Vulcan XH558 Credit to RP Aviation Images

NEW EPISODE -On the edge of war: A V-Force pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode458/ #VForce #Cuba #Nuclearwar #Coldwar #DHVictor #Vbomber

One of the things I find most amazing about these photos, when looked at closely, are the mundane details, like the fact that it is clear that the boxes used to hold Pu-239 hemispheres were sealed with Scotch tape — you can see it on the lid of the one labeled HS-6 R2, and on the edge of the table.

Avro 698 landing at Woodford after it's first flight. Aug.30 1952

Iconic deterrence! #aviation #nuclear #history #coldwar

Vulcan XL390 & friends

Vulcan tooled up

Today May 11 in 1949, the Soviet blockade of Berlin ended, allowing access routes to the city to reopen. This marked a significant moment in the Cold War, as it followed a prolonged period of tension & conflict over Berlin.

Listen to one of the eyewitnesses here coldwarconversations.com/episode417/

"Winslow, Arizona. On November 4, 1961, an AEC classified shipment [Mk-53 components] from Tonopah, Nevada to the Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, caught fire one mile east of Winslow, Arizona.... There were no radiation or contamination problems. *Walter F. White*, ALO, responded."

Victor

Vulcan XM598 of BLACK BUCK fame. #history #coldwar #aviation

Vulcan XM606 with faster friends in the background. #nuclear #aviation #history #coldwar

Vulcan refueling

It occurred to me that it would be rather trivial for me to re-render my data on Manhattan Project fissile material production as rates of production, which I had just not done in a consistent way for some reason. Well... here it is!

Vulcan Noir #history #coldwar #nuclear #aviation

If you are new here, welcome! I preserve the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... This email from a guest is what puts fire in my belly!

Vulcan

Colonel COFFIN briefs Congressmen in secret about research into the worldwide effects nuclear fallout, June 1956. Colonel COFFIN. A name that's a bit on the nose? I couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted to. Sometimes I feel like the past is just trying to see how credulous I am...

RAF Victor and RAF Thor - at Vandenburg AFB. #nuclear #history #aviation #coldwar

Victor & Lightning #aviation #coldwar #history

Vulcan having a drink! #nuclear #aviation #coldwar #history

Reform councillor in Devon would "rather fight for Putin." I'm also left wondering about his YouTube handle there "Ilikelampshades6" which seems to be hinting at something very dark indeed. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/23/i...

V Bomber cutaways! From 'Eagle' magazine. #nuclear #history #coldwar #aviation

Armourers load a dummy Yellow Sun Mark 2 (free-fall thermonuclear bomb) into the bomb bay of a Handley Page Victor B.1A, during Exercise Unison at RAF Honington, 1963. #nuclear #aviation #history #coldwar

This Valiant was modified to act as a testbed for the Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan engine, which was the powerplant for the Harrier jump jet. #aviation #history #coldwar #nuclear

An early Victor - in blue! #nuclear #aviation #history #coldwar

I mean, it's perhaps not how I'd sell London but it's a fair point I guess...

“You can’t hear an image” The Image [Similar theme different noise... Bring On The Noise]

For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week, a post that has in some sense been in the making for something like a decade. It is a very close look at the "war plan," QUICK STRIKE, featured in the formerly classified 1958 film "The Power of Decision," produced for the USAF. doomsdaymachines.net/p/a-long-loo...

Vulcan & Victor sat next to each other #nuclear #aviation #coldwar #history

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