really cool link

hell no, we wont glow

in 45, this must have been incedible

Awesome.

'Suddenly, without any sound, the whole world lit up. When I came to my senses, I was lying on the ground with my back to where the light was coming from. I put my hands over my eyes to protect them and I could see the bones in my fingers. It was as if I was looking at an X-ray.

Happy Birthday to nuclear fallout.

Knocking on your front door

Cool part was how the radiation fucked up the locals -- forcing future tests to blow up tiny uninhabited pacific islands instead.

Knocking on your front door


That house just evaporated
Shit!

This is a beautiful collection of test footage, with nice features like the boiling ocean, half inch steel plate bending like a sheet of rubber around battleship decks and pressure tanks, space explosions, troops running around around under a mushroom cloud, the plasma bubble....

This is a good underground test that shows the shockwave clearly through the surface and lakes, and leaves no doubt that if you were standing on the ground the vibration would strip your flesh.