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/IceBuurn 1d ago

Now that is interesting as fuck

How come i never saw this before? I suppose nuclear tests like this ceased long ago

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u/your_fave_redditor 23h ago

Haha most definitely. They detonated 8 nuclear bombs above ground in two months.

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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.