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My name is Alexander Mikhalchenko and this is my nuclear-themed blog. Here I share interesting and rare materials.

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Dec 23, 2024
If you would like to purchase high resolution photos of nuclear tests, military aircraft, missiles and nuclear subs, please email me and request a catalog with 720 preview photos. The result of my archival research since 2012. [email protected]
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Apr 19, 2025
Birthday cake for radioactive waste manager.
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Aug 16, 2025
The bow sonar sphere of a U.S. Navy Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine during assembly or maintenance.
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Jul 3, 2024
«Mohawk» thermonuclear test, 360 kilotons, 90 m tower, Eniwetok Atoll. 3 July, 1956. High speed photos. First milliseconds.
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Aug 21, 2024
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Jul 3, 2025
French thermonuclear explosion «Licorne», 914 kilotons, balloon 500 m, Mururoa Atoll, 3 July 1970.
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Oct 1, 2022
A B-52 Stratofortress aircraft pilot wears a nuclear flash-blindness goggle designed by Sandia lab, 1970s
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Oct 23, 2024
The soft nylon carrying bag for a W54 nuclear warhead with a yield varied from 0.1 to 1 kiloton.
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Apr 26, 2023
«Castle Union» thermonuclear test, 6.9 Mt, Bikini atoll, 26 April 1954.
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Jul 29, 2020
This 3.2 cm diameter Plutonium-238 oxide sphere produces 100 Watts (thermal), without any external energy input — simply as a result of radioactive decay.
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Mar 1, 2025
«Castle Bravo» thermonuclear explosion, 15 Megatons, Bikini Atoll, 6:45 a.m. March 1, 1954. Best photos.
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Jul 16, 2025
80 years ago, on July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion «Trinity» was conducted by the United States.
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Nov 5, 2025
A view of an atomic blast, 31 kilotons, from 88 km away. Nevada, 5 November 1951.
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Mar 27, 2024
«Castle Romeo» thermonuclear explosion, 11 Megatons, Bikini atoll, 27 March 1954.
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