Mushroom cloud over Fangataufa atoll, French Polynesia, 1968

Adam Tooze

‘Vautour II’ flying in the cloud of the ‘Canopus’ nuclear explosion, the first explosion of a French thermonuclear bomb, over the lagoon of the Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia in 1968. The Vautour II was taking samples of material from the cloud.

Source: Marlène Aviation

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