On that note, in March 1967 it was suggested that in the event of a nuclear war the Houses of the Oireachtas could find a new home in Westmeath, this time in Moate. From @NARIreland (tho it didn’t make the cut for #DIFPXIII, alas) 👇 https://t.co/mcrpjHxi8q pic.twitter.com/jH0UIsvDCD
— Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (@DIFP_RIA) May 5, 2022
1967.
A nation under trembling fear.
No change there then.
USS Connecticut
US nuclear-powered attack sub USS Connecticut (SSN-22) collides with underwater object. https://t.co/R3JMp8XeLx
Navy said accident occurred “in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region” but USNI News said it “occurred in the South China Sea…” https://t.co/qsQx9QULBa pic.twitter.com/ALmmppzHlx
— Hans Kristensen (@nukestrat) October 7, 2021
This morning/afternoon.
Almost a dozen sailors have been injured after a U.S. nuclear attack submarine hit an unknown underwater object in the South China Sea, USNI News has learned.
The Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered an underwater collision while operating in international waters on Oct. 2 and is returning to port in U.S. 7th Fleet, a U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman confirmed to USNI News on Thursday.
Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea (USNI)
Meanwhile…
The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on the afternoon of Oct. 2, while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region.
Statement regarding USS Connecticut (SSN 22) (US Navy Pacific Fleet)
Anyone?
Pic: US Navy
A sobering collaboration between the International Red Cross and our favourite German educational design studio Kurzgesagt. To wit:
Until we did the research. It turned out we were a bit oblivious off the real impact of nuclear weapons in the real world, on a real city. And especially, how helpless even the most developed nations on earth would be if an attack occurred today.
Previously: Argie Bargie
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt ponders the following extremely important scientific problems:
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
Previously: Self Aware?
Ever wondered what the hardware looks like in a nuclear missile silo?
CBS’ 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl was given a tour of a missile base in Wyoming.
Floppy disks and Jurassic-era computers even older than Karl.
(Ruairi Quinn and friend outside the British Embassy, Dublin 2001)
Ireland has nothing to fear from proposals for eight new nuclear power plants in Britain, this country’s nuclear safety watchdog says.
A three-year study by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) found the day-to-day running of the plants would pose no health risk here.
And it said even in a worst-case scenario, where the most serious kind of accident was combined with the least favourable weather conditions, the maximum radiation dose likely to be received by members of the public was still well within safety limits.
‘Nothing to fear’ from UK nuclear plants (Caroline O’Doherty, Irish Examiner)
(Photocall Ireland)
On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads.
MORE: Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (Krulwich Wonders)
Back in 2003, Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto animated all 2,053 nuclear explosions between 1945 and 1998. If you haven’t already seen it, it’s chilling stuff. You can see why the anti-nuclear movement has its roots in the 1960s. Hashimoto sez:
This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.
