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Credit goes to "Atomic Journeys - Welcome To
Ground Zero" for this video-sequence.
Keep comments civil.
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Thanks to PanzerStephenwolf and MegaJaMs for
providing me with more accurate information
about this video. :) Thanks.
And I can't promise that the video
information that's posted here is 100%
accurate either. Please have that in mind.
(Wikipedia can't be used as a definite
reference anyway)
First: This is detonated at least 6000 feet
into the ground (roughly 2000 meters).
"This footage is from Project Cannikin, which
was merely a proof-test for the 5 megaton
warhead to be used on the Spartan missile
system. Researchers were fearful of such a
large device being detonated underground, so
the testing was moved to way out in the
middle of nowhere on the Amchitka penninsula
in Alaska.
The effect on the ground was necessary, and
predicted, to see its pulse effect."
"The blast registered a 7.0 on the Richter
scale and caused a subsidence crater over a
mile wide and 60 feet deep, which filled with
water and became the largest lake on the
island. Rockfalls, containing over 46,000
square yards of material, smothered
intertidal marine life. Nearly three hundred
deceased rock greenling fish were found
offshore, and subsequent catches of rock sole
declined substantially
. The remains of over 10,000 three-spined
sticklebacks and 700 Dolly Varden were found
in the island's lakes, streams, and ponds.
Perhaps 1,000 sea otters were killed, their
skulls fractured by the force of the blast
driving their eyeballs through the bones
behind their sockets. Harlequin ducks were
found with their backs broken and their legs
driven into their bodies by the force of the
explosion."
And should people decide to post "junk
comments" (which I personaly will determine),
said comment will be removed without
informing the author. Either you like it, or
you don't. Your problem.
Tags : Hydrogen Bomb Underground test Detonation Project Cannikin |
