Between 1951 together with 1992 , the USA conducted 928 atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site close 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the urban core of Las Vegas. Exactly i hundred of these tests were atmospheric , whose mushroom clouds could live seen for almost 100 miles (160 km) , drawing fascinated tourists to the desert urban core of Las Vegas. Even equally far away equally Los Angeles , located around 240 miles (386 km) away , equally the crow files , the unearthly glow of the atomic bomb illuminated the black heaven turning nighttime into day. These extraordinary simply fairly regular events were covered inwards leading newspapers alongside photographs accompanied yesteryear nonchalant captions.
“Los Angeles had 2 dawns yesterday ,” wrote the Times afterward i pre-dawn examination inwards the 1950s. “Los Angeles Civic Center buildings yesteryear Nevada Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bomb nail , 1955 ,” wrote around other , which author How to Watch a Nuclear Explosion
Los Angeles Civic Center buildings yesteryear Nevada Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bomb nail , 1955. Photo credit: Wesselmann/USC Digital Library
View of Atom Bomb nail seen inwards Los Angeles , 1951. Photo credit: McCarty/USC Digital Library
"Today's atomic explosion , largest yet laid off on the Nevada examination arrive at , was clearly visible inwards Los Angeles , equally remarkable photograph shows. Staff lensman Perry Folwer was railroad train alongside his photographic telly camera on a tripod on the roof of the Herald-Express edifice when the nail occurred at 5:48 a.m. Reporter Jack Smith , who besides saw yesterday's explosion , points towards the swell white flash that clearly silhouetted mountains to the east." Photo credit: Perry Fowler , Feb 2 , 1951.
From the Herald-Examiner , May vii , 1952. "Atomic nail gives Los Angeles a early on 'sunrise.' It was however nighttime inwards Los Angeles at 5:15 a.m. today when the 'early sunrise' flashed momentarily on the northeastern horizon. The flash came from the latest atomic nail inwards Nevada. Photo inwards a higher house was taken from overstep of colina at Sixth together with St. Paul streets. City Hall together with its beacon clearly show."
An atomic bomb from testing inwards Nevada lights the heaven inwards this photograph taken on March 1 , 1955 from the Los Angeles Times Mirror Building.
Atomic nail seen from the San Fernando Valley , March vii , 1955. "Atomic burn downwards lights pre-dawn valley skies. Blazing lite from biggest atomic nail inwards electrical flow Yucca Flats , Nev. , tests illuminates Valley skies -- 275 air miles away -- at 5:20 a.m. today , twenty minutes afterward explosion. Photo was taken from Mulholland Drive. Cluster of lights at left is Lockheed Air Terminal. At correct is Burbank residential together with job concern district." Photo credit: Bob Steele.
From the Herald-Examiner , dated March vii , 1955. "This is around other version of how the atomic bomb nail inwards Nevada looked over Los Angeles from the roof of the Statler Hotel. Note the sharpness of City Hall (right background) , the Richfield Building (right foreground) together with other buildings. Ridge of mountains is besides sharply outlined."
From the Herald-Examiner , June iv , 1953. "Evidence that today's atomic bomb , detonated at Yucca Flat , Nevada , was the most powerful of all inwards the serial is revealed inwards this motion painting taken here. The heaven is equally brilliant equally 24-hour interval , simply fifty-fifty to a greater extent than notable is the fact that downtown buildings are non solely silhouetted , equally inwards previous atomic explosions , simply truly are illuminated on this side , the side farthest away from nail source."
From the Herald-Examiner , May v , 1955. "Early risers were a fleck disappointed this morning time when they went to roof of a downtown Los Angeles edifice to encounter the flash from the large atomic nail inwards Nevada. Because of heavy layer of clouds betwixt hither together with at that spot , they saw solely a faint glimmer. Blast was at 5:10 a.m."
From Herald-Examiner May vii , 1952. "Today's atomic nail on Yucca Flat proving grounds inwards Nevada was manifestly visible to early on risers at 5:15 a.m. inwards Los Angeles. Photo taken from the roof of the Herald-Express edifice , shows nail lighting upwards the northeastern horizon."
An un-credited , undated photograph of an 'atomic dawn' taken from an unknown location.
The best views were had from Las Vegas , together with the urban core fully capitalized on the atomic spectacle. Detonation times were advertised beforehand together with and then were the best spots for watching. Casinos , hotels together with inns flaunted their north-facing vistas , offering particular “atomic cocktails” together with “Dawn Bomb Parties.” In this motion painting , a mushroom cloud is seen from Las Vegas city. Photo credit: Citylab/Las Vegas News Bureau
The flash of detonation. Photo credit: Citylab/Las Vegas News Bureau
Tourists scout mushroom cloud from the poolside. Photo credit: Citylab/Las Vegas News Bureau
Photo credit: Citylab/Las Vegas News Bureau
Photo credit: Citylab/Las Vegas News Bureau