(AP file photo) A gigantic pillar of smoke with the familiar mushroom top climbs above Yucca Flat, Nev. during a nuclear test detonation on April 22, 1952. As the testing program continued, detonations were moved underground, although some leaked radiation into the atmosphere.
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