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I'd like to see some more photos of the first moments of a nuclear fireball. You sometimes see video of a nuclear blast; but the first frames just show a ball
by denton-scratch 4y ago
I'd like to see some more photos of the first moments of a nuclear fireball.
You sometimes see video of a nuclear blast; but the first frames just show a ball of plasma that looks like an opaque white cloud. The light from the blast washes out everything else; there's no sense of scale. Is that 100 feet across, or a mile across? And how long ago was the blast?
Slo-mo video, with a size scale and a clock, would be fascinating. But a sequence of rapatronic stills would be very interesting.
- adg001 4y ago> But a sequence of rapatronic stills would be very interesting. You have a short sequence of stills in the Wyckoff's footage linked somewhere else here. Rapatronic cameras – Wyckoff explains – where typically mounted in a rack of six, where each captured a single frame.
- matthewmcg 4y agoThere’s a great sequence here: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZhjFVVqx6c/TcbXi9tKg8I/AAAAAAAAAkk/5zlAxpQ4DEs/s1600/Teller+Light+2.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZhjFVVqx6c/TcbXi9tKg8I/AAAAAAAAA... You can actually see the x rays causing the air outside the bomb casing to glow before the casing is destroyed by the expanding fireball. More technical info here: https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/10328/11419 https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/10328/11419
- acidburnNSA 4y agoThere are a few in here https://www.atomicarchive.com/media/photographs/testing/us/index.html https://www.atomicarchive.com/media/photographs/testing/us/i...