Photograph of the Second Before Doomsday

Posted by Anita in Pictures, Weapons & War on January 11, 2007 at 12:10 am


Peacekeeper Missile Re-entry

The picture above is from an actual test of a single U.S. nuclear missile holding at least 8 dummy warheads. Each line shows the deployed warhead striking the ocean at well over 4,000 miles per hour.

The stunning full-size photograph can be seen in Wikipedia’s gallery of the Peacekeeper missile.

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4 comments to "Photograph of the Second Before Doomsday"

  1. !!!!!
    January 11th, 2007 at 12:13 am

    wow. this is crazy. slightly beautiful though…?

  2. Daniel Kim
    January 11th, 2007 at 12:35 am

    I had forgotten how it felt to live “under the bomb”. Seeing this really brought back memories . . . not necessarily pleasant ones. I had a macabre fascination with the idea of nuclear apocalypse while growing up, but the collapse of the Soviet Union seemed to put those ideas to rest. Thiis reminds me that those weapons are still waiting in their silos.

  3. ted
    January 11th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    And one of them has your name on it.

    Mwuuuuhahahahaha!

  4. Hiro
    March 18th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    It is a Peacekeeper. It is benign. War is Peace. Freedom is slavery.


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