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My name is Alexander Mikhalchenko and this is my nuclear-themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.
Joined September 2018
- The bow sonar sphere of a U.S. Navy Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine during assembly or maintenance.
- «Mohawk» thermonuclear test, 360 kilotons, 90 m tower, Eniwetok Atoll. 3 July, 1956. High speed photos. First milliseconds.
- French thermonuclear explosion «Licorne», 914 kilotons, balloon 500 m, Mururoa Atoll, 3 July 1970.
- A B-52 Stratofortress aircraft pilot wears a nuclear flash-blindness goggle designed by Sandia lab, 1970s
- The soft nylon carrying bag for a W54 nuclear warhead with a yield varied from 0.1 to 1 kiloton.
- «Castle Union» thermonuclear test, 6.9 Mt, Bikini atoll, 26 April 1954.
- This 3.2 cm diameter Plutonium-238 oxide sphere produces 100 Watts (thermal), without any external energy input — simply as a result of radioactive decay.
- «Castle Bravo» thermonuclear explosion, 15 Megatons, Bikini Atoll, 6:45 a.m. March 1, 1954. Best photos.
- 80 years ago, on July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion «Trinity» was conducted by the United States.
- A view of an atomic blast, 31 kilotons, from 88 km away. Nevada, 5 November 1951.
- «Castle Romeo» thermonuclear explosion, 11 Megatons, Bikini atoll, 27 March 1954.
