Nuclear test bomb ‘Able’, Bikini Atoll, July 1, 1946. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 25 x 16,8 cm.
Between 1946 and 1958 twenty-three nuclear bombs were detonated at Bikini Atoll. 'Able’ was the first atomic bomb to be detonated after WWII and was part of 'Operation Crossroads’.