jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

You probably already know a lot about this, but the Smithsonian has a good video about the nuclear tests in Nevada in the 1950s. They did 100 above ground tests and a dozen below ground. It attracted huge crowds of tourists to witness this free entertainment. In ten days, they set off five bombs. It was interesting seeing all the work that went into these tests, like building an entire town to see what might survive. I'm not sure what streaming service I used last night, but it's worth a look.

https://www.google.com/search?q=smithsonian+video+nevada+nuclear+tests&oq=smithsonian+video+nevada+nuclear+tests&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIKCAEQABiABBiiBDIKCAIQABiABBiiBNIBCTEwMTAzajBqMagCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

AHB Loc: Stonington, CT

I worked for the AEC project at UCLA during this sequences of above ground tests call Operation Plumbob. We were focused on the fate and persistence of fallout. The project continued as the UCLA facility became the Department of Nuclear Medicine.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

When I was at Tektronix in the 70s, we built the worlds fastest transient digitizer, the R7912, which had a single shot capability of 100 GSamples/sec with 9 bit resolution (!) and cost north of 60k$ each in the early 70s if memory serves. Each time there was an underground nuclear test, the AEA blew up 20-30 of them inside the cavern. As the blast occurred, the digitizer recorded the EMP and was then vaporized, with the data moving at over 1/2 light speed down the cable from the cavern to the recorders as the cable was being vaporized right behind it. Each blast was a big commission payday for the Tek sales engineer for Nevada.