UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE GRABLE, NEVADA TEST SITE, 1953

UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE GRABLE, NEVADA TEST SITE, 1953

View of the fireball and mushroom cloud from XX-12 GRABLE, Upshot-Knothole Grable at the Nevada Test Site, 25 May 1953. Vintage c-print, image/sheet size 358 x 430mm, with "OFFICIAL USE ONLY" stamp verso.

During the detonation of XX-12 GRABLE, a 280mm artillery gun fired the 15 kiloton nuclear shell, the only time a nuclear artillery shell was ever fired