Armes Nucléaires
17 10 2007Via email from Tunc:

I must have seen every photograph of the Trinity era experiments and their offspring in the following decades. Except for a few famous photos and films, like this sobering clip of the 50 mt Soviet Tsar Bomba test: it was nearly all American footage.
What’s different about that photograph above? It’s late 60’s French vintage. Amazing. The images are scans from hardcopies taken by the French Army during a series of tests codenamed Canopus in French Polynesia. Four images in the set.
This one made my jaw hit the desk:

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