A really good book on this incident :
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Paperback by Eric Schlosse.
I suggest this this thread for discussions about possibility of WWIII, it's reasons, possible strategies of sides and so on...
I suggest don't use language of hate - don't tell about "degenerated West population" or "corrupted Russian elites", avoid ideas of "quasitolkienism" with Russian as...
A test nuclear explosion codenamed Baker, part of Operation Crossroads, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, on July 25, 1946. The 40 kiloton atomic bomb was detonated by the U.S. at a depth of 27 meters below the ocean surface, 3.5 miles from the atoll. The purpose of the tests was to study...
This is one of only 3 surviving M65 cannons. The rounds were 280mm in diameter and flew 20 miles. The most famous of this series of cannon was known as Atomic Annie. It fired the world's first nuke cannon shell at White Sands Test Range. @ of the survivors are at Ft. Sill OK and this on over...
This is one of only 3 surviving M65 cannons. The rounds were 280mm in diameter and flew 20 miles. The most famous of this series of cannon was known as Atomic Annie. It fired the world's first nuke cannon shell at White Sands Test Range. @ of the survivors are at Ft. Sill OK and this on over...
This is one of only 3 surviving M65 cannons. The rounds were 280mm in diameter and flew 20 miles. The most famous of this series of cannon was known as Atomic Annie. It fired the world's first nuke cannon shell at White Sands Test Range. @ of the survivors are at Ft. Sill OK and this on over...
At Neu-Tymen was a site for SS-3 'Shyster' (R-5M) missiles in 1959 Two Launch Vehicles with 6 Missiles. That 20m long missile had a range of 1200km carrying a 300kT warhead.
The corresponding missile unit belongs to 72nd Engineer Brigade which was considered as an elite unit under direct...
At Neu-Tymen was a site for SS-3 'Shyster' (R-5M) missiles in 1959 Two Launch Vehicles with 6 Missiles. That 20m long missile had a range of 1200km carrying a 300kT warhead.
The corresponding missile unit belongs to 72nd Engineer Brigade which was considered as an elite unit under direct...
U.S.S. GROWLER was a pioneer when she departed on her first Nuclear Deterrent Patrol in 1960. Armed with 'Regulus' nuclear cruise missiles, she helped usher in a new era of strategic defense. She was one of the predecessors which led to the deployment of a large fleet of sophisticated submarines...
Spotted this Nuclear boat as she returned to the Clyde last week, making her way to Faslane. Managed to get this on my camcorder. Pity it was such a grey day.
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