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Nuclear-armed Thor missile explodes and burns on the launch pad at Johnston Island during the failed "Bluegill Prime" nuclear test, July 25, 1962
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Johnston Island Launch Emplacement One (LE1) after a Thor missile launch failure and explosion contaminated the island with Plutonium during the Operation "Bluegill Prime" nuclear test, July, 1962
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Inspection of Thor rocket engine remains on Johnston Island after failure of "Bluegill Prime" nuclear test attempt, July 1962
https://youtu.be/2dfmsBOuoRM
Just realized this faction was a heavily armed xenophobic group and they were called boomers, it all makes sense now.
Posted this before:
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The 9 megaton W53 thermonuclear warhead from a Titan II ICBM that exploded in its silo in 1980.
Was it only a partial detonation? I would have expected things to look a lot more annihilated than that.
Warhead didn't detonate - that's it sitting there looking like a propane tank.
The explosion was a result of the highly explosive fuel used in the rockets leaking out and exploding when met with a spark from a worker's tools.
https://youtu.be/Plt6UgVo9x4
isn't it amazing we know more about nuclear warheads and how to keep them self and not self-detonate suddenly, but our rockets are still tubes full of explodey stuff
Based UP.
Can't wait to see the last of the giants rolling again. Now if only we could get 1218 lit up again.
To be fair we've also gotten a lot better at making rockets not explode. It happens maybe three or four times a year (not counting prototype/trials launches), unlike the 50% kaboom rate we saw on Titan II era rockets.
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A soldier prays at a mass grave for Shia soldiers from Camp Speicher
https://imgur.com/a/LucyNk7
Me and a few friends did some urbex on the Airfield Rangsdorf.
Here's some information about this place
https://youtu.be/GmIoZxdwLTY
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Decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, aircraft and other equipment abandoned in the aftermath continue to rust across its former territories. Taken in 2006, the three aircraft seen here are Antonov An-28s in Tajikistan, formerly used to shuttle passengers across the mountainous country. These planes still bear their original Aeroflot livery and Soviet aircraft registrations, and simply never returned to service after the USSR's collapse.
Soviet stuff has to be the most fascinating shit. Since its conception it's all been hidden in secrecy and there's so much shit just abandoned, waiting to tell their stories.
There's so much abandoned stuff because they went overkill with the services in some places without the population to justify it - like those planes. When state subsidies dried up and ticket prices rose, the demand logically dropped and bam company fails.
Anyways, have a bus used for public transportation in Belgrade
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7840/32100233427_3001dcf3c7_h.jpg
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https://gfycat.com/equalinfatuatedbee
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https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/216541/f754a0c4-19a5-43d4-b94f-940e49619e46/honeycombrain.jpg
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Big geometric concrete shapes
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/309789216571916290/545509704718221315/12633551_1299749053384773_8675389524370883081_o.jpg
Two T1's and a Niagra, presumably in '46 because the T's still have all their sheet metal and in good shape.
Visions of a better place.
You know, I read that, but it honestly didn't register in my head for some reason.
Man, looking at that bus reminds me of that time Japan donated some buses to Serbia (when it was still called FR Yugoslavia):
https://www.serbianwalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2708.jpg
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OECe2vPLfF8/V9R65M_bo-I/AAAAAAAACfA/GWP8wy4HkEITrR9bsARy5x4h9bJ_AeQQACLcB/s1600/IMG_1747.JPG
I wonder how many of these buses still roam the streets of Belgrade, since they'd be around for about 16 years at this point.
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