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Greenhouse Easy nuclear test, 300' tower, 47 kilotons, Eniwetok atoll, 21 April 1951. Proof test of the TX-5D bomb, 92 point lense implosion system. This test was also used to test weapon effects on various military structures.
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Name ship of her battleship class Nagato (left side of photograph) in front of a radioactive mist after the Operation Crossroads Baker detonation, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 25 Jul 1946
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13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, just hours after the Atomic Bomb detonation 40 miles away. Barbara was the only person in the photo that lived to see 30 years old.
Carmadean’s Dance Camp was an idyllic escape for many young girls in the summer of 1945
In the hours and days following the Trinity test, a peculiar phenomenon occurred. Fine, white particles began to settle over the camp, resembling snow. The girls, unaware of the true nature of these particles, danced and played in what they thought was a rare desert snowfall.
“We danced in the so-called ‘snow,’ laughing and twirling,” recalled Betty Lou Parker. “It was magical to us. We had no idea we were playing in radioactive fallout.”
Barbara Kent, aged 13 at the time remembers it as follows: “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”
The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley.
The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation.
In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet all those living near the bomb site weren’t warned that the test would take place. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days,”
Carmadean’s Dance Camp was an idyllic escape for many young girls in the summer of 1945
In the hours and days following the Trinity test, a peculiar phenomenon occurred. Fine, white particles began to settle over the camp, resembling snow. The girls, unaware of the true nature of these particles, danced and played in what they thought was a rare desert snowfall.
“We danced in the so-called ‘snow,’ laughing and twirling,” recalled Betty Lou Parker. “It was magical to us. We had no idea we were playing in radioactive fallout.”
Barbara Kent, aged 13 at the time remembers it as follows: “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”
The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley.
The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation.
In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet all those living near the bomb site weren’t warned that the test would take place. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days,”
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