Nuclear Detonation Clouds

Dramatic images of mushroom clouds resulting from nuclear detonations at Nevada Test Sites, showcasing various cloud formations and atmospheric phenomena.

The RDS-6s device, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon (called Joe 4) on August 12, 1953, Anonymous

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

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HOOD detonation: Series of 7 fireball & cloud, ground views (7 of 7). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

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

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HARRY detonation, fireball and cloud: series of 6 ground view photos (4 of 6). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. PRISCILLA fireball & cloud: Series of 9 ground views (6 of 9). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

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

The RDS-6s device, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon (called Joe 4) on August 12, 1953, Anonymous

The RDS-6s device, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon (called Joe 4) on August 12, 1953, Anonymous

The KING shot was a 500 kilotons nuclear bomb. It was the largest pure-fission bomb yet exploded when detonated North of Runit Island, Enewetak, Marshall Islands. Nov. 15, 1952.

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HARRY detonation and fireball: series of 5 aerial photos (4 of 5). 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 69 photos from Kidrenen Island (9 of 69). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 16, 1945The Trinity fireball, 15 seconds after the detonation of the first atomic bomb, rises into the air above the desert.

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. CLIMAX fireball, ground view (1 of 3). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Atomic energy: An explosion of the H-Bomb during testing in the Marshall Islands, 1952.

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

Atomic Cloud Mushrooms Skyward -- Topped by the familiar mushroom, the atomic cloud rises swiftly into the sky after today's atomic explosion. The cloud rose to 32,000 feet within six minutes after the device was detonated atop a 500-foot tower. May 5, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto0.

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.

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

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

First picture published in Australia of the world's first hydrogen-bomb explosion (November, 1952). Released by US authorities yesterday so that the public might know the destructiveness of nuclear weapons, this one. Vaporised a Pacific island in a twinkling. Threw out a fireball big enough to engulf New York. Dug a crater broad enough to hold 14 of the world's tallest buildings. Flung a cloud of smoke and gas 25 miles high and 100 miles wide. April 02, 1954.

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HOOD detonation: Series of 10 aerial fireball views (3 of 10). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll1946 a

Western Australia - Monte Bello Islands A - Bomb explosion.Misc- Explosions - Atomic. December 9, 1952.

Test with atomic bomb (Apple II), 9 May 1955, Nevada, USA, Anonymous, 1955 news photograph With recto in blue instructions for the layout. Verso typed on strip of paper: Apple II was A 29-Kiloton Nuclear Test Conducted Atop A Tower at the Nevada Test Site on May 5, 1955, Plus various stamps. Nevada baryta paper gelatin silver print nuclear, biological and chemical weapons Nevada

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

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

Nuclear Bomb and Mushroom Cloud

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).

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).

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. HARRY fireball: series of 4 aerial photos (4 of 4). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

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

Elsevier photo collection. mushroom cloud test explosion atomic bomb Yucca Flats Nevada. 1955. Nevada

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.

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

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. PRISCILLA fireball & cloud: Series of 7 views. Photographers in foreground (4 of 7). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Project 30-18 - Operation Upshot/Knothole (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. ENCORE detonation: series of 9 aerial photos showing fireball and cloud (7 of 9). 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 (13 of 71). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

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

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. BOLZTMAN fireball, aerial (2 of 2). 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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. UMBRELLA detonation; series of 71 photos from Ikuren Island of burst and base surge (9 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 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.

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

3d illustration of nuclear catastrophe, city and atomic bomb

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.

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.

Cloud Forms After H-Bomb Explosion -- This is an early stage in the development of cloud formation following explosion of hydrogen bomb in operation Ivy in Marshall Islands of the pacific in Fall of 195. . This photo was taken at a height of about 12,000 feet. This is one of a series of pictures released by the Civil Administration, the first on a hydrogen test. April 1, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Atomic Bomb Testing Bikini Atoll Micronesia 1946

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

An engraving depicting the eruption of Krakatoa. Dated 19th century

The STOKES Shot was a 19 kiloton nuclear test. It was part of the controversial Operation Plumbbob that exposed animals to fatal blasts and radiation. August 7, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site.

Asteroid impact, computer artwork.

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

An explosion at a nuclear power station.

Nuclear test detonation, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands

Contactee Daniel Fry photographed this spinning UFO at Joshua Tree, California 1 of 5 Date: 1965

Service eruption of Vesuvius in April 4. 1906.

Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger

Cloud formed by an atomic bomb explosion, Enewetak, Marshall Islands, 1951

Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Detonation. Seminole Fireball & Ejecta, Aerial View (2 of 3). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Engraving depicting the Great Comet of 1843. Dated 19th Century

Mount Vesuvius emitting a column of smoke after its eruption on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

A passing asteroid rips apart the Earth's crust causing the west coast of the United States to sink beneath the Pacific Ocean. Fragments of rock from the asteroid fall from the sky causing a meteor shower that destroys anything that gets in its path.

Mining industry on a moon, conceptual illustration

Violent lightning flashes such as this have been occurring with greater frequency this summer. November 07, 1951. (Photo by General Electric Company).

Nuclear Explosion. Radioactive Cloud Expanding from a Melting Reactor and Radiation Leak.

Winslow, Arizona c. 1935An aerial view of the Meteor Crater, caused by a meteor hitting there 200 years ago. The dark area is from a passing cloud.

Nikola Tesla 1856-1943 created a double exposure photograph of himself reading undisturbed by a 22 foot long discharge of artificial lightning of millions of volts of electricity.

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