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“Over-the-shoulder” delivery. Toss bombing (sometimes known as loft bombing, and by the U.S. Air Force as the Low Altitude Bombing System, or LABS) is a method of bombing where the attacking aircraft pulls upward when releasing its bomb load, giving the bomb additional time of flight by starting its ballistic path with an upward vector.
The visual effects of a high-altitude or space-based explosion may last longer than atmospheric tests, sometimes in excess of 30 minutes. Heat from the Bluegill Triple Prime shot, at an altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles), was felt by personnel on the ground at Johnston Atoll , and this test caused retina burns to two personnel at ground zero ...
Mark 11 nuclear bomb (1956–1960): earth penetrating; Mk 105 Hotpoint (1958–1965): laydown delivery; B28 nuclear bomb (1958–1991): laydown delivery and ground burst; Mark 39 nuclear bomb (1958–1962) laydown delivery and ground burst; B43 nuclear bomb (1961–1990): laydown delivery and ground burst; B53 nuclear bomb (1962–1997 ...
Storm system is expected to weaken as it continues to chart a path over the Cascades and through to northern California and southwest Oregon by Friday Mapped: Charting path of deadly ‘bomb ...
In July 1962, the US carried out the Starfish Prime test, exploding a 1.44 Mt (6.0 PJ) bomb 400 kilometres (250 mi; 1,300,000 ft) above the mid-Pacific Ocean.This demonstrated that the effects of a high-altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.
A corroded bomb believed to be over half a century old washed up on a California beach during a storm and was found on New Year's Eve, Santa Cruz authorities said.
California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather.. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the exact time a high-resolution ...
A soil earth medium favors base surge formation in an underground burst. Although the base surge typically contains only about 10% of the total bomb debris in a subsurface burst, it can create larger radiation doses than fallout near the detonation, because it arrives sooner than fallout, before much radioactive decay has occurred.