Able and Baker, however, were minor compared the hydrogen bomb tests conducted at the site later in the 1950s. An oblong crater found at a depth of 184 feet was likely the remains of two overlapping blasts, they team concluded. The crater was formed by the 1954 “Castle Bravo” test...
The first,Missilemap, lets users precisely calculate the range, accuracy and warhead size of a nuclear weapon, launched from anywhere in the world, and with a target anywhere in the world. Missilemap was designed to make it easy to see the relationship between missile range, accuracy, and wa...
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In 1946, the Marshall Islands seemed very close for many Australians. They feared the imminent launch of the US's atomic testing program on Bikini Atoll mightsplit the earth in two, catastrophically change the earth's climate, or produce earthquakes and deadly tidal waves. A map accompanying on...
U-bomb states could howl the mantra, “Ifyou mess with us, the world disappears,” as an ultimate deterrent. The old question on the consequences of nuclear war is this: are humans capable of dealing with mental health damage after seeing nuclear bomb casualties as they happen? That question...
“Obama, during the campaign, said that we really ought to secure all nuclear material around the world within four years, and that was actually the goal that I had first proposed in these ‘Securing the Bomb’ reports,” Bunn says. “Securing the Bomb” is a series of annual reports ...
Target map of Kyoto, June 1945, with atomic bomb aiming point indicated, from General Groves’ files — a sign of how far along the plans were for Kyoto to be the first target of the atomic bomb. For more on the non-bombing of Kyoto, see my2020 article. ...
If fast blood testing would not be conceivable, dose assessment can be at first evaluated dependent on basic boundaries, i.e., correlations between the extent of the body exposed to the radiation and the % of the radiation levels estimated in the environment; victim’s shielding activities ...
Target map of Kyoto, June 1945, with atomic bomb aiming point indicated, from General Groves’ files — a sign of how far along the plans were for Kyoto to be the first target of the atomic bomb. For more on the non-bombing of Kyoto, see my2020 article. ...
Testing in 1957 and 1958 took place at all former Soviet Union test sites, Christmas Island (UK) and US Pacific and continental sites. Large tests (> 500 kt) took place at Christmas Island, Novaya Zemlya and Semipalatinsk. Since the air sampling in 1957 was performed in a period ...