Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #68

0800068 - Atomic Weapons Orientation Part One - Organization for Atomic Energy; Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Two - Basic Atomic Weapons - 1961 and 1965 - 23:56 - Black&White and Color - Two Films on One Video

Atomic Weapons Orientation Part One - Organization for Atomic Energy - 17:45 - The Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 (and revised in 1954) set up a vast government (military and civilian) industrial complex for the research, development, testing, and production of nuclear weapons, as well as for other assignments in the energy field. The workings of this complex make up the subject for this video.

Shown are the coordination and liaison activities between the civilian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense. Each organizations major laboratories, facilities, and policy and planning groups active in 1961 are described. Footage of nuclear weapons storage, training and test sites is shown.

Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Two - Basic Atomic Weapons - 6:11 - This animated and live action video was designed primarily as an instructional video on how nuclear weapons work. There is a simplified discussion of the two categories of nuclear weapons, fission and fusion. The video described the "gun-type" and "implosion" fission methods. Another segment details the sequence of events and devices that have to work in unison to enable fission or fusion weapons to produce a nuclear yield.

An implosion weapon has a core of uranium or plutonium surrounded by high explosives, a lensing system, and detonators. Upon receipt of a firing signal, a firing set generates a high- voltage pulse that fires the detonators simultaneously. The detonation wave is focused by the lensing system into an implosion wave that compresses the core into a supercritical mass resulting in a nuclear explosion. The video also discusses radar, neutron generators, nuclear pits, and other weapon components.

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

[luridplanet]

The warbling soundtrack merely adds to the enjoyment

[bunsinh456]

Wow, sounds like my uber old Snow white and the 7 dwarfs VHS tape...

[DarnLevel]

i made popcorn this is my movie

[DunlopDaytona]

@woodmanship according to the tape, 1960

[nuevoraulo]

Sounds like the Dharma guys

[woodmanship]

what year is this recorded?

Nowaday,If is it possible carry the newtron rader on "from the SKY" mean???

Possible or Impossible?

Tell me,,,,U Space man.

[MaryStewart]

boooooooo!

[stalag14]

0:01

[mpwelk]

For all the hype over companies like KBR, Haliburton, and Dow these days, you realize after watching this that nothing much has changed. It's quite significant, coming from Madison, where a building was bombed with ANFO for enabling Dow logistics and research.

I have Bendix brakes on my car, they work great.