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Project Mogul (sometimes referred to as Operation Mogul) was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high-altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The project was carried out from 1947 until early 1949.
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Debra Chasnoff. It won an Oscar at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992 for Documentary Short Subject. [1] It focuses on General Electric's role in producing nuclear weapons.
The beginning of the nuclear age is not a single subject but a series of subjects that lead one to another in an unending chain reaction...That this is tacitly recognized is the most valuable aspect of The Day after Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Jon Else's documentary feature that opens today (January 20, 1981) at the ...
Sometime after midnight on 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, United States Air Force Serial Number 44-92075 assigned to the US 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb. [1] This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in ...
The atomic bomb explosion generated a windstorm several kilometers wide that carried ash, dust, and debris over the mountain ranges surrounding Nagasaki. Approximately 20 minutes after the bombing, a black rain with the consistency of mud or oil came down carrying radioactive material for one to two hours before turning clear. [227]
In a chilling simulation released in North Korea, a nuclear bomb strikes the United States, creating a massive mushroom cloud.
"Atom Bomb" By Glenn Barber (1955) "Atom Drum Bop" By The Three Johns (1986) "Atom Tan" By The Clash (1982) "Atomic" By Blondie (1980) "Atomic Dog" By George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars (1982) "Atomic Playboys" By Steve Stevens (1989) "Back to Zero" By The Rolling Stones (1986) "Beat Street" By Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1984)
The prime example of a "major nuclear accident" is one in which a reactor core is damaged and significant amounts of radioactive isotopes are released, such as in the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.