slgwv's photos with the keyword: explosion

Priscilla, 24 Jun 1957, 40 kilotons yield. Another in the Operation Plumbbob series. However, although this picture was identified as Priscilla by the AEC, it actually looks to be Grable. Apparently the Priscilla pictures have been misidentified for years--see www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/plumbbob/index.... Scanned from an official AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) photo that had been cleared for public release, and so is in the public domain. As with Hood, I would have seen this as a small child, watching with my mom and kid sister from the Spring Mountains about 30 miles away. Of course, you can't watch the initial detonation without heavy-duty eye protection, but you can certainly watch the fireball afterward.

Hood, 5 July 1957, 74 kilotons yield. Part of Operation Plumbbob, a series of nuclear tests in mid-1957. This was the largest device (as they were called) set off aboveground at the Nevada Test Site. It was a thermonuclear device (i.e., a hydrogen bomb), despite the fact that the AEC denied for many years that thermonuclear devices had been set off aboveground in the US. I saw this one as a small child, watching from off Lee Canyon in the Spring Mountains about 30 miles away. Scanned from an official AEC (Atomic Energy Commission--now absorbed into the US Dept. of Energy) photo that had been cleared for public release, and so is in the public domain. A little judicious Photoshopping has repaired some cracks in the original emulsion.