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Description May 19, 1953 - UK-53-108 - HARRY Event - Las Vegas, NV May 19, 1953 -- Spectacular fireball is seen forming as the ninth nuclear detonation of the current series is fired at pre-dawn this morning at Yucca Flat on the AEC's Nevada Proving Grounds. The blast, which was delayed for three days due to unfavorable weather was witnessed by several hundred senior field commanders and staff officers of the Armed Forces and by 23 members of the United States Congress. Forty-seven aircraft including 12 B-50 bombers of the Strategic Air Command, took place as a part of the aircrew indoctrination program.
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