That's how it seemed panoramic shots over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the hydrogen bomb explosion "Redwing H-Bomb." Operation Raudonsparnis "(Redwing) was 17-US nuclear explosions in a series conducted in 1956., From May to July. Test polygons were selected and Enevetako Bikini atolls.
The main tasks of the operation - to test a new, second generation of thermonuclear weapons. "Red Wing" was the first demonstration of air dropped the hydrogen bomb "Cherokee."
"Red Wing" was also a response to the Soviet nuclear progress: the first in the history of the H-bomb the Russians had time to test much earlier - in 1953. August 12.
All of this - part of the Cold War, which is just a few months ago many people thought had long expired. Now did not.
Tension between Russia and NATO increases, a neighbor in the east already juggling nuclear toys. Altai, Russia plans to carry out a large-scale nuclear maneuvers, and a few days ago from a submarine successfully fired a nuclear missile "Bulava", which reached the planned target perfectly.
Red Army Fleet commander, Admiral Viktor Čirkova Academic revealed that the missile was launched from the White Sea, and after a few minutes, destroyed the Russian Federation in the far east of the former target. Bulava can fly about 8 thousand. km / h. speed and the spread of nuclear death from 6 to 10 nuclear warheads.
Will the new missiles and new tests mean new arms and a new era of the cold war? Solving it is still too early. Under an international treaty, the United States of its missile arsenal with new weapons were not provided - just limited to the old Minuteman III (ISBM) and Trident II (SLBM, "Bulava" equivalent) type of missile modernization. This type of missiles - a few tens of years. Meanwhile, in Russia, as is evident in the meantime created new weapons. "Bulava" Russian submarines appeared in 2013. It seems that they are now armed and large warships.
