[Colonol Dekker]

Take that, west coast America too!

[The E]

You messed up the youtube link, you only need the video ID part (LLCF7vPanrY) in this case.

[Lorric]

Looks like the nuke took out the camera as well 

[Colonol Dekker]

Fixxorred.

[Lorric]

That number is many, many times greater than I would have expected it to be.

[Nakura]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. Odd that they excluded the Vela incident, probably because they didn't know who to attribute it to Israel or South Africa).

[Colonol Dekker]

1956-57. Scary, SCARY.

The distribution of Soviet test detonations terrified me.

[Mika]

It took me a while to figure out what was the nuke which blew up that close to Murmansk, but then I recalled the Soviets tried to use nukes to enhance mining speed. Needless to say, that didn't go so well.

As a result of those tests, there were certain health inspections on Northern Finnish people, and the dose of some plants was carefully monitored back then - I do believe they are still monitoring the worst fall-out areas, but it isn't considered a health concern any more.

Never understood the need to blow up perfectly good paradise islands with nukes, though.

And yes, the total was more than I thought it would be, didn't realize that there have been more than two thousand tests.

[An4ximandros]

Because, sometimes you just want to yell at the top of your lungs: **** the world!

[NGTM-1R]

Never understood the need to blow up perfectly good paradise islands with nukes, though.

Bikini had pretty much no land area worthy of the name, like most atolls. Total surface area is probably under twenty square miles. It's never going to amount to much.

Besides, where else are you going to see a picture of a dreadnaught battleship literally standing on its end but Shot Bravo?

[Nuke]

damn it, i got semen on my keyboard.

[headdie]

damn it, i got semen on my keyboard.

moving swiftly on

[JCDNWarrior]

It's a MAD world indeed. The tests to see if they could burn up the Earth's atmosphere with nukes was another mad scientist idea that somehow got approved, let alone all the other things. Guess that's why they weren't so worried about nuclear fallout/half life then.

[MP-Ryan]

Holy bejeezus, I've studied Cold War history quite a bit and I had no idea there had been that many test detonations either.

[Lorric]

I wonder how much money was wasted on building and detonating all those nukes that could have been put to better use.

And that was only up to 1998 I believe.

[headdie]

It's a MAD world indeed. The tests to see if they could burn up the Earth's atmosphere with nukes was another mad scientist idea that somehow got approved, let alone all the other things. Guess that's why they weren't so worried about nuclear fallout/half life then.

yer took us awhile to realise that you need more than a broom to brush the radiation from exposed people to protect them, and by then we had taken to nuking insignificant parts of the world so for the most part didnt care anyway, except for the eco-mentalists who seemed to still take offence for some strange reason

Holy bejeezus, I've studied Cold War history quite a bit and I had no idea there had been that many test detonations either.

same here about the numbers, I suppose we only really hear about the well publicised tests that were used as political penile measuring sticks during the cold war

I wonder how much money was wasted on building and detonating all those nukes that could have been put to better use.

And that was only up to 1998 I believe.

yer where is my ticket to Mars colony anyway????

[NGTM-1R]

I wonder how much money was wasted on building and detonating all those nukes that could have been put to better use.

Preventing a World War is probably a good use.

[Lorric]

yer where is my ticket to Mars colony anyway????

Right over here:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=84321.0

It's gonna cost ya though! 

I wonder if there's some really rich person out there you could cut a deal with if you really wanted to go. Someone who has a thing about Mars, but daren't actually go to Mars. They supply the money in return for you going to Mars, and in return you perform some tasks for them. Go where they want you to go, bring back what they want you to bring back, provide information on what they want information on, shoot footage of whatever they want footage shot of, etc.

[JCDNWarrior]

I wonder how much money was wasted on building and detonating all those nukes that could have been put to better use.

Preventing a World War is probably a good use.

On the other hand, if I have to believe the stories of leaking nuclear silos and having no good way of depositing or getting rid of the stuff efficiently, the total cleanup costs and time is going to be quite the trouble, I would wager.

[Nuke]

there is actually very little nuclear material in a nuclear silo, most of it in the primary of the warhead, assuming the silo is armed.