Test nuclear weapons - '71

• nuclear weapons testing - 71 year

Since the first atomic explosion, code-named "Trinity", July 16, 1945, there have been almost two thousand tests of nuclear bombs, and most of them took place in 60-70s. When this technology was new, tests were carried out often, and the spectacle they were something else. All of them have led to the development of a new and powerful nuclear weapons. But since the 1990s, governments of various countries have begun to limit future tests - to take at least US moratorium and the UN Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Do we have to behave like our hosts a stockpile of nuclear weapons?

We collected photos of the first 30 years of testing nuclear bombs.

Nuclear test Upshot-Knothole Grable, Nevada May 25, 1953. 280 milimmetrovy nuclear missile flew from M65 gun detonated in the air - about 150 meters above the ground - and produced a burst of power of 15 kilotons. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Open the wiring of a nuclear device, code-named The Gadget (unofficial name Trinity Project) - the first test of an atomic explosion. The device is prepared for the explosion, which occurred on July 16, 1945. (U.S. Department of Defense)

The shadow of the Director of National Laboratory Los Alamos Jay Robert Oppenheimer overseeing the assembly of Gadget projectile. (U.S. Department of Defense)

200-ton steel container "Jumbo" used in the "Trinity", was made to recover plutonium, when the explosive is not suddenly start a chain reaction. As a result, Jumbo is not useful, but it is placed close to the epicenter, to measure the effects of an explosion. Jumbo survived the explosion, which can not be said about its support frame. (U.S. Department of Defense)

The increasing fireball and shock wave of the explosion, "Trinity" at 0, 025 seconds after the explosion, July 16, 1945. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Photos explosion "Trinity" with prolonged exposure a few seconds after the detonation. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Fireball "mold" of the first atomic explosion in the world. (U.S. Department of Defense)

The US military is watching an explosion during Operation "Crossroads" at Bikini Atoll July 25, 1946. It was the fifth atomic explosion after the first two test and two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Nuclear mushroom and spray pole in the sea during the test of a nuclear bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It was the first underwater test atomic explosion. After the explosion, several former military ships ran aground. (AP Photo)

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A huge mushroom cloud after the explosion of a bomb at Bikini Atoll July 25, 1946. Dark spots in the foreground - the ships are placed especially on detonation wave the way to see what she would do with them. (AP Photo)

16 November 1952 the bomber B-36H dropped an atomic bomb on the northern part of the island Runit on Eniwetok Atoll. The result is an explosion power of 500 kilotons and a diameter of 450 meters. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Operation "Greenhouse" was held in the spring of 1951. It consisted of four explosions in the Pacific nuclear test site in the Pacific. This is a photo of the third test under the code name "George", held May 9, 1951. It was the first explosion, which burned deuterium and tritium. Power - 225 kilotons. (U.S. Department of Defense)

"rope trick" of a nuclear explosion, captured in less than one millisecond after the explosion. During "Operation Tumbler-Snapper" in 1952, it is a nuclear device was suspended 90 meters above the Nevada desert on a hawser. With the proliferation of plasma radiated energy cables overheated and evaporate over a fireball, with the result that received these "spies". (U.S. Department of Defense)

During the operation "Apshot-Nothol" dummies group seated in the dining room at home to experience the effects of a nuclear explosion on the houses and the people. March 15, 1953. (AP Photo / Dick Strobel)

This is what happened after the nuclear blast with them. (U.S. Department of Defense)

In the same house number two on the second floor on the bed lay another mannequin. In the house is visible 90-meter-high steel tower, which was soon to explode a nuclear bomb. The purpose of the test explosion - show the people what would happen if a nuclear explosion occurs in an American city. (AP Photo / Dick Strobel)

Damaged bedroom window and disappeared God knows where blankets after the test explosion of an atomic bomb March 17, 1953. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Mannequins representing a typical American family, living in a test house №2 on the territory of the Nevada nuclear test site. (AP Photo)

The same "family" after the explosion. Someone scattered all over the living room, someone just lost. (U.S. Department of Defense)

During the operation, "Plummet" at the Nevada nuclear test site 30 August 1957 bomb detonated by a ball in the desert Yucca Flat at an altitude of 228 meters. (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

The test explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation "Redwing" over Bikini Atoll May 20, 1956. (AP Photo)

Ionization glow around the cooling fireball in the desert Yucca at 4:30 am July 15, 1957. (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

The flash of an exploding nuclear "air-to-air" missiles warheads at 7:30 am July 19, 1957 at the airbase Indian Springs, 48 ​​km from the explosion site. In the foreground - the same type of aircraft "Scorpio". (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

Fire projectile ball "Priscilla" June 24, 1957 during a series of operations "Plummet". (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

NATO officials observed the explosion during the operation "Boltzmann" May 28, 1957. (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

The rear part of the airship the US Navy after the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada, August 7, 1957. The airship floated in free flight, more than 8 km from the epicenter, when he was overtaken by the blast. There was nobody in the airship. (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

Observers during Hardtack I operation - the explosion of a thermonuclear bomb in 1958. (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

tests "Arkansas" - part of the operation "Dominique" - a series of more than a hundred explosions in Nevada, and the Pacific Ocean in 1962. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Fire test test balloon "Aztec" is part of "Operation Dominic" in Nevada. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Part of a series of high-altitude nuclear tests Fishbowl Bluegill - explosion capacity of 400 kilotonnes in the atmosphere at an altitude of 48 km above the Pacific Ocean. View from above. October 1962. (U.S. Department of Defense)

The rings around the nuclear mushroom during a test project Yeso in 1962. (U.S. Department of Defense)

Sedan Crater formed after the explosion of 100 kilotons of explosives at a depth of 193 meters under the loose deposits of the desert in Nevada, July 6, 1962. Crater turned 97 meters deep and 390 meters in diameter. (National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office)

Photo nuclear explosion French government on Mururoa Atoll in 1971. (AP Photo)

The same nuclear explosion at Mururoa Atoll. (Pierre J. / CC BY NC SA)

"Survivor city" was built in the 2286 meters from the epicenter of nuclear explosion capacity of 29 kilotons. The house has remained virtually intact. "Survivor town" consisted of homes, office buildings, shelters, energy sources, communications, radio stations and "residential" vans. Test codenamed Apple II was held May 5, 1955. (U.S. Department of Defense)