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My name is Alexander Mikhalchenko and this is my nuclear-themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials. m.youtube.com/@atomicarchive Joined September 2018-
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«Truckee» thermonuclear test, 210 kilotons, 2120 m burst height, Christmas Island, 6:37 a.m. June 9, 1962.
A scientist behind a three-sided mobile lead shield approaches an active 254-tonne cyclotron particle accelerator and using sphere-mounted tongs, prepares to remove an aluminium object made radioactive by 45 MeV alpha-particles bombardment at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955.
«Umbrella» 8-kiloton underwater nuclear test on lagoon bottom at 46 m. Eniwetok Atoll, June 9, 1958.
June 8, 1959, the USS Barbero submarine, launched a Regulus I missile carrying 3000 pieces of mail in a joint experiment between the Postal Service and the Defense Department. The missile flew over 100 miles at 600 mph and landed safely just 22 minutes later in Florida.
Construction of the foundation pit for the «A-1» (the first Soviet industrial plutonium reactor) at Plant No. 817 «Mayak». 1946. Excavated largely by hand and by Gulag prisoners, the pit was finalized under extreme time pressure to support the Soviet atomic bomb project.
«Seminole» nuclear test, 13.7 kilotons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6 June, 1956. Exploded in a water tank to simulate underground nuclear test.
«How» nuclear test, 14 kilotons, 91 m tower, Nevada, June 5, 1952. These photographs were taken with a «Rapatronic» high-speed camera 0.2, 0.7, 4.4 and 11 milliseconds after detonation.
«Climax» nuclear test, 61 kilotons, 406 m burst height, Nevada Test Site, 4:15 a.m. June 4, 1953.
ТЭМ2У-8515 diesel locomotive with a lead-shielded remote control cabin in the Chernobyl zone, 1986.
@HmztY41889 I don't know, I found this photo in the "Tumbler Charlie test" series. Besides, the film "Duck and Cover" was released in January 1952.
Children practicing the «Duck and Cover» protection method with a real atomic bomb explosion in the background. The photo was taken in Nevada, 40 km from the epicentre. 1952.
@EK14MeV There's little information about this amazing photo, so thanks for this interesting fact!
On May 31, 1957, the British boosted fission atomic bomb «Orange Herald» with a yield of 720 kilotons was tested on Malden Island in the Pacific. It is thought that the fusion boosting failed to increase the yield. The largest pure-fission bomb ever tested.
«Tobacco» nuclear test, 11.6 kilotons, Eniwetok atoll, 2:15 p.m. May 30, 1958. Unsuccessful test of XW-50 thermonuclear warhead, expected yield — 175 kt, 2nd stage failed to ignite.
«Zuni» thermonuclear test, 3.5 Megatons, Bikini Atoll, 5:56 a.m. May 28, 1956. First test of 3 stage device. «Clean» version using lead tamper, 85% fusion.
«Yellowwood» nuclear test, 330 kilotons, Eniwetok Atoll, 2:00 p.m. May 26, 1958. This was a LASL developmental test of a «clean» TX-46 thermonuclear warhead design. The predicted yield was 2.5 Megatons.
280mm atomic cannon during a field exercise in southern Germany, 1950s. Photo by Elvin Pauls.
May 25, 1953, a 280 mm cannon fired the W9 nuclear artillery projectile, which detonated with a yield of 15 kilotons above Frenchman Flat in Nevada. This was the first and only nuclear projectile to be fired from a cannon.
Radioactive cloud after 3.8-Megaton thermonuclear explosion near Bikini Atoll. Photos by J.R. Eyerman. 1956.
«Cherokee» nuclear test, 3.8 Megatons, 1325 m burst height, Bikini Atoll, 5:51 a.m. May 21, 1956. This was the first U.S. air drop of a thermonuclear bomb.
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