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Title: Nuclear test blast photos you've probably never seen
Post by: Rain Man on Apr 12, 2006, 05:37

Harold "Doc" Edgerton, inventor of the stroboscope and co-founder of EG&G, built a camera called a Rapatronic. The device could shoot photographs of nuke tests as soon as 10 nanoseconds after Keff> 1.

This is some neat stuff. See the attached links:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456#more-456

http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

Title: Re: Nuclear test blast photos you've probably never seen
Post by: Mike McFarlin on Apr 13, 2006, 05:09

Great sites, where have they been?

Title: Re: Nuclear test blast photos you've probably never seen
Post by: jansson on Apr 18, 2006, 05:32

I wonder if those assymetries comes from the construction of the bomb?

Title: Re: Nuclear test blast photos you've probably never seen
Post by: alphadude on Apr 18, 2006, 08:57

yep, the tower, the cab and other attachments.

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