Trinity

[door_of_time]

"The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined. It was that beauty the great poets dream about but describe most poorly and inadequately." — Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell

"It was so brilliant purple, with all the radioactive glowing." — Frank Oppenheimer

"... there was an enormous ball of fire which grew and grew and it rolled as it grew; it went up into the air, in yellow flashes and into scarlet and green." — Isidor I. Rabi

(And Hiroshima: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it has a red core in it and everything was burning inside..." — Staff Sergeant George Caron)

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, the atoms emit photons when the excited electrons drop back to their original energy levels. But it's pretty!