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Made for the home market by World in Color Productions, this silent color newsreel shows the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll known as Operation Crossroads. Various views of the test are seen, including aerial footage of the blasts. Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki...
Topics: US Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads, Stock Footage
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Made in 1953, "Operation Doorstep" shows the Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. This took place at the Nevada Test Site on 17 March 1953, and was nationally televised. The broadcast as well as this film suggests that it is possible to survive an a-bomb blast, as long as you have a good fallout shelter or other protection. Unfortunately, just a few years after this film was made, larger and larger yield...
Topics: Civil Defense, Desert Rock, Nevada Nuclear Test Site, Operation, Doorstep, Upshot-knothole Annie,...
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Mar 18, 2020
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh_iK7kamdA Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. RDS-3 was the third atomic bomb developed by the Soviet Union in 1951, after the famous RDS-1 and RDS-2. It was called Marya in the military. The bomb had a composite design with a plutonium core inside a uranium shell, providing an explosive power of 41.2 kilotons.The RDS-3T was a modernized version and the first mass-produced...
Topics: RDS-3, Atomic Bomb Test, Nuclear Test, YouTube
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Mar 19, 2020
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7rYA-SGoQI Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. First test of a full-scale thermonuclear device, November 1, 1952. Yield - 10.4 Megatons Fragment 1: high-speed filming - the fireball expands to 3 km. Fragment 2: View from Parry Island (Eniwetok atoll) from a distance 35 km - the development of an explosion. Record speeded up. The mushroom cloud climbed to 57,000 feet in only 90...
Topics: 1952, Atomic Bomb Test, Eniwetok atol, Nuclear Test, YouTube
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Mar 18, 2020
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhFCs1tEtCg Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. Date: October 18, 1951 Type: Airdrop, 380 m Yield: 42kt Code named Joe-3 by the US, this was the first Soviet air-dropped bomb test. Released from an altitude of 10 km, it detonated 380 meters above the ground. It was a boosted weapon using a composite construction of levitated plutonium core with a uranium 235 shell.
Topics: 1951, Soviet Atomic Bomb Test, Joe-3, Nuclear Test, YouTube
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Mar 19, 2020
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRlyR0fm6Q Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. Underwater nuclear test "Umbrella" 8 thousand tons, shooting from the coast of the atoll Eniwetok, on June 9, 1958. The sultan's water height — 1.2 km. Video from website: http://vk.com/nuclearweapon
Topics: 1958, Atomic Bomb Test, Atoll Eniwetok, Umbrella Nuclear Test, YouTube
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYEQ13Sk1ow Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. Test: Joe-23 / ФО-1 Date: August 24, 1956. Location: Semipalatinsk test site Type: 90-m tower shot Yield: 27 kilotons
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Topics: 1956, Soviet Atomic Bomb Test, Joe-23, Nuclear Test, YouTube
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7kgExpYzkE Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. Qualitative videos of the first underwater nuclear explosion conducted at a depth of 27 meters in Bikini Atoll lagoon, on July 25, 1946 Video from National Archives (NARA), Public Domain
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Topics: 1946, Underwater Nuclear Explosion, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, Atomic Bomb Test, YouTube
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFtv5-WQqs Video uploaded by atomicarchive . Footage belongs in the public domain. Not for monetary use. RDS-2 was plutonium implosion bomb and exploded 24 September 1951 with a yield of 38.3 Kilotons on Semipalatinsk Test Site.
Topics: 1951, Soviet Atomic Bomb Test, RDS-2, Semipalatinsk Test Site, Nuclear Test, YouTube