An Album Cover Waiting To Happen Dept.

[spatch]

Atomic Bomb Test In Nevada
Scorched & disheveled male mannequin clad in dark business suit standing in the desert w. lady mannequin in bkgrd., 7000 ft. from the 44th nuclear test explosion, a day after the blast, indicating that humans could be burnt but still alive.

Location: Yucca Flat, NV, US
Date taken: May 1955
Photographer: Loomis Dean
Size: 1280 x 1280 pixels (17.8 x 17.8 inches)


(Google's archive of LIFE Magazine pictures is already amazing in its scope and the archival process is far from finished.)

Comments

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty rad picture, yup.

There's lots of those in the Nuclear Testing Museum in Vegas. (Which is a total mindfuck.)

[spatch]

The devastated house pictures sure do look amazingly familiar, what with playing Fallout 3 and all.

[giantfightbot.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many of these photos were up in the Bethesda offices while making the game.

I had the same reaction: didn't I see that house on my way to Megaton? Check the mailbox for Stimpacks!