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Nuclear Weapons of the Atomic AgeAtomic Bomb Explosion Was it the best of times or the worst of times?.... Duck and Cover. Some say one warhead was too many, others say 70,000 weren%u2019t enough. We%u2019ll see.%u201cCharlie%u201d a 14-kiloton device, was dropped from a B-50 bomber in 1951 at Yucca Flat. Buster-Jangle series, the eighth detonation at the Nevada Proving Grounds.Image courtesy of Dept. of Energy, from the Cold War collection of Jim Taylor, jmtaylor@ipa.net. www.ColdWarCollectibles.net.