Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Films

Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Films Military Effects Studies on Operation CASTLE Operation CASTLE was a six-detonation test series held at the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground in the Spring of 1954. This test series, principally conducted at the Enewetak and Bikini Atolls in the northwestern Marshall Islands, provided proof tests of large-yield thermonuclear, or hydrogen, devices. CASTLE represented the end of a drive for a workable thermonuclear weapon and the beginning of the refinement of large-H-bombs into smaller and more efficient weapons. After CASTLE, the U.S. could choose in a range of small tactical weapons to large strategic weapons. From this point, weapons development programs concentrated on producing bombs of specific nuclear weapons effects -- heat, blast, and radiation. The Bravo event of the CASTLE series yielded 15 megatons, unexpectedly the most ever exploded in atmospheric testing by the U.S.. A scientific miscalculation based on a then-unknown "tritium fusion bonus" of highly enriched lithium-6 contributing the the detonation yield caused the yield to be about two and a half times of that what was expected. Reports indicate that Bravo was the single worst incident of fallout exposure in all of the U.S. atmospheric testing program. Despite winds in an acceptable flow zone, the greatly unexpected yield caused a much larger mushroom than originally calculated, causing a much wider and massive accumulation path of fallout danger. Fallout was scattered over more than 5,000 square miles of ocean and islands, resulting in the contamination and exposure of military, civilian U.S. personnel working on the shot, and people of the islands who were earlier moved to a supposedly "safe" island but received large amounts of radiation. Acute radiation effects were observed among some of these people. The supreme commander of Joint Task Force 7 was Major General Percy Clarkson, who gave this report to top secret oversight committees of U.S. Congress. General Clarkson was the U.S. Army's 33rd Division commander (October 1943 - November 1945) in the raging battles of the Philippines during the Second World War. The shots in the CASTLE series were: Bravo, February 28, Bikini, 15 megatons Romeo, March 26, Bikini, 11 megatons Koon, April 6, Bikini, later determined at 110 kilotons (and a fizzle of 1 megaton predicted yield) Union, April 25, Bikini, 6.9 megatons Yankee, May 4, Bikini, 13.5 megatons Nectar, May 13, Enewetak, 1.69 megatons This film was originally created as a film archive of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) -- now named the U.S. Department of Energy -- and as a formal technical report to top secret oversight committees of U.S. Congress. The specific purpose of this film was to illustrate important results of these massive nuclear detonations, particularly tuned to applications, knowledge, and interests of the United States military. AFSWP was the Pentagon department overseeing the U.S. military's role in the development of nuclear weapons. This film was not sanitized/edited for declassification until years after the end of the Cold War. The declassification tags are at the beginning of the film, to document that this film has been carefully screened to remove data considered secret to national defense experts. If the sound cuts out at times into silence, or the view blackens with audio playing, these are not flaws in the film, but a censoring blocks of secret data edited out of the film. The U.S. Department of Energy releases films onto NTSC Digital Betacam SP -- relatively expensive broadcast masters -- and NTSC VHS tapes. videos 1 4th Generation Nuclear Weapons (480p).mp4 1955 Creepy Nuclear Test 1 of 2 (360p).mp4 1955 Creepy Nuclear Test 2 of 2 (360p).mp4 A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 by Isao Hashimoto (360p).mp4 A-Bomb Blast Effects (360p).mp4 About Fallout (1963) (480p).mp4 Atomic Test Film Operation Teapot pt 1-3 1955 USAF (480p).mp4 Atomic Weapons Tests Trinity Through Buster Jangle 1945-1951 (480p).mp4 Atomic Weapons Tests Trinity through Buster Jangle pt 1-2 1952 DOD (480p).mp4 Cameraman's close call at the Nevada Test Site (480p).mp4 Chinese Nuclear Testing Film (1966) Translated (480p).mp4 Color footage of soldiers being exposed to high levels of radiation (480p).mp4 Edward Teller on The Trinity Nuclear Bomb Test. (360p).mp4 First Nuclear Test - Code Name Trinity - New Mexico 1945 Silent (480p).mp4 H-Bomb Tests Operation Castle pt 1-2 1954 Department of Defense Bikini & Eniwetok (480p).mp4 Hiroshima Aftermath 1946 USAF Film (480p).mp4 Military Participation On Operation Buster Jangle Military (1951) (480p).mp4 Nuclear 101 How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 12 (480p).mp4 Nuclear 101 How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 22 (480p).mp4 Nuclear Power and Bomb Testing Documentary Film (360p).mp4 Operation Argus (1958) Atmospheric Nuclear Tests (480p).mp4 Operation Castle (1954) (480p).mp4 Operation Cue (1955) (480p).mp4 Operation Ivy - Nuclear Fusion Test Film (1952) (480p).mp4 Operation Ivy (Long Version) 1952 (480p).mp4 Operation Ranger, Operation BusterJangle - Nuclear Test Film (1951) (480p).mp4 Operation Redwing Military Effects Study (1956) (480p).mp4 Operation Tumbler Snapper (1952) (480p).mp4 Operation Wigwam - Underwater Nuclear Test Film (1955) (480p).mp4 Space Nuclear Test (360p).mp4 Suppressed U.S. Military Film on the Medical Effects of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (480p).mp4 The Atom Strikes 1945 (480p).mp4 The Fourth Protocol nuclear bomb assembly (360p).mp4 The General Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (480p).mp4 The House In The Middle (1954) (480p).mp4 The Largest Nuclear Bomb Tsar Bomba (480p).mp4 TRINITY - THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB TEST (480p).mp4 Trinity Through Buster Jangle 1952 (480p).mp4 U.S. Military Film on the Medical Effects of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (480p).mp4 United States Nuclear Weapons Testing Review 1945 to 1962 (480p).mp4 Windscale Britains Biggest Nuclear Disaster (360p).mp4 videos 2 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film - Air Testing Drones - Eniwetok 06-28-46 (480p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #00 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #01 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #02 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #03 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #04 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Nuclear Test Film #24 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #25 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #26 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #27 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #28 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #29 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #30 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #31 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #32 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #33 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #34 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #35 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #36 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #37 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #38 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #39 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #40 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #41 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #42 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #43 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Nuclear Test Film #64 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #65 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #66 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #67 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #68 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #69 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #70 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #71 (360p).mp4 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #72 (360p).mp4 videos 3 1958-03-13 Dead A-Bomb Hits US Town.mp4 2141.mp4 30904 Polaris Handling.mp4 32022 B1 Bomber.mp4 71502 First Nuclear Reactor In Space.mp4 Atomic Weapons Tests Trinity through Buster Jangle.mp4 Castle Commanders Report 1954.mp4 CEP 00 032.mp4 gov.archives.arc.2569850.mp4 gov.doe.0800005.mp4 gov.doe.0800006.mp4 Military Effects on Operation Redwing 1956.mp4 MISC-1323 Operation Crossroads 1948.mp4 nuclear strategy for beginners reel 1.mp4 nuclear strategy for beginners reel 2.mp4 Operation 1955.mp4 Operation 1964.mp4 Operation Greenhouse 1951.mp4 Operation HARDTACK Basic Effects Structures and Materiel 1958.mp4 Operation HARDTACK High Altitude Tests 1958.mp4 Operation HARDTACK Underwater Tests 1958.mp4 Operation IVY (1952).mp4 Operation IVY 1952.mp4 operation ivy.mp4 Operation TEAPOT Military Effects Studies 1955.mp4 Project D1960.mp4 Project Tower 1945.mp4 Tumbler Snapper 1952.mp4 tags: nuclear, weapons, atomic, testing, declassified, films, footage, hydrogen, bomb