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01-11-2010, 07:29 AM

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Yeah I thought the same thing. Airplane *yawn* airplane...HOLY COW IS THAT A NUKE CLOUD??!? SWWEEEEEEEEET.

01-11-2010, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Stallog

Is that a nuke in the background?

Just a little one -- 65 kilotons.

Juniper Test, Operation Hardtack I, 22 July 1958, Bikini Atoll

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01-12-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyC

Just a little one -- 65 kilotons.

Juniper Test, Operation Hardtack I, 22 July 1958, Bikini Atoll

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From the link above:

The test device had a diameter of 14.4 inches, and a length of 15.3 inches. It weighed 167.5 lb.

And that was in 1958... Crazy.

01-12-2010, 07:43 PM

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Is that a nuke in the background? I can imagine the conversation. "Hey, turn left a little so I can get that explosion in the background. It'll be awesome!"

Stallog

That's an RB-57D about to fly throught the cloud and bring back samples. We did the same mission in the RB-57F. "The French began development of the hydrogen bomb and built a new test range on the French Polynesian islands of Mururoa and Fangataufa. On 24 August 1968 France succeeded in detonating a thermonuclear weapon - codenamed Canopus - over Fangataufa. A fission device ignited a lithium 6 deuteride secondary inside a jacket of highly enriched uranium to create a 2.6 megaton blast which left the whole atoll uninhabitable because of radioactive contamination." We flew sampling missions from American Samoa and Mendoza Argentina. The "customer" was AFTAC.

Factsheets : Air Force Technical Applications Center

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01-12-2010, 08:06 PM

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Some History

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If ANYONE is testing, there will be a sampling aircraft waiting.

01-12-2010, 08:40 PM

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Does anybody know what aircraft type this is. The one with U2 like wings sitting with 3 blocks under each wing. Its near the top of the pic.

Any ideas?

It's RB-57F Tail number 500 which is being held for the AF Museum. There are four others at AMARC> One (295) is on "show and tell" road. Three others are in inviolate storage. Supposedly they could be operational in thirty days (I doubt it.)