Cruel Bombs

Command And Control book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Control-Eric-Schlosser/dp/1846141486

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general info about nuclear weapons and testing: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/when-we-tested-nuclear-bombs/100061/
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/enw77b3.html

Nevada nuclear test footage: http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/testfilms.aspx

AMAZING channel with HD restored historical nuclear footage: http://www.youtube.com/user/atomcentral

Edgerton detonation photos: http://roamaboutmike.com/2013/02/15/rapatronic-camera-an-atomic-blast-in-3-shots/

Amazing shot of nuclear weapon test. notice it occured nearly past the horizon! http://i.imgur.com/BX2Cx.jpg

shot from Nagasaki: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/07/gallery_atomic_bomb?slide=7

North Carolina incident:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/02/2173231/shaffer-in-eureka-they-have-found.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

Nuclear boyscout documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hZo5k0V9M0

Kokura spared:

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/07/world/kokura-japan-bypassed-by-a-bomb.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm
http://elisson1.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/bookends.html

Feynman text: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/feynman-meaning.html

Hiroshima bonsai: http://www.bonsai-nbf.org/site/japanese2.html

Nuclear effects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation

isotopes put into atmosphere by nuclear testing have allowed historians to detect art forgeries: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/jul/04/nuclear-fallout-used-to-spot-fake-art

The flag of Bikini Atoll has an interesting story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bikini_Atoll

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