The horrific skull like apparition to the right is in fact a 60 foot fireball created one millisecond after detonation.
According to the Gizmodo article:
According to the Gizmodo article:
- a nuclear explosion from the Tumbler-Snapper tests performed in Nevada during 1952
- The explosion was captured by a Rapid Action Electronic camera—a high speed device designed to photograph nuclear explosions just milliseconds after ignition.
- The rapatronic camera was created by Harold Edgerton in the 1940s using two polarizing filters and Kerr cell instead of a shutter, which is too slow for this job.
