Photos from the World’s First Underwater Nuclear Explosion

PETAPIXEL ^ | February 18, 2013 | Michael Zhang

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Thanks for posting, but now that song will be in my head all day.

“We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when...”

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The movie is on netflix, you have to search for it.

[Northern Yankee]

Saw the link.

It looks as though there's an aircraft in the air. (To the right of the explosion... Looks like a PBY Catalina?)

The image is stunning though.

[tanknetter]

The ship that got tossed into the air, creating the black smudge in the mushroom column, was battleship USS Arkansas. Oldest and smallest battleship in the fleet (pre-WWI, mounted 12” guns rather than the 14” and 16” of later BBs), but still a pretty substantial-sized ship.

[Northern Yankee]

High resolution link.

[ltc8k6]

Wonder why it’s being reported as if they recently learned of these leaks?

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/363719/gov-6-underground-hanford-nuclear-tanks-leaking

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57570911/hanford-nuclear-reservations-leaking-tanks-latest-woe-for-decades-old-site/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/23/us-usa-nuclear-leak-idUSBRE91L19G20130223

[digger48]

later read

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Gozira !

[Manta]

Interesting fact. Just sitting reading this post, you have over 500 kilo ton of energy. The earth is moving through the galaxy at about 1,300,000 mph or 361 m/sec. Your body is almost all water which is denser than ice. The reader of this post has 22 times the energy of explosion.

http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/

[Hot Tabasco]

The reader of this post has 22 times the energy

I don't know about that, I've been feeling pretty lethargic lately. I think I expended all my boom when I was in my 20's.....

[sonrise57]

My Dad participated in these tests while in the US Navy after the surrender of Japan. His ship USS Hughes. DD410 is at the bottom of the Bikini Atoll.

[Carriage Hill]

Holy carp! That must have carved-out a huge hole in the ocean floor. I wonder how much - millions of tons of - underwater debris was blown skyward? I can’t even begin to think of the ramifications of that blast. Thanks for the link!

[Epsdude]

Hardcore redneck fishing at it’s best!

[zeugma]

BFL. This should be cool.

[steve86]

These particular leaks were discovered recently. There have been hundreds of similar leaks over the years. What's your great interest in pushing this?

[Antoninus II]

That was just and Atom Bomb. The first hydrogen bomb was 1952 with exponentially greater yield..

That's when they went from kiloton to megaton. It was Operation Ivy at Eniwetok Atoll. The device was Ivy Mike. My father was there.

[ltc8k6]

I apologize for asking you one question about the media reports.

I’ll ask someone else.

[GreenAccord]

I keep telling myself to look at this later, but I keep forgetting to bookmark it for myself...