Beauty in Disaster

I had to repost these from Your Daily Awesome.

The images are so gorgeous, you almost forget how devestating they are.

These are four scanned pictures of hardcopies I possess of the French nuclear test codenamed Licorne, which was fired on August 24, 1970 . The French army had these pictures taken on site. The pictures were readily available at the time at Tahiti and Moruroa military base, and mine have been quite degraded. I scanned them and tried to restore them. {link}