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Hacker News May 21

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test

#HackerNews #LostImages #TrinityNuclearTest #NuclearHistory #Restoration #Technology

Lost Images From the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project

IEEE Spectrum

N-gated Hacker News May 18

🚀🔬 Ah, the noble pursuit of finding shiny rocks in nuclear rubble! Scientific American presents groundbreaking news about crystals from a 1945 explosion—because who doesn't love a 78-year-old science fair project? 🙄💎
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-nuclear-bomb-test/ #scientificdiscovery #crystalresearch #nuclearhistory #1945explosion #shinyrocks #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated

Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it

Scientific American

ESEH May 8

#Symposium - 40 years after #chornobyl, the MWNO and the Aleksanteri-instituutti - Aleksanteri Institute want to reflect on historical constellations and aftereffects of man-made disasters with a focus on nuclear, military and petrocultures in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia from the Cold War until today.

May 28th, 2026, 12:45 pm EET
Helsinki and online

You can consult the program of the symposium here: https://mwseasteurope.hypotheses.org/files/2026/05/Program-28th-of-May-Man-Made-Disasters.pdf

To participate, please, register in advance: https://shorturl.at/5kKCT

#mwno #MWS #environmentalhistory #chernobyl #NuclearHistory

Folke Bernadotte Apr 11

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While the world was watching the 1970s disco era, a satellite over the Indian Ocean caught a "double flash" that changed the Cold War forever. 🛰️💥 Most people know the spy stories, but the real "Project Samson" is a masterpiece of high-tech shadows and deep-sea silence. 🧵
#NuclearHistory #VelaIncident #Geopolitics #ColdWar #SamsonOption

Folke Bernadotte Apr 11

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Ever wondered how the USSR built an atomic bomb just 4 years after the US? 💣 Everyone in the West expected it to take a decade or more. But in 1949, "First Lightning" shocked the world. Was it brilliance, theft, or something darker? Let’s dive in. 🧵
#History #ColdWar #Science #NuclearHistory #RDS1

ESEH Mar 1

Call for Submissions: The Inaugural William Burr Prize in Nuclear History

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), in partnership with McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP), is pleased to announce the launch of the William Burr Prize.

For full eligibility requirements, submission deadlines, and nomination procedures, please visit the official announcement on the SHAFR website.

#nuclearHistory #envhist #internationalRelations

https://www.shafr.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2025&month=12&day=20&id=392%253Acall-for-submissions-the-william-burr-prize-in-nuclear-history

Call for Submissions: The William Burr Prize in Nuclear History

Bryan F Wilson Feb 25

Hersey's Hiroshima: 6 survivors. 1 bomb. Still the most powerful argument against nuclear war ever written. Essential reading for every generation. #HistoryClass #NuclearHistory #EduTwitter

http://bfwclassroom.com/2026/02/25/bookreview-hiroshima/

War, More War, and War Without End

This month marks the 4 year anniversary of the Russia invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the 16 year anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Donbas Region. It made me think of when I r…

BFWClassroom

DoomsdaysCW Jan 9

So, thank the gods for the @internetarchive ! When the #HistoricIpswich website recently went defunct, they had snapshots of most of the pages and historic photographs! Creating PDFs of some of the materials that I thought were gone forever, like this gem!

Yes, they wanted to build a #NuclearMissile silo AND a #NuclearPowerPlant in #IpswichMA! (They built the #NuclearPlant in #SeabrookNH instead)!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210917224630/https://historicipswich.org/2020/01/16/nuclear-ipswich/

#NoNukes #NuclearHistory #MassachusettsHistory #IpswichMassachusetts #NorthShoreHistory

Nuclear Ipswich, 1967-1970

In 1967, Ipswich was proposed as a site for an anti-ballistic missile base, and in 1970 opponents prevented construction of a nuclear power plant on Town Farm Road that eventually was built in Seab…

Historic Ipswich