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Re: Nuclear testing

« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2007, 12:47:35 am »

14 kiloton atomic explosion, from a 1951 US nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. (Operation Buster-Jangle, Charlie)

Original source: http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/atm.htm

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuclear_tests


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« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2007, 12:48:38 am »

Able, atomic bomb detonated in 1946 by the US Army as part of Operation Crossroads. Photo by US Navy


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« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2007, 12:49:50 am »

Beschreibung: Atombombentest Crossroads-Baker im Bikini-Atoll


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« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2007, 12:51:09 am »

Description: Frenchman's Flat, Nevada - Atomic Cannon Test - History's first atomic artillery shell fired from the Army's new 280-mm artillery gun. Hundreds of high ranking Armed Forces officers and members of Congress are present. The fireball ascending, 05/23/1953.


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« Reply #19 on: September 06, 2007, 12:53:51 am »

Military personnel observing one of the tests in the Buster-Jangle Series in the fall of 1951.


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« Reply #21 on: September 06, 2007, 12:57:40 am »

Film stills from the Cannikin test as part of the Amchitka program, showing the displacement of dirt and rock caused by the 5 MT underground thermonuclear explosion.


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Re: Nuclear testing

« Reply #22 on: September 06, 2007, 12:58:48 am »

"Operation Castle, BRAVO Event - The BRAVO Event was an experimental thermonuclear device, 15-megaton weapons related surface event. Detonated 28 February 1954 on Bikini Atoll."


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« Reply #23 on: September 06, 2007, 12:59:55 am »

From en: The mushroom cloud from US nuclear test "Castle Bravo".


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« Reply #24 on: September 06, 2007, 01:01:55 am »

"Operation Castle, ROMEO Event - The 11-megaton ROMEO Event was part of Operation Castle. It was detonated from a barge near Bikini atoll on 26 March 1954."


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Re: Nuclear testing

« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2007, 11:33:14 pm »

"Castle Union" U.S. nuclear test, 26 April 1954, 6.9 Mt yield.

Immediate source: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/testpix/


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« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2007, 11:35:02 pm »

Castle Romeo nuclear explosion, March 27, 1954


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« Reply #27 on: September 16, 2007, 11:36:28 pm »

Castle Bravo. Largest explosion ever carried out by USA


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Re: Nuclear testing

« Reply #28 on: September 16, 2007, 11:38:29 pm »

Operation Crossroads, BAKER Event - The BAKER Test was detonated on the Bikini Atoll on 24 July 1946.


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« Reply #29 on: September 16, 2007, 11:39:41 pm »

A 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons effects test, known as Operation CROSSROADS (Event Baker), conducted at Bikini Atoll (1946).

Image courtesy of US Govt. Defense Threat Reduction Agency: http://www.dtra.mil/press_resources/photo_library/CS/CS-1.cfm


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