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Hiroshima A-Bomb
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GYevZoMCC7A
A re-enactment of the A-bomb that hit Hiroshima. Using eye witness accounts and technical detail this is a little over 9 min retelling of one of the worlds most shocking and horrific days in human history. Please feel free to leave your comments.
Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 04:08PM
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Nuclear Weapons-Little Boy&Fat Man *DIGITALLY RESTORED*
Little Boy 13-16kt Fat Man 21kt
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, roughly half on the days of the bombings. Since then, thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs. In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians.
Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore World War II. (Germany had signed its Instrument of Surrender on May 7, 1945, ending the war in Europe.) The bombings led post-war Japan to adopt Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding that nation from nuclear armament.
Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 03:59PM
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Nuclear Tests- Bird of Prey-What We Protest-We Want Life !
I am an engineer who used to work at the Nevada Test Site............ learn the lessons of these videos....... there is NOTHING good nor beautiful with these devices. Not a day goes by that I do not regret those years. A conscience can be a terrible thing. No more... not ever......learn from what you are seeing.redravensounds
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_QFl8fLczf0
Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 05:12PM
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Nuclear Weapons Newsreel - Nevada Residents Concerns
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The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the City of Las Vegas, near 37°07′N, 116°03′W. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Ground, the site, established on January 11, 1951 for the testing of nuclear weapons, is composed of approximately 1,350 square miles (3,500 km²) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton (4 terajoule) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on January 27, 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from NTS.
1951--1992
Between 1951 and 1992, there were a total of 928 announced nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site. Of those, 828 were underground; seismic data have indicated there may have been many unannounced underground tests as well. The site is covered with subsidence craters from the testing. The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices; 129 tests were conducted elsewhere (many at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands).
During the 1950s, the mushroom cloud from these tests could be seen for almost 100 miles in either direction, including the city of Las Vegas, where the tests became tourist attractions. Americans headed for Las Vegas to witness the distant mushroom clouds that could be seen from the downtown hotels.
On July 17, 1962 the test shot "Little Feller I" of Operation Sunbeam became the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. Underground testing of weapons continued until September 23, 1992, and although the United States did not ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the articles of the treaty are nevertheless honored and further tests have not occurred. Tests not involving the full creation of a critical mass ("subcritical" testing) continue.
One notable test shot was the "Sedan" shot of Operation Storax, a 104 kiloton shot for the Operation Plowshare which sought to prove that nuclear weapons could be used for peaceful means in creating bays or canals—it created a crater 1,280 feet (390 m) wide and 320 feet (100 m) deep that can still be seen today. While most of the larger tests were conducted elsewhere, NTS was home to tests in the 500 kiloton to 1 megaton (2 to 4 petajoule) range, which caused noticeable seismic effects in Las Vegas.
From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put full-scale nuclear weapons testing on hold indefinitely, at least 536 demonstrations were held at the test site involving 37,488 participants and 15,740 arrests, according to government records.
After the demonstrations, held by the American Peace Test, Nevada Desert Experience and Corbin Harney through the Shundahai Network continued to protest the government's continued nuclear weapons work and effort to put a repository for highly radioactive waste adjacent to the test site at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas
Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 05:06PM
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Not The Red Button
Turn volume up all the way!!! Flashing red button with cartoon-esque BOOM. When I made this sculpture, I was not trying to be political, but... In this day and age it is hard to avoid the frightening potential that we as a people might extinct ourselves, so when I edited this video I decided to go with it. Imagine a world living in peace...Don't press the red button!!!
The video reflects my fears about global tensions and the use of nuclear weaponry. The red button is a metaphor that perhaps you have seen in cartoons and typically is a doomsday button.
For those viewers that have arrived at this video through watching John Lennon's song and wondering about the connection...Imagine peace...rather than the apocalyptic nuclear future we seem to be heading towards. Ideally as an Art piece you would watch my video first and then Lennon's Imagine...so go back and watch Imagine again and let it soak in.
To all my new subscribers from around the world...if you can read English post a peaceful comment in your own language and translate in English please. We are all ambassadors in peace!! Sorry to be so dismally romantic..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NWp-COrotaA
Posted on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 08:56PM
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