Atmospheric Nuclear Testing

Historical monochrome and color photographs of nuclear detonations and fireballs from various tests at the Nevada Test Site, depicting explosive events.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. DOPPLER fireball, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. GRABLE detonation: series of 14 aerial photos showing fireball and cloud (8 of 14). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-35 - Operation Teapot (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. POST cloud, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Vintage photograph. Aerial view of an atomic bomb explosion, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HOOD detonation: Series of 10 aerial fireball views (4 of 10). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Lesson / information material from the NBCD school: cloud phenomena at an above-ground nuclear explosion.

Atom Blast Churns Earth -- A second after an atomic device, more than 1½ times as powerful as the bombs which devastated Hiroshima and Nagaski, was detonated atop a 500-foot tower at dawn today, this churning fireball tore at the earth and sucked up clouds of dirt from the desert floor. An atomic blast. May 05, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Bikini Attol in the Pacific Ocean. Aerial view of the clouds created by the test explosion of an atomic bomb, 1946, Atomic explosion, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

After Britain's first hydrogen bomb test over the pacific on May 15th 1957: the mushroom cloud photographed from a ship. The bomb was exploded in the air high above the sea off Christmas Island. 15 May 1957

Aerial view of a mushroom cloud formed by an atomic bomb explosion, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. ENCORE detonation: series of 9 aerial photos showing fireball and cloud (8 of 9). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. SIMON fireball and cloud,g round view, yucca in foreground, series of 5 photos (2 of 5). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

"Operation Teapot" -- The first shot of "Operation Teapot", the Spring 1955 Series of nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site, looked like this shortly after detonation at noon today. The nuclear cloud is forming from the fireball while the stem is sucked up toward the cloud. February 18, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Able Day nuclear test detonation, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, July 1, 1946

Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Detonation. Mohawk Fireball, Aerial View. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 40-11 - Operation Buster/Jangle (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. DOG cloud, aerial view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. WAHOO detonation: series of 27 photos, aerial view of burst & base surge (3 of 27). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872; Napoli Eruzione del Vesuvio 1872. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Italy and southern France.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HOOD fireball, ground view (2 of 2). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Hydrogen Explosion Mushrooms -- The cloud spreads into big mushroom following hydrogen bomb explosion in the Marshall Islands of the pacific in the Fall of 1952. Two minutes after the explosion the cloud rose to height of 40,000 feet; after ten minutes it had pushed upward 25 miles. April 1, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Misc. Explosions - Atomic Explosions. June 25, 1952.

Nuclear test detonation, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands

Vintage Photograph. First Atomic Bomb Test at Bikini Atoll, Taken within several minutes of the detonation, July 1, 1946

Volcanic eruption in Japan - The Japanese volcano Asama entered into activity and has, 15 km away romantic sites Karusawa Showered with a rain of ashes.The volcano Asama with an outbreak. October 15, 1930. (Photo by Atlantic Photo).

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. STOKES fireball, aerial view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. SMOKY fireball, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

An 1888 lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

Project 26 - Operation Dominic (Johnston Island/Christmas Island/Maui, Hawaii) Detonation. Bluegill fireball from Christmas Island with palm trees and & lagoon in foreground. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Mushroom cloud of the Trinity test, the first manmade nuclear explosion. A plutonium bomb resulting in a blast equivalent to that of 19,000 tons of dynamite exploded on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico.

Project 30-107H & 1 - Little Feller I & II (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. LITTLE FELLER II, ground view, H+10, Project 1.1 instrumented balloon to left of cloud top. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Illustration of an asteroid colliding with Earth

Radioactive leak from the Baneberry underground nuclear test. Nevada Test Site workers were exposed to radiation when the 10 kiloton bomb detonated 900 feet underground cracked the soil, causing a fissure near ground zero. Dec. 18, 1970.

Faster than the plane could fly, billowing clouds of steam searing pumice ash spread out from the base of the eruption. Jacobson reported that it was five minutes-at 215 mph-before he outpaced the cloud. January 28, 1951.

Nuclear Bomb and Mushroom Cloud

Vintage photograph. First atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon on July 1st 1946 with photo taken minutes after detonation.

An 1872 albumin stereo photograph capturing Mount Vesuvius erupting at 4:30 p.m., showing lava, smoke, and the surrounding landscape.

An H-Bomb Cloud -- The mushroom-like cloud begins to take shape after the explosion of an H-bomb in the Fall of 1952 at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Two minutes after zero hour the cloud rose to 40,000 feet--the height of 32 Empire State buildings. This photos was taken at about 12,000 feet, 50 miles from the site of the detonation. This is one of a series of pictures released by Civil Defense officials, the first on an H-bomb test. April 01, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

The H-Bomb Explosion in the Pacific -- A stage in the development of the cloud formation after the explosion. The photograph was taken at height of 12,000 feet end 50 miles from the site of the detonation. One of the remarkable and awe-inspiring photographs taken after the detonation, of a hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the autumn of 1952. The operation was carried out by the Atmo Atomic Energy Commission end the United States Defence Department. The explosion is reported to have caused the greatest destruction ever noted from a single explosive device and the small island used in the test completely disappeared. April 4, 1954.

France pursued a series of nuclear tests from 1966 through 1996 at Mururoa Atoll, French Polynesia. This photograph is from the 914-kiloton Licorne (Unicorn) test, July 3, 1970. Fangataufa is permanently uninhabited. It is classified as a Common Military Zone. The zone includes the lagoon areas enclosed by the atoll and by baselines linking the closest points emerging from the reef on both sides of the channel. Entry is prohibited without authorization.

Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Detonation. Osage Cloud, Aerial View. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (15 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Elsevier photo collection. Aerial recording. Burst Krakatau, volcanic island Java Sumatra formation volcano Anak Krakatau, ed.. 1928. Indonesia, Krakatau, Krakatoa, Dutch East Indies

The MIKE shot, was the first successful full-scale test hydrogen bomb, on Oct. 31, 1952. The test took place on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Project 21 - Operation Ivy (Enewetak/Bikini) Detonation. Mike Fireball with Nuclear Lightning. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 22 - Operation Castle (Bikini/Enewetak) Detonation. Bravo Fireball from USS Estes. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (8 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. WHITNEY fireball/cloud, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. JOHN cloud. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

3d illustration of nuclear catastrophe, city and atomic bomb

Project 30-110 - Event Sedan (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. SEDAN detonation. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Colour photograph of Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion. Dated 1946

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. GRABLE detonation: series of 14 aerial photos showing fireball and cloud (9 of 14). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HARRY detonation and fireball: series of 5 aerial photos (2 of 5). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

The ROMERO shot, was a hydrogen bomb that yielded 11 megatons of energy. It was exploded on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 27, 1954.

A780775 PLANET RANCH, AZ MISER'S BLUFF #1 TAKAHASHI (Project Engineer) JUN 28 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 6/28/1978 CLOUDS; DUST CLOUDS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EXPLODING; EXPLOSIONS (MAN-MADE); EXPLOSIVES; MISER'S BLUFF; MISER'S BLUFF #1; MUSHROOM CLOUDS; NEVADA TEST SITE; NITRO-CARBO-NITRATE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR SIMULATION TESTING; PLANET RANCH; PLANET RANCH TEST VALLEY; PLANET RANCH, AZ; TEST SITES; TESTING (KNOWLEDGE); TESTS; PLANET RANCH-MISER'S BLUFF #1 historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

The eruption of the volcano Vesuvius on 26 April 1872, 3.30 a.m., Naples, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a photo by Giorgio Sommer, coloured, Europe

3d illustration of nuclear catastrophe, city and atomic bomb

01/14/2014. Takeoff and Explosion of the Challenger Sts-51l 01/28/1986 Archdc.

Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (7 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

US Nuclear device (bomb) test Priscilla 24 June 1957. Test Height and Type: 700 Foot Balloon with a yield of Yield: 37 kt. Weapon Explosion

The STS-31 crew launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990 at 8 33 51am (EDT). Included in the crew of five were Loren J. Shriver, commander; Charles F. Bolden, pilot; and Steven A. Hawley, Bruce McCandless, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, all mission specialists. The primary goal of the mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) which was a Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) managed program.

The FIZEAU Shot was part of the controversial Operation Plumbbob series of nuclear tests. Sept. 14, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site.

July 16, 1945 - The 'Trinity' Test Fireball - Test of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project

Project 30-35 - Operation Teapot (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. TESLA fireball, aerial view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Mightiest Non-A-Bomb Blast -- Bits of rock and clouds of dust geyser upward as 320,000 lbs. of TNT explode in sandstone cliff at Buckhorn Wash near Castle Dale, Utal Photo snapped 5½ air miles away from scene. July 8, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

A view of the LGM-30G Minuteman III missile being launched..

Welfare photos of Operation Cue Atomic Explosion , Nuclear explosions, Nuclear weapons testing, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (4 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. HOLLY fireball, from Enewetak Island. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-7 - Operation Tumbler/Snapper (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. EASY fireball/cloud, aerial view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

The eruption of Vesuvius, 26 April 1872, Naples, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a photograph by Giorgio Sommer, coloured, Europe

Welfare photos of Operation Cue Atomic Explosion , Nuclear explosions, Nuclear weapons testing, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (63 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. NEWTON fireball, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

New Vulcan, the crater which appeared from the sea with terrifying suddenness within a day, in full eruption. Smoke and ***** were shot up in a huge column. The arrow points motor-ship Desokoko, cowering under the menace of ***** eruption. The Desokoko was harbor-bound for some time, but finally broke through to the open sea past the belching craters. June 7, 1937.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. LAPLACE fireball, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (27 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Vintage Photograph. THERMONUCLEAR DETONATION PACIFIC PROVING GROUND. Explosive power of a nuclear detonation captured in stunning red hue.

Welfare photos of Operation Cue Atomic Explosion , Nuclear explosions, Nuclear weapons testing, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. PRISCILLA cloud: Series of 8 ground views (3 of 8). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing the detonation of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HOOD fireball, ground view (1 of 2). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (6 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

The BADGER shot was a 23 kiloton nuclear bomb. Over 2,000 US soldiers were within 3.7 kilometers of the explosion and some moved as close a 460 kilometers after the blast. April 18, 1953, at the Nevada Test Site.

Mount St. Helens volcano. Hand coloured photograph of the ash plume rising from the Mount St. Helens volcano during an eruption in 1980. The volcano had been dormant since 1857 but began to show activity again early in 1980. On 18 May 1980 it exploded and sent a plume of ash to an altitude of 19 kilometres. The eruption killed everything, including about 60 people, within an area of 180 square kilometres, and spread ash over a much wider area. The eruption blew off about three cubic kilometres of the volcano, reducing its height from 2,950 metres to 2,549 metres. Mount St. Helens lies in the Cascade Range of mountains in Washington State, USA.

Atomic Bomb Testing Bikini Atoll Micronesia 1946

Project 30-30 - Operation Wigwam (Pacific) Detonation. WIGWAM burst, plume formation. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. WAHOO detonation: series of 27 photos, aerial view of burst & base surge (1 of 27). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-7 - Operation Tumbler/Snapper (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. DOG fireball/cloud aerial view (1 of 3). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Anefo photo collection. Gentlier the start from television, first stage off the rocket. June 3, 1965

Giant Geyser, during eruption. 1885 - 1890. text. Photographs, Landscape photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Yellowstone National Park

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. CHARLESTON cloud, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

A781165 PLANET RANCH, AZ MISER'S BLUFF TOM TAKAHASHI (Project Engineer) AUG 30 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/30/1978 DUST CLOUDS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EXPLODING; EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIVE TESTS; MISER'S BLUFF; MISER'S BLUFF #1; MOUNTAINS; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR SIMULATION TESTING; PLANET RANCH; PLANET RANCH TEST VALLEY; PLANET RANCH, AZ; ROADS; SHELTER; TESTS; PLANET RANCH-MISER'S BLUFF historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

89Q.A. - Atomic Test At Woomera Rocket Range. October 01, 1953.

Mount St. Helens, Washington, is the most active volcano in the Cascade Range. The first sign of activity at Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980 was a series of small earthquakes that began on March 16. Steam explosions on March 27 blasted a crater through the volcano's summit ice cap. Within a week the crater had grown to about 1,300 feet in diameter and two giant crack systems crossed the entire summit area. By May 17, more than 10,000 earthquakes had shaken the volcano and the north flank had grown outward at least 450 feet to form a noticeable bulge. Such dramatic deformation of the volcano was strong evidence that molten rock (magma) had risen high into the volcano. Within 15 to 20 seconds of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake on May 18th, at 8:32 a.m., the volcano's bulge and summit slid away in a huge landslide - the largest on Earth in recorded history. Rocks, ash, volcanic gas, and steam were blasted upward and outward to the north. This lateral blast of hot material accelerated to

Underground A-Blast -- In eruption of dust resulted from today's underground a-blast at Yucca Flat. The sub-surface detonation is the seventh in the current "Teapot" series. This picture was taken from on the test site and released by the Atomic Energy Commission. March 23, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Vertical launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC), US Armed Forces

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