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Site of the first atomic bomb explosion July 16, 1945.
It was a test that obviously worked. The stones under the site are still radioactive.
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it - Santayana
Archival footage is from the Department of Energy. The classic "Unforgettable" sung by Vera Lynn is in the public domain.
This empty 17.5 gallons drum of drinking water was in the Cave. The drum along with other trash and debris were removed at the landowners request during a cave clean up project but I had to have a photo of this piece of history.
The Community Fallout Shelter Program began in 1961. The types of areas designated as Civil Defense Fallout Shelters included basements, high rise buildings (upper floors), dams, tunnels and even some caves. A fallout shelter was an enclosed space that was supposed to protect the occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion.
A sculpture of a nuclear explosion made with thousands of chain links. It's called Chain Reaction. The sculptor is Paul Conrad*. I didn't realize a nuclear explosion would be dangerous until I spotted the danger sign!
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* Yes, the same Paul Conrad who was a famous political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times. He was also a sculptor.
Early in the morning on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb blast was detonated at the Trinity Site. The resulting fireball that scorched the desert formed a depressed crater 800 yards in diameter, glazed with a light olive green, glass-like substance where the sand had melted and solidified again. This substance is Trinitite! Although radioactive in 1949, radiation levels have now fallen to virtually zero.
A place of enjoyment once for so many only a matter of time before these building start collapsing, nature will take back in time.
This has a freaky resemblance to what possible the sky would like in a nuclear explosion. The skies look like ripples in a nuclear shockwave.
There were so many people at the site, it was practically impossible to get 3 seconds where the signs were not obscured by the gazillion of visitors. That's why this shot has the sign a little akimbo. I had to sckooch in quickly and get what I could.
Combo of a background previously used and a "dragonised" tree trunk. The tree was photographed in Turkey.
built in 1961 to monitor nuclear explosions and fallout in Yorkshire, in the event of nuclear war.
One of about 30 around the United Kingdom, the building was used throughout its operational existence as the regional headquarters and control centre for the Royal Observer Corps's No. 20 Group YORK between 1961 and 1991. It has become an English Heritage Scheduled Monument and was opened in 2006 by English Heritage as a tourist attraction.
During its Cold War operational period, the building could have supported 60 local volunteer members of the Royal Observer Corps, inclusive of a ten-man United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation scientific warning team. They would have collated details of nuclear bombs exploded within the UK and tracked radioactive fallout across the Yorkshire region, warning the public of its approach. This example of an ROC control building is the only one that is preserved in its operational condition. The others stand derelict or have either been demolished or sold. A few have been converted to other uses, like No. 16 Group Shrewsbury that is now a veterinary clinic, another is a recording studio, two are satellite and communications control centres, and one is a solicitor's file storage facility.
The fully restored building contains air filtration and generating plant, kitchen and canteen, dormitories, radio and landline communication equipment and specialist 1980s computers and a fully equipped operations room with vertical illuminated perspex maps.
The Air Force got a little carried away last weekend during war games conducted by personnel attached to Luke Air Force Base, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Little Boy unit, the bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima, on trailer cradle in pit. [Note bomb bay door in upper right-hand corner.] - August 1945
Image in the public domain
Image: U.S Government
Best holiday greetings from Lauenburg/Elbe
Genau so könnte es aussehen, wenn Krümmel am Horizont leuchtet.
That´s what it could look like, if Krümmel lights on horizon.
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Day 152 of 365
"Some Rat Made off With the Cheese"
I've had this mousetrap (thank you, neighbor's garage sale), for some time now, and thought I should bring it out. I was going to use it to snap down on a computer mouse, but I thought that was a pretty stupid idea.........a stupid idea I may use later. When I saw how nicely our army friend fit into the trap, and how his rifle bent.....it seemed like a no-brainer. There is a snooted strobe overhead, and a bare speedlight at camera-left. It is at 1/128th power, and offers the nice rimlight along our soldier and the trap. Without the second light, you almost couldn't tell what he was standing on. As for the nuclear explosion in the back, it is supplied by the Light Blaster. If I ever catch that rat.....POW!.......right in the kisser! Thanks for stopping in.
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