My name is Alexander Mikhalchenko and this is my nuclear-themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.
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Jun 12
«Harlem» thermonuclear test, 1.2 Megatons, 4150 m burst height, Christmas Island area, 6:37 a.m. June 12, 1962.
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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.
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Jun 11
«Yeso» thermonuclear test, 3 Megatons, 2537 m burst height, Christmas Island area, 7:01 a.m. June 10, 1962.
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Jun 10
«Truckee» thermonuclear test, 210 kilotons, 2120 m burst height, Christmas Island, 6:37 a.m. June 9, 1962.
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Jun 9
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.
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Jun 9
«Umbrella» 8-kiloton underwater nuclear test on lagoon bottom at 46 m. Eniwetok Atoll, June 9, 1958.
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Jun 8
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.
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Jun 7
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.
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Jun 7
«Seminole» nuclear test, 13.7 kilotons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6 June, 1956. Exploded in a water tank to simulate underground nuclear test.
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Jun 6
«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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Jun 4
«Climax» nuclear test, 61 kilotons, 406 m burst height, Nevada Test Site, 4:15 a.m. June 4, 1953.
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Jun 4
ТЭМ2У-8515 diesel locomotive with a lead-shielded remote control cabin in the Chernobyl zone, 1986.
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Jun 1
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.
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May 31
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.
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May 31
«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.
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May 28
«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.
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May 27
«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.
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May 27
280mm atomic cannon during a field exercise in southern Germany, 1950s. Photo by Elvin Pauls.
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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.
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May 25
Radioactive cloud after 3.8-Megaton thermonuclear explosion near Bikini Atoll. Photos by J.R. Eyerman. 1956.
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