Holy FUCK! I had no clue the amount of Nuclear bombs set off was even in that galaxy. I would have bet 100 world wide max if you asked me before i saw this vid. Absolutely insane.
Vid starts off WAY to slow though. Almost didnt watch it, glad I did.
Alot of those bombs would have been very small, more like proof of concept bombs, no larger than most conventional ordinace, and would have had very little radioactive fallout. Also, many would have been activated under water (no good for the fishies I guess). That said, I had no idea that disturbingly large number had been detonated.
Many of the early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate, and government documents have since confirmed that Hanford's operations released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River, which threatened the health of residents and ecosystems.the manufacturing process left behind 53 million U.S. gallons (204,000 m³) of high-level radio active waste that remains at the site. This represents two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume. The weapons production reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, but Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup.
I feel sorry for the poor people who get their drinking water from the Columbia river...
This is why i actually support nuclear power in a big way. One it provides a way to dispose of the weapons (i hear 10-15 of america is powered by decomissioned warheads), and two, its not like they are any more dangerous than the weapons we have mass produced, im sure that if they can manufacture that many god damn warheads that they can make nuclear power safe.
As they say, the more you know about nuclear power the less scared you should be of it.
But yeah my jaw dropped when i watched the video for the first time much like alot of you guys.
Yeah, that number looks about right. Russia and the US were doing bomb tests frequently. Some just above the atmosphere (I think there were only 7 of those), they stopped above ground and started underground and undersea tests. There's shaft, tunnel, air-drop, rocket, tower and another I can't remember... undersea and crater... I think they even sent a couple up by balloon in the 50's and 60's. Majority of tests are tunnel/shaft from what I remember and most are/were under 20kt.
US is the only country to use these devices in war, since then we've had many close calls which is a lot scarier than that number. I do not fear that these things exist, I fear the person who thinks it's time to use one.
Alot of those bombs would have been very small, more like proof of concept bombs, no larger than most conventional ordinace, and would have had very little radioactive fallout. Also, many would have been activated under water (no good for the fishies I guess). That said, I had no idea that disturbingly large number had been detonated.
No, that vast majority of nuclear devices were detonated underground. Also even a tiny nuclear weapon is more powerful than even the largest conventional bomb. The Russian FOAB conventional bomb has a yield of 44 tons; where as the W54 (the smallest nuclear warhead developed by the US) had a yield range of 10 - 1,000 tons and was small enough to be carried in a back pack.
After 1963, when the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect, the US, USSR, and UK stopped detonating nuclear devices in the atmosphere (air, water, space) and moved exclusively to underground testing, eliminating the threat of radiation dispersal in the atmosphere*. However, France and China did not sign the atmospheric testing ban, and continued to detonate nuclear devices in the atmosphere until 1974 and 1980, respectively.
* Several underground tests vented their radioactive fallout when their seals failed to contain the explosion.
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I'm surprised mother nature hasn't already killed us all off for what we're doing to her.
Hey man, give a little credit to our cell phones food additives
Vid starts off WAY to slow though. Almost didnt watch it, glad I did.
Like autocon. I had NO clue it was even in this range. Wow.... Insane
seriously though, im surprised the west coast of the US isnt a giant wasteland.
could've made a modern day "Fallout"
ouch!
I'm not as worried about the southwest glowing... so much as I'm worried about Hanford where all that stuff came from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site I feel sorry for the poor people who get their drinking water from the Columbia river...
As they say, the more you know about nuclear power the less scared you should be of it.
But yeah my jaw dropped when i watched the video for the first time much like alot of you guys.
we could catch up if we let off a few in leamington spa:)
US is the only country to use these devices in war, since then we've had many close calls which is a lot scarier than that number. I do not fear that these things exist, I fear the person who thinks it's time to use one.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128170775
Russia had some rather unsettling scattering going on as time went on.
Here it is!
http://www.mapsofworld.com/canada/maps/canada-location-map.jpg
Probably because Britain is too compact no real large open areas with no civilization.
I like to think however that it is because we like our little island.
Creating Maple Syrup bombs and legions of Moose cavalry no doubt.
There's Wales and Scotland, both devoid of civilisation
LOL. exactly what I was thinking. Watching that video made me remember I own Defcon. I should play that sometime soon...
No, that vast majority of nuclear devices were detonated underground. Also even a tiny nuclear weapon is more powerful than even the largest conventional bomb. The Russian FOAB conventional bomb has a yield of 44 tons; where as the W54 (the smallest nuclear warhead developed by the US) had a yield range of 10 - 1,000 tons and was small enough to be carried in a back pack.
After 1963, when the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect, the US, USSR, and UK stopped detonating nuclear devices in the atmosphere (air, water, space) and moved exclusively to underground testing, eliminating the threat of radiation dispersal in the atmosphere*. However, France and China did not sign the atmospheric testing ban, and continued to detonate nuclear devices in the atmosphere until 1974 and 1980, respectively.
* Several underground tests vented their radioactive fallout when their seals failed to contain the explosion.
yeah the tzwar was crazy, they scaled it down by the half as they feared its power :poly142: