Photos from the World's First Underwater Nuclear Explosion

[jadis]

http://www.petapixel.com/2013/02/18/photos-from-the-worlds-first-underwater-nuclear-explosion/

got this from a friend whose passion is photography and the high res pic of the first pic is awesome. scary too in terms of its power.

i'm amazed at why warships were around the blast area. aren't there friendly people inside who might get 'contaminted'?

 

[JackD201]

Those were decommissioned ships without anybody onboard. The test was to see what would happen if an A-bomb was used against a clustered carrier or battle group.

Trivia: The mutant sea creatures Sponge Bob and co. live on Bikini Bottom. A reference to the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing grounds.

 

[jadis]

Those were decommissioned ships without anybody onboard. The test was to see what would happen if an A-bomb was used against a clustered carrier or battle group.

Trivia: The mutant sea creatures Sponge Bob and co. live on Bikini Bottom. A reference to the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing grounds.

Ah. Thanks for those info, Jack. Never got into Sponge Bob but my whole family know everything about them, it's like they view me as as alien when I tell them Sponge Bob is so foreign to me. LOL

 

[Daveski]

Those were decommissioned ships without anybody onboard.

No humans. "Fifty-seven guinea pigs, 109 mice, 146 pigs, 176 goats, and 3,030 white rats had been placed on 22 target ships in stations normally occupied by people. Ten percent of the animals were killed by the air blast, 15% were killed by fireball radiation, and 10% were killed during later study. Altogether, 35% of the animals died as a direct result of blast or radiation exposure. The most famous survivor was Pig 311, who was found swimming in the lagoon after the blast and was brought back to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. "

 

[JackD201]

Ah the sponge that saved Viacom. Makes for a great case study, that one!

 

[JackD201]

No humans. "Fifty-seven guinea pigs, 109 mice, 146 pigs, 176 goats, and 3,030 white rats had been placed on 22 target ships in stations normally occupied by people. Ten percent of the animals were killed by the air blast, 15% were killed by fireball radiation, and 10% were killed during later study. Altogether, 35% of the animals died as a direct result of blast or radiation exposure. The most famous survivor was Pig 311, who was found swimming in the lagoon after the blast and was brought back to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. "

Where was PETA?

 

[WLVCA]

I remember the French nuclear tests in Polynesia but didn't realize that the US did so much nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.

 

[jadis]

I remember the French nuclear tests in Polynesia but didn't realize that the US did so much nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.

Neither did I. 21 more nuclear bombs in the 50s.

And interesting to read that "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating".

 

[mep]

Where was PETA?

People Eating Tasty Animals?

 

[Bill Hart]

But as I recall there were servicemen on some of the ships nearby and they didn't expect the blast to be so big I think they did have health problems. There were also above ground tests in Nevada where they marched troops toward the blast. I think those guys really had problems. There was a big government dump of footage of these tests a few years ago that made alot of this stuff public, if not for the first time, more available.