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Between July 1945 'nuclear explosives' and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric 'nuclear explosives' and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States 'nuclear explosives' and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests, the last in 1992. 100 Suns documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with one hundred photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory 'nuclear explosives' and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen 'nuclear explosives' and still photographers were sworn to secrecy. The title, 100 Suns , refers to the response by J.Robert Oppenheimer to the world s first nuclear explosion in New Mexico when he quoted a passage from the Bhagavad Gita, the classic Vedic text: If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One . . . I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. This was Oppenheimer s attempt to describe the otherwise indescribable. 100 Suns likewise confronts the indescribable by presenting without embellishment the stark evidence of the tests at the moment of detonation. Since the tests were conducted either in Nevada or the Pacific the book is simply divided between the desert 'nuclear explosives' and the ocean. Each photograph is presented with the name of the test, its explosive yield in kilotons or megatons, the date 'nuclear explosives' and the location. The enormity of the events recorded is contrasted with the understated neutrality of bare data. Interspersed within the sequence of explosions are pictures of the awestruck witnesses. The evidence of these photographs is terrifying in its implication while at same time profoundly disconcerting as a... Copyright (C) Muze I
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When asked to name the world's first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history's best-kept secrets: the world's first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho's Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three-man maintenance crew on duty. Through details uncovered in official documents, firsthand accounts from rescue workers 'nuclear explosives' and nuclear industry insiders, 'nuclear explosives' and exclusive interviews with the victims' families 'nuclear explosives' and friends, this book probes intriguing questions about the devastating blast that have remained unanswered for more than 40 years. From reports of a faulty reactor design 'nuclear explosives' and mismanagement of the reactor's facilities to rumors of incompetent personnel 'nuclear explosives' and a failed love affair that prompted deliberate sabotage of the plant, these plausible explanations for the explosion raise questions about whether the truth was deliberately suppressed to protect the nuclear energy industry. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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