Thread: Bikini Atoll A bomb tests, hot from the National Security Archive

Damnation , I thought this was going to have pics of hot chicks in bikinis !

A very interesting article, just shows how far the understanding of nuclear science and radiation has come in those 70 years.

Mind you, I'd never heard about the story of those Bikinians' relocation, and how it went so badly wrong before.

Interesting discussion about China, during the Vietnam War.


[ame]http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/special/doc12.pdf[/ame]

There are 3 programs called, " 24 hours after Hiroshima ", on youtube, very confronting. I will not post them here. Any one wanting to know the full horror of nuclear War should watch them. When I was instructing at the N.B.C.D. school , R.A.N., when asked to explain the effects of a nuclear explosion, the usual joke was to reply " one flash, and you're ash". Says it all, really. This is about the Bikini bombs.


[ame]https://youtu.be/8Tjj2pq7FiE[/ame]

Originally Posted by sheerluck

A very interesting article, just shows how far the understanding of nuclear science and radiation has come in those 70 years.

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Though the nuclear disasters in Japan and Russia power stations show how far we haven't come. To think the yanks have nuclear powered war ships and submarines worries me a lot. War machines are dispensable things made to go into battle. To think they are superior and unsinkable is folly, the yanks proved that with the Titanic a long time ago.

Originally Posted by newhue

Though the nuclear disasters in Japan and Russia power stations show how far we haven't come. To think the yanks have nuclear powered war ships and submarines worries me a lot. War machines are dispensable things made to go into battle. To think they are superior and unsinkable is folly, the yanks proved that with the Titanic a long time ago.

What? And the thought that the Soviet Union had Nuclear submarines which are now in disrepair doesn't?

At least the Yanks are still maintaining theirs...

Originally Posted by newhue

Though the nuclear disasters in Japan and Russia power stations show how far we haven't come. To think the yanks have nuclear powered war ships and submarines worries me a lot. War machines are dispensable things made to go into battle. To think they are superior and unsinkable is folly, the yanks proved that with the Titanic a long time ago.

The point I was making was the understanding that we have on the danger of radioactive materials. I doubt you'll find anyone casually attempting to mop up plutonium contaminated water any more, since we now know that doing so may cook you from the inside out, and make bits and pieces fall off.

Chernobyl and Fukushima are totally different cases. The former down to a "what happens if we try this", in a well meaning way, the latter down to sheer human folly at building a nuclear power plant on the edge of a geologically active area.

And why specifically worry about the Americanist nuclear subs? Given that Russia, China, India, France and the UK have them already, and Brazil have some planned, and the only reported nuclear incidents have been with Russian subs, I know where my worry would be directed.

Originally Posted by newhue

... To think they are superior and unsinkable is folly, the yanks proved that with the Titanic a long time ago.

The Titanic was built and owned by the British.

Maybe the ice burg was a Yanky one, sent out to sink the unsinkable to prove a point, but who really knows about these things. I suspect the Russians probably owned more ice burgs than the Yanks at the time.

Anyway for those thinking of making there own bombs : A Guide to Nuclear Weapons