Room designed for safe inspection, handling or dismantling of nuclear weapons
This article is about nuclear weapon technology. For the Dick Tracy character, see List of recurring characters in Dick Tracy.
Gravel Gertie
A Gravel Gertie (one of 13) at the PANTEX nuclear weapons plant, Amarillo TX.
Diagram of a Gravel Gertie.
Type
Bunker
Site history
Built
1957 (1957)
Built by
Sandia National Laboratories
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A Gravel Gertie is a type of bunker designed to provide containment during the nuclear weapons assembly process, when the plutonium or highly enriched uranium "pit" is mated with the high explosive components and wired into the electronics (the "physics package") of the warhead.
A GravelGertie is a type of bunker designed to provide containment during the nuclear weapons assembly process, when the plutonium or highly enriched...
destroyed Mysta's gravestone. Sparkle Plenty - Daughter of B.O. Plenty and GravelGertie. She married Vera Alldid, divorced, then married Junior Tracy. She and...
Hugglemonster GravelGertie (character), in the comic strip Dick Tracy The title character of Gertie the Dinosaur, a 1914 film Gertie Cummins, secondary...
containment mass. A specialized version of the munitions bunker called a GravelGertie is designed to contain radioactive debris from an explosive accident...
former villain Bob Oscar ("B.O."), along with Gertrude ("GravelGertie") Plenty. GravelGertie was introduced as the unwitting dupe (accessory) of the...
The Press: The Unthinkable, 31 March 1952, Time The Press: Lena v. GravelGertie, 8 April 1946, Time Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology...
fronts were replaced or covered over and the road-lines were covered by gravel. The cinema sequences, however, were shot at the Davenport Theatre / Cinema...
2009. New York Dolls - Courageous Cat Theme / Personality Crisis (Live at Gertie's, Dallas 1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND34jq3qch0 The Gavoons cover...
belt made for herself from $340 ($9,520) in gold dollar coins; another, Gertie Lovejoy, had a diamond inserted between her two front teeth. The miner and...
insects including butterflies and ants. Narrated by Phil Carey. "Search for Gertie" 13 October 1968 (13 October 1968) 5 Armand and Michaela Denis travel thousands...
Natural History Survey of Canada. p. 151 (note). Retrieved 2017-10-22. Tom, Gertie (1987). Èkeyi: Gyò Cho Chú (My Country: Big Salmon River). Yukon Native...
(Rudolph), and call'd them by name: "Now! Dasher, now! Spanky (Short), now! Gertie (McBrayer) and Vixen, "On! Fallopia (Rudolph), on! Charles Barkley (T.I...
Kohklux Map., at page 26 (the Athabascan suffix -lin means flowing); Tom, Gertie (1987). Èkeyi: Gyò Cho Chú (My Country: Big Salmon River). Yukon Native...
Secretary, Development, Planning and Statistics, Premier's Office, St. Lucia. Gertie Choa. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in Hong Kong. Augustus Leslie...
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