Joint Army Task Force One Photo - The atomic bomb burst - image-1

Lot 160 D

Joint Army Task Force One Photo - The atomic bomb burst

Auction 1012 - overview Cologne
24.05.2013, 00:00 - Photography
Estimate: 800 €
Result: 1.342 € (incl. premium)

Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 22.8 x 18 cm (25.4 x 20.7 cm). 'JOINT ARMY NAVY TASK FORCE ONE PHOTO' stamp, number and date stamps and annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the verso.

„The mushroom growing out of the Text A [Able, Anm.] explosion in air has now reached an altitude of five miles. Veiling the mushroom top is the ice cap, or scarf cloud, believed to be composed of myriad tiny ice crystals. The mushroom itself is a mixture of vapor, smoke, soot, and radioactive fission products." (cf. William S. Shurcliff, Bombs at Bikini. The Official Report of Operation Crossroads, New York 1947, plate 20)