Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #67

0800067 - High-Altitude Nuclear Weapon Effects Part Two - Systems Interference - 1963 - 16:29 - Color - Through past nuclear testing, the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission determined that a nuclear weapon exploded at high altitude with a sufficient yield would cause adverse effects on communication and radar devices.

This technically oriented video, which uses many animated audio-visual aids to explain scientific points of interest and explores the weapons effects on military systems. The first portion deals with a hypothetical reentry vehicle armed with a nuclear warhead. The video explains how three different nuclear detonations might be required to track and destroy the incoming vehicle. The next portion explains how a nuclear explosion would more adversely affect the low-power downlink of radio transmissions to aircraft or satellites than the more powerful uplink. Other atmospheric chemistry and infrared systems problems are discussed in the video.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Nukes
• Nuclear
• weapons
• WMD
• radiation
• radioactive
• testing
• warhead
• downwinders
• atomic
• cancer

[tokayev]

Thanks for sharing these videos

[MichaelIanHenry]

Very helpful videos...Thank you for posting!

[therohvac]

@garywatson If you understood high school physics you would know that he is describing an EMP in scientific and technically terms.

[garywatson]

It's interesting that they don't mention how our country would be pounded into th stone age by the repeated EMP bursts. This was well known at the time.

[angryfishmonger]

He sounds like Larry King