Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

May 25, 1953

Upshot-Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the U.S. This picture depicts the mushroom cloud from its detonation, with the cannon from which it was fired in the foreground. The test remains the only nuclear artillery shell ever actually fired in the U.S. nuclear weapons test program.

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