My name is Alexander Mikhalchenko and this is my nuclear-themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.m.youtube.com/@atomicarchiveJoined September 2018
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«Priscilla» nuclear test, 37 kilotons, 213 m burst height (balloon), Frenchman Flat in Nevada, 6:30 a.m. June 24, 1957. It was a weapons effects test sponsored by the DOD using a stockpiled device (Mk-15/39 primary) of known yield.
June 17, 1967 China conducted its first full-scale test of a two-staged thermonuclear bomb. It was dropped from a Xian H-6 and was parachute-retarded for an airburst at 2960 m. The yield was 3.3 megatons.
How safety measures improved.
Removal of a filter from the nacelle of an aircraft that collected samples inside the radioactive cloud of a nuclear explosion. The first two photos were taken in the USA, 1952; the rest - in France, 1960.
On June 12, 1956, at 6:26 a.m., for the first time in the history of nuclear testing, two nuclear explosions were conducted simultaneously on Earth: «Blackfoot» with a yield of 8 kilotons at Eniwetok Atoll, and «Flathead» with a yield of 365 kilotons at Bikini Atoll.
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.
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.
«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.
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