Link: First Microseconds of an Atomic Explosion -- Photos
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Link: First Microseconds of an Atomic Explosion -- Photos
The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.
Very cool shots but bring your popup blocker: http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom.htm
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Wow.
These were apparently shot by Harold Edgerton, a pioneer in high speed photography. He's the same guy that's responsible for the famous images of bullets penetrating an apple and playing cards. Below is some info I found about the atomic images along with a link to the source which aso has the atomic photos.
http://www.tonyrogers.com/weapons/im..._speed_photos/
If you find this interesting, you may also want to look for the the book "100 Suns" the next time you're in the book store. It's just too creepy for me to own but as a reviewer on Amazon said, it's "Darkly Beautiful."
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/cat...=9781400041138
These were apparently shot by Harold Edgerton, a pioneer in high speed photography. He's the same guy that's responsible for the famous images of bullets penetrating an apple and playing cards. Below is some info I found about the atomic images along with a link to the source which aso has the atomic photos.
Below are three sequence photos shot on special b&w film at about 10,600,000 frames per second during the 1945 Trinity Test when Los Alamos fired the first Atomic Bomb test. These are Edgerton images. They are three almost-sequence frames, triggered from the primary firing Trinity weapon firing mechanism. The camera had 3500-feet of pre-tensioned 35-mm film on a huge spool, and the below shots are about two or three or five frames apart (they never could really tell) at the climax speed of the camera when the test weapon went off. The camera exploded after the shots because it was going so fast, but it shot 2/3rds of a mile of film frames before it disintigrated, and Edgerton made a special heat and blast resistant magnesium-alloy housing for the film to spin off and eject laterally when the camera exploded, so they could recover the exposed film after a predicted camera failure.
If you find this interesting, you may also want to look for the the book "100 Suns" the next time you're in the book store. It's just too creepy for me to own but as a reviewer on Amazon said, it's "Darkly Beautiful."
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/cat...=9781400041138
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Another nifty page!
http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/highspeed_frame_set.htm Lots of stuff there...
Here's one of a bullet going through a bubble...
http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/highspeed_frame_set.htm Lots of stuff there...
Here's one of a bullet going through a bubble...
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Below are three sequence photos shot on special b&w film at about 10,600,000 frames per second during the 1945 Trinity Test when Los Alamos fired the first Atomic Bomb test. These are Edgerton images. They are three almost-sequence frames, triggered from the primary firing Trinity weapon firing mechanism. The camera had 3500-feet of pre-tensioned 35-mm film on a huge spool, and the below shots are about two or three or five frames apart (they never could really tell) at the climax speed of the camera when the test weapon went off. The camera exploded after the shots because it was going so fast, but it shot 2/3rds of a mile of film frames before it disintigrated, and Edgerton made a special heat and blast resistant magnesium-alloy housing for the film to spin off and eject laterally when the camera exploded, so they could recover the exposed film after a predicted camera failure. Edward Teller was the first one to see the frames, and he was ecstatic. Moments later, he was depressed and realized that the US was going to drop these weapons on Japan. He forever regretted his role in the development of these infernal death machines. But he ended up sticking with it into the post-WWII era and helped make even larger Hydrogen Fusion weapons.
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Was there something wrong with my copy of the same paragraph next to said link? 
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