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Description: Operation Upshot-Knothole - Harry. The shot taken at 10 milliseconds after the detonation using rapatronic camera by EG&G. Radioactive particles "sputtered" against the back of the formed fireball and thus produced the spotted and non-uniform surface.
Title: Operation Upshot-Knothole - Harry
Credit: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Upshotk.html
Author: U.S. Air Force 1352nd Photographic Group, Lookout Mountain Station
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