Collyweston Bomb Store/RAF Wittering, Northamptonshire - Sept '13

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The bomb storage bunkers were each intended to house two Blue Danube thermonuclear bombs on their trolleys and were fitted with an internal crane gantry to carry the 7.32 metre-long casings, which contained all of the circuitry, detonators, initiators and enriched plutonium required. The fissile cores were stored separately in the adjacent core storage buildings and were only loaded into the bomb casings immediately before they were needed, to provide the critical mass which would result in detonation of the main charge. In 1953 the perceived British stockpile requirement was 800 bombs each yielding between ten and twelve kilotons of explosive power. There are several hundred such munitions bunkers on British post-war airfields, most of which did not house nuclear devices.

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Cheers for Looking​
 
Cracking set of pictures and a good bit of history about blue Danube, one little thing Blue Danube was not a theromnuclear weapon, it was a pure fission free fall bomb, it only ever had a plutonium or a composite uranium/plutonium composite core.

I just love nuclear bomb physics...

Cheers newage
 
Cracking set of pictures and a good bit of history about blue Danube, one little thing Blue Danube was not a theromnuclear weapon, it was a pure fission free fall bomb, it only ever had a plutonium or a composite uranium/plutonium composite core.

I just love nuclear bomb physics...

Cheers newage

Ok, cheers. All I know about bombs is they blow things up lol
 

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