This Little Ship - HMS Plym
An appendix, if you will, to Avast's delightful link "1945-1998" - 2053 concerning nuclear explosions.
From watching it I learnt that Britain conducted their first nuclear tests in Australia. The very first was a test involving the explosion of a ship-borne nuclear bomb.
This terrific old video made by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority tells the story of the ship that was to be destroyed - HMS Plym
Part 2 (where the action bits are) is HERE
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applehead herp derp, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 0:42,
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Blimey! Some-one still awake in dear old Blighty! You should see the testing footage...loads of army brass in sunglasses saying 'Quick lads! Turn away...we'll be OK if we don't look straight at the blast...our sunnies will protect us..." But then again, back tehn all the farmers stirred their pesticide (which we noew now to be vicously toxic) with their arms...ah! teh innocence of bygone days....
(, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 5:56, Reply)
