Moncrief Photograph Collection item#: 201 Previous Image | Next Image Title: Moncrief Collection photograph Author: Winfred Moncrief Publisher: MDAH Source: forms part of Moncrief Photograph Collection Date original created: 1964 Image Format Information Rights Management Caption: Salt Dome Blast, 1964 Print Number: 202 Description: Tatum Salt Dome, Lamar County (Miss.), nuclear test, October 22, 1964. As pictured and identified in a Hattiesburg American newspaper article October 23, 1964, "C. E. Bond, Baxterville (Miss.) Postmaster comforts 'Old Blu' after blast." Contextual Information Index Terms: Bond, C. E. Lamar County (Miss.) Nuclear weapons--Testing Salt domes--Mississippi Seismology--Research--United States Tatum Salt Dome (Lamar County, Miss.) U.S. Atomic Energy Commission United States--Department of Defense VELA Program (U.S.)