Cold War classics #coldwar #aviation #history #RAF

Vulcan and team! #aviation #coldwar #history #nuclear

Vulcan, Sunderland Airshow, 2011. Credit to Greco photography. #aviation #coldwar #nuclear #history

OTD March 26, 1954 the 11 megaton Romeo shot, a part of Operation Castle, is performed by the US military, becoming the first deployed thermonuclear bomb. The shot was designed to test the TX-17, the worlds first air-droppable thermonuclear weapon.

Victor - those intakes...

Today in 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, where he saw full-size models of stockpiled US nuclear bombs and warheads and received a stockpile briefing from the Atomic Energy Commission and the Los Alamos and Livermore laboratory directors.

Unsure who to credit for this but what an image - moody Victor

WE HAVE CADBURY MIRV! REPEAT WE HAVE CABURY MIRV! :D

Vulcan

Vulcan (Concorde photobombing)... #aviation #nuclear #history #aviation

"A meeting without biscuits." How terribly British. I my house we would call it, "the big talk in the small room."

“industrial grade, bomb making material” is a really vague and essentially meaningless phrase.

On 3 May 2009, at the Cold War Jets Open Day at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, Victor XM715 accidentally became airborne during a high-speed taxi demo. Crew were all ok, but I imagine that a meeting without biscuits occured shortly afterwards... Credit to James Fenely

Vulcan and its tools of the trade... #nuclear #history #coldwar #aviation

Victor B Mk.1 #nuclear #history #coldwar #aviation

My favourite thing about the Vulcan was that thanks to its enormous delta wing, it could out-turn any American fighter at altitude.

Vulcan in the Sun #nuclear #coldwar #aviation #history

Valiant XD812 #aviation #nuclear #coldwar #history

Vulcan, Spitfire & aerobatic friends

Valiants, 49 Squadron, Christmas Island, May 1957

Vulcan over a Consolidated B-24D Liberator, 'Lady Be Good' Somewhere in North Africa...

Test-bed for the Olympus 22R engine. The 22R was going into the TSR2. Destroyed by fire on 03/12/1962 after the engine was run to full power on maximum reheat when an Low Pressure turbine disc failed. This disc punctured two fuel tanks which started a fire which destroyed XA894. No injuries caused.

Valiant and a CF100 Canuck #aviation #nuclear #coldwar #history

57 Sqn Victors on Wideawake, 1982 #aviation #history

I think that is a flypast over Buckingham Palace, June 1980 #nuclear #coldwar #history #aviation

This would have been noisy! #aviation #history #coldwar #nuclear

Just finished @wellerstein.bsky.social newest book, "The Most Awful Responsibility", looking at the role of Truman in the development of early nuclear C&C and I was struck by this last line in Chapter 19. I want more on this specific topic!!

NEW EPISODE - Dead Drops and Disguises - A Female #CIA Officer in 1980s #Moscow Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode441/ #coldwar #spies #Espionage #intelligence #undercover

Victor - good view of her wing shape here #aviation #nuclear #history #coldwar

Vulcan's over St Paul's, City of London in the Falkland's victory fly-past; 1982 Credit to Imperial War Museum #aviation #history

Would you be a good leader of a communal fallout shelter in the event of World War III? Fortunately the US Department of Defense created a self-assessment quiz in the 1970s so that you can "rate yourself as a potential shelter leader"… doomsdaymachines.net/p/take-me-to...

I don't disagree... #nuclear #nuclearweapons

Spectacular new hangar extension for the Avro Heritage Museum has been approved. I volunteer at the museaum, helping to produce their podcast and delivering cockpit tours. www.avroheritagemuseum.co.uk

Vulcan head on... #aviation #coldwar #history #nuclear

Vulcan tooled-up #aviation #history #coldwar #nuclear

75 years ago today, the United States conducted the first of 100 aboveground nuclear tests in Nevada, leading to the blanketing of most of the continental United States (and parts of Canada and Mexico) with significant radioactive fallout over the next 11 years.

Vulcan and Friends! #aviation #coldwar #nuclear #history

Vulcan launching with Skybolts

Vulcan test-bed #nuclear #coldwar #history #aviation

The British Army once considered using to chickens to keep some of its nuclear weapons warm enough to use in winter.

In 1980, Tyne Tees' magazine show for teens, CHECK IT OUT, gave kids in the North-East of England the lowdown on nuclear war. And it's a delight from start to finish. Future 'The Tube/Top of the Pops' producer Chris Cowey there, with the perm and mussie.

Vulcan - gear down! #aviation #nuclear #history #coldwar

Victor prototype #aviation #history #coldwar #nuclear

I stumbled across this first-hand account of a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site from 1957 and couldn’t stop reading it. So I put it up on DOOMSDAY MACHINES. Something to ring in the New Year with, perhaps… doomsdaymachines.net/p/zero-time-...

Spot the aircraft! #aviation #history #coldwar

This is a nice addition to the "bad Cold War ideas" file — nukes that would detonate themselves at full yield "in the event the carrier and/or crew fell prey to the enemy defense." Never adopted as far as I know... from a Sandia study of nuclear safety issues, 1959.

OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.

This is possiibly one of the greatest things I've seen on the internet... #penguin

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n