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Gelatin silver print entitled 'Picture - By Atomic Flash', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 6 May 1955. 'Two observers (right) turn away, many hold their hands to their faces, as the 500 newsmen and other observers are pictured in the light of the atomic blast from 'Operation Cue'...'

Picture - By Atomic Flash

1955-05-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Before The Blast', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 15 March 1953. 'This was the scene March 15th as Civil Defence officials completed preparations for the atomic test explosion, on the Atomic Proving Grounds at Nevada, March 17...'

Before The Blast

1953-03-15

Gelatin silver print entitled 'To Be 'Victims' of A-Bomb Blast', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 17 March 1953. 'This casual dinner scene will take place in a house located only one-and-a-half miles from where an atomic explosion is due to take place on March 17th...'

To Be 'Victims' of A-Bomb Blast

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled 'After The Blast: House No 1', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 17 March 1953. 'House Number One, built only half a mile from 'Ground Zero', lies in ruins in the distance, after the Atomic Test explosion, on the Atomic Proving Grounds at Nevada, March 17th...'

After The Blast: House No 1

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Testing The Effect Of A-Bombs', taken by an unknown photographer for International News Photos, 17 March 1953. 'If you were sleeping peacefully in bed and an enemy Atom Bomb would explode 3,500 feet away, what would be your chance of survival?...'

Testing The Effect Of A-Bombs

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Test City Ready For A-Blast', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, about 1950. 'This photo made from a helicopter shows buildings set up 4,700 feet from a 500 foot tower atop which a nuclear device is to be exploded at the Yucca Flat, Nevada, Testing Ground on April 26t. The buildings will be carefully examined after the explosion.'

Test City Ready For A-Blast

1946-1956

Gelatin silver print entitled 'After The Blast: House No 2', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 17 March 1953. 'House Number Two looked like this, with windows blown out after the Atomic Test Explosion on the Atomic Proving Grounds at Nevada, March 17th...'

After The Blast: House No 2

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atomic Blast Set Off, Blasts 'Survival Town'', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 6 May 1955. 'After ten days of postponments, the nuclear blast of 'Operation Cue' was set off here from a 500 foot tower in the desert 80 miles from Las Vegas. Photo shows an aerial view of part of 'Survival Town'...'

Atomic Blast Set Off, Blasts 'Survival Town'

1955-05-06

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Dummy 'Sleepers' Will Face A-Bomb Blast', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 17 March 1953. 'A dummy is put to bed by Security Guard Ed Addington, on the second floor bedroom of one of two houses whihc will take the full blast of the atomic explosion due to take place here on March 17th...'

Dummy 'Sleepers' Will Face A-Bomb Blast

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled ''Survival City' After Blast', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 1953. 'This air view of the Test Town built in the Nevada Desert was made some time after today's atomic test. The largest public atomic blast ever set off in the USA...'

'Survival City' After Blast

1953

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Shelters Will Be Tested In A-Bomb Explosion', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 17 March 1953. 'Dummies are placed under the protection of an inexpensive lean-to type bomb shelter in the basement of a house that will be tested in the atom-bomb explosion due to take place here on March 17th...'

Shelters Will Be Tested In A-Bomb Explosion

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled ''Atom Bomb Disintegrates House in Under 3 Seconds', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 20 March 1953. 'The complete destruction of a test house, located some 3,500 feet away from 'ground zero' during the recent atomic detonation, is shown in these pictures taken by an automated motion picture camera, placed 60 foot away from the house...'

Atom Bomb Disintegrates House in Under 3 Seconds

1953-03-20

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Houses To Feel A-Bomb's Fury', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 8 March 1953. 'Two typical American Colonial Homes, completely equiped with Government surplus furniture, stand in readiness on the dessert north west of Las Vegas, Nevada, awaiting the test atomic explosion on March 17th...'

Houses To Feel A-Bomb's Fury

1953-03-08

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Atom Blast Leaves Troops Unhurt', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 2 November 1951. 'American troops of the 11th Airborne Division kneel as the atomic bomb is exploded over the Nevada desert yesterday, November 2nd, in 'Operation Desert Rock'...

Atom Blast Leaves Troops Unhurt

1951-11-02

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Houses In Latest A-Bomb Test', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 17 March 1953. 'Preparations near completion for the 21st atomic blast at Yucca Flats, Nevada, scheduled to take place on March 17th, weather permitting...'

Houses In Latest A-Bomb Test

1953-03-17

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Cars Prepared For Atomic Test', taken by an unknown photographer for Associated Press, 1946. 'Some of the cars to be exposed to the St Patrick's Day atom blast near Las Vegas, Nevada, numbered for identification purposes...'

Cars Prepared For Atomic Test

1946

Gelatin silver print entitled ''Survival Town' House Crumbles Under Atom Blast', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 6 May 1955. 'After ten days of postponments, the nuclear blast of 'Operation Cue' was set off herer from a 500 foot tower in the desert 80 miles from Las Vegas...'

'Survival Town' House Crumbles Under Atom Blast

1955-05-06