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Dec 15, 2017 · The official count of 1,054 tests includes 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 - with cameras capturing every one. This week, a team at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has released 62 of these atmospheric nuclear test videos on YouTube. An estimated 10,000 of these videos have languished for decades ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer's reflections of the first atomic bomb test. Watch ». This collection contains animations of a nuclear chain reaction, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. It also showcases interactive models of the first atomic bombs and simulation of the Nuclear Winter effect.
Aug 29, 2022 · The power of the nuclear test was miscalculated by scientists, and it resulted in radiation contamination that impacted inhabitants of the atolls. The nuclear fallout of the explosion is said to ...
This video shows a wood-frame house exposed to a nuclear blast at the Nevada Test Site. The test was Upshot-Knothole Annie, a 16 Kt tower shot, on March 17, 1953. The house is 1,100 meters from ground zero. The exposure to thermal radiation was 25 cal/cm 2, about one-quarter of that experienced at ground zero in Hiroshima. The blast ...
The “Trinity” bomb located atop the test tower in the New Mexico Desert. Simply referred to as “the Gadget,” it was a test of the implosion design using plutonium-239. (US Government photo) Little Boy used a uranium-235 (U-235) slug that traveled down a converted artillery tube, striking a larger sphere of the same substance.
