Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ranger Able detonates...

60 years ago today, an air-dropped 0.5 kiloton device, marking the beginning of decades of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Here's a link to the satellite image of the remote area, showing a blistered topography dominated by subsidence craters, the result of countless underground tests.  Be sure to scroll out and pan around the image to see the full extent of the test site.  Sedan Crater (pan north in the linked image) is quite impressive, and was produced by the Storax Sedan test.

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