Nuclear Deception: How Propaganda on Atomic Bombs Was Waged in 20th Century

Plumbbob Hood atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site, on July 5, 1957.

A nuclear explosion during the US Operation Crossroads on Ayatollah Bikini in the Pacific Ocean, 1946. Shot from an unmanned aerial vehicle flying over the epicenter of the explosion. View from above the large mushroom cloud generated by the Baker blast, the second in the Operation Crossroads atmospheric nuclear weapons test series at Bikini Atoll. Baker was detonated 90 feet underwater on July 25, 1946.

Operation name: Tumbler-Snapper. Date and time: May 1, 1952, 08:30. Test location: Range in Nevada. Explosion type, explosive placement: aerial, airdrop. Explosion height: 316 m. Yield: 19 kilotons. Marine infantry Pot and Wilson "supporting" the atomic mushroom during the Desert Rock IV exercise. A B-45 Tornado jet bomber dropped a modified TX-7 bomb with a capacity of 19 kilotons. Two hours after detonation, troops maneuvered to the explosion's epicenter to assess its impact on the military equipment and facilities located there.

Operation name: Crossroads. Date and time: July 25, 1946, 08:35. Test location: Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean. Explosion type: underwater bomb. Yield: 21 kilotons. As a result of the blast, about two million tons of seawater were raised into the air, which resulted in various atmospheric phenomena, such as fog and rain, with high levels of radiation.

VIP spectators illuminated by the flash of an 81 kiloton charge detonating at Enewetak Atoll.

The El Rancho Vegas Hotel and Casino is illuminated by the flash of an atomic explosion that just occurred at the test site.

The photo was taken on the roof of a building on Fremont Street, about 120 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion. The flash of an atomic explosion lights up the sky. Las Vegas, May 28, 1957.

Students practice "duck and cover" personal protection measures against the backdrop of a real atomic bomb explosion. The photo was taken in Indian Springs, Nevada, 40 kilometers from the epicenter of a 31-kiloton aerial atomic bomb explosion. Date and time: April 22, 1952, 09:30.

Airship ZSG-3 shot down by a shockwave from an explosion. Picture was taken from a distance of eight kilometers from the test site. Nevada Test Site, Nevada, August 7, 1957.

Tourists staying at The Old Frontier Village hotel witness a cloud of atomic explosion rising on the horizon.

A view of the nuclear explosion cloud from Fremont Street, Las Vegas, circa 1955.

Model Mary Wilson posing with a Geiger counter by the pool at The Flamingo Hotel. Las Vegas, February 10, 1955.

Miss Atomic Blast Candice King poses in an "atomic" swimsuit at The Last Frontier Casino Hotel, Las Vegas, March 5, 1953.

New Orleans' Singer Marguerite Piazza as “Mis-Cue” with a makeshift tiara of a mushroom cloud, at The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, March 29, 1955.

"Miss Atomic Bomb" Lee Merlin. Las Vegas, May 24, 1957.

Ballerina Sally McGlossky dances "atomic" ballet in front of a mushroom cloud from Upshot-Knothole Dixie on Mount Charleston. Behind the dancer's back, you can see the cloud of a nuclear explosion. Nevada, April 6, 1953.