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Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series showing fireball and "rope tricks"

A rope trick is the whimsical term given by physicist Dr. John Malik to the curious lines and spikes which emanate from the fireball of a nuclear explosion just after detonation. The image is from the Tumbler-Snapper test series of 1952.

Photo credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory