#the nevada test site

[humanoidhistory]

Computer room at the Nevada Test Site.

(National Archives)

#tech #nevada test site #nevada #physics #technology #military history #nuclear #atomic

[vintagelasvegas]

Detonation of the nuclear device air-dropped at Nevada Test Site on March 29, 1955. Code named: Wasp Prime.

National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office.

#1955 #Nevada Test Site

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

 The 280mm Nuclear Cannon 5/25/53

#The 280mm Nuclear Cannon #5/25/53 #Nuclear Cannon #280mm #nuclear weapons #weapons of mass destruction #my gif #gifs #my edit #gif #destruction #annihilation #Nuclear #boom #Nevada Test Site #The 280 MM Gun at the Nevada Proving Ground

[lineageandtrajectory]

#emmet gowin #nevada test site

[harrowharkwife]

You did nuke drills?? That's crazy to me they stopped doing those here in the early 90s and we're spitting distance from Cuba lol

well okay so i wasn't sure if i should include the nuke drills or not, bc they were like? way less serious than the other drills? like we did them every single year for some reason but it always felt like it was more about the history of it all than any actual attempt to prepare for a legitimate nuclear event, if that makes sense? they'd show us the old black and white bert the turtle duck and cover PSA video that students used to watch back in the day and they made us practice the duck and cover part, but it was always way more lighthearted than the other kinds of drills, and the teacher would usually always throw in a "we're supposed to practice this but just so y'all know, this wouldn't help at all in an actual nuclear emergency" so. ???? dunno what that was about. the earthquake/fire/active shooter/lockdown drills were always wayyyy more serious. the building our school was in was really prone to gas leaks for some reason so we had to use the fire evac protocol a few times due to gas leaks, and i think we had a small earthquake at one point. i remember we had a lockdown cause they found a weapon in the building one time, and then we had to lockdown for an active shooter/etc type situation a couple times bc sth was going down at a hospital that was close enough to our building that we got pulled into the lockdown radius just to be safe. this was in NV between 2009 and 2016 for context

#maybe we were supposed to do them bc nevadas got such a long history of nuclear testing? idk that was always my guess #that it was still in some byline of the state curriculum just in case there was an issue at a govt test site or sth

[histonics]

#cold war #nevada #area 51 #nevada test site #air force #60's #60s icons #60s aesthetic

[stone-cold-groove]

Upshot–Knothole Grable tactical nuclear weapons test - 1953.

#nuclear weapons #us military #cold war #atomic bomb #nevada test site

[druexbane]

The last underground nuclear test occurred on September 23, 1992. It was probably for the best!

#fun facts #nevada test site #nuclear testing #acute radiation syndrome #utah #skeleton #Dr. Bane #Las Vegas #Ohio

[fanciedfacts]

Area 51 Is Government top secret location - But Why?

#Area 51 secrets #Military mysteries #UFOs and Area 51 #Secret government projects #Conspiracy theories #Alien technology research #Cold War history #Nevada Test Site #Black projects #Extraterrestrial life #Advanced aircraft #Top secret military bases #Area 51 revelations #Unexplained phenomena #National security #Roswell incident #Skunk Works projects #Secret testing facilities

[reasoningdaily]

CNN exclusive: Satellite images show nuclear test sites

#Nuclear test sites. #Nevada desert #Nuclear test range #US military. #Youtube

[humanoidhistory]

Bunker entrance at the Nevada Test Site in an area delightfully called Jackass Flats.

(Library of Congress)

#bunker #nevada test site #architecture #military history #history #black and white

[vintagelasvegas]

Atomic blast, Nevada Test Site, November 1951

“From 55 miles away another of last week's atomic explosions looks like a gigantic, blindingly brilliant candle standing on distant Frenchman Flat. The photograph was made from an 8,000-foot mountain range a few seconds after the bomb was detonated. The stem from the 'candle' is composed of vaporized incandescent dirt and rubble which is just beginning to be sucked up into the fireball. As rubble and fireball rise together they will form a mushroom cloud containing hundreds of tons of debris. The explosion was potent enough to break seven windows in Las Vegas, 75 miles distant.” - LIFE, 11/12/51. Photo by Allan Grant.

#1951 #Nevada Test Site #Allan Grant

[alightinthelantern]

Mushroom clouds from the atmospheric tests could be seen up to 100 miles away in the distance. This led to increased tourism for Las Vegas, and throughout the 1950s and early 1960s the city capitalized on this interest. Many guests could see clouds, or bursts of light from hotel windows, and the hotels promoted these sights. Some casinos also hosted “dawn parties” and created atomic themed cocktails, encouraging visitors to view the tests. Calendars throughout the city also advertised detonation times, as well as the best viewing spots to see flashes or lights or mushroom clouds.

— reading a short webpage on the Nevada Test Site nuclear bombings, and this part is so laughably awful

#nuclear #Nevada Test Site #1950s #1960s #atomic age

[anonymous-dentist]

Hi, I’m A.D., I’m a historian, and let’s talk about the nuclear bomb and why the one that exploded at the end of QSMP’s Purgatory Event probably didn’t kill all that many people upon initially exploding.

The nuclear bomb, as everybody knows, has only ever been used in a war twice. Both explosions were caused by the United States in their war against Japan at the tail end of World War Two in one final terrible last ditch attempt at ending the war through any means necessary.

Pictured above are the atomic explosions at Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right.)

These are big huge clouds, which makes sense! Nuclear weapons, on average, have the strength of somewhere between 10 and 50 megatons of TNT. Hydrogen bombs, meanwhile, are WAY worse, with the first test coming in at a whopping 10 MILLION tons of TNT.

To put it in Minecraft terms for all you nerds out there, imagine Doomsday from the Dream SMP and how it razed an entire nation to bedrock level by using somewhere in the range of 20 stacks of TnT (if I’m remembering correctly.) A nuclear bomb, in these terms, would have blown L’Manberg up something like eight times over and then some.

So that’s. Bad. Right?

Well, here’s the QSMP’s bomb as was constructed by our favorite depressed detective, q!Maximus:

This bomb, notably, is underground. It was never dug up, it was just moved somewhere else. It isn’t above ground, and it never left this room. Watch the cutscene back (linked here), the bomb never left the room.

So this is where underground nuclear testing comes in.

Underground testing began in 1951, and it remains the only form of scientific nuclear testing not banned by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963.

No big surprise, a lot of early underground tests were conducted by the US out in Nevada, where they kinda tested nukes legit fucking EVERYWHERE in the desert for a long time. Below are some photos, just for funsies:

What’s important about underground nuclear explosions is that they actually end up releasing less radiation into the atmosphere than regular nukes do. What happens beyond that depends on whether or not the radiation remains contained.

A contained explosion’s aftermath:

And an uncontained explosion’s aftermath:

There hasn’t really been many negative biological effects reported from these underground tests, which is really saying something considering how close to nuclear blasts the US had its guys at most of the time (see below)

The worst you got out of the underground tests was some radioactivity in cows’ milk, which is NOTHING compared to the effects of the above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Site:

So… what does this mean for the QSMP?

Well, if we’re going off of historical and scientific precedent, legitimately nothing substantial happened to the islands of Purgatory. There’s more of a risk of dying from the pre-established radioactive rain disaster effects as well as the earthquake and meteor disasters.

Fun fact! Underground nuclear explosions usually registered as weaker than actual fault line activity, aka actual earthquakes.

If Maxo’s nuke was dropped from above, the devastation would be greater. Nuclear fallout is no joke; even today, cancer rates in the American West are still pretty high from the above-ground testing conducted at the Nevada Site. The Bikini Atoll will never be the same after all the testing the US did there, either.

But, because this nuke seemed to have gone off underground, I can safely assume that the damage done to the islands above was minimal at worst. Maybe there’s a radioactivity leak, but everybody staying on the islands had already experienced radiation up to that point.

It’s important to remember this because several characters did stay behind on the islands, and the fandom is assuming them dead because, well. A nuke went off. But those characters aren’t dead yet (outside of q!Maxo, who was possibly directly above the nuke when it went off and thus would’ve been hit full-force by the explosion.) Many were on the beach, far from the the nuke. They’re fine, and you can prove it with history!

TLDR; the nuke from the end of Purgatory was assumedly set off underground, which would have negated a lot of its potential damage, so everybody’s fine except for the unfortunately deceased q!Maxo

#long post #qsmp #I’m not a nuke expert BUT I do specialize in the Cold War

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site

[honeyblockm]

Alert!!! All of the dsmp characters are right now lying in bed tucked in very sweetly and taking a good ol snooze. they are all yawning and putting out their candles and snuggling up so warm and comfy. Good night spawn. Good night crater. Good night snowchester. Good night las nevadas. Good night egg. Good night summer home. Good night prison. Good night arctic cabins. Good night nuclear test site. Good night kinoko. Good night stars. Good night moon.

#yens