chazhuttonsfsm:

CACTUS DOME

(from here) Between 1946 and 1962, the US military conducted 105 atmospheric nuclear tests over the “Pacific Proving Grounds,” a euphemism for the Marshall Islands and several other nearby South Pacific atolls.

In the late 1970s, in an effort to clean up the radioactive debris left by those explosions, the US government dug up 111,000 cubic yards of soil from the Bikini and Rongelap atolls and deposited it on Runit Island. Its resting place would be in a 350-foot wide crater that had been created two decades earlier by an 18-kiloton nuclear test code-named Cactus.

Covering up that giant radioactive pit cost the government nearly a quarter of a billion dollars and took three years to complete. The result: an enormous, foot-and-a-half-thick, 100,000-square-foot dome consisting of 358 gigantic concrete panels. Despite signs warning off visitors, it is still possible to make landfall on Runit and stomp across the Cactus Dome. Bring a Geiger counter, or just check it out here.

(via passionated)

jorgevaliente:

akindofterminus:

LOST CITIES

Maunsell Forts off the North Kent coast near Herne Bay in the United Kingdom. (photo by Neil Brown)

The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They are named after their designer Guy Maunsell. After the war the towers were decommissioned. Some of them were removed, others were used for other activities and others - like these - are still intact but unused.

(via fuckyeahghosttowns)

victortsu:

- (by Christophe / saturnino Iaïchouchen)

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin near Friedrichshafen…

(scan from postcard)