MetaFilter posts tagged with atomic

common reactor

plexi — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:40:12 -0800

Babies born in 1954 have more Carbon-14 in their DNA ; trees have rings with a spike of C14 in that year, and even ringless equatorial trees will show an increase of radiocarbon if they were alive in 1954.

In the mid 1950s the United States, Britain, France and Russia tested not quite a million nuclear weapons. Maybe some part of them is still with you.

Atomic explosions

swift — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:28:40 -0800

Atomic and nuclear explosions. Tsar bomb Operation crossroads, 1946 Atomic cannon Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bomb tested on U.S. troops Dominic I Dominic Sunset First H-bomb First British H-Bomb Chinese nuclear test

When the Wind Blows

Artw — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:48:37 -0800

This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We shall bring you further information as soon as possible. - The BBC releases its script for use in the event of nuclear war.

There Will Come Soft Rains

Surfin' Bird — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:50:03 -0800

1984 Soviet animation based on Ray Bradbury's shot story "There Will Come Soft Rains". WARNING: Depressing view on the future of mankind.

Protection from the Atomic Bomb

jonson — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:42:44 -0800

Protection from the Atomic Bomb A 1950 pamphlet provided by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Back to the Future

Skeptic — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:07:04 -0800

50 years ago , it was the era of Sputnik, nuclear power, decolonisation, European vows of ever closer union, transistor radios, cars for the masses, and Hula Hoops. What better time to hold a damn big party? The Brussels World Fair of 1958 was inaugurated 50 years ago to the day. It left behind a quirky landmark, a changed city (not always for the best), and memories of more optimistic times.

Atom

empath — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:41:22 -0800

Atom. -- The Clash of the Titans -- The Key to the Cosmos -- The Illusion of Reality

Canopus

chunking express — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:53 -0800

Four scanned pictures of the French nuclear test codenamed Canopus, which was fired on 24th August 1968 in the Fangataufa Atoll. The photographs are amazing.

The "Nuclear Nav"

gottabefunky — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:00:27 -0800

The "Nuclear Nav." On March 11, 1958, Captain Bruce Kulka was the navigator on an Air Force B-47 Stratojet carrying nuclear bombs to an airfield in North Africa. Somewhere over the southeastern US, the captain sent him to back the bomb bay to check on a cockpit warning light. As he climbed through the narrow space around the Mark 6 nuclear bomb, Kulka grabbed the emergency release pin by mistake. The 8,500-pound "pig" slowly tipped over and fell. Its weight pushed the bomb bay doors open and it dropped out of the plane. Fifteen thousand feet below waited Mars Bluff, SC -- still the only civilian community in the US ever to have a nuclear bomb dropped on it.

Photos from Hiroshima

jonson — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:41:52 -0800

Photos from Hiroshima in August of 1945. Long supressed by the occupying U.S. forces, a highly unsettling (and decidedly NSFW) collection of photos from the days immediately after August 6th. Via.