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DOE.0800001 - Trinity 1945 [1%] by kham, 2010-07-24 22:58
This silent video shows the preliminary processes of raising the “Gadget” to the top of the tower, the final preparation for detonation, and the blast and ...
DOE.0800002 - Project Crossroads [1%] by kham, 2010-07-24 21:50
Operation Crossroads was a series of two nuclear tests, ABLE and BAKER, the first tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground, near the Bikini Atoll in the ...
DOE.0800026 - Operation Hardtack, Military Effects Pt.4 [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 11:42
Operation Hardtack II was a 37-test continental series conducted from September 12 to October 30, 1958, at the Nevada Test Site.
DOE.0800027 - Report of Chief, AFSWP TO ARPA (Operation Argus) [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 11:49
Operation Argus was a series of three high-altitude nuclear tests conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission in the South Atlantic Ocean in August and ...
DOE.0800028 - Vela Uniform Participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 12:02
The majority of Operation Nougat’s nuclear tests were shaft or tunnel tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) for weapons development purposes. However
DOE.0800031 - SADM Delivery by Parachutist/Swimmer [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 12:59
The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a Navy and Marines project that was demonstrated as feasible in the mid-to-late 1960s, but was never used.
DOE.0800042 - Atomic Blasts- Operations Greenhouse through Upshot-Knothole [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 16:37
This video shows a compilation of early atomic blasts taken from individual short films of the tests. These formerly classified films have never before been ...
DOE.0800044 - US Navy Training Film - ASROC Weapons System - Introduction [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 16:50
ASROC was an integrated, surface-to-underwater nuclear weapon system designed primarily for use against fast-attack enemy submarines.
DOE.0800052 - Atomic Guided Missiles [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 19:46
The video shows launches and flights of the Corporal, Honest John, Regulus, Matador, Snark and Rascal missiles.
DOE.0800061 - Operation Dominic Nuclear Tests [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:42
This Dominic I video provides a visual overview of 36 atmospheric nuclear devices detonated in the Pacific Proving Ground from April to November, 1962.
DOE.0800062 - Starfish Prime Event Interim Report [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 21:11
STARFISH PRIME, was one of the high-altitude nuclear tests in the Operation Fishbowl series conducted in the Pacific Proving Ground in 1962.
DOE.0800063 - Operation Fishbowl - High Altitude Weapons Effects [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 21:17
Operation Fishbowl, the Department of Defense’s high altitude testing portion of Operation Dominic I, was conducted in the Johnston Island area of the Pacific ...
DOE.0800070 - Atomic Weapons Orientation (parts 5 & 6) [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 22:10
This video shows the heat, blast, and radiation effects of a nuclear explosion on personnel (dummies), structures, and military equipment.
About these nuclear films [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 22:22
DOE.0800013 - Operation Castle [1%] by kham, 2010-07-24 23:23
Operation Castle was a six-test series conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground in the northwestern Marshall Islands from February 28 to May 13, 1954.
DOE.0800014 - Damage & Destruction - DASIAC [1%] by kham, 2010-07-24 23:36
A collage of scenes from the first several nuclear weapons testing operations.
DOE.0800019 - Operation Redwing [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 00:20
Operation Redwing, a 17-test nuclear weapons series, was conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between May 4 and July 21, 1956.
DOE.0800024 - Operation Hardtack, Military Effects Pt.2 [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 01:10
35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between April 28 and August 18, 1958 - included balloon, surface, barge, underwater, and rocketborne ...
DOE.0800030 - Project Sedan [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 12:17
Project Sedan, a Plowshare Program test, that promoted the application of nuclear explosives to develop peaceful uses for atomic energy, was conducted at the ...
DOE.0800032 - US Army Presents MF20 9811, Ivy Flats Film Report [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 13:07
Ivy Flats, a 1962 tactical military exercise at the Nevada Test Site, involved the detonation of live nuclear rounds fired from the Davy Crockett artillery ...
DOE.0800033 - Operation Doorstep and Operation Cue [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 13:37
This video shows Federal Civil Defense Administration film footage of the March 17, 1953, 16-kiloton ANNIE test and the May 5, 1955, 29-kiloton APPLE-2 test.
DOE.0800040 - The Milrow Event [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 16:26
The narrator sums up the reason for the test when he states, “The purpose of the MILROW event was to test an island, not a weapon.”
DOE.0800050 - US Navy Training Film - Torpedo MK 45 [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 19:28
This animated video shows an antisubmarine torpedo with a nuclear warhead maneuvering to get position on an “enemy” submarine before detonation.
DOE.0800054 - Hybla Fair [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 19:56
HYBLA FAIR was an underground, horizontal line-of-sight (LOS) weapons-effects test conducted at the Nevada Test Site on October 28, 1974.
DOE.0800055 - Let's Face It [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:02
The video shows that many nuclear tests were conducted at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) to gain data that would help in Civil Defense preparedness.
DOE.0800056 - Enewetak Cleanup [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:07
This video shows the actions being taken to cleanup the islands comprising Enewetak Atoll so that the inhabitants could return to live on some of them.
DOE.0800057 - Excerpts from Operation Hardtack [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:13
The tests WAHOO, UMBRELLA, TEAK, QUINCE, ORANGE, and FIG were conducted in the Pacific Proving Ground between May and August 1958.
DOE.0800058 - Mark 43 and Mark 57 Weapons - Shipboard Handling [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:19
Reflecting the times in 1963, the narrator of the video emphasizes the importance of readiness and safety as twin components of reliability to counter any ...
DOE.0800059 - TF9 3370, Technical Proficiency Inspection [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:26
This video describes the rigorous yearly proficiency inspections that Army nuclear weapon personnel were subjected to by teams from the Office of the Inspector ...
DOE.0800060 - Exercise Desert Rock [1%] by kham, 2010-07-25 20:35
The Desert Rock Exercises were an experiment to “dispel much of the fear and uncertainty surrounding atomic radiation and the effects of gamma and x-rays.”