Test bombs

Robert Oppenheimer - the father of the American atomic bomb, the head of the Manhattan Project.
They say he was very upset with the way his ideas to use military (and how else can use the atomic bomb)




Military generals and Robert Oppenheimer visiting the ruins of the tower after the first atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945. Aerofotografichesky picture of the crater after the explosion of the atomic bomb on the test.
White round - thermal effect on the sand, which literally turned the glass.


July 1946 - the explosion of the atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.


Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll


Atomic cake that is cut by Vice Admiral William HP Blandy, his wife and Rear Admiral Frank Dzh.Louri at a reception in honor of successful tests.


Cover of "Life", February 27, 1950


Observers from the number of high military commanders for special glasses watching an atomic explosion in 1951.


Vzyryvy Nevada


The test of a hydrogen bomb in 1952


Operation Ivy. 1954.




















Cover of the French magazine which otfotoshopit President Jacques Chirac after the nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll.