| Nuclear explosions - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 7/1/05 9:27 AM | NOTE: As mentioned by PriceCollins here, during a change from one version to another of Google Earth, something scrambled the kmz and left many placemarks in the wrong location. Recently lmctke produced not only a working kmz, but one much better tha |
| Searchable online database, generates KML files | TJ1 | 10/6/05 8:12 AM | I think we're working on the same lines here. I've written a searchable database containing every test & explosion from authoritative sources. It will output the results of any search as KML or CSV. If anyone wants to help ensure its accurate and u |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | elscint | 10/12/05 1:15 PM | The mystery site test was joint Israeli/South African operation. In the late 1980's South Africa had six atomic warheads of kiloton size. |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | philverney | 4/1/06 2:25 PM | Hill, here's a boundary map of the Nevada Test Site I've put together. I think mine matches up quite well with the one provided by the government website Enjoy! Cheers, Phil, UK _________________________ Follow Google Earth Outreach on Twitter! F |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | beamish | 4/12/06 1:56 AM | How about this one? Is it a test site too (underground?)? It is in the center of the Taklamakan desert. The orange spot has a diameter of 400 meters. beamish duplicate placemark removed from 38.95845,83.65765 |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Anonymous | 4/12/06 8:53 AM | Great post some add info about The purpose of Trinity Atomic Web Site is to tell the story of nuclear weapons through historical documents, photos, and videos. In the spirit of Project Gutenberg, the intent is to create an online archive from the la |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 4/12/06 12:42 PM | The Chinese tests have all been about 300 miles (500 km) ENE of you placemark. LINK If you use the Layers box - Google Earth Community (unranked) - you will see two other placemarks already there. Please respond to existing posts when possible rath |
| one more ... | eefil | 4/25/06 6:51 PM | 41.722602° N 88.736184° E. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lop_Nur |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | deepred | 7/26/06 11:23 AM | Hi Hill I can see that you have posted a placemark for the first H-bomb Ivy Mike in the location 11-14-15N 162-11-45E. I have a correction to that one: Ivy Mike was detonated in the northern part of Enewetak atoll where the small island of Elugelab |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 7/26/06 12:51 PM | Thanks for the more precise location. Resolution has improved tremendously since the original post was made. I've made placemarks from your information and added them as attachments above. Some day in the not-too-distant future I hope to get back to |
| Re: one more ... | Hill (GEC moderator) | 7/26/06 1:11 PM | There are some good collapse craters due to underground testing now visible about 1 km North of your placemark. Improved resolution now makes the area high resolution. |
| North Korean test - and now there are eight. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 10/8/06 11:36 PM | It is extremely probable, though at this time not positively verified, that North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, as they have been threatening to do. Attached is an overlay showing the location of a tremor of around magnitude 4.2 which probabl |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | goodalle | 10/17/06 4:57 PM | I too was going to comment on the apparent missing or incorrect placement of chinese nuclear tests, at least as using some non-KML infromation on the web. The wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lop_Nur gives coordinates for some Chinese nuclear |
| Tsar Bomb, biggest nuke in history | Schandlers | 10/25/06 1:26 AM | Here is the exactly ubication (in 3D) of the explosion of "Ivan", the Tsar Bomb; that is the most powerful explotion made by mankind in the history. It have a link to some videos of that explotion. Look at the destruction of terrain!! |
| Re: "Taiga" experiment (exact location) | EugeneF | 12/21/06 12:43 PM | Here the exact visible location of Soviet "Taiga" experiment - excavational blast of the 3x15 kT charges. It was a part of the uncompleated "Siberian rivers turning" project. http://www.kp.ru/daily/23793/58757/ |
| Re: "Kristall" blast | EugeneF | 12/27/06 12:18 PM | Exact location of the excavation nuclear blast "Kristall". |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | CBISME | 1/17/07 10:10 PM | You're "Apple 2 and Charlie" test spots are incorrectly placed. I grew up in Pahrump which is the town nine miles to the northeast and there was never a test in these spots which is actually in California. You've missed the spot by 65 miles south of |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 1/17/07 10:55 PM | Yes, the database used for the original post does have errors. Quote: |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Sluvik | 1/24/07 9:18 PM | Amazing, shocking and educational... I wonder if there is still radiation in that places. I would (think I'm a pervert) be happy to go and see the craters... Seems like Little Boy and Fatman were tests?_________________________ I am the eye in the |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | EugeneF | 1/25/07 10:06 AM | Yes, there is some residual radiation at that places. Dangerous but usually not deadly. So it is possible to walk there but not for long time. And of cource, with Geiger counter. http://www.poligon.kz/radiology.shtml |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | napalme | 1/28/07 3:41 AM | Here are the photos of the Crystal underground nuclear explosion. http://www.newpk.ru/index.php?action=read&AId=62 |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 3/6/07 10:20 PM | Quote: |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Rev_Will | 4/20/07 10:45 AM | Hill, I am a little disconcerted with the location showing for Apple2 and Charlie tests in 1955 and 1952. close but no bananas - my hometown of Pahrump here would have been completely destroyed. If you have time I can give you the near exact coor |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Will_Pittenger | 4/23/07 4:57 PM | Is there an overlay for the Trinity site?_________________________ Will Pittenger --------------------- A full list of stuff that I have uploaded is at my site. |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 6/5/07 7:23 PM | Sorry about Pahrump!!! You and Art Bell and thousands of others. Oh, the humanity.... As the original post says: Quote: |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - Gabon | PriceCollins | 9/3/07 4:01 AM | |
| Re: Nuclear test sites - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 9/6/07 11:02 PM | |
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| Re: Nuclear explosions - all 2000+ of them. | Hill (GEC moderator) | 7/29/11 7:40 AM |