Posted on 03/17/2017 1:35:15 PM PDT by NYer
Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films - Video
On Tuesday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federally funded facility outside San Francisco that focuses on nuclear research, released 63 rare, restored and declassified nuclear-test films.
The films, uploaded to the lab’s YouTube account, are part of a trove of some 10,000 that have been in storage since they were originally shot between 1945 and 1962, and had been held in secure vaults since then.
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 compared to some 6,500 films that have been found of the 10,000 that were estimated to have been shot at the height of the Cold War.
The goal in preserving and digitizing them, Spriggs said in a news release, was to keep the films for future study, lest they decompose and disappear forever.
“You can smell vinegar when you open the cans, which is one of the byproducts of the decomposition process of these films,” Spriggs said. “We know that these films are on the brink of decomposing to the point where they’ll become useless. The data that we’re collecting now must be preserved in a digital form because no matter how well you treat the films, no matter how well you preserve or store them, they will decompose.”
What that means for viewers of the lab’s YouTube account is a lot of mushroom clouds. Like this explosion named Harlem, which occurred off Kiribati in 1962 in a series of tests known as Operation Dominic.
Or this explosion, part of a series of tests at the Nevada Test Site that took place in 1955 that was known as Operation Teapot. This particular explosion was called Tesla.
The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs during war. In 1945, at least 100,000 men, women, and children were instantly killed when bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in addition to tens of thousands more who later died because of the bombs’ after effects.
Ping!
Bkmrk.
Marker for later.
“The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs during war. In 1945, at least 100,000 men, women, and children were instantly killed when bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in addition to tens of thousands more who later died because of the bombs’ after effects.”
What? Did anyone else know about this????
We’ll meet again
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
In the mood to watch Dr. Strangelove!
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I’ve heard the media describe it as us having used the atomic bomb “in anger”...WTF!
I can see why they were classified.
Just a quick look and I got 3-4 items I have never seen in previous released videos.
I will be checking this out tonite!
Notice the 3 protruding jets at the base of the explosion.What is that?
Always
I am hoping that is sarcasm I detect
Ride em cowboy
Well yes we did. And I for one am glad they finally got the message
It took two bombs to get them to surrender
Ha!
Saw most of those in Nuke Weapons school in 1971.
Existing cameras’ mechanical shutters were found wanting for the detail the scientists were looking for, so EG&G, iirc, came up with an electronic shutter using capacitance glass.
Teapot Turk is awesome.
Always loved the high speed films of the immediate
blast. Like looking into another universe.
The blast effects in this one are amazing.
Teapot Turk is awesome.
Always loved the high speed films of the immediate
blast. Like looking into another universe.
The blast effects in this one are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbNlgQyz84&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5&index=64
Part of the reaction.....charge shaping is critical and was tested a lot. The first one shows it to but after a while.
Indeed
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