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character-of-all-time · 1 year

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ROUND 3: JERMA (985) VS THE DEMON CORE (real)

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domithanasia · 4 months

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tag yourself as long-term nuclear waste warning markers!

#nuclear #nuclear history #nuclear radiation #personally i’d be menacing earthworks #which as a name goes incredibly hard #ath0lbr0se

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whilomm · 10 months

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having a slightly tense pegging session with a robot girl when insufficient lubrication causes the control rod strap to get slightly jammed and due to the already tense situation in frustration whilst trying to unstick the rod i accidentally pull out too far from the radussy causing an immediate prompt criticality incident hazmat teams responding to the site are unable to find me at first but soon realize I have been impaled to the ceiling by my own strap 3 are dead (spock was there)

#buzzy #sl 1 reactor #sl-1 reactor #nuclear history

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morbid-hippie · 9 months

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The Day After (1983)

When you close your eyes, you start remembering

You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, and you can’t taste it, but it’s here

They've got a hospital in Lawrence...

And then from the smoke came locust upon the earth

You know what Einstein said? About World War Three? He said he didn’t know how they were gonna fight World War Three, but he knew how they would fight World War Four. With sticks and stones

I’m not going anyplace

I want to see my home before I die

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frozen-fountain · 9 months

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With some of the talk going on around Oppenheimer and whose stories get to be told on the big screen, I wanted to take this opportunity to talk up the Japanese film Black Rain, which is available to watch for free on Youtube. Rather than focusing on the stomach-churning immediate impacts of the bombings (though, heads up, you'll be seeing those as well), it examines the aftermath in the decades that followed and particularly the marginalisation and discrimination endued by the hibakusha. As a portrait of enforced and systematically denied cultural change there's a lightness of touch to it , as well as some really memorable and endearing character writing. Highly recommended.

#black rain #nuclear history #japanese history

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madlyfluffy · 1 year

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Not sure if it's still there, but last time I checked there was this Revigator water jar (crock?) for sale at a local antique store. I'd love to own it as part of my collection but I'm concerned about the level of radium and other toxic materials inside. I also don't have a glass case or anything to display it in, but the jar comes with a lid so that might help contain possible radium dust? Last image is what it looks like on the inside. Piece is from the 1920s/1930s.

Any radium experts out there? Thoughts???

#radium #uranium #uranium glass #antiques #antiques collecting #nuclear history #quack science #quack medicine #snakeoil #would really love to own this but whereee am i going to keep 25 pounds of toxic materials in a shitty apartment

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pattytempleton · 7 months

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Been on a Kate Brown kick! Plutopia is a fascinating historical juxtapose of 2 plutonium plants, Hanford in eastern Washington state, and its Cold War sister site in Myak, in the Soviet Union. Think of these two sites as fenced off company towns that were always better funded than any other proximate regional workplace with better salaries and perks like subsidized homes. Brown said in an interview with Process: A Blog for American History, that these atomic cities bought, “compliant and silent workers, people who willingly traded in their political and biological rights for consumer rights and financial security.” It’s an interesting read. Really great audiobook.

Just started another book by her, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. Through archival reconstruction, Brown posits that we still don’t understand the full health effects of Chernobyl. A hella compelling examination.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/plutopia-kate-brown/1113303419

#bookworm #book review #booknerd #bookish #books and reading #nonfiction books #nuclear history #war history #plutopia #myak #Hanford #nuclear plant #am reading #audiobooks #I love books #Kate brown #chernobyl

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this-world-of-beautiful-monsters · 9 months

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Putting these links out there (and encouraging people to look for others) because I've been seeing people in oppenheimer debates implying that the creation of the atomic bomb was a necessary evil to "defeat the Nazis," and the reality is...slightly more complicated.

According to these Atomic Heritage Foundation articles, major work on the German push towards the atomic bomb was halted in June of 1942. This took place months before the Manhattan Project began on August 13, 1942. Germany's halting of atomic production was known to the allies by 1944 at least, before the bomb's completion or Germany's surrender.

More to the point, the fucking film itself involves Oppenheimer pushing for the use of the bomb, in Japan, post Germany's surrender. But I've literally seen people claiming Oppenheimer did "nothing wrong" because he was trying to use the bomb to stops Hitler or something, and the timeline simply does not match up with these simplifications.

I've ranted about this film in other regards elsewhere, but please, whenever we discuss it (this is a warning to myself as much as anyone else), at least keeps the facts straight, and stop letting speculation blur a very real and bloody part of history.

#history #oppenheimer #atomic bomb #atomic bomb mention #tw oppenheimer #ww2 #japan #germany #the manhattan project #nuclear history #nuclear mention #nazism mention

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sweetmeatdale · 2 years

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Fun fact most nukes happen in October

This statistic is likely skewed by operations Hardtack II and Fishbowl both having November deadlines

#nuclear weapons #nuclear history #nuclear testing

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da-at-ass · 2 years

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Nuclear Inktober #5: W84 for GLEM

Air Force W84 Warhead for the Tomahawk Ground-Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM)

I learned something interesting when drawing this one. I assumed the warhead is conical and located at the very tip, but that's actually got guidance circuitry in it. The warhead is in the compartment directly behind the guidance unit, and it's a sort of pseudo-cylinder, pseudo-vase shape. I'll draw one later in the month.

(I'm not sure if this was actually deployed, it seems to have been produced after the book was published (1984) and some information in it is thus speculative.)

Silver and black marker on handmade paper.

#inktober #inktober 2022 #nuclear inktober #nuclear history #nuclear warfare

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historysisco · 2 years

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I've finally started watching the Netflix series Meltdown at Three Mile Island.

I remember the news talking about this on my parents old Zenith TV back in 1979. As a kid I had no idea what or where this was happening. Nor did I have an idea of the seriousness that the events at the nuclear power plant could have for the East Coast of the United States.

I'm interested to see how the story plays out.

#ThreeMileIsland #NuclearHistory #NuclearPower #AmericanHistory #USHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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#Three Mile Island #Nuclear History #Nuclear Power #American History #U.S. History #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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character-of-all-time · 1 year

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ROUND 1: DEMON CORE (science) VS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND (down there)

#demon core #queen of england #the queen #english monarchy #tournament #now kill #f1 #nuclear physics #nuclear history

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joepageii · 10 months

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Upcoming Title...Fall 2023?

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#America Through Time #B-36 Peacemaker #B-52 Stratofortress #Fonthill Publishing #loring afb #nuclear history #nuclear weapons #strategic air command

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humanoidhistory · 7 months

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Computer room at the Nevada Test Site.

(National Archives)

#tech #nevada test site #nevada #physics #technology #military history #nuclear #atomic

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sanctus-ingenium · 2 years

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the werewolf killer | buy a print

#the big guy is olivier i haven't posted him here yet but he & finbarr had a nuclear-level falling out and now they are enemies #they are wearing two halves from the petrie crown btw tho it is hard to tell #gotta have a new setting tag because this story is ancient history for the country #werewolf #artists on tumblr #setting: inver

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reactor-four-official · 1 year

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Stained glass windows in the administrative building of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was one of the largest in the Soviet Union and the poster child of the Soviet nuclear power industry. As such, little expense was spared on details like these windows.

The Soviet Union often used motifs in abstract art to promote Communism and laude their successes.

For more info, check out my reblog of this post.

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