A horrific movie "Trinity" which displays the place where the nuclear test was conducted and the explosion scale in time series on the map

BySteve Snodgrass

From 1945 to 2009, more than 2000 nuclear tests have been conducted to explode nuclear bombs to ascertain the performance of nuclear bombs newly developed around the world. Although there was a case that a hydrogen bomb with a power of 10 times the total explosive quantity used in World War II was exploded in only one shot, there was a case where the bomb exploded experimentally, but when and where such a terrible nucleus A scary movie that displays time series on the map of the plan whether the experiment has been done "Trinity"Is published at Vimeo.

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On July 16, 1945, the code name of the nuclear explosion experiment for the first time in human history was "Trinity". What was used was a nuclear bomb of the same type as that dropped in Nagasaki.


Soon after the experiment of Trinity, nuclear bombs were dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and explosion experiments of nuclear bombs began to be repeated around the world starting in 1945.


On the plane world map, in the experiment site of Socorro, New Mexico, USA,Trinity experimentExplosion type plutonium atomic bomb used for explosion exploded. The place where the experiment was done is indicated by a red circle and the movie in which the details are arranged side by side in the lower left is the movie, details are the date of the experiment, the name of the nuclear bomb, the country where the nuclear test was conducted, the nuclear output value, The coordinates of the place where the nuclear bomb exploded, in the order of.


On August 5, 1945, 15 kilotons of "Little boyExploded in Hiroshima.


Four days later on August 9, 1945, at 21 km of Nagasaki "Fat Man"Was dropped, and damage caused by nuclear attack occurred for the first time by human beings with two nuclear bombs.


After that, the first explosion experiment of nuclear bombs since Nagasaki, on June 30, 1946Bikini AtollThe 21-kiloton "Able" made by the US military at. On July 24, 1946, a pair of 21-kilometer "Baker" experiments were conducted at the same place without a break, and a series of two nuclear testsCrossroad strategyIt is called. Also in 1948 near the Bikini AtollEniwetoku Atollso"Sandstone strategyThree nuclear tests were carried out called "


August 29, 1949, the first time outside the United States of the Soviet Union 21 kilotons "Pervaya Molniya"Semipalatinsk nuclear test siteImplemented in.


In 1951 the United States conducted a nuclear test of 22 kilotons "FOX" following a small nuclear bomb test of several kilometers.


The United States continues to conduct nuclear tests in the same area even after this, and if you search the coordinates "36.822, -115.966" where FOX's nuclear test was conducted on Google Maps, it is possible to display the actual location.


In addition, on October 3, 1952, the UK's first nuclear test "Hurricane strategy"Was held in Montebello Islands, Western Australia. The nuclear bomb that was used at this time is 25 kt.


Also on November 15, 1952, the United States of AmericaIvy strategy"King experiment that exploded 500 kilotons of net fission weapons was carried out. You can see a large red circle on the map.


The following is a picture of the mushroom cloud that actually occurred in the King experiment.


Furthermore, the power of nuclear bombs to be experimented by the United States continues to rise, and in 1954 as a practical hydrogen bomb experimentCastle strategyA total of six nuclear tests called "Bikini Atoll" and "Eniwetoku Atoll" were held. The unit became megaton instead of kiloton, and the nuclear output of a single nuclear bomb was up to 15 megatons. By this experimentFifth Fukuryo MaruThe incident is happening.


A state of mushroom clouds of the 11 megaton Romeo experiment.


The Soviet Union also launched a large-scale nuclear test, and among them, "October 30, 1961"Tsari BombaIs a nuclear test using the largest hydrogen bomb in human history, its power is 50 megatons, 3,300 times that of Little Boy. It is said to have ten times the power of the total explosive charge used in World War II.


The size of the red circle visually represents the power of the nuclear bomb, but the red circle covers the whole of Europe, and if it fails, many countries may have erased.


The experiment was conductedNova YazemuraA place called.


An experiment of the underground nuclear test conducted by the United States from 1971 to 1972Grommet Strategy"Is started and the place where the experiment is performed is indicated with a brown circle. 6th November 1971Amcitoka IslandIn the Canyan experiment conducted at the 5 th Megaton nuclear bomb which was the largest in the underground nuclear test was used.


Nuclear tests have been conducted not only in the US - Soviet Union but all over the world, and on October 6, 1983, China conducted underground nuclear tests with nuclear bombs of 14.1 megatons in China.


The place is here.


And, at the present age, the most recent nuclear test was that North Korea exploded a 230 kiloton nuclear bomb on May 25, 2009. Since 1945 worldwideMore than 2000 nuclear testsIt is said that if you sum up all the energy, it will be equal to over 35,000 Little Boy.