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A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Saloon, Beowave, Nevada, March, 1940", taken by Arthur Rothstein in March 1940. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Saloon, Beowave, Nevada, March 1940

1940-03
Gelatin silver print entitled 'America's Biggest Bang', taken by an unknown photographer for Radiophoto via Associated Press, from the Daily Herald archive, 5 July 1957. 'These four pictures illustrate less than half-a-minute's growth in the huge nuclear explosion at the Atomic Proving Grounds in the Nevada Desert near Las Vegas, United States, July 5th. At top left is the fireball one tenth of a second after detonation. It forms two horns (top right) and swells into the characteristic mushroom shape (lower left). At the lower right the fireball zooms skywards with an extra rim of fire around the top, 25 seconds after detonation.'

America's Biggest Bang: a nuclear explosion, Nevada

1957-07-05
Gelatin silver print entitled 'Determine Blinding Effects of A-Bomb Bursts' by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 1952, in Nevada. 'Washington: Volunteer Air Force Observers looked through specially designed and coated windows of a United States Air Force transport type aircraft at atomic bursts to determine such blinding effects on the human eye...'

Determine Blinding Effects of A-Bomb Bursts

1952
Gelatin silver print entitled 'Latest A-Bomb Is Exploded', taken by an unknown photographer for Planet News, 17 March 1953. 'In a blinding flash of light, the latest American atom-bomb device is exploded here with troops dug in only two miles distant...'

Latest A-Bomb Is Exploded

1953-03-17
Gelatin silver photograph a small atomic explosion in Nevada, photographed with a Faraday magneto-optic shutter by Harold Edgerton, c 1950. One of forty six black and white high speed photographs by Harold Edgerton.

A small atomic explosion in Nevada....

circa 1950