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Picture of Trinity the first ever nuclear test [1483x1000] (i.imgur.com)

submitted ago by w_is_for_tungsten

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[–]Deus_Ex_Corde 16 points17 points ago

I love this picture. For some scale, those black specks in the foreground outlined by the explosion are trees

[–]w_is_for_tungsten[S] 8 points9 points ago

I didn't know that, thats amazing!

[–]Nathan13 4 points5 points ago

Holt shit!

[–]spoogieking012 7 points8 points ago

Here is the same image with the actual scale and time after detonation.

[–]Kimano 6 points7 points ago

It almost looks like a soap bubble.

[–]CupBeEmpty 5 points6 points ago

I have been seeing a lot of these photos around recently. I got my dad a coffee table book a few years ago called 100 Suns which is photographs (some only recently de-classified of 100 of the earliest, above ground nuclear tests. It is a really amazing/terrifying book.

[–]MasterBistro 4 points5 points ago

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[–]CupBeEmpty 2 points3 points ago

thanks

[–]MasterBistro 1 point2 points ago

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[–]CupBeEmpty 5 points6 points ago

now you have gone too far

[–]MasterBistro 6 points7 points ago

!

[–]JackSmackus 1 point2 points ago

I love these photos because they are so interesting to look at knowing that the level of power and destruction behind them is so immense. I stare at them trying to wrap my mind around just what I'm looking at realizing I never will.

[–]mrwhite777 0 points1 point ago

Whilst the nuclear bomb is considered the most destructive weapon a country can have, It is also part of the reason for so much peace on earth. Bizar.

[–]WhiteTiger1100 -1 points0 points ago

This was one of the smaller bombs too, after this they got bigger and bigger.

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