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View the Film (http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/filmslisting.htm).

[tuckerhat]

n1 He219. always on the job eh?

[Abolith]

Holy Mother of Pearl! There have been that many :cantbeli:

more than you think... The U.S. alone has done over 1000 nuclear detonation tests, and the USSR 715..

hell just read it for yourself:

here have been around 2,000 nuclear test explosions:

* U.S.: 1,030 tests (involving 1,125 devices)
* Soviet Union: 715 tests
* France: 210 tests
* Britain: 45 tests (21 in Australian territory, including 9 in mainland South Australia at Maralinga and Emu Field)
* China: 45 tests (23 atmospheric and 22 underground, all conducted at Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang)
* India: 6 tests.
* Pakistan: 6 tests.


taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing

[Ghostwolf]

I have the "Trinity and Beyond" video and I certainly glad that I bought it. I will try to post some of
the screengrabs I made over here later.

[ZeroPositive]

sweeeet :D awesome photos

[PRES_00]

Holy Mother of Pearl! There have been that many :cantbeli:

more than you think... The U.S. alone has done over 1000 nuclear detonation tests, and the USSR 715..

hell just read it for yourself:

here have been around 2,000 nuclear test explosions:

* U.S.: 1,030 tests (involving 1,125 devices)
* Soviet Union: 715 tests
* France: 210 tests
* Britain: 45 tests (21 in Australian territory, including 9 in mainland South Australia at Maralinga and Emu Field)
* China: 45 tests (23 atmospheric and 22 underground, all conducted at Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang)
* India: 6 tests.
* Pakistan: 6 tests.


taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing

So, how many have been actually used against a nation, not just as a test?

[Obergefreiter]

Only 2. Against Japan. Used to end World War II more quickly by avoiding an invasion of the home islands.

[el_kab0ng]

I happen to have The Atomic Bomb Movie (the one narrated by William Shatner). If you're into A-bomb testing (and interviews with Teller the father of the hydrogen bomb) I highly recommend snagging this flick.

It even has 3D footage with glasses provided to get the "you're there" effect.

[n4292936]

as you may recall Carbon-14 is used in radioactive dating, especially for dating stuff like trees, clothes, and other biological material. It may interest you to know that the amount of radioactive Carbon-14 in the atmosphere has quadrupled since 1950 - principally due to nuclear testing.

[Deuterium]

If your really interested in the subject the seminal work is Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and the follow up, "Dark Sun" on the Super(fusion). The book is easily understandable by anyone with an interest and an 8th grade reading level. Rhodes spins a good tale that keeps you interested throughout the LONG book. I highly recommend.

[Mark Sman]

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/

You have to pull down and click around, but these guys have a great sight with multiple high res pics, and other resources.|

[Mark Sman]

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/FrigateBird1024c20.jpg

One my favorites.
Dominic Frigate Bird
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Dominic.html

[Identity31690]

http://home.comcast.net/~roycechuang3/Peace_Bomb1.jpg

[Ghostwolf]

Screenshots from "Trinity and Beyond".... (not in chronological order)

Operation Crossroads, Shot Able
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Operation Crossroads, Shot Baker
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Operation Upshot-Knothole, Shot Grable ("The Atomic Cannon")
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[East]

Thats horrifying that so many have been detonated.

[Ghostwolf]

Operation Ivy, Shot Mike
world's first thermonuclear weapon, 10 megatons yield.
http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap88.jpg
Shot "Mike" test islands

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap89.jpg
"Mike" device

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"Mike" crater (center)

[Ghostwolf]

Operation Castle, Shot Bravo
largest U.S. thermonuclear weapon tested, 15 megatons
http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap105.jpg
The "shrimp" device

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap107.jpg
Castle Bravo test cab

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http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap110.jpg


and from the Russians, the "Tsar Bomba" (yield: 57 megatons)
http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap001.jpg

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap002.jpg

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap003.jpg
and this ain't no puny ammo dump explosion.......

[Herrmannek]

Mushrooms woot woot woot woot woot woot


Thats horrifying that so many have been detonated.

This isn't horryfing..it only shows how much those weapons are overrated... there is no chance to extint human race from earth with the current amount of them in stockpiles, as there is not enough of them to direct hit every part of dry land at the same time... Human Kind Prevails

[b.scheller]

What? Are you kidding me?

With the amount of stockpiles, their are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 60 times over.

[East]

What? Are you kidding me?

With the amount of stockpiles, their are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 60 times over.

and did we mention radiation in the water, atmosphere, and dirt...nukes aren't childs play my man.

[szr]

It's too bad these bombs totally **** over anything in their way because they're damn awesome to look at. I'd pay thousands of dollars to see one go off in person, if I could be guaranteed that nobody would be annihilated by the sucker and that the radiological consequences could be somehow minimized.. But that's not really an option. :(

At least we have video.

[Herrmannek]

What? Are you kidding me?

With the amount of stockpiles, their are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 60 times over.

and did we mention radiation in the water, atmosphere, and dirt...nukes aren't childs play my man.

rofl , who said you that?

[hood]

Yeah I've seen the various movies out there on this too. Towards the end when they move into the hydrogen bomb stage and the hundred megaton detonations... it's truly beautiful. In a sense, it's a good thing that there are so many side effects of using such things (radiation etc) otherwise they'd be used far to readily. If you look at the evolution of weapon systems, we've continually moved further away from the ideology of these types of weapons. Stop your enemy from being able to fight by surgical strike, rather than attrition. Now we just need to uninvent these things now that they've served their purpose. :)

[Mark Sman]

I'd pay thousands of dollars to see one go off in person, if I could be guaranteed that nobody would be annihilated by the sucker and that the radiological consequences could be somehow minimized.. But that's not really an option.

Space tourism my friend. Haul up the crowd, find some nice unsuspecting asteroid, and deliver an ultimatum.

"Asteroid you have ten seconds to give us One Miiiiiiiilion Dollars."
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, Boooooooooooooooom.

Sneak attack is always the most effective. Plus a fusion bomb is going to look way cool in space.

[Mark Sman]

Can you imagine being on this crew,

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap98.jpg

and someone asks you later: "Have you ever fired a gun?"

Why yes, yes I have.

Also, can anyone ID the patch that one of the loaders has on his shoulder.

If that patch is unit specific to this mission, that patch is worth a mint.

[rodin_hsu]

ho ho ho .... What a horrify victory gesture from devil !! p-)


http://home.comcast.net/~roycechuang3/Peace_Bomb1.jpg

[hood]

I just wonder how many of these guys escaped cancer from all that radiation.

[Brzeczyszczykiewicz]

This isn't horryfing..it only shows how much those weapons are overrated... there is no chance to extint human race from earth with the current amount of them in stockpiles, as there is not enough of them to direct hit every part of dry land at the same time... Human Kind Prevails

Yup. Nukes can destroy our civilization, but you can't totally extinct the human race by using them.

And those "radiation everywhere" theories are largely exagerrated (Greenpeace propaganda ;) ).
In first nukes only ca. 15% of the explosion went as a radiation, and newer nukes are much 'cleaner'.
Do you see the 'nuclear deserts' in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

[dzzq]

i hope they don't be used forever!

[East]

What? Are you kidding me?

With the amount of stockpiles, their are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 60 times over.

and did we mention radiation in the water, atmosphere, and dirt...nukes aren't childs play my man.

rofl , who said you that?

Sh!t I dunno Chernobyl...not technically a bomb but same premise, and this was a very small nuclear explosion, it affected 7 million people physically(not death toll). The Russian goverment pays people to live there. They have a very high cancer and birth defect rate. I can go into greater detail if you wish.

[Mark Sman]

http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/
Interesting stories from vets of US atomic tests.

General fun with the flat-top exclamation point.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml

Also Hiroshima and Nagasaki were pipsqueak bombs in comparison to what is deployed now. Some of what you say about radiation is true. We are daily bombarded by large amounts from space. However, there are some persistent effects from an atomic blast.

Hey, I got some cheap real estate for you. No neighbors for miles.

http://ndep.nv.gov/boff/flat.jpg

http://www.pewarts.org/images/gowE2_1.jpg

I should post the big one in the "evil America" thread.

[Brzeczyszczykiewicz]

Sh!t I dunno Chernobyl...not technically a bomb but same premise, and this was a very small nuclear explosion,

There wasn't any kind of nuclear explosion. The reactor was blew up by steam under high pressure.
And the radioactive elements in this explosion were totally different than these freed in nuclear ones.


it affected 7 million people physically(not death toll). The Russian goverment pays people to live there. They have a very high cancer and birth defect rate.

Not Russian government. Only parts of Ukraine and Belarus were contaminated.
And about paying... Well, they paid people to get out of there. Ca. 135,000 people were displaced, ad it was one of the worst decisions, because only small parts of this area are really contaminated.

[Mark Sman]

Better safe than sorry. Actual effects may vary from manufacturers specifications. No warranty expressed or implied.

They had to move people even in places where it seemed possible things could be OK.

[droopy]

Mushrooms woot woot woot woot woot woot


Thats horrifying that so many have been detonated.

This isn't horryfing..it only shows how much those weapons are overrated... there is no chance to extint human race from earth with the current amount of them in stockpiles, as there is not enough of them to direct hit every part of dry land at the same time... Human Kind Prevails

Overrated you nuts :( .Oh ok you couldn`t destroy each square cm/inch of this planet with the current nuclear arsenal.
BUT with the radiations from those nuclear blasts almost ALL life on Earth would desapear including the very fragile humans .Except maybe some military and govermental employees hiding in some undergound top secret bunkers.

[n.ignomo]

Some of you need to watch again of for the first time these babies and older horribly deformated. I personnaly saw some caused by nuclear "test fire'. :cantbeli:

[Kung_Scan]

Sweden were also affected buy the Chernoby accident, we were unlucky with the winds, so some parts of sweden, think in some place in the northen part of sweden got a higher level of radietion then normal.

[Ghostwolf]

Chernobyl is THE example of an radioactive "dirty" bomb. Due to most of the fissile material did not reach critical mass(converted into energy and so on), and was blown into the atmosphere by the explosion, and some of the radioactive dust got carried off by the air current in the upper atmosphere(jetstream ??) and contaminated other areas several hundreds of miles from ground zero.

[rokus2595]

Just finished watching Barefoot Gen (1983), "An acclaimed animated version of the autobiographical comic book series by Keiji Nakazawa about his experiences as a six-year-old during and after the detonation of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki."

Highly recommended.

http://www.greencine.com/webCatalog?id=4454

[vryhpyammoadded]

I remember in one of those atomic documentaries’s they mention a story of an H-bomb test where one of the scientists missed a calculation by a decimal point and the resultant detonation strength was unexpectedly higher. One of the now “too” close observers, protected by a multi ton bunker, was quoted as saying “The bunker tossed about like a ship in a storm” or something like that.
Must have been that new California math they hyped way back when. When nuclear scientists say Oops…RUN!
:)

[b.scheller]

Perhaps nuclear bombs could not destroy every single inch of soil, but with the contamination and natural forces plus fall out. Radioactivity would spread throughout the earth, contaminating every single life force.

Anyway as for Chernobyl, perhaps the amount of radioactivity did not kill everyone living in the area. I promise you that in years to come, alot of people who lived in the area will be suffering from different cancers. Might I add that not only were humans contaminated with radioactivity but also animals and their food. Meat and milk all have a certain degree of radioactivity in Eastern Europe and other areas that were affected.

Anyway quite a funny coincidence, my father drove through Chernobyl a year before the accident happen on his travel throughout the Soviet Union.

As for those who wanted to know, how much Chernobyl really contaminated...

http://www.worldprocessor.com/images/chernobyl.jpg

So it doesn't matter whether a bomb hits every single part of earth, the contamination will kill you as well.

[Brzeczyszczykiewicz]

BUT with the radiations from those nuclear blasts almost ALL life on Earth would desapear including the very fragile humans .Except maybe some military and govermental employees hiding in some undergound top secret bunkers.

Radiation, again... :roll:
Radiation during nuclear explosion is overrated. Shockwave (almost 50% of explosion's power) and heat (35%) are much more dangerous to humans in the range of nuclear explosion.
The radiation uses only 15% of explosion's power, and this 15% is divided between gamma rays (5%), and alpha and beta rays causing contamination of terrain (10%).
Gamma rays, most dangerous, are highly harmful and penetrative, but they are released only on first 10-15 seconds of explosion.
Alpha and beta rays are equally harmfull and much more constant, but their penetration is relatively small ( i.e. alpha rays can't penetrate paper), so human in NBC suit is invulnerable on them.
Most of the victims of radiation ilness is caused by gamma rays.

So... in case of common use of nukes it's more probable that human civilisation would be destroyed by 'nuclear winter' effect, than radiation.

[Brzeczyszczykiewicz]

As for those who wanted to know, how much Chernobyl really contaminated...

http://www.worldprocessor.com/images/chernobyl.jpg

In fact, not every amount of radiation is harmful.
Well, I live in the darkest zone and I don't have three legs or seven fingers...

[b.scheller]

Radioation will not turn you into a mutant, but it will give you many different health problems. Anyway it matters where and when you were born and how old you were when Chernobyl happened.

[HoboWithAK]

"Chernobyl is THE example of an radioactive "dirty" bomb. Due to most of the fissile material did not reach critical mass(converted into energy and so on), and was blown into the atmosphere by the explosion, and some of the radioactive dust got carried off by the air current in the upper atmosphere(jetstream ??) and contaminated other areas several hundreds of miles from ground zero."

It's not a good example, at all. There was a MELT DOWN IN THE REACTOR at Chernobyl. You cannot produce that with a dirty bomb. Hell, I doubt with todays medical care more than 10 people would die from complications of a dirty bomb being set off.

[Sayeret]

There are more effects from a nuclear explosion then the explosion and radiation. Theres also electromagnetic effects and you can become blinded just by looking at the explosion.

Heres something that might as a result of a nuclear war.


5.2.2.2 Nuclear Winter

The famous TTAPS (Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, and Sagan) proposal regarding a potential "nuclear winter" is another possible occurrence. This effect is caused by the absorption of sunlight when large amounts of soot are injected into the atmosphere by the widespread burning of cities and petroleum stocks destroyed in a nuclear attack.

Similar events have been observed naturally when large volcanic eruptions have injected large amounts of dust into the atmosphere. The Tambora eruption of 1815 (the largest volcanic eruption in recent history) was followed by "the year without summer" in 1816, the coldest year in the last few centuries.

Soot is far more efficient in absorbing light than volcanic dust, and soot particles are small and hydrophobic and thus tend not to settle or wash out as easily.

Although the initial TTAPS study was met with significant skepticism and criticism, later and more sophisticated work by researchers around the world have confirmed it in all essential details. These studies predict that the amount of soot that would be produced by burning most of the major cities in the US and USSR would severly disrupt climate on a world-wide basis. The major effect would be a rapid and drastic reduction in global temperature, especially over land. All recent studies indicate that if large scale nucelar attack occur against urban or petrochemical targets, average temperature reductions of at least 10 degrees C would occur lasting many months. This level of cooling far exceeds any that has been observed in recorded history, and is comparable to that of a full scale ice age. In areas downwind from attack sites, the cooling can reach 35 degrees C. It is probable that no large scale temperature excursion of this size has occurred in 65 million years.

Smaller attacks would create reduced effects of course. But it has been pointed out that most of the world's food crops are subtropical plants that would have dramatic drops in productivity if an average temperature drop of even one degree were to occur for even a short time during the growing season. Since the world maintains a stored food supply equal to only a few months of consumption, a war during the Northern Hemisphere spring or summer could still cause deadly starvation around the globe from this effect alone even if it only produced a mild "nuclear autumn".

More information on this subject

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html

[Sayeret]

double post

[Brzeczyszczykiewicz]

Radioation will not turn you into a mutant, but it will give you many different health problems. Anyway it matters where and when you were born and how old you were when Chernobyl happened.

Yeah, I know that.
All I wanted to say is that world's reaction to Chernobyl was too histerical.
I live is south-eastern Poland, 300kms in straight line from Chernobyl. Poland was the first country outside SU that was contaminated by radioactive fallout.
And there's no signs that this accident had any negative ravages on Polish population's health, there wasn't any high growth of people with cancer and leukemia.
You posted a picture with radioactive cloud from Chernobyl, spread over the northern hemisphere. But in fact that cloud was dangerous to humans only in the first several dozen kilometers. After that it's radiation level was too low.

[East]

It was a very small incident and look what it caused. All the nukes in the world make that miniscule. It's like comparing a f-117(the nukes) to a kid with a mangnifying glass(chernobyl).

[Milkman]

There is a wonderful documentary called "Atomic Cafe" that cronicles about every important United States Nuclear tests. My mother owns a very good book too with huge Hires pics of nukes. My favorite pictures where the ones taken 10000 nanoseconds (something like that) after detonation, the fireball is beautiful, it looks like a massive sun, some pictures you can still the the tower that the bombs where detonated on still in existance.

[Raistlin]

I'm making a request to post the h-bomb images. I want to know if it's possible to diffirintiate between fusion and fission explosions visually.

[Flagg]

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap003.jpg


1961: World condemns Russia's nuclear test
Russia has exploded the world's largest ever nuclear device provoking widespread condemnation from around the world.
The device believed to 50 megatons, equivalent to be 50 million tons of TNT, caused the biggest ever man-made explosion.

The test, the 26th in the current series, was carried out over the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya despite repeated objections from the West.

Shockwaves from the explosion were first picked up at the seismological institute at Uppsala in Sweden at 0830 hours GMT.

They were two-and-a-half times as powerful as Russia's last test, which was carried out a week ago using a 30 megaton weapon,

British indignation

A spokesman at the Kew Observatory in Britain where shockwaves from the explosion were recorded at about 1151 hours GMT said: "This was a big one alright.

"It's the largest such recording I have ever known."

A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Russia refused to make any comment.

Earlier today the United Nations had sent an official appeal asking Russia not to continue with its nuclear testing programme.

Lord Home, British Foreign minister, said, in a statement: "The British government wholeheartedly deplores the news of this latest and largest of the Russian nuclear explosions.

"Eighty-seven nations appealed to the Soviet leaders to spare the world the explosion of the 50-megaton bomb, which endangers the health of many millions of people.

"The British government share the indignation which will be universally felt at this wanton disregard for the welfare and safety of the human race."

The United States government insists it has known for many years how to make 50 and 100-megaton bombs but remains convinced that smaller weapons are more effective.

A White House spokesperson said: "It is a scientific fact that five 20 megaton weapons will cause more damage than one 100 megaton weapon."

Ahhhhhh....the good old cold days!

I reckon this test was the biggest example of ***** envy ever

[janosik]

Any more pictures or videos of russian atomic tests? Please!

[Abolith]

russian tests are much more difficult to get ahold of :( :(

[Oddball]

http://xs14.xs.to/pics/05052/foto_2.jpeg

And for more on the 'Tsar Bomba'
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

[the_janitor]

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v129/ghostwolf/Nuke%20Tests/snap003.jpg

50 MT ?!?! :cantbeli:

Can you imagine romantically kissing your significant other in front of this apocalyptic sunset ?

Crazy Soviet Mofos ! p-)