Kur Amerika përgatitej për Luftën Bërthamore (Foto)

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Kur Amerika përgatitej për Luftën Bërthamore (Foto)

Më: 29 qershor 2015 Në ora: 13:20

Gjatë Luftës së Ftohtë, njerëzimi ishte në prag të Luftës Bërthamore.

SHBA dhe Bashkimi Sovjetik kishin nisur një garë të ethshme armatimi.

Tashmë ky kërcënim është zbehur.

Megjithatë bazat që do përdoren në rast lufte janë akoma nëpër SHBA.

Këto baza, të mbushura kryesisht me bunkere, tani janë një atraksion turistik.

EPA sjell këtë koleksion me foto të realizuara në Dakotën e Jugut, Uashington, Nju Meksiko dhe Tenesi.

Many missile sites were deactivated after an agreement between President George H W Bush and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Above, an assistant launch control officer's station at the Minuteman museum outside Wall, South DakotaNuclear war between the US and Soviet Union never happened during the Cold War despite close calls and the US was left with a large number of nuclear missile facilities. Above, a launch key at the Delta 01-Launch Control FacilitySome nuclear facilities,such as the above anti-missile radar pyramid in Nekoma, North Dakota, are left along as fields of grass grow around themThe North Dakota Historic Society owns the grounds that once housed a intercontinental ballistic missile to be used in the nuclear deterrent. Above, the blast door of the facilityNuclear facilities are in a number of central US states. Above, a decommissioned Titan II missile, which used to hold a nine-megaton nuclear warhead, at the Titan Missile Museum in ArizonaThe Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona, is nearby an abandoned missile facility in Vail, Arizona, where the metal dome of the site still emerges from the groundAbove, two rocket fuel handler outfits, which were worn by propellant transfer system technicians to protect from radiation, are seen at the Titan Missile MuseumThe bits and pieces of the US nuclear program include more than just monstrous missile silos. Above, a calibration target that US satellites would use to focus their lenses sits next to a Motel 6 parking lot in Casa Grande, ArizonaA nuclear testing site northwest of Las Vegas used for a trial in 1955 to determine the effects of a blast was named Doomtown and included cars, furniture and mannequins. Above, a house at the Nevada National Security site called 'Apple-2'.The Nevada National Security Site also included the Mosler bank vault (pictured), which still stands in the middle of the desert today. The simulated currency inside the structure was not damaged during the blastThe Nevada National Security Site offers 12 annual tours, during which visitors can see the Sedan Crater, which was created by a 104-kiloton test in 1962Lo Scalzo's project also included photos of the Congressional bunker in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Above, the once-secret bunker's former cafeteriaThe bunker, which was built beneath the four-star Greenbrier resort, included an 18-ton blast door that was hidden behind a moving wall panelThe bunker included a room that would have served as the House of Representatives in the event of a nuclear war. It also had beds for all 535 members of Congress as well as one staffer eachAbove, a blast door at the Greenbrier bunker. The hidden West Virginia facility also included a communications room over its 112,544-square feetThe bunker was surrounded by three to five meters of concrete on all sides and had decontamination showers (pictured) for the members of CongressVisitors are allowed to visit ground zero at the site where scientists detonated the world's first atomic bomb at the White Sands Missile RangeIn a long-exposure image, tourists are seen visiting a monument to the first atomic detonation on July 16, 1945 at the facility at San Antonio, New MexicoThe Trinity Test Site in New Mexico also includes a replica of 'Fat Man', which was detonated on Nagasaki, Japan. It killed up to 80,000 people instantly, and the final death toll from the one bomb was thought to be 135,000, according to the BBCSites including one in Hanford, Washington, will be part of a new national park remembering their part in creating the atomic bomb. Above, the remains of Hanford High School, which was abandoned when the government used eminent domain to take over the town of HanfordThe Hanford facility helped produce and enrich nuclear material to be made into bombs. Above, a worker is seen on a monitor cleaning the most radioactive room at the facility, called the McCluskey RoomVisitors have already begun coming to the Hanford facility, which was secret and held the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. Above, the reactor's coreA pressure monitor panel is among some of the vintage switches and indicators inside the main control room of Hanford's historic B ReactorAbove, a bus tour sees Washington's Hanford Site, which was developed by the government toward the end of the war. It is now one of the most toxic nuclear sites in the Western HemisphereThe Hanford site was built along the Columbia River, which provided enough water for enrichment and also provided power from a nearby damMany of the employees at the Hanford facility lived in Richland. Above, Richland High School teams are called the Bombers, and their logo includes a mushroom cloudOne of the other sites to be included in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park is the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Above, the control room of the X-10 graphite reactor, the world's second reactor after Enrico Fermi's so-called Chicago PileThe footprint of the former K-25 building, which enriched uranium for America's nuclear weapons, is seen in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The building was once the largest in the world and 12,000 employees worked inside enriching uraniumThe Tennessee facility had the X-10 graphite reactor, which was the the world's second reactor after Enrico Fermi's so-called Chicago PileWhile many of the nuclear sites are in the desert, some are in major cities. Above, a concrete marker at a site known as 'Plot M,' which is located in a public park in suburban Chicago's Red Gate Wood, warns visitors that radioactive waste from the Chicago Pile

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