Intl. Notebook | Oct 30 2010 |
![CHARLIE ROSE](/images/headline/1050.png)
Tell me again, who made the desert bloom?
Photo of the mushroom cloud generated by the American nuclear test Buster Charlie, a fourteen kiloton shot conducted at the Nevada Test Site, today, 1951.
Intl. Notebook | Feb 23 2010 |
![FLASH IN THE PAN](/images/headline/752.png)
Light of a clear blue morning.
Photo of the nuclear test codenamed Easy, part of the series Operation Ranger, detonated at Frenchman Flat, Nevada Test Site, February 1, 1951. This was the first nuclear blast shown on television—a news program secretly focused a camera on the desert from the top of a Las Vegas hotel and was able to broadcast a distant flash.
Intl. Notebook | Sep 14 2009 |
![NAKED FLAME](/images/headline/510.png)
At least it's a dry heat.
Photo of the American nuclear test codenamed Fizeau, part of a series of tests named Plumbbob conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This one was fifty-two years ago today.