CD Shattering at 170,000FPS

extremely high-speed photography was originally developed by some fellow named Edgerton so he could take snapshots of nuclear bomb detonations. There is one photo of the Trinity Test that shows a small fireball, with conical downward pointing spikes.

Those spikes are from the guy wires that stabilized the tower that the bomb was placed on top of. The shock wave traveled faster along the length of the steel cable than through the air, vaporizing the wire as the wave traveled along it.

He later formed a company called EG&G.