Atomic Veterans Photo Album

Operation Ivy, 1952

Elugelab Island with the thermonuclear device at 0 time.

Fire!..man enters the thermonuclear era. This man-made sun is about 3.5 miles in diameter.

The enormous fireball of the Mike explosion, approximately 40 miles away. First estimate of size, 12 megatons.

The mushroom cloud with tons of lethal fallout rises 130,000 feet into the stratosphere will circle the globe.

Scenes from the thermonuclear and fission tests of Operation Ivy are shown here. All photos are from the recently released video Operation Ivy.

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All Photos Courtesy of Uncle Sam

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