An H-Bomb Cloud -- The mushroom-like cloud begins to take shape after the explosion of an H-bomb in the Fall of 1952 at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Two minutes after zero hour the cloud rose to 40,000 feet--the height of 32 Empire State buildings. This photos was taken at about 12,000 feet, 50 miles from the site of the detonation. This is one of a series of pictures released by Civil Defense officials, the first on an H-bomb test. April 01, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto Stock Photo

An H-Bomb Cloud -- The mushroom-like cloud begins to take shape after the explosion of an H-bomb in the Fall of 1952 at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Two minutes after zero hour the cloud rose to 40,000 feet--the height of 32 Empire State buildings. This photos was taken at about 12,000 feet, 50 miles from the site of the detonation. This is one of a series of pictures released by Civil Defense officials, the first on an H-bomb test. April 01, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

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