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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 52m

On this day in 1956 at 3:27 p.m., local time, a Mk.1 Atom Bomb, Blue Danube, detonated at 490 feet (150 meters) over the Kite Site on the Maralinga Test Range, South Australia. The bomb had been dropped from an RAF Vickers Valiant B.1 bomber, WZ366, flying at 30,000 feet (9,144 meters).

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 1d

Did it fulfill any of these roles effectively? To do so many things may mean that it does none of them very well? Interested in people's thoughts on this! @hushkit.bsky.social ??

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 1d

The ideal start to my shift at www.museum.manchester.ac.uk

Don’t miss our new exhibition #Triceratops. Eat, Roam, Repeat.

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone assist with identifying the weapon system in front of this Victor and what is happening to it?

#aviation
#history
#coldwar

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 2d

I would highly recommend this!
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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 3d

I want to grow on here. If you enjoy what I (and we) do, please do recommend us. Much appreciated (Corsair edition of this tweet)

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

Much recommended!

Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 3d

I want to grow on here. If you enjoy what I (and we) do, please do recommend us. Much appreciated (Corsair edition of this tweet)

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 2d

USMC VMF-235 'Death Angels' F-8A Crusaders, firing Sidewinders and guns, and dumping fuel.

No. 4 is BuNo 143811—stricken off charge in 1964 according to forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/F8U.html

"F-8A Aircraft Takeoff, Landings, and Touch and Go"
🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/542321899...

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 2d

Valiant
Always wondered about the positioning of the hatch. Assuming there wasn't another way out. the positiong surely makes it possible that crew would get ingested into the engine on their way out?

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 2d

Done! 🫡

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 3d

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Use the link below to nominate us. Many thanks!

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 3d

Vulcan and a Lancaster trying to hide!

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 8d

Vulcan - head on

ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 9d

Vulcan scramble!
#aviation
#coldwar
#vulcan
#history

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 10d

AVRO Vulcan whilst testbedding for Olympuis engines.
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#vbomber

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 11d

Victor & Phantoms

ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 15d

Iconic pair!
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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 15d

It is Stanislav Petrov Day and it's important to remember that his initiative in not following orders largely ended his career.

Authoritarian regimes do not like independent decision making, especially if it makes the upper-ups look bad.

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 15d

This can't be true?! If it is, it's worrying, but also - how has he got the time?!?!

ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 18d

Vulcan and Victor in white anti-flash
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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 19d

Victor, RAF Wittering, 1964.
Simultaneously futuristic and sinister
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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 19d

Vulcan for a Monday evening...
#jets
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#coldwar
#history

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 22d

Victor topping up RCAF
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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · 22d

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ParadoxTrick @paradoxtrick.bsky.social · Sep 11

I found an interesting document in The (UK) National Archives, ref DEFE 4/262/2, dated 1971.

There was debate within NATO about defence in depth vs forward defence, with UK policy makers noting that NATO and particularly the West Germans were emotionally and politically wedded to forward defence.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 25d

Seventy years ago, the British Empire claimed its last piece of territory – a bleak and uninhabited island, 260 miles west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

'Operation Rockall successfully completed': The tiny island seized by Britain to foil the USSR

In 1955, the British Empire planted the Union flag in its last piece of territory – a bleak, uninhabited rock. A Royal Navy commander told the BBC about securing Rockall.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 25d

LATEST EPISODE - #DBCooper: The Unsolved #ColdWar Aircraft #Hijacking

Listen here 🎧
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#truecrime #Flight305 #hijack

D.B. Cooper: The Unsolved Cold War Aircraft Hijack

Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!On November 24, 1971, a man using the alias Dan Cooper hijacke

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