Khrushchev's Big Explosion
Photograph
Seymour Linden
Maker
Khrushchev's Big Explosion
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.2 × 15.8 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0089
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Shelters) 10/61 21) KHRUSHCHEV'S BIG EXPLOSION, the 30 megaton bomb, \ must loom large in the minds of these commuters contemplating \ the model of a fallout shelter on exhibition at Grand Central \ Station. The U.S. Public Health Service has announced the \ establishment of 3 new fallout detection stations in Alaska \ in order to measure fallout ratios of the next Russioan bomb. \ Credit: Seymour Linden © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
