The mushroom cloud produced by the first explosion by the Americans of a hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific. Known as Operation...
Dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese industrial port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the...
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...
An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped. Dated 1945
Atomic cloud rises over Nagasaki, Japan. Photographed by one of the bombers on the raid. Artist Charles Levy, 1945
The detonation of the atomic bomb nicknamed "Smokey," as part of Operation PLUMBBOB in the Nevada desert. 1957.
The pyrocumulus, or firestorm-cloud, that engulfed the city of Hiroshima after the US atomic bomb attack on 6th August 1945. The fire reached its...
Dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese industrial port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the...
The radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City, as seen from 9.6 km away, in Koyagi-jima, Japan, August 9, 1945. The US B-29...
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan three days after dropping one on Hiroshima. Japan would surrender five day later, ending...
Characteristic mushroom shaped cloud begins formation after the first H-Bomb explosion at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
Postwar replica of the 'Little Boy' nuclear weapon, which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. U.S. Government Photo, circa 1946.
Side view of the 'Fat Man' atomic bomb, the kind that the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9 killing 40,000 people, during World War II . The...
Mushroom cloud forms after the initial Atomic Bomb test explosion off the coast of Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Nuclear explosion at Mururoa in France on October 30, 1971 - French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago, attol of Mururoa. From 1966 to 1996, it is a...
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...
Photograph on display at The Bradbury Science Museum shows the first thermonuclear test on October 31, 1952. The museum is Los Alamos National...
Photograph on display at The Bradbury Science Museum shows a hydrogen bomb test on June 24, 1957. The museum is Los Alamos National Laboratory's...
Mushroom cloud rising into the air after the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Photograph on display at The Bradbury Science Museum shows the first atomic bomb test On July 16 at 5:29:45am, at Trinity Site in New Mexico, U.S.A....
Billowing white mushroom cloud, mottled with orange, pushes through a layer of clouds during Operation Ivy, the first test of a hydrogen bomb, at...
'Gadget', the first atomic bomb explodes at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test cleared the way for use of a nuclear device...
Replica of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was dropped from the B-29 �Enola Gay� aeroplane on to Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Mushroom cloud from China's first test of an atomic bomb on October 16, 1964. It is believed the nuclear device was detonated in a remote part of...
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...
August 9, 1945. The second American atomic bomb explodes above the city of Nagasaki, Japan on the island of Kyushu, producing a huge atomic mushroom...