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Veteran Stan Bowyer with the Legion d'Honneur medal in 2015.
A British scientist's incredibly rare photos of the controversial nuclear tests of the Cold War have come to light following his recent death.
Stan Bowyer, a D-Day veteran who went on to work at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, took his own snaps during the testing in the Indian Ocean in the late 1950s.
His black and white pictures include one taken at ground level of a huge explosion from a thermonuclear blast in the distance.
They also contain images of revered scientists Julius Openhaimer, the American physicist who helped create the world's first atomic bomb, and British scientist William Penny.
Pic: BasingstokeGazette/BNPS
Veteran Stan Bowyer with the Legion d'Honneur medal in 2015.
A British scientist's incredibly rare photos of the controversial nuclear tests of the Cold War have come to light following his recent death.
Stan Bowyer, a D-Day veteran who went on to work at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, took his own snaps during the testing in the Indian Ocean in the late 1950s.
His black and white pictures include one taken at ground level of a huge explosion from a thermonuclear blast in the distance.
They also contain images of revered scientists Julius Openhaimer, the American physicist who helped create the world's first atomic bomb, and British scientist William Penny.
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