Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion's fireball growth to be recorded on film. The exposures were often as short as 10 nanoseconds, and each Rapatronic camera would take exactly one photograph.
http://simplethinking.com/home/images/tsspike.jpgThat is what the photo looked like.
Notice the spikes. Those are the guy ropes, which transmitted energy faster than the air.
Lots more info
here, with more photos and so on. Wiki has a good article too.
http://simplethinking.com/home/images/tsspike.jpg
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