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Located in the Heart of the Kansas Flint Hills, next to I-70 and Exit 301, is the M65 Atomic Cannon
The "Atomic Cannon", the Army's largest artillery gun, was capable of firing both conventional and atomic warheads. This 47 ton gun (aka "Atomic Annie") was transported by two tractors. The drivers of the vehicles communicated with each other by means of a built-in telephone system. It proved to be a highly mobile weapons system and adaptable to most road conditions. It fired a 550 pound projectile and had an approximate range of 20 miles. Six years after the development of strategic atomic weapons, this road-transportable cannon gave a tactical atomic capability to US land forces.
Twenty were manufactured; eight appear to have survived the Cold War and are on public display today.
You can find cannons at:
Freedom Park, Junction City, Kansas
Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen, Maryland (still has the two large "prime movers" attached)
Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Fort Sill Museum, Oklahoma
Rock Island Arsenal, Memorial Field, Rock Island, Illinois
Virginia War Memorial Museum, Newport News, Virginia
Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY -- where they were all manufactured.
Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
This projectile was fitted with a Mk 9 warhead. The projectile was designed to be fired by the M65 Atomic Cannon, often called "Atomic Annie." The M65 was a mechanized truck transported artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device. It was developed in the early 1950s and fielded in Europe and Korea. Beginning in 1955 the Mk 9 was replaced with the Mk 19 warhead which was lighter, increasing the projectiles range.
1946: Radiation protection and effects
Paul Galyon, left, holds a paper strip from which smear tabs are stamped and used to collect samples of radioactivity.
ORNL elevates research efforts to protect people from exposure to unsafe levels of radiation, focusing on radiation tolerance, radiation protection services and training, and the development of new methods to measure radiation exposure. At the same time, concerns about health effects of radiation from reactors, atomic weapons testing, and radioactive elements that enter the body spur the development of a broad biological research program.
After being inactive for a while, I have chosen a new name and have a new logo. Formerly Republic Customs now Atomic Bricks. I will be posting everything to this account in the future and only put some things on my old account.
Website will be up soon and will continue to sell all the items that were on the RC site.
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
280MM ATOMIC CANNON
The 280MM Atomic Cannon was the largest nuclear capable mobile artillery piece manufactured by the United States. On May 25, 1953, a 280mm cannon fired an atomic projectile a distance of 7 miles at the Nevada Test Site [Shot Grable]. Twenty 280mm cannons were manufactured.
Length: 84 ft.
Weight: 86 tons
Range: 15- 19 miles
Warhead: Conventional or nuclear W-9, W-19
Stockpile Entry: 1953 Stockpile
Retirement: 1963
On display at Albuquerque's Atomic Museum was this shoe fitting device that used X-Ray technology to determing proper sizing. These "Hi-tech" devices were banned from use decades ago due to fear of radiation overexposure.
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Sala Vanni, Firenze, 10 ottobre 2014
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An image which is still terrible, no matter how familiar it may be now. This month sees the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, on 5th August 1963. The treaty was signed in Moscow by American Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, just a day before the 18th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It followed more than eight years of tough negotiations, to try and end the arms race which had been begun by events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Minds had been focused by the Cuban Missile Crisis in the previous year, but even this was only a limited step: France, the other nation with nuclear weapons, did not sign the treaty, and nor did China, which was just about to develop weapons of its own, and the treaty still allowed underground testing. It was never, therefore, a comprehensive test ban, but it is still in effect today and remains one of the most significant arms control measures in recent history.
The fifth Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test in the image dates from July 1946, and huge though it is, would have been dwarfed by the weapons banned in 1963. But then this was very early in the arms race, and it would take a long time for the effects of such explosions to be understood: if you look closely, you can see how terribly close the monitoring ships are to the blast zone.
This image comes from the papers of the naval historian Captain Stephen Roskill, who was senior British observer at the Bikini Atoll tests. Roskill went on to become instrumental in the founding of the Archives Centre (and is the reason why we have so many collections of naval papers today).
Roskill Papers, ROSK 2/20
The bar at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis. It really has a fun feel too it. Not overly fussy looking or organized in the appearance, it comes across more welcoming than some places we've been.
Is this the most horrible wallpaper ever made?
Inside a cupboard in my new house in Birmingham.
Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic GX7.
lining up the irish carbombs (guiness w/a shot of baileys) at atomic billiards for pari's farewell...
Owned by Porto Bay Hotels and seen parked outside one of their hotels at lido to the west of Funchal Madeira. 23/12/14
Atomic-age sign on top of empty bowling alley in Lakewood, Washington
Print version: society6.com/VoronaPhotography/Atomic-memory_Print
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Deserted bathroom at the former Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) site on Laperriere Ave in Ottawa. Note the seafoam green paint, also used on the Theratron Junior (now at the Canada Science and Technology Museum). From 1954 to 1964, this site produced and exported Cobalt radiotherapy devices.
Atomic Liquor and Cocktails is closed.
As I took this picture, a homeless guy walked up and urged me to open it. "I'll work for ya," he said. "I'll work all day, I miss the place."
In 2009 it appeared in The Hangover, but has been closed for a number of years before that.
I met the owner, Joe Sobchik in late 2005, but the internet is strangely quiet on where he is now or what happened to this Las Vegas institution.