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Gelatin silver print entitled 'Going Up!', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Latest released picture of the mushroom clooud rising at Bikini shows for the first time A-Bomb's exact location in relation to Bikini Atoll.'

Going Up!

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'The atom bomb burst, in its test of the fleet. Looking for all the workd like a giant cauliflower head suspeneded to an over-stretching neck, Bikini's billowing cloud of smaoke and flame was caught in its various stages of formation by a Navy patrol bomber flying just beyond reach of the deadly explosion. These pictures were taken within several minutes of the detonation and represent the first series of aerial views to be flown to the United States for publication.'

It Flies Through The Air With The Greatest of Heat

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, begining micro-seconds after the detonation of the atoomic bomb over Bikini Lagoon July 1, 1946, with the man-made light of a thousand suns and ending with the formation of the atomic cloud. The series of eight pictures were taken by electrically operated aerial camera miles away from the blast. Seventh in a series of eight.'

Atomic Fireball As Seen From The Air

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, begining micro-seconds after the detonation of the atomic bomb over Bikini Lagoon July 1, 1946, with the man-made light of a thousand suns and ending with the formation of the atomic cloud. The series of eight pictures were taken by electrically operated aerial camera miles away from the blast. Second in a series of eight.'

Atomic Fireball As Seen From The Air

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Explosion: Two Ways Of Looking At It', taken by an unknown photographer, 1951-1953. 'These two aerial views of an atomic explosion were photographed from a United States Air Force observer aircraft during one of the continental nuclear tests conducted over the last two years by the Atomic Energy commission in the Nevada desert...'

Atomic Explosion: Two Ways Of Looking At It

1951-1953

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, begining micro-seconds after the detonation of the atoomic bomb over Bikini Lagoon July 1, 1946, with the man-made light of a thousand suns and ending with the formation of the atomic cloud. The series of eight pictures were taken by electrically operated aerial camera miles away from the blast. Fourth in a series of eight.'

Atomic Fireball As Seen From The Air

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, begining micro-seconds after the detonation of the atoomic bomb over Bikini Lagoon July 1, 1946, with the man-made light of a thousand suns and ending with the formation of the atomic cloud. The series of eight pictures were taken by electrically operated aerial camera miles away from the blast. Fifth in a series of eight.'

Atomic Fireball As Seen From The Air

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'The atom bomb burst, in its test of the fleet. Looking for all the workd like a giant cauliflower head suspeneded to an over-stretching neck, Bikini's billowing cloud of smaoke and flame was caught in its various stages of formation by a Navy patrol bomber flying just beyond reach of the deadly explosion. These pictures were taken within several minutes of the detonation and represent the first series of aerial views to be flown to the United States for publication.'

It Flies Through The Air With The Greatest of Heat

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Eniwetok Atoll Atom-Bomb Test', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News Ltd, April-May 1951. 'A ball of flame rises over Eniwetok atoll during the April-May atom test blasts. The United States government announced on June 13th that the recent tests contributed greatly to the development of the hydrogen bomb and specialised atomic weapons...'

Eniwetok Atoll Atom-Bomb Test

1951

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, begining micro-seconds after the detonation of the atoomic bomb over Bikini Lagoon July 1, 1946, with the man-made light of a thousand suns and ending with the formation of the atomic cloud. The series of eight pictures were taken by electrically operated aerial camera miles away from the blast. Sixth in a series of eight.'

Atomic Fireball As Seen From The Air

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'By Remote Control...First Actual Close-Up of the Initial Atom Bomb Test at Bikini Island', taken by an unknown photographer for Keystone, 1 July 1946. 'This is the first close-up of the initial Bikini Island Atom Bomb Test. It was made with a camera installed in a tower on Bikini Island and snapped by remote control shortly after the bomb dropped by the F.29 'Dave's Dream' burst over the target...'

By Remote Control...

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Fireball As Seen From the Air', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, begining micro-seconds after the detonation of the atoomic bomb over Bikini Lagoon July 1, 1946, with the man-made light of a thousand suns and ending with the formation of the atomic cloud. The series of eight pictures were taken by electrically operated aerial camera miles away from the blast. Third in a series of eight.'

Atomic Fireball As Seen From The Air

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Bikini Fireworks', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'This remarkable photo shows the huge smoke column that closely followed the explosion of the first atom bomb at Bikini on 1 July, 1946...'

Bikini Fireworks

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Bikini Fireworks', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'This remarkable photo shows the huge smoke column that closely followed the explosion of the first atom bomb at Bikini on 1 July, 1946...'

Bikini Fireworks

1946-07-01

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Submarine Atomic Bomb Churns Water A Mile High', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 24 July 1946. 'A water column nearly half a mile wide shoots up nearly a mile at Bikini Lagoon as the submarine atomic bomb bursts on July 24. Photo made from USS Mt McKinley 11 miles away.'

Submarine Atomic Bomb Churns Water A Mile High

1946-07-24

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomrise Over Bikini', taken by an unknown photographer of the Joint Army Navy Task Force One, 24 July 1946. 'Ships of the Bikini target fleet are silhouetted in a glare a thousand times brighter than the sun an instant after the Able-Day bomb explodes.'

Atomrise Over Bikini

1946-07-24