like water droplets, atomic blasts have a beauty and grace that botticelli would have been proud of. pictured is a rapatronic photograph of an atomic detonation a few tenths of millionths of a second after detonation, the black stick at right being the 100-meter tower that supported the bomb (via futurefeeder.com). many more beautiful images and videos of the phenomenon are available at the vce website. i also recently bought the beautiful book 100 suns by michael light with large reproductions of the photographs taken at the 100 above-ground nuclear tests by the usa.