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The Vault was founded by Paweł Dembowski [2] and launched on February 7, 2005, initially hosted by Fallout fansite Duck and Cover, [2] as a general source of information about the Fallout universe, initially focusing mostly on information about the Fallout world, as depicted in Fallout and Fallout 2.
The effects of an underground nuclear test may vary according to factors including the depth and yield of the explosion, as well as the nature of the surrounding rock. [25] If the test is conducted at sufficient depth, the test is said to be contained, with no venting of gases or other contaminants to the environment. [25]
Vault-Tec Corporation, otherwise known as Vault-Tec and sometimes called Vault-Tec Industries, [1] is a fictional defense megacorporation from the post-apocalyptic Fallout franchise. Throughout the United States, Vault-Tec created government-funded vaults , large fallout shelters that would serve to shelter civilians and allow for the ...
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.
Amazon's hotly anticipated post-apocalyptic series "Fallout" − based on the popular video game franchise that got its start in 1997 − debuted April 10.
Greenwater, a Lawrence Livermore test, was to be fired in Area 19, [10] and was a test of an x-ray laser system. [12] The test was cancelled 16 July 1992. [13] The Greenwater nuclear device had already been assembled at the time of cancellation, and had to be dismantled. [14] A fourth test, Mighty Uncle, was planned for 1993.
Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles (16 km) north of Frenchman Flat , and 65 miles (105 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada . [ 2 ]
[2] [3] The procedure for these tests was to fault the test bomb by removing a detonator wire, or perhaps all but one, for example, possibly enhancing the weapon with extra initiators or an especially enriched core, and then to fire the weapon normally (see Warhead design safety). If there is any nuclear yield in the firing, then the test is ...