Brighter than the sun. A mushroom-topped column of smoke and gas, brighter than the sun, rises through a disintegrating vapor cloud over Bikini Lagoon(...)

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Brighter than the sun. A mushroom-topped column of smoke and gas, brighter than the sun, rises through a disintegrating vapor cloud over Bikini Lagoon(...)

Date12/1/1948

Names

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Brighter than the sun. A mushroom-topped column of smoke and gas, brighter than the sun, rises through a disintegrating vapor cloud over Bikini Lagoon in the aerial bomb test July 1, 1946. [Incomplete]

Subject

Atomic bomb

Medium

Aerial photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002545F

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