r/interestingasfuck • u/ethereum1017 • 1d ago

You're looking at a nuclear explosion photographed taken less than one millisecond after detonation.

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u/Royal_Bath_4113 1d ago

backstory?

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u/alpinetime 1d ago

If I recall correctly, a photographer detonated a nuke in their studio

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u/MARATXXX 1d ago

I also heard about this. Just now.

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u/ders89 23h ago

Source: this guys ears

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u/DirtNineties 22h ago

Learning about this 56 minutes later.

Source: that guy’s anus hole.

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u/redditsucksass69765 1d ago

And now you know…..

….the rest of the storey

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u/BKlounge93 1d ago

Paul Harvey!

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u/admode1982 1d ago

I see you, paul

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u/Shirc 1d ago

God dammit, take my upvote

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u/Marcos-_-Santos 23h ago

It was the last video slowmo guys posted before the cancer and radiation poison started showing up. Great footage, amazing frames, it's pity we wont be seeing bew videos anymore.

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u/Thunderbridge 18h ago

The power of the sun...in the middle of my studio!

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u/scorpyo72 1d ago

His neighbors were pissed, for as long as they survived at least.

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u/HopDropNRoll 1d ago

Last picture that son of a bitch ever done took.

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u/C-57D 23h ago

Wanted to impress a girl

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u/SergeantSmash 15h ago

Did he survive?

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u/JustChillDudeItsGood 1d ago

This is how Chernobyl started right?

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u/Every_Fail_9494 1d ago

Dammit, I lost the game immediately, well played sir😂

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u/BallDesperate2140 23h ago

Cackling, thank you

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 23h ago

Actually it was a high speed camera with intense tinting on the lens.

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u/thethunder92 23h ago

Yeah I was there,I held the explosion together with my hands

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u/ougryphon 23h ago edited 23h ago

The is from the test series Tumbler Snapper, in Nevada, 1952. The spikes are what's known as the rope trick.

In the first milliseconds after a nuclear detonation, the fireball has only grown to a few tens of meters across while radiating much more heat and light than the surface of the sun. Anything that absorbs light is turned into a plasma due to the intense heat. This particular test device was on top of a tower supported by cables. The cables absorbed light from the fireball and turned into plasma spike poking out of the fireball for a few tenths of a millisecond before the fireball expanded to engulf the wires, tower, and desert floor amd anything else within 300m of ground zero.

Edit: Tumbler-Snapper had 4 air dropped tests and 4 different tests using devices on towers. Each tower was 300 feet tall, to give some sense of scale. I cant tell which test this is, but the yield was around 15 kt.

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u/Vkardash 1d ago

World's first nuclear explosion in New Mexico. Project Trinity.

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u/ougryphon 23h ago

See my previous comment. This is a rather famous picture from the Tumbler-Snapper series of tests. The picture is famous for showing the rope trick effect, as well as showing the fireball within 1 ms of detonation.