Morning bathers in Las Vegas watch a mushroom cloud from an atomic test 75 miles away, 1953.

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image showing Morning bathers in Las Vegas watch a mushroom cloud from an atomic test 75 miles away, 1953.

climb-it-ographer on May 20th, 2024 at 18:48 UTC »

For anyone who's curious, this is where a lot of those tests took place: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.065316,-116.0439398,11330m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

Area 51 is just a little further up the road from that valley.

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Spartan2470 on May 20th, 2024 at 19:33 UTC »

Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. Getty Images provides the following caption for a very similar image.

Poolside View. Early morning bathers at the hotel Last Frontier in Las Vegas, Nevada watch the mushroom from the May 8th atomic detonation, 75 miles from Las Vegas. Largest mushroom of the current series seen from Las Vegas, the cloud had a brilliant red and purple cast.