Many people who follow my page don’t realize that I also spent time staking uranium mining claims. It’s something I’m genuinely proud of, I consider myself a uranium prospector in addition to being an amateur nuclear physicist. I began selling uranium ore as a way to fund my growing collection of radioactive antiques and to support my ongoing outreach and education efforts online. There’s a deep well of radiological history and lore behind what I share here. Thank you for being so kind and supportive of meeeee, it truly means a lot. ☢️💕

“Fallout Protection For Homes with Basements” published by Department of Defense - Office of Civil Defense Just another Cold War booklet explaining how people could use their basements for protection after a nuclear attack. This one also introduces the idea of a “Protection Factor” which measures how much a shelter reduces radiation exposure. Source ☢️: archive.org/details/falloutp…

One of the first observations of an explosion caused by ionizing radiation was reported by G. H. Henderson in 1922. Henderson found that nitrogen iodide (which is an extremely sensitive explosive material) could be detonated when placed close to a radium source. Radium continuously emits alpha radiation as it undergoes radioactive decay and this radiation was able to travel from the source into the nitrogen iodide, where it deposited its energy over a very short distance within the material. Although the amount of energy associated with alpha radiation is extremely small on a macroscopic scale, it can still be deposited within a very localized region. In a material as sensitive as nitrogen iodide, this localized energy deposition was apparently sufficient to initiate decomposition which then developed into a much larger chemical explosion. Henderson also observed that the time required for detonation decreased when the size or strength of the radium source was increased. This led him to realize that the probability of an initiating event increased as the intensity of the alpha radiation reaching the explosive increased. ☢️

I was reading about something called a “chemonuclear reactor” which is a way of using nuclear energy to make chemicals instead of mainly using a nuclear reactor to produce electricity. The particular patent I was reading about, the idea was to use the energy released by nuclear fission to trigger a reaction between the nitrogen and oxygen in ordinary air, which then produces nitrogen dioxide. That nitrogen dioxide could then be combined with water and oxygen to make nitric acid. So basically, instead of using a nuclear reactor to generate electricity and then using that electricity to run a chemical plant, the reactor itself is helping produce the chemical. Also, in case you were wondering why someone would want to make nitric acid, it’s an extremely useful industrial chemical. One of its biggest uses is in making nitrate fertilizers (which provide plants with nitrogen they use to grow) and it’s also used in making explosives and processing metals too. ☢️

His greed sickens me

Oil pastels 🎨 smol silly baby

I want to get married here. ☢️

“The Family Fallout Shelter” published by Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization A basement concrete block shelter is one of the cheapest and easiest fallout shelters you can build. Source ☢️: archive.org/details/mp15thef…

That’s right. ☢️

“Analysis Of Japanese Nuclear Casualty Data” by L. Wayne Davis, William L. Baker and Donald L. Summers (1967) Because of the experiences at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this research data helped physicists better understand the effects of radiation exposure. It provided a lot of important information about radiation doses, the levels that can cause illness, the long term risk of cancer and how distance from the explosion can affect a person’s chances of survival,etc. It’s still worth looking over, IMO. Source ☢️: archive.org/details/analysis…

Me after seeing “EMP” on X. Also (to add onto this), any nuclear weapon can produce electromagnetic pulse effects. Most people don’t believe me that this includes also old school first generation weapons like the A-bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki too. When a nuclear weapon is detonated at high altitude, it can produce what’s called a high altitude nuclear “EMP” or “HEMP”. HEMP has three main components, E1, E2 and E3. E1 is the fast component and lasts for only a very short time and it can produce strong electric fields that can damage sensitive electronics and control systems. E2 is the intermediate component and is somewhat similar to the electromagnetic effects associated with lightning. E3 is the slow component and can last much longer, potentially affecting long conductors such as power transmission lines and transformers. The three components can also affect systems in sequence. Like an E1 can damage or disrupt protective equipment which could potentially leaving systems more vulnerable to later E2 and E3 effects. There are also so called “Super EMP” weapons that I have seen described as being designed to produce an extremely strong E1 EMP rather than just a large explosion. I’ve only seen Russian open sources make claims about them though, ha.

“Ten For Survival Surviving Nuclear Attack” by Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (1959) Source ☢️: archive.org/details/tenforsu…

I came across something pretty funny today about the old days of shotgun shells. Apparently, when paper shells were the norm, rust inside a shotgun chamber wasn’t much of a problem unless the gun had been badly neglected. Once plastic shells became common though, gun collectors began noticing a lot more chamber corrosion. They started naturally started looking for an explanation and apparently some of theories got pretty creative. Anyways, one of the things people blamed for the rust though was atomic fallout, lmao. 💀☢️

“Home Shelter – Outside Concrete Shelter” published by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Official FEMA plans for a permanent outdoor concrete fallout shelter (H-12-1). Designed for homes without basements and it can also house six people and the roof doubles as a patio. Source ☢️: archive.org/details/FEMA_Fal…

Just as a fun fact I want to add, an astronaut in low Earth orbit can receive a few tenths of a mSv per day, with around 0.5 mSv per day being a reasonable figure. A chest X-ray is about 0.1 mSv, so that’s about the equivalent of 5 chest X-rays worth of radiation per day. Astronauts can also be exposed to these levels for MONTHS while living on the ISS, so the total dose over the course of a mission can really add up over time.

Hi, we need enrichment plants that use only American technology so we’re no longer dependent on Russia (or any other country) for enriching our uranium.

A neutron bomb is still a nuclear weapon though. I have also seen it be called an enhanced radiation (ER) weapon and even enhanced radiation warhead. The “neutron” part just refers to its design being intended to produce a greater amount of prompt neutron radiation during the initial detonation. A “neutron bomb” is NOT an alternative to a nuclear bomb, it is actually just a particular type of a nuclear bomb. Calling it a nuke is fine. 😊☢️