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Plumbbob Hood
Plumbbob ''Hood'', also known by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency as Shot ''HOOD'', was a top-secret Nuclear testing, nuclear test conducted in Area 9 of the Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site (NTS) on July 5, 1957, as part of Operation Plumbbob, a series of nuclear tests. The shot was one the largest ever carried out by the Federal government of the United States, Government of the United States at the time, and the largest atmospheric detonation at the NTS. Background The ''Hood'' nuclear device was sponsored, designed, and built for the United States Atomic Energy Commission by the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL). The primary objective of the test was to evaluate nuclear yield and blast, thermal, and radiation phenomena. To fulfill this objective, UCRL and the Los Alamos National Laboratory fielded scientific and diagnostic experiments to study the characteristics of the detonation. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project of the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushroom Cloud
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke, and usually condensed water vapour resulting from a large explosion. The effect is most commonly associated with a nuclear explosion, but any sufficiently energetic detonation or deflagration will produce a similar effect. They can be caused by powerful conventional weapons, including thermobaric weapons such as the Father of All Bombs, ATBIP and GBU-43/B MOAB. Some Eruption column, volcanic eruptions and impact events can produce natural mushroom clouds. Mushroom clouds result from the sudden formation of a large volume of lower-density gases at any altitude, causing a Rayleigh–Taylor instability. The buoyant mass of gas rises rapidly, resulting in turbulent vortices curling downward around its edges, forming a temporary vortex ring that draws up a central column, possibly with smoke, debris, condensed water vapor, or a combination of these, to form the "mushroom stem". The mass of gas plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
