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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(NULCEAR EXPLOSION) A group of 4 large color photographs depicting various American atomic bomb tests in the 1950s, three at the Nevada Test Site and one at Bikini Atoll. The images include: Operation Upshot-Knothole, Grable, Nevada Test Site, May 1953, Area 5; Operation Teapot, Hornet, Nevada Test Site, March 1955; the infamous Castle Bravo test, Operation Castle, Bikini Atoll, February 1954; Operation Hardtack II, Socorro, Nevada Test Site, October 1958 (one of the last before a brief international testing moratorium). Chromogenic prints, the images measuring 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with the operation name and date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1953-58
