
I had uploaded a shorter version of this video earlier and deleted it. That video resurfaced on another YouTube-account. Someone appears to have downloaded it and uploaded it by himself: www.youtube.com The first two are the Mohawk shot from Operation Redwing, 1956 (0:05) and Operation Snapper, 1952 (0:15). After that following Operation Ranger, 1951 (0:22), Ivy Mike, 1952 (0:28), Trinity Test, 1945 (0:39), Tsar Bomb, 1961 (0:44), First Lightning, 1949 (0:48), Greenhouse George, 1951 (0:55) and Castle Bravo, 1954 (1:01). Taken with a Rapatronic camera, combined into moving images. More about the Rapatronic camera and the tests here: edgerton-digital-collections.org simplethinking.com And here: nuclearweaponarchive.org Others shot with an O'Brien camera, developed by Brian O'Brien www.lib.rochester.edu en.wikipedia.org The photograph was shot by a Rapatronic camera built by EG&G. Since each camera could record only one exposure on a sheet of film, banks of four to 10 cameras were set up to take sequences of photographs. The average exposure time was three millionths of a second. The cameras were last used at the Test Site in 1962. The images shows the growing fireball, taken about one millisecond after detonation. There are two striking features about this picture - the spikes projecting from the bottom of the fireball, and the ghostly mottling of the fireball surface. The peculiar spikes are extensions of the fireball surface along ropes or cables that stretch from the <b>...</b>
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