Photos Nuclear Weapons Detonations

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Whitney nuclear test, 19 kilotons, 150 m tower, Nevada Test Site. 23 September 1957

 

[BravoZulu]

On September 21, 1955 the Soviet Union conducted its first underwater nuclear test at the Novaya Zemlya Test Site. The T-5/RDS-9 torpedo detonated at a depth of 12 m with a yield of 3.5 kilotons.

 

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Newton nuclear test, 12 kilotons, Nevada Test Site, 5:50 a.m. 16 September 1957. The XW-31 warhead was suspended by a balloon at an altitude of 457 m

 

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How nuclear test, 14 kilotons, 91 m tower, Nevada Test Site, June 5, 1952.

 

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Smoky nuclear test, 44 kilotons, 210 m tower, Nevada Test Site, 5:30 a.m. 31 August 1957. A test of the boosted TX-41 warhead primary and secondary in a bomb mockup. 1150 soldiers participated in a military exercise.

 

[BravoZulu]

French nuclear test ‘Aldebaran’ with a yield of 58 kt was conducted on a barge, at Mururoa Atoll - first test on this atoll. 2 July 1966.

 

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[uktabber]

Great photos mate, those are so interesting to see!

 

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[BravoZulu]

Operation Wigwam: May 14, 1955. What appears to be Cherokee-class fleet tug USS USS Tawasa (AT-92), centre, in front of the nuclear explosion of a Mark 90 "Betty" nuclear bomb that was located 2,000 feet deep. The white object in the foreground is most likely a SQUAW Submarine Target. Tawasa was affected by radioactive contamination but was cleaned off and returned to service not being decommissioned and struck from the Navy list untill April Fool's Day 1975.

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Tawasa towed a nuclear bomb used as a depth charge as it was detonated in Operation Wigwam in 1955. Wigwam involved a single test of the Mark 90 Betty nuclear bomb, a Cold War nuclear depth charge, developed by the United States in 1952. The test was conducted on May 14, 1955, about 500 miles (800 km) southwest of San Diego, California, with 6,800 personnel aboard 30 ships involved. The purpose of Wigwam was to determine the vulnerability of submarines to deeply detonated nuclear weapons, and to evaluate the feasibility of using such weapons. The test device was suspended to a depth of 2,000 feet (610 m) by a cable attached to a barge. A 6-mile (9.7 km) tow line connected the 205 ft. Tawasa fleet tug with the shot barge itself. Suspended from the tow lines of other tugs were three miniature unmanned submarines named "Squaws", each packed with cameras and telemetry instruments.

The time of detonation was 1300 hrs Pacific Time. The test was carried out without incident, and the device yielded 30 kilotons. Three personnel received doses of over 0.5 rem (5 mSv). Other sailors on USS Cree (another Cherokee-class fleet tug) were tasked with measuring radiation and said that the ocean water boiled and churned, and radiation meters went off the charts when they held them over the side. The sailors wore no protection, only their standard cotton clothes. One sailor on the Cree had three cornea transplants without any official recognition by the U.S. government. The feeling on the feet of the sailors when it went off was like a sledge hammer hitting the deck of the ship.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Dioné — atomic explosion, 34 kilotons, balloon, Denise zone, Moruroa Atoll, June 5, 1971.

 

[sameerali]

Photo's/videos of Nuclear weapons detonated

Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships. prusaslicer скачать

The shift from wartime use to peacetime experimentation, studying naval vulnerability, really underscores the dawning nuclear age and its complex legacy. Horrifying images by the way!!

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Test nº3 (Joe-3), 380 m, first airdrop test by the Soviet Union, 42 kt.