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Atomic Bomb Test
Closeup of crater's surface shows how the heat from the first atomic bomb explosion destroyed a desert plant and melted sand into weird shapes of crude glass.
Location:Alamogordo, NM, US
Date taken:September 1945
Photographer:Fritz Goro
Size:1247 x 1280 pixels (17.3 x 17.8 inches)

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