Those were the words of Robert Oppenheimer in 1945 after Trinity atomic bomb test – the first ever nuclear test. Months later two bombs of the same size (around 20 kilotons) were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with devastating effect.
Over the next twenty years a number of nations would carry out nuclear test around the globe using a variety of methods and nuclear yields. Explosions ranged in size from those less than a kiloton right up to Russia’s massive 50 megaton Tsar Bomba in 1961. That’s 2,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
Most of the nuclear explosions below were carried out by the USA at the height of the Cold War. They were predominantly performed in the deserts of Nevada and New Mexico and on the mid Pacific atolls of the Marshall Islands. The UK and France also tested nuclear weapons in the Pacific.
The images of nuclear explosions below represent the most awesome, terrifying and strangely beautiful I came across.

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Nigeria nuclear test

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Nigeria nuclear test

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Nigeria nuclear test

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