Underground atomic bomb detonation.

zoiks

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Most of the sites linking to the video are foreign and in different languages.

According to this spanish site...

The video corresponds to the Cannikin operation that took place in the Amchitka island (Alaska) in 1971. The pump had a power of 5 megatones (385 times more powerful than the pump of Hiroshima) and was detonated to a depth of 1500 meters. The seismograph registered seismic movements of 6´8 in the scale of Richter. 1000 tremors in following the thirty days took place. The explosion raised to the land 7 meters and means and after the experiment this one getting up had left 1 meter and means of as it were previously. It was the underground nuclear pump more powerful than it has been detonated. (most powerful, independently of the place of the explosion, megatones was the Tsar pump with a power of 100.)

The one was east event indeed that gave rise to the birth of Green Peace. The Amchitka island was a place of great ecological importance and the ecologists of the United States and Canada organized themselves to try to avoid at all costs that these tests were carried out.

But they did not obtain it. The test, as we can see in the video, was carried out. The island was made an excrement along with all its flora and fauna, tens of inhabitants died of cancer and the government tried to hide everything what the consequences of the disaster could.

That test took place in 1971, three years after the Treaty of Nuclear nonProliferation
 

Xcobra

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yay...thats a step closer to our death, hurray for technology...
 

Ricemarine

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Originally posted by: Xcobra
yay...thats a step closer to our death, hurray for technology...

Naw, when they nuke underground or near the core... Then it would.
 

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You couldn't even post a summary in your post. What the hell is the matter with you, if it isn't something worth describing it's clearly not worth posting on a public forum. Either stop being lazy or stop posting.
 

ed21x

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Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
You couldn't even post a summary in your post. What the hell is the matter with you, if it isn't something worth describing it's clearly not worth posting on a public forum. Either stop being lazy or stop posting.

the message title should have been enough to clue you in on what the video would be about.
 

zoiks

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Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
You couldn't even post a summary in your post. What the hell is the matter with you, if it isn't something worth describing it's clearly not worth posting on a public forum. Either stop being lazy or stop posting.


The title itself is self explanatory.
 
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that was awesome....they way it sent a massive ripple across the surface of the earth, like it was water...


seriously though, i hope one of these is never fired in anger
 

ForumMaster

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damn...that would be very effective in wiping out nearly anything. but why would any sane government test that out in an inhabited island?
 

So

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1. The Tsar Bomba was 57 megatons.
2. The earth released on itself, just last year, a 100 GIGAton blast http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/20/MNG5CCS82S1.DTL
3. I don't see what the nuclear non proliferation treaty has to do with nuclear arms tests. The partial test ban treaty took effect in 1963 and said nothing, AFAIK WRT underground tests, just oceanic and atmospheric tests.

In summary, the US was acting completely legally when they did this, and it wasn't a HUGE bomb by hydrogen bomb standards.
 

zoiks

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Originally posted by: So
1. The Tsar Bomba was 57 megatons.
2. The earth released on itself, just last year, a 100 GIGAton blast http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/20/MNG5CCS82S1.DTL
3. I don't see what the nuclear non proliferation treaty has to do with nuclear arms tests. The partial test ban treaty took effect in 1963 and said nothing, AFAIK WRT underground tests, just oceanic and atmospheric tests.

In summary, the US was acting completely legally when they did this, and it wasn't a HUGE bomb by hydrogen bomb standards.

Define legally. The detonation was done 3 years after signing the NPT which was in 1968. Basically the treaty defines 3 pillars. Nonproliferation, Disarmament, and the Right to peacefully use nuclear technology. I'm not sure where testing nuclear arms falls within these 3 points.
According to the site, the test wiped out the plants and vegetation on the island and tens of inhabitants died of cancer.
 

So

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Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: So
1. The Tsar Bomba was 57 megatons.
2. The earth released on itself, just last year, a 100 GIGAton blast http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/20/MNG5CCS82S1.DTL
3. I don't see what the nuclear non proliferation treaty has to do with nuclear arms tests. The partial test ban treaty took effect in 1963 and said nothing, AFAIK WRT underground tests, just oceanic and atmospheric tests.

In summary, the US was acting completely legally when they did this, and it wasn't a HUGE bomb by hydrogen bomb standards.

Define legally. The detonation was done 3 years after signing the NPT which was in 1968. Basically the treaty defines 3 pillars. Nonproliferation, Disarmament, and the Right to peacefully use nuclear technology. I'm not sure where testing nuclear arms falls within these 3 points.
According to the site, the test wiped out the plants and vegetation on the island and tens of inhabitants died of cancer.

Definitions of legal on the Web:

* established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

Once again, the NPT said nothing about tests on the part of the existing nuclear powers.