Atomic bomb test, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, 1952

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Press photograph from the archives of the Baltimore Sun newspaper (image 150 x 205 mm; overall dimensions 210 x 250 mm), with date stamp verso (OCT 25 1952), and accompanying description: This official photo, one of a series released for the first time today by British Information Services, shows one of the final stages of the first British atom bomb detonation at Australia s Monte Bello Islands on Oct. 3rd. This view of the atomic cloud shows it spreading over a fifty-mile sea area to the north within 30 minutes of the blast. The photographic print was made in 1952, but is a photograph of the original print with a typed caption placed beside it. The British Government tested its first nuclear weapon in Australia at the Montebello Islands off Western Australia in 1952.

• Binding: Hardcover

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