“VIP observers are lit up by the light of an atomic bomb, Operation Greenhouse, Enewetak Atoll, 1951.”
– from How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb by Peter Kuran (posted Oct 22, 2007) on the California Literary Review Web site
Castle Bravo, March1, 1954. 15 megatons
When reading the daily news, I often feel like one of the people in the top photo. Twenty years from now, I may know what today’s news really meant — and what I should have been doing.
-Julie
I like the dude with the shorts in the front row. Why not be comfortable while previewing Armageddon?
:-)
Comment by K T Cat — April 13, 2009 @ 9:47 am