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02-13-03, 07:04 PM
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/CWIHP/BULLETINS/b4a13.htm
Efim Slavsky and Kirill Moskalenko, as deputies to the
Congress, had arrived by plane on the day of the test to observe the
explosion. They were aboard an Il-14 “crate” at a distance of
several hundred kilometers from ground zero, when a fantastic
scene appeared before them; one participant in the test saw a bright
flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse
even at a distance of 270 km. In districts hundreds of kilometers
from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, and stone ones
lost their roofs, windows and doors; and radio communications were
interrupted for almost one hour. At the time of the blast, the bomb’s
designers and test supervisors, headed by Major General Nikolai
Pavlov, the Chairman of the State Commission, were at the airfield
near Olenya station on the Kola Peninsula. For 40 minutes they had
no firm information on the test, or the fate of the bomber and the
Tu-16 “Badger” airborne laboratory accompanying it. Only when
radio contact with Novaya Zemlya was reestablished were they able
to request information on the altitude of the cloud. It was clear that
the bomb design had worked
It would be insightful to read this article ( a bit long). It made me wonder that much worse ( powerful) maybe still around ... :(
Efim Slavsky and Kirill Moskalenko, as deputies to the
Congress, had arrived by plane on the day of the test to observe the
explosion. They were aboard an Il-14 “crate” at a distance of
several hundred kilometers from ground zero, when a fantastic
scene appeared before them; one participant in the test saw a bright
flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse
even at a distance of 270 km. In districts hundreds of kilometers
from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, and stone ones
lost their roofs, windows and doors; and radio communications were
interrupted for almost one hour. At the time of the blast, the bomb’s
designers and test supervisors, headed by Major General Nikolai
Pavlov, the Chairman of the State Commission, were at the airfield
near Olenya station on the Kola Peninsula. For 40 minutes they had
no firm information on the test, or the fate of the bomber and the
Tu-16 “Badger” airborne laboratory accompanying it. Only when
radio contact with Novaya Zemlya was reestablished were they able
to request information on the altitude of the cloud. It was clear that
the bomb design had worked
It would be insightful to read this article ( a bit long). It made me wonder that much worse ( powerful) maybe still around ... :(