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Nuclear test blast photos you've probably never seen

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Rain Man:
Harold "Doc" Edgerton, inventor of the stroboscope and co-founder of EG&G, built a camera called a Rapatronic.  The device could shoot photographs of nuke tests as soon as 10 nanoseconds after Keff> 1.

This is some neat stuff.  See the attached links:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456#more-456

http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

Mike McFarlin:
Great sites, where have they been?

jansson:
I wonder if those assymetries comes from the construction of the bomb?

alphadude:
yep, the tower, the cab and other attachments.

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