Operation Ivy Mike, 65 years ago today. 10.4 megaton American nuclear test, first full verification of the Teller-Ulam H-bomb design.pic.twitter.com/JWi0KPclhp
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I’d love to know how they recorded the data from the tubes attached to the device. Given the tech at the time, must have been impressive
The "light tubes" connected to huge, long tubes full of helium, so that the radiation could outpace the blast wave to a recording bunker.pic.twitter.com/5x2zohzhLO
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I was more interested in what recorded that radiation wave. With primitive computers and a event time in picoseconds it must have been neat
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Here's Mike detonation experiment's wooden Krause-Ogle radiation tube. TV tower remotely monitored ultra cold bomb fuel and triggered bomb.pic.twitter.com/0dTIJxv1k9
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The mirror towers on the shot island directed light from parts of bomb casing coming apart, to streak cameras in a remote diagnostic bunker.
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That small shot island photo was '54 Bravo, not Mike. Diagnostic radiation pipes were important to highly experimental designs.'56 Lacrosse:pic.twitter.com/6rzzwqVBQV
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The black rectangle in the distance was an optical collimator, to isolate radiation from bomb parts, via black barrier with holes in it.
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