'Children's Crusade Against Communism - 19. Atomic Doom' (American trading card from Bowman Gum's 'Fight the Red Menace' series. United States of America, 1951).

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Scale of the Tsar Bomb fireball above the Burj Khalifa (OC)

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Fun for young and old... drop an A-bomb. It was certainly a different time to live in.

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Awesome new atomic bomb lamp!

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B90 bomb disassembled

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Nuclear football at Red Square, May 1988 (x-post r/nuclearweapons/)

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My latest painting; if you know, you know...

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The crater left after an underground nuclear explosion

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Let's not forget the other side of /r/AtomicPorn. Eyes that have seen a nuclear blast: Hiroshima, Japan; August 8, 1945.

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Comparison of Robert Oppenheimer to Cillian Murphy the Actor in Christopher Nolan’s new movie ‘Oppenheimer’

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Paramount Plus is using this image as a thumbnail for one of their shows about the Atomic Era. I'm wondering if anyone knows the background of this? Which test is it, or is it computer generated? I think this shot is fantastic.

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U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a mushroom cloud cake at a reception for the Operation Crossroads atomic tests on Bikini Atoll, November 6, 1946

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B28 bombs and SRAM missiles loaded into a B52

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Mushroom cloud from the largest atmospheric nuclear test the United States ever conducted, Castle Bravo at 15 Megatons. Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. 1 March 1954.

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Based on an improperly censored 1999 Los Alamos weapons briefing, I've been able to reconstruct the W88 nuclear warhead which is used in Trident II submarine launched ballistic missiles.

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It’s pretty

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Top Ten largest Nuclear Explosions

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photo of the first Soviet Nuclear test “Joe-1” at Semipalatinsk Test site on August 29, 1949

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Its me or poplar test is scary as hell ?

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Color photo of an atomic bomb test in Nevada!

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A French nuclear test over Mururoa Atoll, 1971

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The inside of a W80 thermonuclear cruise missile warhead: my third and most up-to-date guess

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the fireball of Operation Redwing shot Blackfoot. The 8 kt tower shot was fired ~206 feet above Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll on June 11, 1956 [4012 x 3135]

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World-wide delivery in 30 minutes or less

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Totem 1. The first atomic weapon detonated by the British on the Australian mainland. Emu Field, South Australia. 15 October 1953.

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Photo of a Nuclear Explosion Less than one Millisecond After Detonation. Nevada (1952)

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78 years ago today, US dropped Little boy on Hiroshima

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USS Agerholm (DD-826) in the foreground as a nuclear depth bomb, fired from it’s RUR-5 ASROC launcher, detonates about 4 kilometers away, this was the Swordfish test and part of Operation Dominic. 11 May, 1962

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Harold Agnew carrying the plutonium core of the Nagasaki Fat Man bomb, 1945 [1600x1264]

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the fireball of Operation Plumbob shot Hood. The 74 kt device, built by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, was fired 1,500' above Nevada Test Site's Area 9 on July 5, 1957 [3806 × 2554]

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W80 warheads loaded into ALCMs on a rotary rack

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Photographers and camera equipment lined up in preparation for a nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, 1946

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Peacekeeper Bus with 10x RVs [OC]

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Two U.S. Marines ‘touch’ the mushroom cloud of shot Dog of Operation Tumbler-Snapper during Desert Rock IV, 1952.

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View of mushroom cloud over Hiroshima as seen from the naval arsenal at Kure, about 20km away. Photo by Masami Oki. 6 August 1945

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the atomic cloud of Operation Hardtack I, shot Oak as seen from Parry Island — roughly 24 miles away. The 8.9 megaton device was fired on a barge at 7:30 am on June 29, 1958. [2463x2203]

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scale L-D thermonuclear device with fatman style implosion trigger and tritium boosting drawn in AutoCad based on open source data

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Oil painting by Paco Pomet

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This photo shows the early cloud of Operation Upshot-Knothole, shot Grable. The 15 kt nuclear artillery shell detonated over Frenchman Flat at the Nevada Test Site, 19 seconds after it was fired from the M65 Atomic Cannon on May 25, 1953. [2678 x 3620]

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the fireball of Operation Hardtack I, shot Fig. The 20 ton shot was fired on Enewetak Island, August 15, 1958. [3903 x 3074]

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Work in progress of a Fat Man model I'm making

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'Little Boy' bomb in a bomb pit, ready to be loaded onto B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945

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Atomic Bomb Explosion from 1956. Beautiful but Terrifying.

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The Grable Gun, aka Atomic Annie, aka M65 Atomic Cannon, test firing on May 25th, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site

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The Bombing of Nagasaki 11:02 a.m., 8/9/45 1,650 feet above the city. The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT.

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Hello, new here. Can anyone help me to identify the detonation in this photo? I have narrowed it down to one of the Operation Greenhouse tests, but not sure which. Thank you!

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the fireball of Operation Castle shot Bravo, as seen from USS Estes. The unintentionally-15-megaton radiological disaster was detonated in unfavorable winds at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954 [4191 x 3250]

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1961 Life Magazine pages on Tsar Bomba Superbomb More Bluff Than Bang

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US Navy SEAL operator jumps with a Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a man-portable nuclear weapon in the early 1960s. If actually deployed, SEALs knew they were on a suicide mission. [1200x698]

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Paratrooper Al Tseu (Center) jumps into aftermath of a mushroom cloud in the Nevada Test Site, 1952

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Why is Hiroshima's mushroom cloud so oddly shaped? like it's going up and then it turns and then continues going up, why?

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Rebirth By Todor Vankov

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Cool old sewer pipe I found while exploring the area around the Nevada Test Site... 😊

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A series of images of the first milliseconds of a nuclear explosion [956 x 880]

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the fireball of Operation Plumbob shot Hood. The 74 kt device, built by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, was fired 1,500' above Nevada Test Site's Area 9 on July 5, 1957 [3989 × 3006]

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I am working on a personal project restoring photographs of nuclear tests. This photograph shows the nuclear cloud of Operation Ivy shot Mike. The 10.4 megaton, 74 metric ton, thermonuclear device, was detonated on the then-still-existent island of Elugelab on November 1, 1952 [2766 × 3631]

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LGM-118 Peacekeeper. First system I was certified on and great group of guys.

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Signatures of technicians on the tail of 'Fat Man' bomb while the bomb was on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945

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America's last remaining Titan II ICBM launch site sits, deactivated, outside Tucson, Arizona.

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Lockheed 1979 NuCMCA (Nuclear-powered Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft)

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Shot Newton, Operation Plumb Bob. Nevada Test Site. Sept. 16, 1957.

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Very interesting photo of the Totskoye test Circa 1954

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Aerial view of Hiroshima, Aug 1945.

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Manhattan Project personnel prepares the Gadget bomb for the Trinity Test in July 1945. Among notable ones here were physicists Louis Slotin (with sunglasses) and Harry Daghlian Jr. (seated middle), both later died of radiation poisoning while performing criticality measurements on the demon core.

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Nuclear-weapons proof Manhattan beneath Manhattan, 1969

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Atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site

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'Fat Man' being assembled, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945

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Redwing Tewa, 5 megaton detonation.

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This weird russian MaRV, a Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle, capable of autonomously tracking ground targets.

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What makes a nuclear test beautiful ?

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A sign outside the Manhattan Project headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1943. [2048 × 1623]

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RAF Fylingdales' ICBM early warning system

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Hopefully not a repost - Let's bomb a highway!

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Nuclear rocket engine Phoebus 2A, with a maximum thermal power of 4082 MW, moving by rail for testing, 1960s

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Uranium glass in a shop

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Did I just find the blast crater produced by the Tsar Bomba, or is this some ancient meteor impact I stumbled Upon? From what I thought I understood, Tsar Bomba was detonated at an altitude too high to produce a crater. Google Earth location: Novaya Zemlya Island

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Photo of Desert Rock V Exercise 1953-03-17, stitched together from video-footage

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Operation Tumbler Snapper: Shot Dog, 19kt [1024 x 768]

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Test craters at the Nevada Test Site [1500 x 1194]

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Blast testing the Swedish S-tank. The blast tunnel is supposed to recreate the effect of a 5 kiloton warhead detonating approximately 500 meters away

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Pershing A launch. it may be from a bygone era. But these missiles started a passion and career for me. Pershing2 was taken out of service in 91.

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Looking up at the mushroom cloud of an Operation Teapot nuclear test [728 x 546]

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Hiromichi Matsuda captures the mushrooming atomic cloud over Nagasaki on August 9,1945. He captured this photo from Koyagi-Jima.

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Physicist Chris Wright fiddling with a Demon Core mockup. Beryllium tamper is on top, the plutonium core is the smaller sphere in the center.

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A view of inside Los Alamos National Laboratory as researchers work on a nuclear testing project in 1974 [2136 x 1626]

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Alula-Class Submarine with SLBMs hatches open [1080 × 849]

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The MET (Military Effects Test) test of a composite 76cm diameter, U-233/plutonium bomb core (the first U.S. test of U-233) in a Mk 7 HE assembly. The predicted yield was 28 kt, the actual yield was 22Kt. [3560 x 3108]

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Operation Castle Bravo, Marshall Islands.

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High Explosive Lenses Arranged Around a Core at Los Alamos [1163×0921]

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Bikini Atoll [2880 × 1800]

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This view of the Baker Day underwater explosion in Bikini was made from a radio-controlled drone plane flying 15,000 feet above the crossroads target fleet [1313x2048]

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Chinese Nuclear Test possibly test 596 ?

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Redwing Cherokee 3.8 Megatons. This was the first hydrogen bomb dropped from an aircraft.

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Found this strange 1950s religious medal. It shows Mary on a mushroom cloud and says Atoms for Peace, O'Mary, PAX.

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Experimental nuclear-powered ramjet engine Tory-IIC in Jackass Flats, NV, 1964

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Composite image of the Trinity test fireball over a few seconds, with the Empire State Building for scale [1280 × 1005]

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An explosion so powerful it reverses gravity briefly [from woahdude]

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RED Mercury 50 kt nuclear warhead

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Albert L. Mueller - Ford Nucleon Atomic Powered Vehicle, Rear Side View (1956) [1920 x 813]

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Operation Crossroads, NE lagoon, Bikini Atoll: Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion on July 25, 1946. The clouds lift, revealing the spray column. The battleship Arkansas is in the column, on the right, being thrown vertically. [5137 × 2696]

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An RAF Canberra flying in front of the mushroom cloud from Grapple Y, 3 Mt [600 x 600]

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W53 warhead after being blown out of the silo at Damascus (1980)

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The evolution of the Trinity fireball over the first 9 seconds, with the Empire State Building for scale. Image by Alex Wellerstein. [1600 x 1063]

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Filming a nuclear test [1000 x 657]

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Sketch I made of the probable interior design of a W80 mod 1 thermonuclear 150 kiloton cruise missile warhead

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The fireball from Castle Bravo, 15 megatons [1030 x 839]

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« This is actually kinda fun ! » - Pam, firing a pretend LGM-30 Minuteman

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This is officially not classified as a nuclear accident. Part of the reactor corium took from EBR-1 (Idaho 1955)

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Unique shot of the smoke column from the Hiroshima bomb, taken approx. 2 miles away, 20 min after.

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Showing the Pole-Pieces of an Azimuthally-Varying-Field Cyclotron Under Construction [2876×2199]

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A mushroom cloud rises above Fangataufa Lagoon following detonation of France's first hydrogen bomb. The bomb was held aloft by a balloon some 1,800 feet above the lagoon. Date August 24, 1968 [1368x2048]

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Lake Karachai is a 110 acres radioactive waste dumping site sealed in a shell of rocks, soil, and concrete blocks. Nearest settlement is City-40, now Orelsk. Francis Powers' U2 was shot down right after flying over this place.

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Rapatronic photo of the Operation Plumbbob 'Boltzmann' shot, 12kt [655 x 800]

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Soldiers take a photo of them holding up the mushroom cloud from the Tumbler-Snapper 'Dog' shot, 19kt [2939 x 2344]

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Aftermath of Military Equipment exposed to an Atomic Explosion.

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Operation Greenhouse: Shot Easy, 47kt [728 x 554]

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Prop schematic for Soviet SS-22 Mirv-6 (fake designation) for the movie True Lies. Seems based loosely on the US MK-12A

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The fireball from the 1 Mt Operation Dominic 'Bluestone' shot [728 x 408]

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The shockwave from the Grapple Y British nuclear test - 3 Megatons [728 x 546]

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Rapatronic photo of the 19kt 'Whitney' test during Operation Plumbob [1274 x 1268]

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I'm freewheeling new bomb designs! Here's an unboosted wooden device (needs almost no maintenance.) Detonators connect to a ferroelectric generator, the explosive big brother of the piezo lighter sparker. Whether that FEG is set off by a thousand yards of green cannon fuse or not is up to you.

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The fireball from Ivy Mike, 10.4mt [1024 x 768]

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One necklace to rule them all... Tritium tube radiation isotope necklace. Yes, it is safe to own and wear.

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RDS-37 Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1955) - 1.6 megatons [728 x 546]

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Nuclear test during Operation Teapot (1954) [728 x 484]

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Atomic cloud over Nagasaki, Sept 8,1945 taken 15+ minutes after the explosion, seen from a distance of 15 km. Photo by Hiromihi Matsuda. colorized by irootoko_jr.

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What would you do if a nuke exploded near you. (This would be me) :D

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The Licorne photo sequence, scaled to roughly the same sizes for comparison of the cloud's evolution. [1363 x 846]

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B28 Hydrogen bombs

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Inspired by real life and maybe a little bit by the Fallout franchise, I came up with a concept for a real-life low yield mini nuke (<<1kt) whose only safety feature is a metal cap covering the impact detonator like with RPG warheads.

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Joe-8 Soviet nuclear test, 40kt [728 x 546]

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Nowadays Istra High Voltage Research Center. The massive ovular dome ‘Allure’ used as an EMP testing facility was demolished in January 1985 [1054 × 678]

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The crew of the B-29 bomber “Necessary Evil” planning for their mission to accompany the bomber “Enola Gay” that would drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

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The mushroom cloud of Ivy King [799 x 1024]

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Observers watch the fireball of Ivy King, 500kt [1423 x 1127]

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Operation Hardtack 'Fir' shot, 1.36mt [728 x 546]

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Broken Arrow, Goldsboro NC 23 January 1961

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The moment Tsar Bomba, the worlds largest nuclear bomb detonated, creating a 5 mi. wide fireball. If you were within 62 mi. of ground zero, you received 3rd degree burns

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Operation Upshot-Knothole: Shot Simon, 43kt [728 x 484]

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Nuclear football at Red Square, May 1988 (x-post r/nuclearweapons/)

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Soldiers began finalizing The Fat Man bomb in Tinian, which was later dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. On its nose, it had stenciled the acronym “JANCFU” meaning Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up.

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