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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 ...
Homestead Air Force Base, Florida Nuclear bomb burned after B-47 aircraft accident B-47 aircraft crashed during take-off after a wheel exploded; one Mark 15 Mod 0 nuclear bomb burned in the resulting fire. [34] The aircraft was carrying the unarmed weapon in a ferry configuration in the bomb bay, and the nuclear capsule in the crew compartment.
Bikini Atoll (/ ˈ b ɪ k ɪ ˌ n iː / or / b ɪ ˈ k iː n i /; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. ' coconut place '), [2] known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, [3] is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km 2) central lagoon.
A southern-oriented image of MacDill Airfield taken during World War II (note the image is inverted) Martin B-26B Marauder, AAF Ser. No. 42-92142, of the 596th Bomb Squadron, 397th Bomb Group, over Europe in 1944: The 397th Bomb Group was stationed at MacDill Field in 1943. B-17 Tail position maintenance – MacDill AAF Florida – 1944
Here's a sneak peak of what would happen to Times Square: The visualization relies on data from Stevens Institute of Technology professor Alex Wallerstein, who created a "Nuke Map" to measure the ...
The island residents had been promised that they would be able to return home to Bikini, but the government thwarted that indefinitely by deciding to resume nuclear testing at Bikini in 1954. During 1954, 1956, and 1958, 21 more nuclear bombs were detonated at Bikini, yielding a total of 75 Mt of TNT (310 PJ), equivalent to more than three ...
Detachment Hotel [a] (also known as "the Kennedy Bunker") is the name used to refer to a small 1,500-square-foot (140 m 2) bunker complex on Peanut Island, Florida. It was originally designed for use by the President of the United States, specifically John F. Kennedy, in the event of a nuclear war. Constructed in 1960, the bunker was closed ...
Two explosive devices were discovered at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday and Monday, prompting partial evacuations, the police said. 2 "crude" explosive devices found at ...