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Loading the Davy Crockett: the propellant charge, the launch piston, and finally the nuclear projectile.
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China in 1982 made a policy decision to flood the developing world with atomic know-how. Its clients include Algeria, Pakistan, and North Korea. One of China’s bombs was created as an “export design” that nearly “anybody could build.” The blueprint for the simple plan has traveled from Pakistan to Libya and Iran. … Why did Beijing spread its atomic knowledge so freely? In The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation, authors Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman speculate that it either wanted to strengthen the enemies of China’s enemies – for instance, Pakistan as a counterweight to India – or to encourage nuclear wars or terror in foreign lands from which Beijing would emerge as the “last man standing.” [Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb, by William J. Broad, review of The Nuclear ExpressandThe Bomb: A New History, in the New York Times]
Nuclear test bomb ‘Able’, Bikini Atoll, July 1, 1946. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 25 x 16,8 cm.
Between 1946 and 1958 twenty-three nuclear bombs were detonated at Bikini Atoll. 'Able’ was the first atomic bomb to be detonated after WWII and was part of 'Operation Crossroads’.
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