A number of years ago (15?) I bought a VHS tape called Trinity and Beyond which was restored films of various in-air atomic bomb tests.
If you could mentally divorce yourself from what these devices were, they were really quite beautiful.
Turns out the guy involved in the project - Peter Kuran - is still very much active and has his own website and YouTube channel. Here is the trailer:
I'll be spending some time looking through both sites - fascinating stuff...