Nuclear missile. S3D intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) on its launch platform. The officer at right is the base commander. The S3D was desig

---

Nuclear missile. S3D intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) on its launch platform. The officer at right is the base commander. The S3D was designed to deliver a TN 61 thermonuclear warhead with an explosive force of one megatonne (the equivalent of the explosion of one million tonnes of TNT). It had a range of 3000 kilometres. The S3D was the second-generation French surface-to- surface nuclear missile. The S3D force was deactivated in September 1996. Photographed during the decommissioning of the Plateau d'Albion nuclear base, France, which was completed in 1998.

---

Size: 4963px × 3403px
Photo credit: © PHILIPPE PSAILA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -venomous, 1, animal, biological, biology, boa, boidae, carnivore, close-, coil, coiled, constrict, constrictor, curl, curled, des, detail, fauna, francais, head, herpetology, madagascan, madagascar, madagascariensis, malagasy, manditra, montagne, nature, reptile, reptilia, reserve, resting, sanzinia, single, snake, strangle, suffocate, tree, vertebrate, wildlife, zoological, zoology