User:Kylesenior

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This user lives in
South Australia.

This user is not a
Reptilian Shape-shifter

This user supports
nuclear energy.

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This user has ADOS, Attention Deficit OOH Shiny

This user is interested in the space age.

This user is interested in the history of the Cold War.

My primary interests on Wikipedia are in the areas of nuclear weapons, their associated systems, and nuclear warfare tactics and theory. I also occasionally spend time editing other topics like civilian nuclear energy, small arms, non-nuclear weapon systems, and history topics.

My blog can be found here: https://super-octopus.com/

Documents

I have obtained a number of documents from different places that aren't found elsewhere, so I put them on Commons so anyone can access them.

This document is unusual in that it describes the yield of the W54 warhead as being 0.02 kilotonnes of TNT (0.084 TJ) and that the weapon contained 26 pounds (12 kg) of HE. I believe this document was mistakenly declassified as the declassification of weapon yield is normally made with a formal statement, but I have not found one.

This document was given to me by another researcher. They got it from someone who apparently FOIA'ed it, but it lacks declassification markings and includes details what are not normally declassified.

Document gives a number of interesting technical details on the weapons tested in Dominic.

Lots of interesting details on several weapons and the technical history of MIRV.

Images

Featured pictures

I've been trying to get more featured pictures related to nuclear weapons.

Castle Bravo Shrimp device (with thanks to Alex Wellerstein)
Cannikin nuclear device (W71 warhead)

Nuclear pictures

Over the last year or so I have been tracking down images mostly related to the US nuclear weapons program. Most of these were images people had never seen before, depicting nuclear weapons rarely see by members of the general public. Other images have had to do with nuclear weapons testing, showing equipment not normally seen by the general public. I've put some of the images I'm rather proud for having found here.

By "found" I mean the images were buried in technical reports or where listed on various internet archives where they were forgotten about.

W68 warhead for Poseidon
W54 warhead for Titan II
B90 nuclear depth strike bomb
W85 for Pershing II
B28 FI bomb
Mk8 bomb
W89 and W91 warheads
Special atomic demolition munition
W84 warhead for GLCM
Equipment rack for the last US nuclear test Julin Divider
The W71 warhead and Spartan interceptor being lowered into it's shot hole. This test basically created Greenpeace
Mark 15 bomb
B83 nuclear bomb
Equipment rack for an underground nuclear test. The warhead would go on the upper platform.
A pair of neutron generators for an underground nuclear test
Shot Dominic Bluestone, a test of the W56 warhead for MM1 and MMII
Equipment being set up for a highly instrumented tunnel shot of a nuclear weapon
W79 8" (203mm) nuclear artillery shell
W82 155mm nuclear artillery shell
Nuclear device used in the last US nuclear test Divider. Appears to be an SRAM nose, suggesting a W91 warhead.
Rare photo of a W86 earth penetrating warhead for Pershing II
W58/Mk2 Reentry Body for Polaris A-3
Diagram of a Pershing II MaRV showing the W85 warhead.
Nose of Sprint interceptor. Once cables were pulled out at launch, the tip slipped down to protect that area of the missile in flight.

I have also been uploading images found by others here onto Wikipedia. I feel I must clearly delineate which images I found and which come from other nuclear weapons researchers. For this purpose, images extracted from reports by others are "found" by others. Some of the better ones come from Alex Wellerstein.