Day at the Beach

 

 

 

 

Butterfly On Backyard Patrol.

 

 

 

Nuke Bombs Exploded over the Pacific Ocean - historical photographs

Hardtack I / Teak 3.8 MT @ 252 kft August 1958
Teak was intended as an exo-atmospheric ABM test using a high yield warhead, and produced the first recorded HEMP effects.

Hardtack I / Orange 3.8 MT @ 141 kft August 1958

Orange was intended as an exo-atmospheric ABM test using a high yield warhead

These images of atmospheric Nuke testing from the late 1958 are from an extensive web site:

http://www.ausairpower.net/Hi-Alt-Nuke-Imagery.html

If you watch the film, #65, you learn that one of these rockets with a nuke warhead caught fire and burned up on the ground while they were trying to launch it.  So they cleaned it up and launched another one.