Video: 'Tumbler Charlie: April 22, 1952'

(Tuesday, April 22, 1952, 9:30:10 a.m. PST; during the Cold War) — Millions of Americans watched on live television today as a 31-kiloton Mark 4 nuclear bomb was dropped from a B-50 Superfortress in the Yucca Flat region of the Nevada.

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With cameras as close as 11 miles to ground zero, live television brought the nation the flashing blast and familiar mushroom cloud drifting up from the Nevada desert.

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