[OPERATION DOMINIC - TRUCKEE TEST]. Photograph from atomic test at Christmas Island June 6, 1962 (printed 2009).
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Jun 7, 2024
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Live / Chicago
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[OPERATION DOMINIC - TRUCKEE TEST]. Photograph from atomic test at Christmas Island June 6, 1962 (but printed 2009).
20 x 24 in. color print on Harman Fiber paper.
Operation Dominic comprised a series of 31 nuclear tests which took place from 25 April-30 October 1962. The tests were authorized by President John F. Kennedy following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and Nikita Khrushchev's decision to end the Soviet Union's three-year moratorium on nuclear testing. The largest nuclear weapons testing program ever conducted by the United States, they were also the last atmospheric tests before the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963.
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