After working at the test site a few years back and a visit to the Atomic Testing Museum, I did some rooting around for blast footage. I am facinated by the whole cold war nuclear program. I think I was born 40 years to late

http://www.vce.com/AtomicGallery/AtomicGallery.html

 

 

An atomic CANON?


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Anybody have any information on that one?

 

I remember the tail end of it late 50's early 60's way too well, and it was actually kind of frightening.
I live in Southern California and within a few miles from here there are quite a few abandon (?) Nike missle silos hidden in the hills around me.
I think one problem is because I am technically inclined and I knew too much for my own good.
But I remember the bomb shelters, air raid drills, and the communist propaganda real well.

Check back a few days ago on the post about the Hemi Horn and check the air raid siren.

 

Yeah The atomic atrillery shell is one bad customer huh? The device was called little feller. It was fired from a 280mm cannon. Here is more than you ever wanted to know. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/

The biggest nuclear device ever detonated was called tsar bomba, russian for king of bombs. The soviets buit a 100MT device and scaled it down to 50mt. It was all a show of force for the west. It was so big that it caused 3rd degree burns at 110km. I love to study this stuff!

 

What you do not know is of the several Icbm stationed in Europe. Yes I have seen the bunkers, no I do not know if they are loaded, don't want to find out either!!!

I nearly passed out when I saw a test at Vandenburg 2 years ago from my parents place in Eldorado Hills Ca east of Sacramento!!!! I thought Oh Crap, this is it and China will return with theirs in 20 minutes or so, kiss your butt goodbye!!!!!

Cold war thinking can bring up a whole bunch of wierd ideas.

Rick

 

I remember one night in I think it was in April of 1961 earlier that evening we had just watched the president Kennedy's address the nation on television about the grave state with the soviet union, cuba and some missle bases. AKA Bay of Pigs.
(when the president appeared on the TV, there was something not good going on)
Anyhow it was about 10:00 PM, when the air raid sirens went off.
Talk about a painc, Man we all thought that was the end. I can still remember what that sickening wail from that siren sounded like.
For some reason the sirens had shorted out and went off, it took about 10 minuets to get it figured out and sound the ALL CLEAR

The sirens were tested the last friday of each month at 10:00 A.M.
I could never figure out what if we were attack when they were being tested?
I loved military aircraft and ICBM delivery systems and learned all I could about them.
The B-58 Hustler medium bomber that were used on the SAC DEW line in Alsaka carried a 50 megaton hydrogen bomb in the weapons pod, they also had a "fail safe" system where they entered a code. When they got the "GO " the bomb was delivered and there was nothing that would stop it because even the communications were ignored.
http://www.airbornegrafix.com/Histor...ssicAC/B58.htm

Yes scary but it was very intresting.
How many of you know that there is a Doomsday Clock?
I have a bad feeling this may be changing soon.

http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_...rrent_time.htm
Jim

 

Did you work at Groom Lake?
White Sands?

There are alot of ICBM sites here in California that do not exist, that I know where they are at.
Most people who lived in Long Beach never knew why all of the coast facing lights were blacked out (until about 10 years ago). It was about being attacked from the pacific.
I want to visit Cheyenne Mountain Air Station (NORAD)
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joint...force+mao-chan

 

Jim, good read.

It was 1962. I had just got of high school in Texas and moved to Cali. I was working swing shift at the Fuller Brush warehouse in East LA. We didn't do much but hang around a radio that night. I wasn't but 18 years old, but I knew all to well that the first Soviet rockets would target the military, aircraft plants and industrial sites on the west coast. I was a little scary being right in the middle of Ground Zero.

 

in vegas, I met an old guy who was staying in the same hotel as I was... anyhow, he was in a trench in the desert when they lit off that nuke... said a lot of the guys are dead now, but he's still going strong, never any cancer or anything like that. very cool old guy... owned a trucking company some time later, and his son in law has a nice F350, so of course, we got started talkin' trucks too

Forrest

 

There's some Minuteman silos about 20 miles from here in a cornfield. They're still there, and strangely enough the ground around them is still well-kept

 

A little trivia on the atomic cannon. It was tested near Mercury Nevada. Ground zero is a ring of mountains surrounding a valley with a dry lake. On the mountains they had.... still have but unused, bleachers that would hold a few hundred. They used to invite the polititons there to wittness the detionation. Gave them those black glasses with the little hole.

That vally was also the location of some of the first atomic detionations that we older saw on the movie films. The structure of the old motel is still there, signs all over the place "Caution, do not pick up the silica"

 

White you were talking about the minuteman missile. We have active slicks for the minuteman, titan, pegasus, and centaur missiles within 10 miles of my house. We still actively launch minuteman missiles into the marshall islands test range for target practice. We also launched the test vehicles for the star wars program to test the accuracy of missile to missile kills. We also put up commercial and military satellites. After 9-11 we strangely had about 9 launches in a short period to quickly put up several imaging satellites. Wonder why.

 

You guys are scary, every once in a while, we piece together 5 or 6 f18's to make one good one (I think they're f18, Air Farce not Force up here, thanks Liberals), and they fly a test route over Calgary, can't remember last time I saw one though.
Don't listen to the news from Ottawa, lots of Canadians appreciate what the Americans are doing, especially us in the west, God bless and God speed.
Both flags on my house, bothers some, usually the same people who don't like my truck either, they can kiss my edit *


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Unfortunately, sooner or later I think it will be the US and Canada against some strong enemy's, not sure where Mexico would fit, their government is generally antagonistic to us. At that time all the differences will just disappear. Heck we might even get a big French Kiss from the east side of your country