/johnny
Yes these are eerie and fascinating.
From past research I recall that:
The spikey projections coming out from the bottom of many of the blasts are the explosive vaporization of the coating/galvanize of the tower guy-wires. The wires are visible in some of the photos.
Endless information here:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/
Cool photos of the blast. From another thread a few weeks ago; a link to a “TED” talk on “femtophotography” at 1 trillion frames per second. Pretty amazing what has transpired in 60 years.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html