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«Bee» nuclear test, 150 m tower, 8 kilotons, Nevada test site, 5:05 a.m. March 22, 1955. This was a LASL test of a sealed-pit D-T gas boosted XW-25 air defense warhead. Three thousand marines were involved in military exercises.

A D-5 «Trident» II ballistic missile spins out of control after being launched from USS «Tennessee» submarine. March 21, 1989.

A doctor wearing a mask, shirt and apron impregnated with lead to shield him from the effects of a vial of radium in 1936.

House VS 16-kiloton nuclear explosion at a distance of 1100 m. Nevada, March 17, 1953.

An aerial photograph of dump sites with sacks of contaminated radioactive soil after the Fukushima nuclear accident. 2015.

11 March 2011 an earthquake cut power to the Fukushima NPP, and a tsunami wiped out emergency generators. The resultant loss of reactor core cooling led to 3 nuclear meltdowns, 3 hydrogen explosions. The result was the most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster.

The regional winners of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle-sponsored «Miss Brooklyn» pageant participate in the Brooklyn Civil Defense Day recruiting rally. 1951.

«Turk» nuclear test, 150 m tower, 43 kilotons, Nevada test site, 5:20 a.m. March 7, 1955. About 500 soldiers watched the explosion from trenches 5 km away.

Military personnel working with equipment at the Semipalatinsk test site in preparation for a nuclear test. 1950s.

How it works: British bomber Avro «Vulcan» B1. 1958.

Ukrainian specialists dismantle the last Tu-22M3 «Backfire» strategic bomber at an airbase outside the Ukrainian city of Poltava on January 27, 2006.

On March 4, 1961 for the first time in the world the Soviet «A» anti-missile defense system B-1000 intercepted and destroyed the warhead of the R-12 ballistic missile flying at a speed of more than 3 km/s at an altitude of 25 km.

In this aerial image, 80 m deep and 2 km wide «Castle Bravo» crater is seen on January 27, 2014 in Bikini Atoll. The crater was created on March 1, 1954, when a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated.

«Castle Bravo» thermonuclear explosion, 15 Megatons, Bikini atoll, March 1, 1954. The most powerful nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.

«Vulcan» bombers flying over the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at RAF Fylingdales, 1970.

«Wasp» nuclear test, 1.2 kilotons, 230 m above Yucca Flat, Nevada, 18 February 1955. The implosion system was a sphere 56 cm in diameter but only weighed 54 kg. It was dropped in a Mk-12 bomb case. Observers viewed the detonation from News Nob, 14 km south of ground zero.

«TOPAZ-II» Soviet space nuclear reactor in shipping container being loaded on a U.S. Air Force C-5 aircraft, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1992.

@sentdefender The first? For example, the Soviet nuclear reactor «Topaz 2» was delivered to the United States on a C-5 aircraft in 1992.

“The first-ever airlift of a nuclear reactor and ancillary systems via C-17, opening a wide aperture for strategic nuclear deployment around the World” Three C-17A Globemaster IIIs with the U.S. Air Force’s 62nd and 437th Airlift Wings participated in the transfer Sunday of eight nuclear modules - parts of a “next-generation” miniaturized nuclear reactor built by the El Segundo-based energy startup Valar Atomics - in a Nuclear Energy Initiative conducted jointly by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy dubbed Operation Windlord. The C-17s transported the reactors from March Air Reserve Base near Riverside in Southern California, to Hill Air Force Base, located outside Salt Lake City, Utah, following a ceremony at March which included Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Michael Duffey, the Undersecretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, as well as the Founder of Valar Atomics, entrepreneur Isaiah Taylor. Once on the ground in Utah, the modules, part of Valar Atomics’ Ward250, a next-generation reactor design that uses helium coolant and graphite moderators expected to operational by the 4th of July, will be moved to Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL) in Orangeville for extensive testing and evaluation, under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, established in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14301.

The nuclear icebreaker «Lenin» and the icebreaker «Yermak» in Kola Bay, USSR, 1960. Photo by Mark Redkin.

13 February 1960, France conducted its first nuclear test «Gerboise Bleue» in the Algerian desert. The plutonium bomb was detonated on a steel tower 105 m tall, the yield was 70 kilotons.