Atomic Testing
Photo: U.S. Department of Energy
The mushroom cloud of the "Easy" atomic bomb test rises above the Nevada Test Site on Nov. 5, 1951. Energy levels the equivalent of over 31 thousand tons of TNT were discharged by the bomb.
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