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The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. These a...
The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. But in the decades since, around 10,000 of these films sat idle, scattered across the country in high-security vaults. Not only were they gathering dust, the film material itself was slowly decomposing, bringing the data they contained to the ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Sunday, July 16 marks 78 years since a group of scientists in the New Mexico desert performed the first nuclear bomb test. NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz details th...
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Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, told AFP he has seen conspiracy theories about the test footage circulating online for some time.
Apr 24, 2017 · FILM #2: Operation Teapot—Tesla 28617. Tesla was a relatively low-yield shot of seven kilotons, dropped from a 300-foot tower at the government’s test site in Nevada on March 1, 1955. When the ...
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently released a set of previously classified videos of United States atmospheric nuclear tests. The videos have gone viral since being posted, with millions of views, and were recently covered in the Washington Post. The initial set of films, which can be viewed on YouTube, is just a start.
