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English: An edited clip of Truman talking about the bombing of Hiroshima. This is an extract from a radio report to the American people on the Potsdam Conference that was recorded at the White House by Columbia Broadcasting System on August 9, 1945.
The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics, in Snezhinsk. Tsar Bomba was a modification of an earlier project, RN202, which used a ballistic case of the same size but a very different internal mechanism. [ 16 ]
Video of the test—12 second intro. Operation Wigwam [1] involved a single test of the Mark 90 "Betty" nuclear bomb.It was conducted between Operation Teapot and Project 56 on May 14, 1955, about 500 miles (800 km) southwest of San Diego, California. 6,800 personnel aboard 30 ships were involved in Wigwam.
The outcome of the test was reported to incoming president Eisenhower by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, Gordon Dean, as follows: “The island of Elugelab is missing!”. [ 10 ] According to Eric Schlosser , all that remained of Elugelab was a circular crater filled with seawater, more than a mile in diameter and "fifteen stories deep". [ 11 ]
"Nuclear Explosions Explained" 1:35 Effects of atomic weapons 2. "The Warnings" 2:53 Attack, fall-out and all-clear warnings 3. "What to Do When the Warnings Sound" 2:28 "Immediate action" drill 4. "Stay at Home" 1:40 Techniques for sheltering in place 5. "Choosing a Fall-out Room" 2:06 Choosing a safe room 6. "Refuges" 3:54 Building an "inner ...
The device used in the blast was a 16 kt Mark 5 Nuclear Bomb - a low yield fission weapon, detonated 90 meters / 300 feet above the ground. [2] The live TV coverage was recorded on a kinescope, so it is a rare record of the sound an actual atomic bomb makes. [3] One of the automobiles after the test.
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.
Rope trick effects visible from one of Operation Tumbler–Snapper's tower-mounted test shots in 1952, taken with a rapatronic camera. The adjacent photograph shows two unusual phenomena: bright spikes projecting from the bottom of the fireball, and the peculiar mottling of the expanding fireball surface.