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My name is Alexander Mikhalchenko and this is my nuclear-themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.

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If you would like to purchase high resolution photos of nuclear tests, please e-mail me and ask for a preview catalog (521 photos). [email protected]
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On October 19, 1962, at 22:30, an XM-33 Strypi rocket launched a 10 kt nuclear warhead that detonated at an altitude of 147 km, 65 km downrange from Johnston Island.
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RDS-3 nuclear test, 42 kilotons, air burst 380 m, Semipalatinsk test site, 18 October 1951. It was the first Soviet atomic bomb dropped from an airplane.
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On October 16, 1964, China conducted its first nuclear test. A uranium-235 fission implosion device, with a yield of 22 kilotons was detonated on a 102-m tower at the Lop Nur test site.
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Recently declassified photos of a British Red Beard Mk1 nuclear weapon undergoing a fire test. ☢️ According to the AWRE report, the high explosive was completely consumed within like 12 minutes and the spherical tamper shell stayed intact even after the fire burned out.
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Disassembled view of a B-61 nuclear bomb showing some parts.
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«Kite» nuclear test, 3 kilotons, air burst 150 m, Australia, October 11, 1956. This was Britain's first air drop test. It tested a Blue Danube bomb dropped from an RAF Valiant B1 bomber.
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On October 11, 1961, the USSR conducted its first underground nuclear test. The device with a yield of 1 kiloton was detonated in a tunnel at a depth of 125 m in the Degelen Mountain (Kazakh SSR).
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British nuclear test «Taranaki», 26.6 kilotons, air burst 300 m (balloon), Australia, October 9, 1957. Test of a primary for a megaton range thermonuclear device.
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«Mora» nuclear test, 2 kilotons, air burst 457 m, Nevada test site, September 29, 1958.
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«Charleston» nuclear test, 12 kilotons, air burst (balloon) 460 m, Nevada Test Site, 6:00 a.m. September 28, 1957.
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«One Tree» British nuclear test, 15 kilotons, 31 m tower, Australia, 27 September 1956.
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«Newton» nuclear test, 12 kilotons, air burst (balloon) 457 m, Nevada test site, 5:50 a.m. September 16, 1957. LASL test of XW-31 variant, boosted primary in thermonuclear system mockup.
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If you would like to purchase high-resolution digitized photos of nuclear tests, please request a preview catalog by email. Your support means a lot to my project, thank you! [email protected]
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«Verseau» thermonuclear explosion, 332 kilotons, 433 m burst height, Mururoa Atoll, 14 September 1974. Last French atmospheric nuclear test.
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«Fizeau» nuclear test, 11 kilotons, 150 m tower, Nevada Test Site, 9:45 a.m. September 14, 1957.
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On September 14, 1954, the USSR conducted a military exercise incorporating a nuclear test detonation. The exercise involved 45,000 Soviet troops at the Totsk range in the Orenburg region. The RDS-2 atomic bomb with a yield of 40 kilotons was detonated at an altitude of 350 m.
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The U-bend and upper support structures of the tube bundle of a Combustion Engineering vertical (recirculating) steam generator for the nuclear power plant.
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Charles de Gaulle witnessed the «Betelgeuse» nuclear test from a cruiser 40 km away in French Polynesia on September 11, 1966. The test was of an MR-31 IRBM warhead, a plutonium device with a yield of 110 kilotons. It was suspended from a balloon at an altitude of about 470 m.
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Soviet nuclear test, 40 kilotons, Semipalatinsk test site, 10 September 1956. During this test, military exercises were conducted with the participation of 1,500 soldiers and 27 helicopters.
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