Underground Nuclear Testing
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Note: Two Types of Underground Tests - Shaft and Tunnel, Weapons Development (DOE) vs Effects Testing (DOD), Shafts and drilling 1/n #underground#nuclear#testing#us#nts
Underground Nuclear Testing
Rotary Head Drilling, Tunnel Boring Machines (15-30 ft/day), tunnels and cavities, HLOS Horizontal Line of Sight Pipe
Note: Check out diagram appears to be locations of Reentry vehicle warheads in cavity 3/n #underground#nuclear#testing#us#nts
Underground Nuclear Testing
Typical HLOS layout, Tunnels at Area 12,
Marshmallow U16A June 1962 1st LOS,
Diamond Skulls Test Spartan ABM for Radiation Hardness,
Largest HLOS ever conducted 4/n #underground#nuclear#testing#us#nts
Underground Nuclear Testing
HLOS Sieve,
instrumentation cabling,
Signal Process Alcove,
And oh yes one of infamous Test Participant Certificate 6/n #underground#nuclear#testing#us#nts
Underground Nuclear Testing
Diamond Fortune Cavity Layout,
Studied close-in airblast flow fields,
Huron King VLOS (vertical line of sight) Effect Test,
Radiation hardness testing new DOD Satellite 7/n #underground#nuclear#testing#us#nts
Underground Nuclear Testing
Huron King Subsidence Crater
Note: you can still see the test chamber on Google Earth too!
CP - Control Point and War Room 8/n #underground#nuclear#testing#us#nts
Ballistic Missile Defense
Weapons Engineering Study Hall
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Ballistic Missile Defense
Weapons Engineering Study Hall
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Ballistic Missile Defense
Weapons Engineering Study Hall
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(Might be slow because airplanes WiFi is slow) 3/n