A Day That Shook The World: Britain explodes its first atomic bomb
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Your support makes all the difference.On 3 October 1952, Britain became the third nuclear power after it successfully tested its own atomic bomb in the Montebello Islands, north of Australia.
The tests produced a ragged cloud of mud, sand and water two-and-a-half-miles high - all captured on a beautifully clear day in the south Pacific.
Watch original footage of the tests and the testers in this British Pathé video, above.
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