
It was 63 years ago today that the United States
detonated the very first atomic bomb. Three weeks later, the only two A-bombs
dropped in warfare destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Many nuclear, and thermonuclear bombs, have been tested since. It is
necessary for all to reflect. What will be further???..........
Nuclear explosion.
It is beautiful?
Trinity was the first test of
technology for a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on
what is now White Sands Missile
Range, headquartered near Alamogordo. Trinity was a
test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb. The Fat Man bomb, using the same
conceptual design, was dropped on Nagasaki,
Japan, a few
weeks later. The Trinity detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around
20 kilotons of TNT and is usually considered as
the beginning of the Atomic Age.
The Bravo test created the worst
radiological disaster in US
history. Due to failures in forecasting and analyzing weather patterns, failure
to postpone the test following unfavorable changes in the weather, and combined
with the unexpectedly high yield, the Marshallese Islanders on Rongelap,
Ailinginae, and Utirik atolls were blanketed with the fallout plume along with U.S. servicemen
stationed on Rongerik.
This is a
picture of a series of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French
Polynesia. This is a scan of a
hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army which could be purchased
in Tahiti at that time.
This explosion has been carried out July 3,
1970, by the French army in the Fangataufa atoll. Codenamed Canopus, it yielded
914 kt.
BADGER was a 23 kiloton tower shot that was fired on
April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation
Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series.
Result of beauty
of nuclear explosion. No comment.
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