History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,994

Feb 26, 2015, 06:16
by mjd

Banana dose equivalents of radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,108

Oct 26, 2015, 07:37
by RDTroja

Trinity Test site M4 Sherman tanks

Started by Bongopete

Replies: 1
Views: 6,198

Feb 09, 2009, 07:58
by Adam Grundleger

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 854

Oct 01, 2025, 10:27
by Mounder

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,672

Apr 03, 2019, 12:31
by GLW

101-year-old atomic bomb worker returns to Oak Ridge, where she helped make hist

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 1,596

Oct 11, 2022, 08:53
by SloGlo

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 1
Views: 4,031

May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

The SNAP-10A reactor power system

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 1,554

Apr 15, 2024, 07:29
by Mounder

The Rutherford Building at Manchester University

Started by JessJen

Replies: 1
Views: 4,609

Oct 10, 2009, 02:38
by atomicarcheologist

Accelerator disabled

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,907

Jan 29, 2007, 01:00
by Marlin

Operation Plumbbob And The Psychology Of A Nuclear Blast

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,458

Nov 10, 2014, 11:38
by RFaunt

Humans Are Worse for Wildlife Than Nuclear Radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,267

Jan 21, 2020, 05:59
by SloGlo

NB-36 CRUSADER: AMERICA’S MASSIVE NUCLEAR-POWERED BOMBER

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,518

May 14, 2021, 02:19
by Mounder

Why Scientists Haven't Solved The Mystery Of The Oh-My-God Particle

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 1,608

Oct 29, 2023, 05:51
by Marlin

Nukeworker magic eye

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,088

Oct 12, 2016, 05:19
by Rennhack

Castle Bravo

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,131

Mar 02, 2015, 02:36
by Marlin

Bernie Pad

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 1
Views: 4,441

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

Operation Grapple

Started by Rain Man

Replies: 1
Views: 6,519

Aug 05, 2010, 05:08
by RAD-GHOST

PROJECT PLUTO: THE CRAZIEST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,320

Nov 16, 2020, 08:16
by RDTroja

That time the US dropped an atomic bomb on a fleet of 95 ships

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,474

Mar 07, 2019, 10:39
by Bonds 25

“Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase

Started by NukeWorkers News Team

Replies: 1
Views: 3,944

Jun 04, 2016, 05:25
by Rennhack

The Day the U.S. Lost Hydrogen Bombs in Spain

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,036

Feb 06, 2015, 02:55
by Marlin

The Lithium Blues

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,185

Mar 18, 2014, 10:52
by BetaAnt

First Fifty Years of HP

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 7,727

Apr 05, 2012, 02:45
by Rennhack

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 1,654

Dec 20, 2022, 07:42
by Mounder

Disappearing dad

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,114

Dec 03, 2019, 05:13
by SloGlo

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 1,550

Aug 08, 2024, 08:08
by Mounder

Was there really a nuclear explosion in Rhode Island? Here's the story of Wood R

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 1,352

May 23, 2024, 09:57
by Mounder

Nuclear Books

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 1
Views: 4,370

Nov 26, 2010, 09:39
by wlrun3@aol.com

bwr relief valves

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 1
Views: 5,383

May 28, 2009, 05:13
by Fermi2

Rescuing the Atomic Dog

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,309

Mar 10, 2014, 10:46
by UncaBuffalo

A Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,400

Mar 02, 2014, 03:33
by retired nuke

Mass extinction via isotopic analysis

Started by peteshonkwiler

Replies: 1
Views: 2,438

Oct 20, 2020, 09:24
by GLW

The U.S. Once Wanted To Use Nuclear Bombs as a Construction Tool

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,858

Feb 12, 2019, 08:01
by atomicarcheologist

Nuclear Outboard Motor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,927

Aug 10, 2013, 07:57
by SloGlo

ReActor House

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,010

Oct 28, 2016, 10:56
by SloGlo

'Nuclear battlefield' revealed as scientists map Bikini Atoll test craters

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,926

Dec 12, 2019, 02:22
by Marlin

The Blue Peacock: The Chicken-Heated Nuclear Land Mine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,209

Oct 01, 2021, 01:47
by Marlin

Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,730

Jul 07, 2018, 11:15
by Marlin

50 years ago a nuclear bomb was detonated under the Western Slope

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 5,709

Sep 11, 2019, 11:24
by Marlin

Nuclear Explosions since 1945

Started by Rennhack

Replies: 0
Views: 4,674

Dec 08, 2009, 12:26
by Rennhack

Did your computer crash? It might have been a cosmic ray

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,521

Sep 01, 2022, 05:26
by Marlin

THE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,742

May 17, 2018, 09:56
by Marlin

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,635

Jul 31, 2022, 05:36
by Marlin

The Disastrous Tale of the First Underwater Nuclear Test in U.S. History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,133

Nov 22, 2016, 05:47
by Marlin

Romance of Radium (1937)

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,415

Aug 20, 2014, 10:33
by Marlin

A Nuclear Tank?! In the 1950s, It Almost Happened

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,052

Dec 10, 2020, 10:54
by Marlin

How to Nuke a Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,148

Jul 21, 2017, 10:16
by Marlin

These atomic-powered airships never made it off the drawing board

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,281

Apr 28, 2019, 10:55
by Marlin

How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,019

Aug 08, 2021, 01:14
by Marlin

John Hendrix: The Prophet of Oak Ridge

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,613

Oct 18, 2021, 09:56
by Marlin

MOVED: Edward Snowden

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,089

Aug 10, 2013, 09:05
by Marlin

The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,262

Aug 05, 2020, 11:35
by Marlin

2 killed when vehicle hits West End guard shack in Oak Ridge

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,484

May 08, 2023, 12:56
by Marlin

Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,325

Mar 21, 2019, 04:46
by Marlin

Strange Life Forms Are Growing in an Abandoned Uranium Mine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,522

Feb 04, 2023, 12:23
by Marlin

Atoms For Peace - 1950's Atomic Energy Studies / Educational Documentary

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,534

Apr 06, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

Sept. 30, 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

Started by Ksheed

Replies: 0
Views: 5,678

Sep 30, 2013, 01:56
by Ksheed

Alvin Weinberg Papers Archive Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,253

Aug 23, 2018, 11:33
by Marlin

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,022

Dec 17, 2019, 01:30
by Marlin

After 70 years, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s legacy is being rewritten

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,713

Dec 22, 2022, 02:17
by Marlin

Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba'

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,351

Sep 02, 2020, 10:39
by Marlin

Earth's History of Unexplained 'Radiation Storms'

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,487

Oct 26, 2022, 03:10
by Marlin

We Are East Idaho: Arco

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,206

Mar 25, 2019, 06:39
by Marlin

The Original Target For The Second Nuclear Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,634

Aug 09, 2022, 04:27
by Marlin

Matter of Risk (Chapter 5 excerpt about Chernobyl)

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,355

Apr 25, 2018, 11:59
by Marlin

Raising the Kursk

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,328

Jul 21, 2019, 10:46
by Marlin

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,082

May 18, 2021, 12:05
by Marlin

Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war honoured with prize

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,818

Oct 27, 2017, 12:10
by Marlin

Beach Sands Near Hiroshima Are Still Packed With 1945 Nuclear Fallout Debris

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,286

May 14, 2019, 11:15
by Marlin

Manhattan Project sites may become national parks by 2013

Started by Rennhack

Replies: 0
Views: 8,037

Sep 01, 2012, 02:04
by Rennhack

Why is Jimmy Carter trending on Twitter?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,898

Dec 17, 2021, 01:36
by Marlin

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,287

Nov 08, 2019, 04:03
by Marlin

Nuclear Weapons Trivia

Started by Mike McFarlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,903

Apr 05, 2011, 06:01
by Mike McFarlin

CP-1 at 80: The legacy of CP-1—and the scientist who created its neutron activit

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,519

Dec 16, 2022, 12:32
by Marlin

The Dragon Bites Twice: “Tickling the Tail of the Dragon”

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,833

May 22, 2018, 08:53
by Marlin

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,464

Feb 25, 2023, 11:16
by Marlin

The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,403

Feb 06, 2019, 01:05
by Marlin

Carbon-14 Spiked Worldwide Over 1200 Years Ago, And The Sun Is To Blame

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,061

Apr 03, 2020, 12:38
by Marlin

Do you know how a Navy test range became the world’s premier nuclear lab?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,196

Sep 14, 2018, 07:24
by Marlin

The Largest Nuclear Test in Outer Space Had Startling Effects on Hawaii

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,006

Jan 14, 2020, 03:15
by Marlin

The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,559

Jan 17, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin

Admiral Rickover's Gamble

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,659

Oct 10, 2014, 04:08
by Marlin

Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,077

Sep 30, 2021, 12:02
by Marlin

How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein’s Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,645

Jun 21, 2017, 10:24
by Marlin

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,483

Aug 14, 2019, 06:04
by Marlin

MOVED: tutor

Started by Rennhack

Replies: 0
Views: 3,384

Oct 19, 2010, 07:22
by Rennhack

systems

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 0
Views: 18,976

Sep 24, 2007, 11:33
by wlrun3@aol.com

AN ALTERNATIVE REACTOR

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,720

May 09, 2018, 12:14
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,937

Feb 11, 2022, 11:19
by Marlin

A witness to atomic history

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,932

Dec 02, 2017, 09:30
by Marlin

The SLAM Missile Was a Flying Chernobyl

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,877

Sep 10, 2014, 12:00
by Marlin

Meet Project Orion: The Crazy Plan to Use Nuclear Bombs as Explosive Fuel

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,993

Mar 03, 2021, 11:43
by Marlin

The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,641

May 06, 2017, 05:19
by Marlin

A Dark Matter Detector Just Recorded One of The Rarest Events Known to Science

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,200

Apr 27, 2019, 04:27
by Marlin

The Peculiar Story Of Anatoli Bugorski, The Man Who Stuck His Head In A Proton A

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 490

Oct 09, 2025, 11:04
by Marlin

How The Russian Navy Disposed Of 100 Nuclear Submarines | The End Of Red October

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,594

Nov 02, 2022, 10:39
by Marlin

Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,239

Aug 07, 2020, 02:58
by Marlin

The Most Toxic Tourist Attraction in the World

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,551

Mar 12, 2023, 07:14
by Marlin

Astounding Science Fiction

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,816

Jun 06, 2017, 08:03
by Marlin

Both History and Trivia

Started by mjd

Replies: 0
Views: 2,055

Apr 19, 2020, 10:52
by mjd

When Televisions Were Radioactive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,309

Sep 24, 2018, 10:42
by Marlin

Her Majesty’s Nuclear Seaplane

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,948

Oct 23, 2013, 08:38
by Marlin

The legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-I

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,432

Feb 03, 2023, 12:11
by Marlin

Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,923

Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
by Marlin

History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,052

Oct 04, 2005, 10:35
by Marlin

Secret Atomic Role of WWII-Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,915

May 02, 2016, 11:35
by Marlin

Nuclear Test in Totskoye in 1954

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,353

Sep 13, 2019, 11:12
by Marlin

Direct diesel drive

Started by matthew.b

Replies: 0
Views: 4,110

Nov 01, 2009, 01:17
by matthew.b

The world watched as Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the U.K.’s Atomic Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,524

Sep 23, 2022, 10:11
by Marlin

THE DEMON CORE AND THE STRANGE DEATH OF LOUIS SLOTIN

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,707

May 24, 2016, 04:34
by Marlin

Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,595

Aug 05, 2022, 03:32
by Marlin

10 everyday products that were radioactive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,089

Feb 14, 2018, 12:05
by Marlin

The Age of Radiance

Started by Wlrun3

Replies: 0
Views: 3,830

Jun 03, 2014, 05:24
by Wlrun3

Physicists Propose That the Universe Is Filled With Tiny, Natural Atomic Bombs

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,354

Mar 07, 2021, 12:00
by Marlin

Tsar Bomba: the Bomb Too Big to Use

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,647

Aug 17, 2017, 12:34
by Marlin

Tracking the journey of a uranium cube

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,136

May 03, 2019, 10:17
by Marlin

The Radiation Dose from a "Reference Banana."

Started by Cathy

Replies: 0
Views: 14,279

Jan 12, 2008, 11:13
by Cathy

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,897

Dec 10, 2021, 02:11
by Marlin

Today in History - December 2 Nuclear Fission

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,026

Dec 02, 2019, 01:45
by Marlin

AUTOGRAPHED PLACEMAT EVOKES ASTRONAUTS’ 1969 VISIT TO IDAHO

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,076

May 29, 2020, 11:51
by Marlin

Secret Atomic Role of WW II–Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,467

May 15, 2023, 01:52
by Marlin

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,113

May 02, 2016, 11:47
by Marlin

The Hanford B Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,497

Feb 17, 2023, 10:27
by Marlin

The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,660

Nov 27, 2018, 06:26
by Marlin

Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion

Started by Ksheed

Replies: 0
Views: 4,274

Sep 19, 2013, 12:43
by Ksheed

The Strange Glass Born in Nuclear Explosions

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,306

Apr 19, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

10 Intriguing Facts About the World's First Nuclear Chain Reaction

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,170

Dec 18, 2019, 04:49
by Marlin

Project Rover: The original nuclear-powered rocket program

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,517

Jan 13, 2023, 09:25
by Marlin

Chicago Pile 1, 72 years ago

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,785

Dec 03, 2014, 08:01
by Marlin

Kodak ... had a nuclear reactor ...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 0
Views: 4,576

May 14, 2012, 08:36
by Captain America

Bacteria: radioactive elements replace essential rare earth metals

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,559

May 17, 2023, 03:18
by Marlin

The U.S. Military and Russia Both Tried to Make a Nuclear-Powered Plane

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,045

Nov 24, 2020, 11:58
by Marlin

How has a nuclear weapon never accidentally detonated?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,650

Aug 14, 2022, 02:18
by Marlin

The Nuclear Canal

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,369

Jun 14, 2016, 09:03
by Marlin

High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 5,444

Jul 27, 2019, 10:19
by Marlin

Russia Has a Fatally Wounded Nuclear Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,654

Nov 23, 2016, 07:14
by Marlin

391-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima Bombings and Keeps Growing

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,314

May 22, 2019, 01:40
by Marlin

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,143

Oct 01, 2020, 12:01
by Marlin

Taiwan Hunts for Radioactive Apartments

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,004

Jan 20, 2022, 01:22
by Marlin

Demon core video

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,526

Oct 06, 2019, 12:00
by Marlin

The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,960

Jan 28, 2021, 02:40
by Marlin

CP-1 at 80: The events of December 2, 1942

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,568

Dec 02, 2022, 10:29
by Marlin

Five fascinating facts about DUNE

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,507

May 18, 2018, 10:05
by Marlin

There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,492

Mar 05, 2023, 02:25
by Marlin

Old Videos

Started by ddickey

Replies: 0
Views: 3,105

Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,964

Apr 06, 2020, 10:13
by Marlin

What It's Like to Actually See an Atomic Explosion

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,083

Apr 18, 2016, 09:54
by Marlin

Death on Mars

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,006

Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
by Marlin

Muon scanning hints at mysteries within an ancient Chinese wall

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,567

Jan 31, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin