Image: Tumbler Snapper rope tricks

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Description: Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series showing fireball and "rope tricks" by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The photograph was shot by a Rapatronic camera built by EG&G. Since each camera could record only one exposure on a sheet of film, banks of four to 10 cameras were set up to take sequences of photographs. The average exposure time was three millionths of a second. The cameras were last used at the Test Site in 1962.
Title: Tumbler Snapper rope tricks
Credit: http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/tumbler_snapper/ has source info for that photo and attributes it to the US government
Author: U.S. Air Force 1352nd Photographic Group, Lookout Mountain Station
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Operation Tumbler–Snapper

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