Nuclear test images

Operation Crossroads
Bikini Atoll lagoon, Marshall Islands, Pacific
24 July 1946

Operation Ranger
Nevada Test Site
27 January 1951

Operation Ivy
Enewetak Atoll
31 October 1952

Operation Hartack I
Eniwetok
28 June 1958



Operation Dominic
Christmas Island, Johnston Island, Central Pacific
10th July 1962


10th June 1962


The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide To Nuclear Weapons


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The following images are from:

How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb

by Peter Kuran

VIP observers are lit up by the light of an atomic bomb, Operation Greenhouse, Enewetak Atoll, 1951

Castle Bravo detonation, March 1, 1954. 15 megatons. Largest nuclear test conducted by the United States.

Troop maneuvers during Operation Tumbler-Snapper were covered extensively by the media including a color featurette entitled “Operation A-Bomb” produced by RKO-Pathe. Twenty-one hundred marines participated in the test. May 1, 1952.



Five volunteers sent to witness the Genie air strike at ground zero



Crossroads Baker, 21 kilotons Bikini Atoll, July 24, 1946.



Plumbbob Hood, 74 kilotons, Nevada Test Site, July 5, 1957.




Cameramen photograph shot of Grable at the Nevada Test Site, May 25, 1953.


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