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Trinity's cloud (1945), photographs of mushroom cloud Video of the site, original blast, and the ranch where the bomb was assembled from 2017 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NM-1-A, " White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site ", 106 photos, 11 measured drawings, 116 data pages, 8 photo caption pages
Iconic image of the Castle Romeo mushroom cloud, 27 March 1954 One particular image of the Castle Romeo mushroom cloud has been one of the most highly reprinted images of a nuclear explosion. It often serves as a stand-in for nuclear weapons in general for news stories, book covers, magazine articles, etc., likely because of its threatening ...
The atomic bomb cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, was described in The Times of London of 13 August 1945 as a "huge mushroom of smoke and dust". On 9 September 1945, The New York Times published an eyewitness account of the Nagasaki bombing, written by William L. Laurence , the official newspaper correspondent of the Manhattan Project , who ...
For decades this photo was misidentified as the mushroom cloud of the bomb that formed at c. 08:16. [153] [154] However, due to its much greater height, the scene was identified in March 2016 as the firestorm-cloud that engulfed the city, [154] some three hours after the bombing. [155]
“The new model shows the nuclear explosions carried out in New Mexico and Nevada between 1945 and 1962 led to widespread radioactive contamination, with Trinity making a significant contribution ...
Jack W. Aeby (/ ˈ æ b i /; August 16, 1923 – June 19, 2015) was an American environmental physicist most famous for having taken the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico.
Related: Iconic photos from WWII: Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon to be deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb, called " Little Boy ," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The work of the laboratory culminated in several atomic devices, one of which was used in the first nuclear test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, codenamed "Trinity", on July 16, 1945. The other two were weapons, " Little Boy " and " Fat Man ", which were used in the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.