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Interesting video - # of Nuke detinations


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I found this on ST.net. The video shows all of the nuclear detonations from 1945 - 1998. It is long and starts out slow but very sobering. It gives a new perspective to how paranoid the US and Soviets were in the early 60's. It really shows how much we have beat the shit out of the rock we live on.

http://blip.tv/file/1662914/

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Wow. So, when did the British test nukes here and why?

It appears to be part of a "strategic" partnership with us. They started testing here in December of '62 and did the last of 24 tests in November of '91. I bet they were saying behind closed door. This will show those shits for leaving the Mother land and kicking our asses. We'll nuke there desert...tea and crumpets anyone?

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It appears to be part of a "strategic" partnership with us. They started testing here in December of '62 and did the last of 24 tests in November of '91. I bet they were saying behind closed door. This will show those shits for leaving the Mother land and kicking our asses. We'll nuke there desert...tea and crumpets anyone?

:lol:

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I'd like to know what that was in what looks like Alabama. And there is at least one unknown detonation off the East coast of South Africa that no one ever claimed.

They did two tests in Hattiesburg, Mississippi per the article below.

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Testing.shtml

Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The first detonation, to form the cavity, code-named Salmon, took place in 1964 using a 5.3 kiloton bomb, placed at the bottom of a sealed 2,710-foot shaft. The second nuclear blast, a relatively small 0.38 kilotons yield shot code-named Sterling, was exploded within Salmon's 110-foot diameter cavity more than two years later.

Hmmmm, maybe this explains Favre's season last year. He must have stumbled into the test site and found some body altering residue. :D

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'merica, FUCK YEAH - over half the nuclear explosions world wide! take that, Russia!

Makes me think twice about ever living in the NV/AZ/NM area of the country... Oh, and I'm going to stop recycling. barely a drop in the bucket after seeing that. <eyeroll>

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They did two tests in Hattiesburg, Mississippi per the article below.

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Testing.shtml

Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The first detonation, to form the cavity, code-named Salmon, took place in 1964 using a 5.3 kiloton bomb, placed at the bottom of a sealed 2,710-foot shaft. The second nuclear blast, a relatively small 0.38 kilotons yield shot code-named Sterling, was exploded within Salmon's 110-foot diameter cavity more than two years later.

I sort of remember when that was done. It was testing to see if underground detonations could hide from seismic sensors. Interesting Mississippi history article about it.

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/293/nuclear-blasts-in-mississippi

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