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1948 ... B-45 "Tornado"
... the first US operational jet bomber, the "Tornado" gained importance as it assumed a tactical nuclear delivery assignment when atomic bombs became smaller and lighter.
... 36 hour war - catastrophe!
... my jaw dropped when I found this sensationalistic warning of a possible Atomic War in an issue of LIFE magazine - dated November 19, 1945! Just a few months after the World War II ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the head of the US Air forces, Gen. 'Hap' Arnold, lays out in remarkable accuracy the future dangers of a war fought with nuclear tipped ICBM's.
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... 36 hour war - tracking the attack!
... in 1945 RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) was still pretty whiz bang, high tech stuff. Searching outer-space for incoming rockets was at least a decade away. This illustrations reminds me of scenes from the 'B' science fiction classic 'Fiend Without a Face' . The AV Kid has the whole movie here. In the movie the search for atomic powered Radar has the side-effect of producing invisible brain sucking monsters - of course!
Wonder if 'Hap' Arnold didn't want to tell us about that?
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... 36 hour war - paratroop invasion!
...LIFE magazine was never shy about including a buxom blond for reader appeal!
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ABM site- Grand Forks- 1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missileAnti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) systems have always been controversial. Expensive, prone to technical glitches. They seemed to motivate the opposing cold-war side to just build more missiles. Early systems relied on atomic warheads to zap the incoming missiles and only had to get close for a kill. Later and present day technology pushes for a 'hit and kill' non-nuclear defense. The defensive missile must hit or get very close to the incoming warhead.
... downwind
From our 1960's Civil Defense friends, a film about Fallout with music as spooky as this map!... first millionth of a second.
Super-duper high speed photography (we're talking 1- ten millionth of a sec) of the birth of a Hiroshima size atomic blast. Top photo the fireball is a couple hundred feet across still vaporinzing the tall tower it was mounted on. Second photo the fireball is expanding and beginning to touch the desert floor of the Nevada test site. Not sure if these are from the same 'shot'. Sometime in the 1950's.http://www.damninteresting.com/rapatronic-nuclear-photographs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EG&G
Doc Edgerton who founded EG&G is the father of the high powered studio stobe lights that I have used all my career as a fashion photographer.
1947... good guys.
Albert Einstein discusses the finer points of Atomic Physics with Robert Oppenheimer- director of the Manhatten Project and 'father of the atomic bomb'.The Dream of Atomic Powered Flight !
below: Science and Mechanics 1961
A study of the effects of the "direct" heating method of putting air straight thru the reactor which would produce a radioactive exhaust contrail was codenamed "Project Halitosis".
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