Photo of an H-bomb Trinity Test explosion

This Harold Edgerton photo of an H-bomb test explosion looks almost like a Virgil Finlay illustration.

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Reader comment: eDave says: "The photo is of the original Trinity Test explosion, not an H-Bomb. I know this for a fact because I got to see some of the original slides in MIT's Strobe Photography Laboratory, taught by the current director of the Edgerton Center at MIT. Another interesting note is that Doc did not use one camera, as many people believe, but several cameras, all chained together to trigger after one another."