The Nuclear Rainbow Bomb Parties Of 1962

On July 9, 1962, the US launched a thermonuclear warhead into space from the Pacific Ocean. The resulting explosion turned the skies into a technicolor light show of nuclear fallout. In Hawaii, where the effects were most visible, hotels arranged "rainbow bomb parties" so their guests could have a rooftop view of the radioactive particles drifting across the sky.

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