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Critical Infrastructure, High Consequence / High Integrity Systems, Space, Nuclear, Mathematics, Public Health, HPC
This is a fabulous book! I highly recommend it to anyone who loves cats or is owned by one! It has stickers too!
24.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
NERVA Reactor NRX A1
24.11.2025 00:40 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application)
23.11.2025 10:13 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A few more neat Nuclear Rocket Engine graphics for the 1960s
23.11.2025 02:42 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Archives Caption: New employees on the job - Donald E Hegberg of the nuclear reactor division discusses nuclear rocket fuel element experiment with Charles l Younger - the discussion is prepatory to conducting the experiment at the plum brook station reactor facility
23.11.2025 02:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wow! Some hardcore 1960s Nuclear Engineering vibe going down in this photograph! Neat nuclear rocket engine diagram in background too!
23.11.2025 02:05 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Weird, this aircraft reactor model almost looks more like a weapon than a reactor model
23.11.2025 00:58 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Beautiful color photo of Phoebus 1B Nuclear Rocket Engines developed by Los Alamos
23.11.2025 00:22 — 👍 41 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Proposed Evolution of Nuclear Rocket Engines
From Kiwi, NERVA, to Rift
NERVA Nuclear Rocket Engine
23.11.2025 00:12 — 👍 63 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
True, though we certainly had emergency capability weapons that could and would be used if needed both pre and post Ivy Mike Shot. Some neat tidbits from your archives on Tx-14
22.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As I get closer to the launch of my new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY, I have started to really in earnest update some pages relating to it. Here is one that contains photos relating to the book — some well-known, some unusual/rare. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
20.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
New free post up on 3 ways, over 13 years, of Nuclear Museum exhibition of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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#PhDLife
I was unpleasantly surprised.
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Euro-Deterrent: Analysis of Proposals for a European Nuclear Arsenal (CNSIS Paper)
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Evaluation of the Huron King Test Chamber Area 3
Nevada Test Site
Evaluation of the Huron King Test Chamber Area 3
Nevada Test Site
Evaluation of the Huron King Test Chamber Area 3
Nevada Test Site
Evaluation of the Huron King Test Chamber Area 3
Nevada Test Site
Evaluation of the Huron King Test Chamber Area 3
Nevada Test Site
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My weekly post.
15.11.2025 18:27 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
From Stewardship to Transformation: Toward a Nuclear Enterprise for the 21st Century
Note: some very interesting tidbits. A must read for all nuclear wonks! www.osti.gov/servlets/pur...
White and gray Zooey sits on the piano, Jose on the bench, and orange tabby Luca on the windowsill. A painting of flowers is in the background, and Zooey's new bed is on the floor.
Requesting some sun, pls
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Today in 1952—November 16, local time—the United States conducted the Ivy KING nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Northern Pacific Ocean. A B-36H bomber flying from Kwajalein Atoll dropped an 8,600-pound device, which exploded 1,480 feet above Runit Island with a yield of 500 kilotons.
15.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 2
“Energy Secretary Chris Wright, National Nuclear Security Administration leader Brandon M. Williams and officials from the US National Laboratories are planning to inform the White House that they do not think blowing up weapons for nuclear warhead testing—as Trump suggested last month—is tenable …”
14.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 44 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3
Legend!
14.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Los Alamos National Laboratory - National Security Science
Winter 2025 The Nevada Issue
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Others are a little less noticeable.
Note the stairs and lights
Inverted images are very common some more obvious then others. case in point
13.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Answers from underground Subcritical experiments below the Nevada desert ensure reliable nuclear weapons!
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