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Dec 15, 2017 · There are several key things a physicist can look for in one of these videos to take measurements of the amount of energy released (known as the yield) in each explosion. One of these is the two light pulses typical of nuclear detonations, clearly seen in a video of Operation Dominic in 1962.
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL) released 62 newly declassified videos today of atmospheric nuclear tests films that have never before been seen by the public. The videos are the second batch of scientific test films to be published on the LLNL YouTube channel this year, and the team plans to publish the remaining ...
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., a light "brighter than a thousand suns," filled the valley. As the now familiar mushroom cloud rose in to the sky, Oppenheimer quoted from Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-gita, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The world had entered the nuclear age. Immediately after the test a Sherman M-4 tank ...
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Mar 16, 2017 · The initial release is just a fraction of about 750 that Greg Spriggs, a physicist at the lab who has worked on the project for five years, declassified on Tuesday. And even that number is small ...
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Footage from several nuclear tests demonstrate the effects of the blast wave's tremendous force on various vehicles. Video of the blast wave from a nuclear explosion. A fraction of a second after a nuclear explosion, a high-pressure wave develops and moves outward from the fireball.
Jul 4, 2018 · Advertisement. This is how I felt watching a sampling of around 250 newly released videos of US atomic bomb tests uploaded to YouTube this week by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in ...
Dec 16, 2017 · NOAA. The US government has uploaded 62 newly declassified nuclear-explosion videos to YouTube. The footage is a small share of the 10,000 Cold War-era films that archivists and physicists...
