The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
The American forces dropped the nuclear weapon Fat Man on Japan in 1945. At the time, an officer named Lieutenant Charles Levy was able to capture the subsequent effect of the atomic bombing. A mushroom-like cloud above Nagasaki formed as a result. Levy later shared in an interview what he and his lens had witnessed. “We saw this big plume climbing up, up into the sky… It was purple, red, white, all colors—something like boiling coffee. It looked alive,” the military man said.