/r/AtomicPorn
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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Chinese test "No. 6," June 17, 1967, 3.3 megaton air drop.
15:27 UTC
MOTOR.. March 1958
20:55 UTC
Atomic cloud over Nagasaki Sept 81945 taken 15+ minutes after the explosion seen from a distance of 15 km. Photo by Hiromihi Matsuda. colorized by irootoko_jr.
21:55 UTC
Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Major Kong Rides the Bomb
20:28 UTC
US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump
17:29 UTC
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - ENDING
02:23 UTC
Top 5 Biggest Nuclear Weapons Tests
02:20 UTC
Released footage of USSR nuclear detentions
14:48 UTC
Tsar Bomba, (Russian: “King of Bombs”) Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a "test"
03:34 UTC
'Children's Crusade Against Communism - 19. Atomic Doom' (American trading card from Bowman Gum's 'Fight the Red Menace' series. United States of America, 1951).
03:52 UTC
Operation Castle brave, March 1st 1954
Isn’t it beautiful
10:04 UTC
The first atmospheric nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, January 27, 1951
12:54 UTC
A relatively unseen photo of the atomic mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, taken from Kataitaichi, six miles east of Hiroshima, minutes after detonation, 6 August 1945.
01:36 UTC
Fun for young and old... drop an A-bomb. It was certainly a different time to live in.
17:53 UTC
Trident II Stages 1/2/3 + Equipment Section.
THIS VIDEO IS A TRIDENT II Ignition + SAF; Stage 1 boost phase; Stage 1 separation + Stage 2 ignition; Stage 2 boost phase: https://youtu.be/d720RtazLfA?si=abk-WKm4u7dTYxkt
THIS VIDEO IS PROBABLY A FALCON 9 [Stage 2 separation + Stage 3 ignition has just happened]; Stage 3 boost phase; Stage 3 separation (backing motor) + PBCS ignition; Stage 3 re-entry + PBCS coarse thrust: https://youtu.be/N5EH-MIDKuY?si=E5REawo6fv2k4JvC
EDIT: Although it looks precisely like a Trident II launch would, including staging, someone pointed out that the second video may be a SpaceX launch of Iridium satellites, on this trajectory: https://imgur.com/a/KjqNcZM
EDIT 2: Second video is almost certainly a Falcon 9. Thanks for the corrections everyone.
18:11 UTC
Images of the first and last nuclear devices ever detonated by the United States: The 20 kiloton Gadget, fired in 1945 during the Trinity test, and the 100 kiloton W91, fired in 1992 during the Divider test of operation Julin.
07:09 UTC
M38A1-D armed with a Davy Crockett Nuclear Rifle
16:53 UTC
Me standing at ground zero in Nagasaki in 1990.
06:31 UTC
Trinity mushroom cloud
The Trinity test mushroom cloud in the early morning of July 16, 1945. A very rare photograph but a remarkable one.
07:42 UTC
Tumbler-Snapper test 1 Millisecond After Detonation 1952
07:06 UTC
Nuclear 101
Just watched the first part, i can only recommend it.
23:49 UTC
Some speculation on the nature of the B61 thermonuclear gravity bomb
12:22 UTC