From the Archives: L.A. City Hall backlit by A-bomb test 300 miles away

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From our photo archives: On May 7, 1952, Los Angeles residents welcomed two dawns. The first occurred at 5:15 a.m. — a flash from a Nevada nuclear device test.

May 7, 1952: View of Los Angeles City Hall from a balcony at the L.A. Times building at 5:15 a.m. as an A-bomb is exploded in a test in Yucca Flat, Nev., about 300 miles away.

Despite a cloudy sky, the intense brilliance carried 300 miles between here and the atomic test site to fringe downtown buildings in a brief aura of fierce light. The five experimental nuclear explosions early last year all occurred in morning darkness. The 12 others which followed, with the exception of yesterday's, came in bright sunlight .…

 

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PamSchep Being la. The backlighting has to. Be perfect

Get 5G in the city and we’ll keep that radiation level.

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