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  2. Rapatronic camera - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear explosion from the Tumbler-Snapper test series in Nevada, circa 1952 photographed by a rapatronic camera less than 1 millisecond after detonation. In this shot, the fireball is about 20 m (66 ft) across. The spikes at the bottom of the fireball are known as the rope trick effect.

  3. Rope trick effect - Wikipedia

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    In the initial microseconds after the explosion, a fireball is formed around the bomb by the massive numbers of thermal x-rays released by the explosion process. These x-rays cannot travel very far in standard atmosphere before reacting with molecules in the air , so the result is a fireball that rapidly forms within about 10 metres (33 ft) in ...

  4. Nuclear explosion - Wikipedia

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    A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.The driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi-stage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion-based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device.

  5. 'Close call' in shelling near nuclear reactor on Ukraine's ...

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    Ukraine narrowly escaped disaster during fighting at the weekend that rocked Europe's largest atomic power plant with a barrage of shells, some falling near reactors and damaging a radioactive ...

  6. 1945–1998 - Wikipedia

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    The piece begins with the two nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States conducts several nuclear tests after the war. The Soviet Union and United Kingdom then gain nuclear weapons, increasing the number of explosions. [5] [6] The piece continues until it gets to Pakistan's first nuclear test in 1998. [7]

  7. Why Russia attacked Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant - AOL

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    The United States essentially stopped building new nuclear plants in the 1970s, and Germany and Japan have been phasing out atomic energy since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant ...

  8. Operation Teapot - Wikipedia

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    Operation Teapot was a series of 14 nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. It was preceded by Operation Castle , and followed by Operation Wigwam . Wigwam was, administratively, a part of Teapot , but it is usually treated as a class of its own.

  9. Russia tests intercontinental ballistic missiles from new ...

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    Russia’s defence ministry released a video on Sunday 5 November which they say shows a nuclear capable ballistic missile test launched from the country’s newest submarine. It comes shortly ...