US Atomic Weapons Tests: Trinity through Buster-Jangle (1952)

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Produced by United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain Laboratory Air Photographic and Charting Service for the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project in Laurel Canyon, California, in 1952, this sanitized version was released by the US Department of Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office in April of 1999. It documents atomic weapons testing that occurred between 1945 and 1951.

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