Monday, August 9, 2010

NuDets

Or 'Nuclear Detonations' as you may know them.
Here a link to a computer-animated 'art work', showing all the known nuclear detonations worlwide by date, by country, etc. Very nicely done.
http://gizmodo.com/5600704/the-explosions-of-every-nuclear-bomb-to-date

The US total of 1030 corresponds to the official number acknowledged and published in the 'official record' of such things, the US Government publication "United States Nuclear Tests - July 1945 through September 1942"
DOE/NV -- 209 REV 15 Pub. December 2000.

If you'd like to see exactly where these 1030 detonations occurred, you can check my Google Map at:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116945134295436436626.00044ff490bf518b65562&ll=44.150681,-148.447266&spn=36.757543,107.050781&t=h&z=4

This lists/shows the sites of all nuclear tests done in the USA, including Alaska, Nevada, Colorado, and Mississippi.
The map indicates the shot name, type, purpose, published yield and the the location of the surface-ground-zero of the drillhole or emplacement location. The location is accurate -- according to the US Government publication -- to to +- 100 meters or so; so the subsidence craters do not necessarily line up with the map markers, due both to the the location error, and to that fact that the map marker is the drill hole or emplacement location, not necessarily the spot directly underneath the center of the existant subsidence crater (if any).
NOTE: the Google map has five pages and is slow to load due to the number of data points and markers. In addition, if you are on Page 1 for example, only the markers/data for those points on Page 1 are shown. Navigate to the other pages to redisplay the map, and show the appropriate points/markers, which are listed in alphabetical order by shot name.

PS: if you look up and zoom in on 'Sedan' on Page 4, when you zoom close enough you will see the labelled roads in a circle, surrounding this large cratering shot. If you follow 'Groom Lake Road" to the east from the top of the circular road, as it winds through the mountains and desert, in about 18 miles you will come to an airbase with runways, on a dry lake bed. This is the renowned "Area 51" where the USA to this day tests and flies experimental and ultra-secret aircraft.

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