The United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a plane over the tiny island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on May 21, 1956. (Because of the time difference, it was still May 20 in the U.S.) The successful test indicated that hydrogen bombs were viable airborne weapons and that the arms race had taken another giant leap forward.
The United States began testing nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll in 1946. However, early bombs were large and unwieldy affairs that were exploded from the ground. The practical application of dropping the weapon over an enemy had been a mere theoretical possibility until a successful test in May 1956. The hydrogen bomb dropped over Bikini Atoll was carried by a B-52 bomber and released at an altitude of more than 50,000 feet. The device exploded at about 15,000 feet. This bomb was far more powerful than those previously tested and was estimated to be 15 megatons or larger (one megaton is roughly equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT). Observers said that the fireball caused by the explosion measured at least four miles in diameter and was brighter than the light from 500 suns.
The successful U.S. test meant that the ante in the nuclear arms race had been dramatically upped. The Soviets had tested their own hydrogen bomb in 1953, shortly after the first U.S. test in 1952. In November 1955, the Soviets had dropped a hydrogen bomb from an airplane in remote Siberia. Though much smaller and far less powerful (estimated at about 1.6 megatons) than the U.S. bomb dropped over Bikini, the Russian success spurred the Americans to rush ahead with the Bikini test.
The massive open-air blast in 1956 caused concerns among scientists and environmentalists about the effects of such testing on human and animal life. During the coming years, a growing movement in the United States and elsewhere began to push for a ban on open-air atomic testing. The Limited Test Ban Treaty, signed in 1963 by the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, prohibited open-air and underwater nuclear testing.
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A documentary aired on PBS years ago was called ” Radio Bikini “. It showed how sailors at the time were used in these shots as unknowing test subjects on the effects of fallout on ships near a blast. As bad as Tuskegee syphilis experiments. Join up ? No way !
It was the same with soldiers at White Sands … ‘Go stand here … put on the sunglasses … and let us know what it’s like. Not to worry, you’re a mile from the blast.’
I knew some old-timers who were suckered into that … most of them died from all sorts of cancers — especially leukemia.
But I also recall, growing up in the ’50s, being warned of strontium-90 in the atmosphere from above-ground testing here in the US and how it’d get into the grass where dairy cattle grazed. We’d be warned against drinking milk for a period of time after each of those tests.
Somehow, we survived and thrived in a time that today’s snowflakes can’t even imagine …
My father was there in the observation fleet. It affected him profoundly. Then they sent him to Vietnam to die in his 20th year of service. He fucked them again by surviving and spawning me!
LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS!
This day:
“United States Claims Hydrogen Bomb Dropped Over Bikini Atoll – 1956″
Tell that to the US military who were deliberately put in the area of these nuclear tests — whether above ground in White Sands or at Bikini Atoll … they’ll tell you something about what’s real and what’s just cynicism …
Oh … wait … they’re all dead, many from leukemia and other cancers … long before they should have been …
Ponder…
What did any of these military members witness, other than an explosion, twenty to thirty seconds old?
“Brooks, a slender Texan, had enlisted in the Navy a year earlier at 17. That morning, he manned his gun station on deck. He had no special goggles or clothing. He and the other sailors wore long-sleeved shirts and tucked their pant legs into their socks. They did as they had been told, turning away from the blast site and putting their hands over their eyes.
The flash was so bright that even 20 miles from the blast, Brooks, now 75, said, “When you put your hands over your eyes, you saw your bones in your hands and in your fingers.”
The U.S. crews who took part in the Operation Hardtack I nuclear tests in 1958 are among the hundreds of thousands of service members now known as “atomic veterans.”Credit: Courtesy of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada Field Office
Shockwaves moved across the water. When the ship began to rock, Brooks uncovered his eyes and turned back toward the blast site. He saw a mushroom cloud rising into the sky.
Source:
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What is the thing in common these tens of thousands of eye-witnesses missed?
Up to thirty seconds from the start of each blast,.
Not real credible eyewitnesses for anything other than answering questions like:
●”What was it like half a minute after the atomic detonation you were present at, yet did not actually watch?”
●”How long did you look the other way?”
●”How long did you cover your eyes?”
Has anyone noticed that the current global warming “trend” coincides with the completion of Operation Fishbowl?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl
Is a hydrogen bomb the same as a nuclear bomb? Or is it going to propel the next generation of Toyotas? It is all so confusing.
I never saw one and nobody I know has seen one either, so I don’t believe any of this exists.
All cgi and the dust is from a fertilizer bomb. /s
Miles Mathis:
“In short, you can rest easier on this matter, because there is no chance we dropped any nuclear bombs on Japan. It simply didn’t happen. Japan knows that, Russia knows that, and the only ones who don’t know that are the citizens of the US, who have been propagandized into a state of mass
idiocy.
The whole nuclear scare wasn’t used mainly to keep the Russians at bay (since the Russians also never had any nukes). It was used mainly to keep US citizens in a state just short of panic for 70 years, and to keep military and Intelligence expenditures absurdly high.
In this same line, you should fnd it very curious that the bomb tested at Trinity was a plutonium device, like Fat Man allegedly used at Nagasaki. The bomb used frst at Hiroshima was a uranium bomb, so it was never tested.
Why would you choose to first drop the bomb you haven’t tested, instead of the bomb you have tested? It makes no sense. This also makes no sense: After the war ended, it was not expected that the inefficient Little Boy design would ever again be required, and many plans and diagrams were destroyed.
What? Do you know how much the Manhattan project cost? Around 25 billion dollars.
Does it make any sense that they would spend billions to build a successful nuclear device and then destroy the plans and diagrams?
Actually, this story reminds me of the story they told a few years ago, when some retired NASA investigators were looking for the original NASA footage of the Moon landing.
They were told that NASA had lost it. As it turns out, NASA had actually erased and
reused the tapes in the 1980s. I am not joking. To explain it, we are told NASA was facing a major tape shortage at the time. Oh, well, I guess that makes it OK. We only spent around 100 billion on the Apollo project, so who expects to have any permanent record of it? Word of mouth is good enough. Besides, they probably needed the tape space to record Battlestar Galatica episodes.”
http://mileswmathis.com/trinity.pdf
Right. You drop for the first time an untested complete bomb that will change the world forever and it falls without detonating into enemy hands for reverse engineering. Sounds like Cat’s Cradle stuff.
Also, see Gulliver’s Travels and its rarely mentioned Doomsday Device.
Free Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!
/sarc
We obviously didn’t learn an important enough lesson from who inside the US were our enemies … or, for that matter, that ‘our friend and ally’ was, in fact, neither of those.