Nuclear Testing Review - Nuclear Test Film

Courtesy: U.S. Department of Energy

0800000 - Nuclear Film Declassification Project / Nuclear Testing Review - 25:00 - Color - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has embarked on the Nuclear Weapons Film Declassification Project to make available to the public and many users films that contain historically significant events in the development of the U.S. nuclear weapons program. This is being done under the Department of Energy's Openness Initiative. The film project is being carried out by DOE's Albuquerque Operations Office (AL) in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Coming out of World War II, the U.S. and its allies realized they were in a Cold War with the Soviet Union. The first atomic bomb had been tested successfully at the Trinity Site in southeastern New Mexico in July 1945 and the second and third bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945, bringing about a speedy end to World War II. U.S. officials knew that the Soviet Union was on a fast track to develop the "bomb" and that they must develop more sophisticated nuclear weapons to stay ahead of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

With the backing of the Executive Branch and Congress, the Army's Manhattan Engineer District (MED), which designed, developed and tested the first atomic bomb, embarked on a nuclear testing program in 1946 at the newly established Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands area. The MED was dissolved in 1947 and its duties and functions were given to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The DoD joined the AEC in Joint Task Forces which continued the atmospheric testing program. This program allowed rapid gains in knowledge about weapons development, military effects, fallout and radiation effects, biomedical science, nuclear science, and delivery systems.

AL, a field office of the AEC, opened the Nevada Proving Ground northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1951 to reduce the cost of nuclear testing. The cost of transporting supplies, scientific gear, and materials for housing and testing, and for keeping a work force in the Pacific was monumental. The name of the Nevada Proving Ground was changed in 1957 to the Nevada Test Site.

In hindsight, the AEC and the DoD made many mistakes in the testing program, such as underestimating the effects of fallout and deploying troops in areas of excessive radiation. Despite the errors in the early testing efforts, the U.S. surged ahead of all other nations in nuclear weapons capabilities, and gained the expertise which now sets the standard for what is "safe."

Although the Soviet Union mounted a massive attempt to gain a distinct advantage in nuclear military power, the U.S. maintained a deterrent to nuclear aggression. The U.S. now has a smaller but more sophisticated nuclear weapons stockpile, which the DOE manages jointly with the DoD. Through treaties, nuclear testing has been discontinued.

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[shizlnit]

This video proves that you can work safely on nuclear bombs with out a shirt on. Also there is forest gimp and jungle explorer man at 1:05

[Fabio212817]

Every country as a Nuclear nuke well mostly every. like 1/4 of the earth has 1. i think lolz.

They say people not doing any war because people might just use nuke to destroy earth,

[fsci123]

@scottiebones You dont remember the Russian invasion of 2008?

[scottiebones]

@chevybuilder350 No, FUCK YOU the only people creating wars right now is america and im gonna voice my opinion so go and fuck yourself

[MrDookle62]

@scottiebones how are they?

[showmethemoney716]

why did humans allow or create it..?

1.power

2.control

3.security

oh yeah guess it all comes down to money.

[chevybuilder350]

@scottiebones hahah, man fuck you!!!

[scottiebones]

Hey america, Stop creating weapons and stop fucking killing people, the US are the real terrorists

[RoboCorpse3000]

@dameidos Ok, you are either a sock puppet belonging to nueroactive or an idiot. Probably both. And what the hell is "anti sematic" supposed to be? It's "anti-semitic" you dumb fuck. Also, how is saying "Christ-piss" a comment against Jewish people? How about I say "Buddha-piss" instead? Happy now? The only inbred, irradiated people I see on this comment thread are you and nueroactive. Maybe you should shut up and learn to spell instead of writing inane posts on Youtube. Goddamn morons.

[dameidos]

@RoboCorpse3000 i agree with Nueroactive, definately a highly intelligent man unlike yourself with your anti sematic comments, perhaps you are inbred, or maybe a victim of radioactive poisoning.