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Fifty Cameras, One Flash: Photographing the First Atomic Bomb

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Fifty Cameras, One Flash: Photographing the First Atomic Bomb

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A look back at the camera rigs and operators behind Trinity, the first nuclear detonation, where around fifty cameras were positioned in buried instrument boxes and armoured bunkers to capture a flash brighter than the midday sun. Berlyn Brixner ran the tracking camera at North 10,000 while the rest fired automatically.

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