/r/AtomicPorn

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Atomic Porn: Photos and videos of all exploding things nuclear.


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Rules:

Images and videos only. Articles and such should be posted to /r/nuclearweapons.

Non-weapon related stuff should probably go in /r/nuclear.

Reposts:

Allowed after three months.


Related Subreddits

/r/ImaginaryHellscapes - Art of the Aftermath


Simulate a blast: NUKEMAP

Compare nuclear missiles: MISSILEMAP


Most frequent question:

What are the vertical trails?

  • They're smoke rockets. The smoke provides a way to see the shockwave as it passes. See this comment.

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Sherman tanks modified for the Trinity test in action

0 Comments
2024/11/23
19:39 UTC

184

I created a (nonfunctional!) model of a multipoint initiation tile. It took more than 3 days to print.

38 Comments
2024/11/18
23:22 UTC

746

Buster-Jangle Easy, 31kt, Air Drop, 400m Detonation

7 Comments
2024/11/13
14:19 UTC

19

Daisy Ad 1964

4 Comments
2024/11/05
21:30 UTC

473

The W54 Davy Crockett Supercaliber Atomic Projectile

27 Comments
2024/11/04
14:47 UTC

1,142

Teapot - Turk, 43kt, Millisecond Closeup of Initial Fireball

33 Comments
2024/11/04
11:39 UTC

1,843

Voyager 1 has been operating for 47 years and traveled 15 billion miles all on the power of a compact nuclear generator known as an RTG. In the meantime we are still arguing about fossil fuels and windmills...

100 Comments
2024/11/01
18:24 UTC

123

"NO!" [Italy, 1955] Poster in favour of world peace and against nuclear weapons produced by the Roman Provincial Peace Committee.

0 Comments
2024/10/28
14:07 UTC

38

Nuclear Weapons: The Destroyer of World's

7 Comments
2024/10/27
01:14 UTC

1,786

Plumbbob - Hood, 74kt, Largest Atmospheric Detonation in the Continental US

29 Comments
2024/10/26
14:41 UTC

53

Anti-Jimmy Carter Poster from the Lyndon Larouche Campaign, 1976

0 Comments
2024/10/23
16:35 UTC

205

What....did...you...do!

9 Comments
2024/10/20
20:45 UTC

419

Aerial view from a U.S. Navy Martin PBM Mariner of Crossroads Baker atomic test, less than one second after detonation. USS Saratoga can be seen in the center, IJN Nagato on the opposite side of the blast. 25 July 1946.

5 Comments
2024/10/19
17:24 UTC

874

Upshot-Knothole Grabble, 15 Kiloton Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile

49 Comments
2024/10/19
00:05 UTC

332

Helen of Bikini detonated 90 feet (27 m) underwater on July 25, 1946. Radioactive sea spray caused extensive contamination.

6 Comments
2024/10/18
08:46 UTC

231

"Son of Eve" Political cartoon from August 8th, 1945, two days after the bombing of Hiroshima. Political cartoon that compares humanity's use of the atomic bomb to the Biblical story of the fall of Adam and Eve.

3 Comments
2024/10/17
18:27 UTC

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Nuclear Test Redemption #3 - Tumbler Snapper "Dog" 19 Kiloton Nuclear Test - May 1, 1953 16:29

5 Comments
2024/10/13
10:09 UTC

161

Nuclear Test Redemption #2 - 4K 60fps RDS|3 Nuclear Test - October 18, 1951 14:17

11 Comments
2024/10/12
08:18 UTC

81

Nuclear Test Redemption #1 - 4K 60fps DOMINIC SUNSET Nuclear Test - July 10, 1962 16:33

1 Comment
2024/10/11
19:57 UTC

1,242

Greenhouse Dog - 81 kilotons

25 Comments
2024/10/10
21:32 UTC

512

Front row seat from a UK Victor, part of the Nuclear V Bomber fleet

5 Comments
2024/10/07
09:20 UTC

76

Serious question - sense of scale

This is one of the best, but what exactly is THE best when it comes to giving sense of scale?

8 Comments
2024/10/03
00:42 UTC

1,960

Castle Bravo - Largest USA test - 15 megatons

38 Comments
2024/10/01
15:47 UTC

251

W88 Detail (475 kilotons)

15 Comments
2024/10/01
15:40 UTC

639

Plastic protective suit filled with compressed air - Designed to protect British Atomic energy workers against radioactive dust and particles. Oct. 21, 1954.

18 Comments
2024/10/01
14:18 UTC

76

Grapple Z1 , 24KT , 450m high on a balloon.

11 Comments
2024/09/30
11:39 UTC

487

Newspaper cartoon from the 50s showing the world begging the UK not to start testing H-Bombs like the USSR and USA

5 Comments
2024/09/22
00:38 UTC

712

B reactor, Richland, WA.

12 Comments
2024/09/21
09:01 UTC

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