Nuclear stuffs

[Parrot of Doom]

http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapo...

A big linky full of all kinds of nuclear weapons.

[Dogwatch]

picture caption said:

Workers at Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, begin disassembling a B61 gravity bomb by separating it into its major subcomponents (the weapon has a total of 5,919 parts). The bomb's warhead is in the section directly behind the nose.

'Now was it the red wire before the blue wire, or t'other way?'

[Defcon5]

Good find!

[Quick silver]

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site is where the 1962 Sedan crater is situated, the largest man-made crater in the USA. The amount of nukes that were tested & that scar this area is quite an eye opener.

Google Earth: 37*10'38.00"N 116*02'46.00"W

[dudleybloke]

nice find!
thanks

mt pony would be a nice place to turn into a luxury home/evil genius lair!

Edited by dudleybloke on Sunday 6th September 23:36

[rem0]

Thanks for link, I never realised the B-2A Stealth bomer is worth 5 times its wait in gold

[Defcon5]

Quick silver said:

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site is where the 1962 Sedan crater is situated, the largest man-made crater in the USA. The amount of nukes that were tested & that scar this area is quite an eye opener.

Google Earth: 37*10'38.00"N 116*02'46.00"W

I pasted those co-ords into google earth and it didnt understand, got a link?

[Matt172]

Defcon5 said:

Quick silver said:

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site is where the 1962 Sedan crater is situated, the largest man-made crater in the USA. The amount of nukes that were tested & that scar this area is quite an eye opener.

Google Earth: 37*10'38.00"N 116*02'46.00"W

I pasted those co-ords into google earth and it didnt understand, got a link?

not on google earth, but show it here

[Quick silver]

Defcon5 said:

Quick silver said:

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site is where the 1962 Sedan crater is situated, the largest man-made crater in the USA. The amount of nukes that were tested & that scar this area is quite an eye opener.

Google Earth: 37*10'38.00"N 116*02'46.00"W

I pasted those co-ords into google earth and it didnt understand, got a link?

Paste these coord's directly into the Google Earth search bar: 37.177000 -116.046000

[Frankeh]

Still amazed at how much was accomplished 60 years ago with no/limited computers.

[rufusruffcutt]

All the above on craters reminds me of the one at RAF Fauld in Staffordshire, which is actually slightly larger than the Sedan crater!. Sadly its very over grown these days so not as impressive to look at.

I'm trying to remember one of the odd stories that came out of the incident, something about a cow inflated to twice it's size (by the air pressure) but still standing up on all 4 legs!. Scary stuff.

[ApexJimi]

Frankeh said:

Still amazed at how much was accomplished 60 years ago with no/limited computers.

Not Nuclear related, but pertinent to your post.....

The SR-71 was designed pre-CAD, with essentially 50's technology.

Quite staggering when you think about it

[Quick silver]

ApexJimi said:

Frankeh said:

Still amazed at how much was accomplished 60 years ago with no/limited computers.

Not Nuclear related, but pertinent to your post.....

The SR-71 was designed pre-CAD, with essentially 50's technology.

Quite staggering when you think about it

I wouldn't say so - as with the space programme, scientists/designers were using information passed on from previous experiences..........it's the same with CAD, without data there wouldn't be any CAD.