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"Nuketown" is a multiplayer map originating from Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010), a first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.The map takes place in a nuclear test town in the deserts of Nevada, and is based on real-world nuclear test sites constructed by the United States in the 1950s.
Nukemap (stylised in all caps) is an interactive map using Mapbox [1] API and declassified nuclear weapons effects data, created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons.
Relatively stable sea level in the Ordovician, with a large drop associated with the end-Ordovician glaciation Relative stability at the lower level during the Silurian A gradual fall through the Devonian , continuing through the Mississippian to long-term low at the Mississippian/ Pennsylvanian boundary
The Allied disposition in western Europe by March 1945. By March 1945, the Allied armies had advanced into Germany and had reached the River Rhine.The Rhine was a formidable natural obstacle to the Allied advance, [12] but if breached would allow the Allies to access the North German Plain and ultimately advance on Berlin and other major cities in Northern Germany.
Date Location Type Description June 23, 1942 Leipzig, Nazi Germany: Steam explosion and reactor fire Leipzig L-IV experiment accident: Shortly after the Leipzig L-IV atomic pile – worked on by Werner Heisenberg and Robert Doepel – demonstrated Germany's first signs of neutron propagation, the device was checked for a possible heavy water leak.
Historical marker and access sign. On March 11, 1958 a U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet with a nuclear payload, which did not have its fissile nuclear core installed at the time of the accident, left for nuclear training exercises for war preparations in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Operation Ranger was the fourth American nuclear test series. It was conducted in 1951 and was the first series to be carried out at the Nevada Test Site. [1] All the bombs were dropped by B-50D bombers and exploded in the open air over Frenchman Flat ().
Dead drop spike. A dead drop spike is a concealment device similar to a microcache. It has been used since the late 1960s to hide money, maps, documents, microfilm, and other items. The spike is resistant to water and mildew and can be placed in the ground or submerged in a shallow stream for later retrieval.