Pictures Kept Secret From Public For 22 Years, Finally Get Declassified

Nuclear Explosion

While government officials claimed that using nuclear bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was extremely necessary and not an option that the United States was willing to reconsider, this picture shows what happened.

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Take 1952; this image was part of the United States Operation Ivy—a project that tested thermonuclear devices. The first test of a thermonuclear device – nicknamed “Ivy Mike” – was blown up in a top-secret place within the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands.