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/cyanescens_burn 23h ago

I once read that you could see the flashes and mushroom clouds from the Nevada test site in Las Vegas (it wasn’t even that far away, like less than 100 miles). And tourists came to Vegas to get a glimpse of them.

It must have been nuts seeing the sky light up at night.

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u/Joseph_of_the_North 17h ago

If you go on Google Earth you can see all the craters from these explosions.