History of Nuclear Weapons

Instructional film on nuclear weapons for U.S. Air Force personnel. This part-animated film includes an explanation of nuclear physics; footage of atmospheric and underground testing; and a bomber making a crash landing.

One in a series of military training films that can only be described as post-apocalyptic. Producer: U.

Eerie nuclear tests on houses and dummies at the Nevada Test Site. Producer and Sponsor: U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration. Year: 1955. Length: 00:15:10. Audio: Mono. Color.

Produced by the United States Army Air Forces about Operation Crossroads, when Bikini atoll was, in 1946, evacuated to be the subject of two (three planned) atomic bomb tests on a large assembled fleet. shots of American bombers flying in formation and the narrator giving the audience a dictionary definition of a "special delivery" and the vital role that air power played in winning.

Documents Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. Contains footage from many of the ground and aerial cameras set up to record the blasts, beginning with B-29 aircraft "Dave's Dream" dropping an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll.

Early atomic weapons testing. "Survival Town" Atom Test, operation "Teapot." Atomic Test, amazing films of H-Bombs. Actual footage of nuclear bomb testing, the scientists and military people involved in the South Pacific and the American Southwest.