Posted on 03/16/2017 6:36:38 AM PDT by C19fan
Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests over remote sites in New Mexico, Nevada, and both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
With several cameras to capture each detonation, the tests yielded roughly 10,000 recordings which have since been left to be slowly decay in high-security vaults.
Now, researchers are working to scan the decomposing films so the footage can be reanalysed and declassified before it’s too late.
So far, they’ve scanned about 4,200 recordings – and the effort has revealed that much of the original published data on the tests are wrong.
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I think I saw the same thing. They dropped a nuke and had troops acting like guinea pigs immediately march right into the radioactive zone.
I remember those days. We were told we could not make snow ice cream due to the fallout.
We did not know what would kill us first, radiation from fall out, radiation from color TV, which no one around us had, or blasting caps lost from dynamite trucks.
I remember seeing films of US troops doing the same thing. They were told to face away, hunker down and cover their eyes.
Once the blast wave passed and the intense light faded, they were told to stand up and look at it.
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I work for a small family business that's been around 75 yrs now...about 10 yrs ago they were cleaning the warehouse at the rural location & found some dynamite that had been sitting there for 30 yrs...they had used it to blast the foundation bedrock....anyway, the FD came and detonated it in the field - we have a rather impressive crater back there now.
I cant tell you how many times Ive been in that warehouse on 100 degree days & lightning storms
The Chinese tested their neutron bomb on several Uighur villages with complete success ... years later Clinton ended the US neutron bomb program and destroyed the existing warheads, leaving China with the only known working neutron bomb capability.
Peter Kuran, the director, also has a YouTube channel which has films that were declassified after the documentary was released in the 90s.
Link: atomcentral
Trinity and Beyond was updated a couple of years ago for the 70th anniversary of the Trinity test.
It includes new footage, longer sequences and better restorations of the original footage.
Thanks for posting this, I read about it on a Facebook page I follow named "The Vault of the Atomic Space Age."
It’s the Hattiesburg Mississippi area nuke tests that surprise most people.
Thanks!
Doesn’t this mean that those areas in New Mexico are off limits due to radioactivity?
My father was a flight trainer during WWII, stationed at White Sands. He was taxiing a group of trainees out for a pre-dawn flight when they were told to stay on the ground & cut engines. He said that it was as if the sun came up in an instant. He could see every rivet in the plane. My mother was at home 20 miles away & heard the blast. Of course they were told that an ammo dump had exploded.
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“Doesn’t this mean that those areas in New Mexico are off limits due to radioactivity?”
They do tours of the National Test Site, craters and all, even stopping at Sedan Crater. There are tours of Trinity Site, too.
If you go don’t take your own radiation meter, they’ll confiscate it and give it back later. The concern is that your meter probably is not calibrated and you might report erroneous levels.
Radiation levels there are quite low compared to the health limits.
“or blasting caps lost from dynamite trucks.”
Now there’s an obscure memory! What was the reason for that? I remember posters in the school and a card with dummy caps being passed around for us to see. Even as a kid I realized the odds of finding one of those were absurd.
There is a spot east of Carlsbad and one east of Aztec where under ground nukes were set off in an attempt to “frac” the gas fields.
Another one at Montrose Colorado.
FRACKING WORKED! Unfortunately the gas is now radioactive.
Project Gasbuggy was the name of it. Project Gnome was the one at Carlsbad.
Sounds like just the prescription for the first phase of urban renewal.
I just read up on that - dang, learn something new every day - thanks for the heads-up!
“Even as a kid I realized the odds of finding one of those were absurd.”
I didn’t get it either. Years later in military training and actually handling blasting caps along with various explosives, I saw how carefully the caps were handled and accounted for so it’s still a mystery how those would get out in the general public.
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