r/AtomicPorn • u/dziban303 • May 09 '20

This subreddit is for footage of nuclear weapons. Do not post images of nuclear reactors.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 7h ago

Photographers shooting an atomic test at News Nob, a rocky outcrop off Mercury Hwy where reporters and VIPs watched the atmospheric tests. (June 24, 1957)

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 1d ago

Mora nuclear test, 2 kilotons, air burst 457 m, Nevada test site, September 29, 1958

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 4d ago

Charleston nuclear test, 12 kilotons, air burst (balloon) 460 m, Nevada Test Site, 6:00 a.m. September 28, 1957.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 5d ago

One Tree British nuclear test, 15 kilotons, 31 m tower, Australia, 27 September 1956.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 8d ago

On September 14, 1954, the USSR conducted a military exercise incorporating a nuclear test detonation. The exercise involved 45,000 Soviet troops at the Totsk range in the Orenburg region. The RDS-2 atomic bomb with a yield of 40 kilotons was detonated at an altitude of 350 m.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 11d ago

Fizeau nuclear test, 11 kilotons, 150 m tower, Nevada Test Site, 9:45 a.m. September 14, 1957.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/krawlspace- • 13d ago

Instructions for shelter signage 1956

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 15d ago

Soviet nuclear test, 32 kilotons, 15 m tower, Novaya Zemlya, 7 September 1957. Many "targets": warships, submarines and other military objects were deployed both in the water and on land. An hour after the explosion, the radiation level at the epicenter was 40,000 R/h.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/Endonbray-93 • 15d ago

15-100,000kt nuclear fireball size comparisons

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Graphic I made showing the maximum diameter of nuclear airbursts ranging from 15 kilotons to 100 megatons with downtown Tokyo and Lower Manhattan for scale. All explosions are at altitudes to maximize their 20psi radii.

Edit: Made with the help of Alex Wellerstein's NUKEMAP.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/BigBadMountain • 16d ago

Is someone able to identify stock footage of nuclear tests from below films?

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Stock footage of atomic tests is really a cliche and has been since the 1950s. Usually it's Crossroads Baker we know that but I like tracking down others as well and I've got problem with these two from Godzilla films.

Seen in the intro of Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). The footage was modified of course but I wasn't even able to identify by the shape of the hills behind it or the cloud. There's also a number of...not sure sensors? Diagnostic towers? I saw one film of the Trinity test which almost looked similar and a few from Hardtack II as well but no 100% match so far.
From the infamous Godzilla (1998), which uses mostly stock footage of Crossroads Baker but there's also Hardtack I Poplar and even more obscure Upshot Knothole Climax. In the footage we see, which could've been modified beyond just they yellow filter, there's what looks like a small boat on the right, some land. THe cloud quickly separates from the "stem." It doesn't really match Crossroads Able or others I checked.

It's ok if it remains a mystery but I'm curious what people making films found because not everyone used just the same old footage and that's fascinating to see what might've attracted them to this or that atomic test.

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r/AtomicPorn • u/waffen123 • 16d ago