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Note island of Elugelab on left. Enewetak Atoll, after Mike shot. Note crater on left. Elugelab, or Elugelap (Marshallese: Āllokļap, [ællʲoɡʷ(o)lˠɑpʲ] [1]), was an island, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was destroyed in the world's first full-scale thermonuclear explosion, the Mike shot of Operation Ivy, on ...
Wellerstein's creation has garnered some popularity amongst nuclear strategists as an open source tool for calculating the costs of nuclear exchanges. [11] As of October 2024, more than 350.7 million nukes have been "dropped" on the site. [citation needed] The Nukemap was a finalist for the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge ...
The Outrider Foundation decided to take advantage of this uniquely terrifying moment in history and publish an interactive nuclear bomb simulator, allowing users to see how their houses and ...
Runit Island (/ ˈ r uː n ɪ t /) is one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is the site of a radioactive waste repository left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between 1946 and 1958. There are ongoing concerns around deterioration of ...
A nuclear weapon detonated in the air, called an air burst, produces less fallout than a comparable explosion near the ground. A nuclear explosion in which the fireball touches the ground pulls soil and other materials into the cloud and neutron activates it before it falls back to the ground.
Nuclear bomb damaged in crash [34] During a simulated takeoff, a wheel casting failure caused the tail of a USAF B-47 carrying a Mark 36 Mod 1 nuclear bomb to hit the runway, rupturing a fuel tank and sparking a fire which burned for some 7 hours. [35] The weapon used in-flight insertion and the weapon was in its retracted, unarmed state. [36]
Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.. A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.
"Temporary Custodian Receipt" for what would be the nuclear weapon lost in the 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision. It indicates that the core (part "C") was "simulated," and not an actual fissile core of nuclear material. Some sources describe the bomb as a functional nuclear weapon, but others refer to it as disabled.