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My name is Alexander and this is my nuclear themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.
Joined September 2018
If you would like to purchase high resolution photos of nuclear tests, military aircraft, missiles and nuclear subs, please email me and request a catalog with 720 preview photos. The result of my archival research since 2012. nukesblog@gmail.com
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«Ivy Mike» thermonuclear explosion, 10.4 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, November 1, 1952. Late stage cloud. Photographed from a distance of approximately 80 km.
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If you'd like to support my blog and archival research, you can purchase the entire collection: ~ 1000 high-resolution thematic photos (not available online in such quality) and + 20 HD videos. Price: $ 2500. If you're interested, please contact: nukesblog@gmail.com
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Lifting the «OR» metal structure by a crane, the lower support plate of the RBMK-1500 reactor, for further installation in the reactor shaft of Unit number 1 of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. 1981.
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On 22 November 1955 the Soviet Union conducted its first two-stage hydrogen bomb test «RDS-37» with a yield of 1.6 Megatons at the Semipalatinsk Test Site. This was also the world's first air-dropped fusion bomb test.
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Dale Snyder who participated in radiation monitoring practice in a low level radiation field at the Nevada Test Site in 1966. The object Snyder is monitoring is one of the remaining braces that guyed a 150-m tower from which a 29-kiloton nuclear device was detonated in 1955.
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«Sugar» nuclear test, 1.2 kilotons, Nevada Proving Ground, 9:00 a.m. 19 November 1951. The world's first land-surface nuclear explosion. The test left a crater 6.4 m deep and 27 m wide.
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The extra-thick, two-story concrete structure equipped with cameras before and after the «Ivy Mike» land-surface thermonuclear explosion, 10.4 Megatons. 5.6 km (3.5 miles) from the Ground Zero! 1952.
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The Zimmer Radon Generator (emanator). It would have been placed in water, usually 1-2 gallons, to infuse the water with radon, a radioactive gas. 1940s.
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«CHIC-21» thermonuclear explosion, 4 Megatons, Lop Nur test site, 17 November 1976. China's most powerful nuclear test.
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B-52 bomber and Atlas missiles on alert at Vandenberg Air Force Base. 1960.
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16 November 1952 a B-36H bomber dropped the Mk.18 «Super Oralloy Bomb» over a point 610 m north of Runit Island in the Enewetak atoll, resulting in a 500 kiloton explosion at 450 m. It was largest pure-fission atomic bomb ever tested by the U.S.
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November 15, 1946, construction of the first Soviet nuclear reactor began in Moscow. The works were supervised by Igor Kurchatov.
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A trench filled with water (140 m long, 70 m wide and 16 m deep), formed after the simultaneous detonation of three nuclear devices (0.24 kt each) at a depth of 32 m in the Kazakh SSR, 12 November 1968.
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A view of an atomic blast, 31 kilotons, from 88 km away. Nevada, 5 November 1951.
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«Ivy Mike» thermonuclear explosion, 10.4 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, 7:15 a.m. November 1, 1952. The world's first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, the Teller-Ulam design, staged radiation implosion.
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The «Sausage» («Ivy Mike») first two-stage thermonuclear device. The large pipes at right are «light pipes» to conduct the initial radiation emitted by the explosion to remote instruments to study the physics of the thermonuclear reactions. Eniwetok Atoll, 1952.
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October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the AN602 «Tsar Bomb», the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever created and tested. The bomb with a yield of 58 Megatons was dropped from a Tu-95 bomber and detonated at an altitude of 4 km over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
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In a full strike configuration, an Ohio-class SSGN can carry up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles for land attack strike.
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«Bluegill Triple Prime» nuclear test, 200 or 400 kilotons, Johnston Atoll area, 23:59, October 25, 1962. Launched by a Thor missile, a W50 thermonuclear warhead was detonated at an altitude of 48 km.
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