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Operation Cue

Operation Cue-Shot
Letter to participants: I enclose the reproduction of a color photograph of the Operation Cue Shot at Las Vegas on May 5, 1955.

Installation of a camera station facing a Behlen building located 6,800 ft a way from the Apple-2 GZ (FCDA 1955a). That a hefty camera mount!

Volunteers for Position Baker (FCDA 1955a).

Servicemen with Marguerite Piazza as Miss Cue at the Sands Hotel on May 1, 1955 (Photo credit: University of Nevada Las Vegas Special Collections, Sands Hotel Photograph Collection, digital identifier sho000582).

Beautiful!

Myths of nuclear graphite in World War II, with original
translations
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USNI Archives Photo of the Week

ASS missile tracking radars decorated as jack-o-lanterns for Halloween 1986 aboard the USNS Point Loma (T-AGDS-2).

Credit: Official U.S. Navy Photograph

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Artifacts from Apple-2 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Interesting to see whiskey and beer can.

Low Yield Nuclear Monitoring
Physics Experiment 1 - Integrated Data Acquisition System Design and Initial
Observations
2/2
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Low Yield Nuclear Monitoring
Physics Experiment 1 - Integrated Data Acquisition System Design and Initial
Observations
1/2
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Fission gas trapped in Chornobyl fuel microparticles reveals details of reactor operations
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A black and white photograph showing the original BMEWS mechanical radar at Thule Air Base (now known as Pituffik Space Base) in the background while in the foreground stands a warmly dressed Inuit man on the ice and snow next to his qamutit or wooden sled, his sled dogs resting to the left.

65 years ago today, the newly operational USAF Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) radar at Thule, Greenland, mistook the rising Moon for a huge Soviet nuclear attack—triggering a false alarm while Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was in New York City attending the UN General Assembly.

A low-resolution screenshot from a declassified color film showing a low-level aerial look at three Jupiter IRBMs deployed at Gioia Del Colle Air Base.

A color map titled "Jupiter IRBM Emplacements—Gioia Del Colle Air Base, 1960-1963" adapted from a map in an official document showing the location of all the Jupiter missiles deployed at Gioia Del Colle Air Base in Italy from 1960-63 (numbered in the order in which they were activated), along with the date the missiles were activated and deactivated and the driving distance to each location from Gioia Del Colle.

65 years ago today—during warhead installation and checkout operations on a US Air Force Jupiter IRBM at Gioia Del Colle Air Base in southeastern Italy—three explosive bolts accidentally fired due to a power surge, causing the nose cone and 1.4-Megaton W49 warhead to fall 6 to 10 feet to the ground.

Did the United States Just Commit to Defending Qatar? Extended deterrence continues to be a hot topic in 2025.

New from me: on the bizarre new executive order pledging to defend Qatar and what I see as two big problems with it panda.substack.com/p/did-the-un...

Screenshot of a Powerpoint slide. The title is "Strategic Effects." It has three bullet points: 1. The physical employment of nuclear weapons at any level requires explicit orders from the President. 2. Nuclear weapons are unique in their destructive power and psychological impact. 3. The use of nuclear weapons represents a significant escalation from conventional warfare. There is then an incongruous illustration: a screenshot of the game MISSILE COMMAND for the Atari 5200 (1982).

Wild illustration choice in this slide from training materials for ICBM launch officers, ca. 2010

The US government is shut down, but we still have ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons on 400 Minuteman III ICBMs, 280 Trident II D5/LE SLBMs (on 14 Ohio-class SSBNs), ~65 B-52H and B-2A bombers, and at six bases in five NATO Europe states, plus ~1,930 more warheads in the reserve force. So, no worries!

Report: DOE is in the midst of a historic labor shortage A recent analysis shows that even offices managing nuclear and fossil energy projects don’t have enough staff to disburse funds.

Seems bad
"DOE reels from unprecedented staff loss"
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FOIA RELEASE: B53-1 Special Study (It's Not Safe Enough!) | Martin Pfeiffer Get more from Martin Pfeiffer on Patreon

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In which I discussed released document, B53 9MT nuclear bomb, & ask what nuclear weapons safety means in this moment.

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Listeria found in Walmart meatball meals may be linked to deadly fettuccine outbreak Federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain heat-and-eat beef meatball pasta meals sold at Walmart stores nationwide

Listeria found in Walmart meatball meals may be linked to deadly fettuccine outbreak
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After massive shrimp recalls, the FDA finds radioactive contamination in spices too Federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in spices exported from Indonesia

After massive shrimp recalls, the FDA finds radioactive contamination in spices too
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Energy Dep Sec James Danly diamond-stamped the 1st Production Unit of the canned subassembly for the W80-4 warhead at Y-12.
More diamond stamping showmanship, as a quality engineer should be only one stamping components. Also, don’t think they can even show canned subassembly most likely classified

Why President Trump should put off the new nuclear arms race for one more year Extending the New START nuclear arms control treaty by a year, even informally, would be a security and diplomatic win for the United States.

I really appreciate the @thebulletin.org publishing my thoughts on why Trump should accept Putin’s offer to extend New START nuclear caps for one more year.

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US does not need more nukes (yet) to deter China and if we race, Russia could build more than US can.

Inventing the Doomsday Machine Tracing the idea of a weapon to automatically destroy the world

Here's a post I've wanted to write up for awhile, tracing the history of the idea of a "Doomsday Machine," from fact to fiction (or maybe it was always, to some degree, fiction): doomsdaymachines.net/p/inventing-...

On this day in '64, the TIME nuclear issue.

80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings: Revisiting the Record Washington, D.C., September 25, 2025 - Newly published documents and photographs concerning the radiation and blast effects of the August 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide graphic detail...

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A color photograph of President Bill Clinton signing the Comprehensive Nucear-Test-Ban Treaty at a desk during a ceremony at the United Nations on September 24, 1996. A small UN flag is on the desk in the foreground.

Today in 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty opened for signature at the United Nations. President Bill Clinton signed that day, as did representatives of 70 other states, including nuclear-weapon states China, France, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom.

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