How Did The Influence Of Photography During The Cold War

You see pictures today of troops fighting and coming home, but have you ever wondered how they took those pictures during the Cold War? The cold war was a time of one-up manship, new ideas, and new intention that we previously thought was impossible. It lasted from 1949-1991 and even though there was no actual fighting between the United States and the USSR, there was atomic bomb threats, proxy wars, and the race to get to space. During the Cold War many people got new ideas, and a lot of money was spent for the United States and the USSR to outdo the other. Throughout the cold war, photography was a key way people could see conflict, whether it was photographing the stages of atomic bombs or documenting both Korean and Vietnam war, photography fell into the
cracks of all the chaos the Cold War created.
Even though neither of the US or USSR actually dropped any atomic bombs on either country they were working on them, and to document how they atomic bombs exploded, they took pictures of them. As MIT has explained in the camera that took the pictures of atomic bombs was massive. It used a rapatronic shutter, that is a shutter with no moving parts that could be opened and closed by turning on and off a magnetic field. They delayed the camera so they could take a picture of the atomic bomb, but it was only delayed a few microseconds. The shutter is a rapid action electronic shutter. A shutter is a part of the camera that allows light to pass through for a period of time. An electronic shutter is just is light sensitive shutter so it can capture the whole image. The shutter is a rapid action electronic shutter, it mades by a coil of wire is wrapped around a special glass cylinder and a condenser, which is a lens in the larger head that focuses on light and
creates light rays, and then it discharges through the cylinder. In order to turn on and off it has a delay mechanism at one end of the camera. It feeds in through the cables at the backend of the camera, where the photocells, which is used to produce a current or voltage when exposed to light, signals the determined time, 0. The photocell would pick up the light coming from he ex-ray casing of the bomb long before it exploded, that is 0 time. They could have many of the cameras delayed at different times to get many pictures of the atomic bomb at different stages to see the progress of the bomb. Hue only delayed it only a few millisecond, it it created the world of a difference. Not only did taking pictures of atomic bombs document a salient part of the Cold War, but also the documentation of the Korean War