Expanding explosion from an atomic bomb test, New Mexico, 16 July 1945

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Photograph. Expanding explosion from an atomic bomb test. Official Caption: “Rome 8/29/45 EXPLOSION OF ATOMIC BOMB RECORDED BY U.S. ARMY CAMERA. This series of pictures, taken from a distance of eight miles (12.8 km.) shows the explosion of an atomic bomb. The photographs were made by a U.S. Army motion camera when the new Allied weapon was tested in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The explosion was felt within a radius of 250 miles (400 km.) (The circle in the lower right of photo No. 6 has no connection with the explosion, but is believed to be a reflection within the camera lens.) Photo through U.S.I.S. Rome 43518-PNT. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. For Display only (B and C List out) Not for publication.” New Mexico, United States. 16 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.741
Date: 
07/16/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Atomic bombs--American--New Mexico
Nuclear weapons testing--American--New Mexico
Explosions--New Mexico
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
New Mexico
Latitude: 
35.000
Longitude: 
-105.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Atomic bombs--American--New Mexico
Nuclear weapons testing--American--New Mexico
Explosions--New Mexico