Mushroom cloud after the explosion of a French atomic bomb above the atoll of Mururoa, also known as Aopuni. 1971. From 1966until 1996 this was the...
The fireball and plume from the Operation PlumbBob shot Priscilla atomic explosion, Camp Mercury, Yucca Flats, Nevada, June 24, 1957.
Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American thermonuclear tests beginning in March 1954 at...
Soldiers and cameramen near the Small Boy nuclear test, part of Operation Sunbeam also known as Operation Dominic II. Nevada, 14th July 1962.
This nuclear test, which was codenamed Dione, was a 34-kiloton blast conducted by France at Mururoa Atoll, also known as Aopuni, which along with its...
Badger, part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 23 kiloton tower shot fired April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site.
Government filmmakers document an atomic bomb explosion at the test site in Nevada. 1957. A Jeep has been equipped with a movie camera and is not far...
Troops of the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division watch a plume of radioactive smoke rise after a blast at Yucca Flats during Operation Buster- Jangle...
Set of dummies propped up in the Sahara Desert awaiting a third atomic bomb explosion during the French nuclear testing. The third test, codenamed...
11th Airborne division troops watch an atomic explosion at close range at the AEC's testing grounds in the Las Vegas desert. The troops participate...
Physicist Norris Bradbury sits next to The Gadget, the nuclear device created by scientists to test the world's first atomic bomb, at the top of the...
Crater marks the site of the first Indian underground nuclear test conducted 18 May 1974 at Pokhran in the desert state of Rajasthan. After a gap of...
Mururoa, FRENCH POLYNESIA: This picture taken in 1970 shows a French nuclear test at Mururoa, French Polynesia. Researchers have established a link...
Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion of July 25, 1946. Photo taken from a tower on Bikini Island, 3.5...
Group of dummies set up on the French nuclear weapons testing range near Reggane, Algeria, before Frances third atomic bomb test, 27th December 1960.
Image labeled '0.053 Sec' of the first Nuclear Test, codenamed 'Trinity', conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory at Alamogordo, New Mexico circa...
In this handout image provided by the News1-Dong-A Ilbo, a North Korean soldier stands at the entrance to a tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test...
Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - members of 11th AB Div. Kneel on ground as they watch mushroom cloud of atomic bomb test 1951.
Sign stands on Frenchman's Flat where nuclear weapons tests took place in Mercury, Nevada. | Location: Mercury, Nevada, USA.
The Baker test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll. 25th July 1946. The...
Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American thermonuclear tests beginning in March 1954 at...
The Priscilla nuclear test, part of Operation Plumbbob. 25th June 1957. It was a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7 at...
The Priscilla nuclear test, part of Operation Plumbbob. 25th June 1957. It was a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7 at...
Troops of the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division watch a plume of radioactive smoke rise after a blast at Yucca Flats during Operation Buster- Jangle...
Crater marks the site of the first Indian underground nuclear test conducted 18 May 1974 at Pokhran in the desert state of Rajasthan. After a gap of...
Aerial view of the subsidence crater that was formed by the Huron King underground nuclear test, with the Huron King test chamber also visible ,...
Nuclear explosion at Mururoa in France on October 30, 1971 - French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago, attol of Mururoa. From 1966 to 1996, it is a...
In this handout photo released by the South Korean Defense Ministry, South Korea's Hyunmu-2 ballistic missile is fired during an exercise aimed to...
Demonstrators outside the French Embassy in London protesting against French nuclear testing in the Pacific, 5th September 1995.
The fireball of the "Seminole" blast begins to show the shape of a mushroom cloud. The weapon was housed in a tank of water in increase the shock of...
Nuclear explosion at Mururoa in France on October 30, 1971 - French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago, attol of Mururoa. From 1966 to 1996, it is a...
In this handout image provided by the News1-Dong-A Ilbo, members of the media watch before the demolition of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site on May...
The "Big Horn" blast's mushroom cloud south of Kiritimati during Operation DOMINIC. | Location: Christmas Island.
Soldiers watch the Operation Hardtack I thermonuclear detonation in 1958. | Location: Near Marshall Islands, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Photographers and camera crew on Eniwetak Atoll during Koa nuclear test as part of Operation Hardtack, a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the...
The Baker test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll. 25th July 1946. The...
The Castle Union test of the Mark 14 design. April 1954. The Mark 14 nuclear bomb was a 1950s Strategic thermonuclear weapon, the first solid-fuel...
Teapot MET detonated on a 400-foot tower over Frenchman Flat with a yield of 22 KT. 15th April 1955. Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen...
Crater marks the site of the first Indian underground nuclear test conducted 18 May 1974 at Pokhran in the desert state of Rajasthan. After a gap of...
The mushroom cloud from "Grable", the first nuclear artillery shell, part of Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE. The artillery piece used to fire the nuclear...
Mushroom cloud seen from Eneu Island, resulting from an atomic explosion of "Able" during Operation Crossroads, July 1, 1946. | View from: Eneu.
Corsicans young and old march through the streets here May 2nd to protest against any proposed underground nuclear test explosions in Corsica. The...
Ground level view of a surface test of a nuclear device. Slide shows the beginning of a mushroom cloud, glowing intensly white, with lightning arcing...
China established the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base on 16 October 1959 with Soviet assistance in selection of the site, with its headquarters at Malan,...
Nuclear explosion at Mururoa in France on October 30, 1971 - French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago, attol of Mururoa. From 1966 to 1996, it is a...
Image labeled '0.006 Sec' of the first Nuclear Test, codenamed 'Trinity', conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory at Alamogordo, New Mexico circa...
