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August 6, 1945, The U-235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16:02 a.m. This photo of the mushroom cloud taken about 15 mins after the explosion from about 4 kilometers from the hypocenter; taken from the Army Ship Training Division in Ujina-machi.

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2025/02/01
01:07 UTC

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7/16/ 1945, the US successfully detonate the first nuclear bomb, code name "Trinity", in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico.

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2025/01/26
18:11 UTC

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British nuclear explosion codenamed Grapple Y had a yield of 3 megatons was conducted near Christmas Island on April 28, 19587. It remains the largest British nuclear weapon ever tested

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2025/01/24
01:25 UTC

B-57 Operation Hardtack

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2025/01/18
18:15 UTC

China's Nuclear Testing

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2025/01/17
23:23 UTC

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Orange Herald 1957 - Malden Island, Kiribati.Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on May 31, 1957. At the time it was reported as an H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon and remains to date, the largest fission device ever detonated at 720 kilotons.

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2024/12/29
18:57 UTC

Painted this for my physics minded brother.

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2024/12/29
01:36 UTC

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Operation Crossroads atom bomb test. Mushroom cloud rising from the Baker atomic explosion carried out at Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific, at 21:34 UTC on 24 July 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads. Baker was the first underwater nuclear detonation.

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2024/12/25
21:23 UTC

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Collage of scenes from the first several nuclear weapons testing operations which graphically show the destructive forces of nuclear weapons and the damages they can inflict. Circa late 1940s/early 1950s.

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2024/12/24
01:33 UTC

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Destruction of House Number 1, located 3,500 feet from ground zero, by an atomic blast on March 17, 1953, at Yucca Flat at the Nevada Proving Grounds. The time from the first to last picture was 2.3 seconds.

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2024/12/23
09:50 UTC

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25 July, 1946 Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.Nuclear explosion “Baker” on the atoll of Bikini (Marshall Islands). An American 40-kiloton atomic bomb was detonated 27 meters below the water surface 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the atoll.

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2024/12/20
19:51 UTC

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Size comparison of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated

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2024/12/17
23:58 UTC

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''The American Century'' (International Herald Tribune, 2015)

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2024/12/16
21:46 UTC

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“I saw a supersun rise over the vastness of the blue-black Pacific … the light of five hundred suns at high noon,” wrote William L. Laurence about the 1956 hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll.

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2024/12/14
20:21 UTC

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flash of a a-bomb test 65 miles away from Las Vegas (date unknown)

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2024/12/11
00:36 UTC

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The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan.

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2024/12/09
18:20 UTC

June 24, 1957."One of the largest mushrooms ever seen from Las Vegas rises 40,000 feet over the Nevada Test Site 65 miles away at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday seconds after detonation of the fifth atomic device in current Series.Device was detonated from a helium balloon 700 feet in the air.

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2024/12/08
23:33 UTC

Atomic Porn: Photos and videos of all exploding things nuclear.

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August 6, 1945, The U-235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16:02 a.m. This photo of the mushroom cloud taken about 15 mins after the explosion from about 4 kilometers from the hypocenter; taken from the Army Ship Training Division in Ujina-machi.

7/16/ 1945, the US successfully detonate the first nuclear bomb, code name "Trinity", in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico.

British nuclear explosion codenamed Grapple Y had a yield of 3 megatons was conducted near Christmas Island on April 28, 19587. It remains the largest British nuclear weapon ever tested

B-57 Operation Hardtack

China's Nuclear Testing

Orange Herald 1957 - Malden Island, Kiribati.Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on May 31, 1957. At the time it was reported as an H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon and remains to date, the largest fission device ever detonated at 720 kilotons.

Painted this for my physics minded brother.

Operation Crossroads atom bomb test. Mushroom cloud rising from the Baker atomic explosion carried out at Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific, at 21:34 UTC on 24 July 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads. Baker was the first underwater nuclear detonation.

Collage of scenes from the first several nuclear weapons testing operations which graphically show the destructive forces of nuclear weapons and the damages they can inflict. Circa late 1940s/early 1950s.

Destruction of House Number 1, located 3,500 feet from ground zero, by an atomic blast on March 17, 1953, at Yucca Flat at the Nevada Proving Grounds. The time from the first to last picture was 2.3 seconds.

25 July, 1946 Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.Nuclear explosion “Baker” on the atoll of Bikini (Marshall Islands). An American 40-kiloton atomic bomb was detonated 27 meters below the water surface 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the atoll.

Size comparison of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated

''The American Century'' (International Herald Tribune, 2015)

“I saw a supersun rise over the vastness of the blue-black Pacific … the light of five hundred suns at high noon,” wrote William L. Laurence about the 1956 hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll.

flash of a a-bomb test 65 miles away from Las Vegas (date unknown)

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan.

June 24, 1957."One of the largest mushrooms ever seen from Las Vegas rises 40,000 feet over the Nevada Test Site 65 miles away at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday seconds after detonation of the fifth atomic device in current Series.Device was detonated from a helium balloon 700 feet in the air.