Dec 2, 2023
First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3) Semipalatinsk Test Site USSR 1951
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First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3) Semipalatinsk Test Site USSR 1951
Setting up mannequins for atomic bomb test in Nevada
(Loomis Dean. 1955)
Operation Cue. 1955.
Prelinger Archives
Rapatronic camera image of atom bomb test. I don’t know the year. Notice the Joshua Tree silhouettes visible in the foreground.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76PJ21-ctg)
> This is the 37-kiloton Priscilla test of Operation Plumbbob on June 24, 1957. After Hiroshima was bombed, American observers found several Mosler vaults in the basement of a ruined bank and found its contents totally unscathed.
The safe after the test:
And today:
Los Angeles Office of Civil Defense displays mannequins used in atomic bomb tests
(Edward Clark. 1953)
Security for an atomic bomb test at Frenchman Flat
(Carl Mydans. 1952)
Corn exposed to radiation during Operation Crossroads
(Herbert Gehr. n.d.)