Orford Ness
About Orford Ness
Orford Ness is a cuspate foreland shingle spit on the Suffolk coast in Great Britain, linked to the mainland at Aldeburgh and stretching along the coast to Orford and down to North Weir Point, opposite Shingle Street. It is divided from the mainland by the River Alde, and was formed by longshore drift along the coast. The material of the spit comes from places further north, such as Dunwich. Near the middle point of its length, at the foreland point or "Ness", once stood Orfordness Lighthouse, demolished in summer 2020 owing to the encroaching sea. In the name of the lighthouse, "Orfordness" is written as one word.
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Orford Ness is a nature reserve with lots of amazing animals — they have the white-faced woodland sheep, but they've also got a nuclear bomb.
from No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 at 00:21:51 · read transcript
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The idea was if you were transporting a nuclear bomb by playing, they wanted to make sure that it didn't detonate as it was being flown to the place purely because of the stress levels that it would have. This is where they did it and they still have one of the bombs sitting there. It's deactivated. Okay. They always use deactivated. Yeah, they didn't test it with an armed bomb anyway, but it's sitting there next to the sheep. I'm going to Orford Ness in a couple of weeks. Get out. Go shake the bomb. Go shake the bomb. I will. That's so cool.
432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 · listen
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Coordinates: 52.0814, 1.5586