My youngest daughter, Trinity, is named after the first fission explosion. Now this post on Boing Boing has a picture of that first explosion. This one's for you, Trinity:

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

Err...the first nuclear bomb was a fission explosion, which is an A-bomb, not a fusion explosion, which is an H-bomb...fission...fusion...whatever, it was a long time ago and the Boing Boing editors are young...

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