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Harold Agnew carrying the plutonium core of the Nagasaki Fat Man bomb; ca. 1945.

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Smile on his face, holding a little box. If you didn’t know what the subject was, you’d think he was heading out with his lunchbox…


Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

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I can’t even imagine what I would feel if I saw this over my city, especially if this was something no one had had seen before. Just thing how unbelievable it must have been to the average person that this was one bomb! Seriously, go look outside right now and imagine half the sky covered by this giant dark mushroom cloud where a city used to lay.