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(ATOMIC BOMBS--TRINITY NUCLEAR TEST) A graphic and unfathomable series with 8 photographs by Berlyn Brixner (1911-2009) documenting the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on this planet, as developed by the Los Alamos Laboratory under the Manhattan Project. With split-second views of the explosion, from 0.025 to 20 seconds after detonation, and one aerial view showing the spot where the bomb was dropped (28 hours later), with a 100m (328 ft.) wide hole in the ground, and a vast black shadow spanning approximately 500m (1640 ft.) in diameter. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 6 1/2x9 inches (16.5x22.9 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with caption and/or technical information in the negative, and with the Official Los Alamos Project and D. H. Wiseman, hand stamps on verso. 1945
Berlyn Brixner was the head photographer for the Manhattan Project's Trinity test. He was stationed at a distance of 10,000 yards from the blast. Using fifty 16mm high-speed cameras, with various combinations of film speed, he made over 100,000 photographs of Trinity, capturing, in immense detail, the raw nuclear power of the first Atomic detonation.
