Peter Bacon Hales

1.1 Operation Ivy.​ National Archives


Chapter One-- The Atomic Sublime: Out-takes and Color Images.

Outside the Gates of Eden:  The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Cover and inside page, Life ​H-bomb issue, April 19, 1954

The commercial newsreels for the Cold War era are now appearing on YouTube;  here is a link to the most-seen newsreel for Operation Crossroads​. 

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