See archival images, stills from reenactments, and images of individuals featured in The World’s Biggest Bomb.
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- The Mayor of Bikini, Alson Kelen. The atoll is now deserted and this was his first visit in two years. Credit: Andy Webb © Blink Films 2011
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- Aerial shot Bikini Atoll. Credit: Andy Webb © Blink Films 2011
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- Bikini Atoll. The large circular area of dark blue water is the crater left by the Castle Bravo bomb of March 1 1954. Credit: Andy Webb © Blink Films 2011
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- One of the American built bunkers on Bikini, to protect monitors from the bomb blast. Credit: Andy Webb © Blink Films 2011
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- Dr Harold Agnew, former director of Los Alamos Laboratory and a key figure in the US nuclear weapons program for many years. Credit: Andy Webb © Blink Films 2011
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- Dr Harold Agnew in 1945. He is holding the core component of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. This small box killed upwards of 70,000 people. Courtesy of Dr Harold Agnew
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- Dr Alexei Kojevnikov, a Russian historian specialist on the Soviet nuclear weapons program. Credit: Andy Webb © Blink Films 2011
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- Mushroom cloud from the ‘Bravo’ test in the Castle Series, 1954
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- Mushroom cloud from the ‘Romeo’ test in the Castle Series, 1954
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- Mushroom cloud and water column from the ‘Baker’ test in the Crossroads Series, 1946
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