US nuke program engineering and history, recently released docs

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http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb498/

I've always followed the US nuke programs, having a smaller bit part in the engineering along the way. This was interesting stuff for me. I worked briefly with two of the guys in the video. I was a jr engineer, and they were working on stuff that was way beyond stuff I was contributing, but it was nice to see a couple of the old guard up there.

Every American should take a few minutes and thank these guys for their work in the 50s and 60s. Because of them, and a lot of guys like them, the US is one of the safest places on the planet. There is literally no country in the world that can intimidate us and the stuff they did is large reason why.
 
Always / Never, very interesting. Great footage.
 
docmirror said:
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb498/

I've always followed the US nuke programs, having a smaller bit part in the engineering along the way. This was interesting stuff for me. I worked briefly with two of the guys in the video. I was a jr engineer, and they were working on stuff that was way beyond stuff I was contributing, but it was nice to see a couple of the old guard up there.

Every American should take a few minutes and thank these guys for their work in the 50s and 60s. Because of them, and a lot of guys like them, the US is one of the safest places on the planet. There is literally no country in the world that can intimidate us and the stuff they did is large reason why.
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Be sure and look up accidents, crashes of U.S. airforce planes ( B47s and B52s ) with atomic weapons on board. There are some real close calls involved , some involving a great deal of luck. It's most fortunate one or two did not explode. The one off the coast of South Carolina was never found.
 
Jimmy cooper said:
Be sure and look up accidents, crashes of U.S. airforce planes ( B47s and B52s ) with atomic weapons on board. There are some real close calls involved , some involving a great deal of luck. It's most fortunate one or two did not explode. The one off the coast of South Carolina was never found.
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It's covered in one of the videos.

From one of the unclassified documents. First report of the Trinity blast from gen Groves(chief of the program)

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/36.pdf

Fascinating stuff.
 
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is a good read
 
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