RDS-37 epicenter
The Soviet Union’s first two-stage hydrogen bomb exploded directly over where I’m standing at an altitude of 1.6 km in 1955. It was delivered by an airplane, whose bombardier sighted in on the white chalk lines that cross at the pictured spot.
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