I particularly like the blurriness of the last one... adds to the "reality effect" of it. First three are all of Castle Romeo (11 Mt), last is Castle Yankee (13.5 Mt).
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A few unusual images of US high-yield nuclear testing from Operation Castle, 1954... higher res than the "usual" photos, which I find helps one see them "anew"...pic.twitter.com/Wm48A8Q6Gt
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One more of Castle Romeo. Just a ghastly, otherworldly thing...pic.twitter.com/5H5W016oWH
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By popular demand... some non-standard Castle Bravo pics. (All of these photos were sent to me by Los Alamos some time back.)pic.twitter.com/slVZHKmbP4
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Why are they all red? That's the true color or did they use a particular film for some reason?
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Many of the Pacific shots were very red. I am not sure exactly why — it may just be the exact moment the photo was taken (the colors change a lot in the first few seconds). But it is very pronounced in some of them, even sub-megaton ones (like these attached).pic.twitter.com/cIGQuqIIiX
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(And maybe atmospheric conditions has to do with it, too. I don't know.)
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These tests did a lot of harm to fragile ecosystems. Some pacific islanders are still living with the terrible aftermath.
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Agree 100%. At the end of the
@Radiolab podcast "Nukes," if you listen all the way to the end, past the credits, one can hear the late Tony De Brum describe witnessing the Bravo test as a child:https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/nukes
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Color film of Castle Bravo, man you know that shot was huge!
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This is amazing. I'm teaching the Castle Bravo test tomorrow and I'll show these to my students.
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My daughter did a project on nuclear fusion for a physics class, and I showed her the Castle Bravo explosion on YouTube. I can imagine people thinking: if we could harness all this energy, electricity would be too cheap to meter.
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What is the emission spectrum of the blast ? Know ? Don't know ?
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atmospheric boner
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for your interest
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