History’s Rarest Images: 50 Photos That Will Stop You In Your Tracks

Nuclear Test Gone Wrong

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This photo shows a U.S. Navy blimp crashing into the ground with an explosion in the background at a Nevada nuclear bomb test site on 8/7/1957.  The unmanned blimp was blown from the sky from the shock wave blast during one of the hundreds of tests that the US military conducted on U.S. soil.



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