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Atomic Bomb Test
Fritz Goro1945-09
LIFE Photo Collection
New York City, United States
Closeup of crater's surface shows how the heat from the first atomic bomb explosion destroyed a desert plant and melted sand into weird shapes of crude glass.
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- Title: Atomic Bomb Test
- Date: 1945-09
- Location: Alamogordo, NM, US
- Physical Dimensions: B/W TRANSMISSION
- Subject Keywords: Atomic Energy, Plants, Special Collections, Glass, Radiation, Bomb Tests, Patterns, American, New Mexico, Icp Donation, Effects, 1940s
- Publisher: TimeLife
- Usage: For personal non-commercial use only
- Provider: LIFE
- Photographer: Fritz Goro
- Original ID: TimeLife_image_5503987
- Credits: LIFE
- Copyright: © Time Inc.
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