Photos of nuclear weapons, narrated by the photographer

Photos of nuclear weapons, narrated by the photographer: "

George Yoshitake, a photographer who documented US nuclear blasts (both on the testing field and in war) narrates this NYT slideshow of his work. I don't know what's more striking: the disintegrating materiel or the sight of all those scientists and VIPs watching from their Adirondack loungers.

Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film

(via Kottke)

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• Animated map of nuclear explosions, 1945-1998


• An alternative to the atomic bomb?


• If an A-Bomb Falls


• RIP, Atomic Ed Grothus, curator and proprietor of the Black Hole ...


• HOWTO survive a nuclear attack - Mutual of Omaha, 1951