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Famous color photograph of the "Trinity" shot, the first nuclear test explosion.

Photograph by Jack Aeby, July 16, 1945, as a member of the Special Engineering Detachment at Los Alamos laboratory, working under the aegis of the Manhattan Project.

Source: http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/atm.htm


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