Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #69

0800069 - Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Three - Special Weapons Orientation: Weapons Family; Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Four - Atomic Weapons Support Operations - 1961 - 18:54 - Black&White and Color - Two Films on One Video

Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Three - Special Weapons Orientation: Weapons Family - 6:32 - This video shows U.S. stockpiles nuclear weapons up to 1961. The stockpile includes early airdrop fission weapons, Mark (Mk)-3, Mk-4, Mk-5, Mk-6, Mk-6/18, Mk-7, Mk-8, Mk-12, and Mark-9, the artillery atomic projectile. A live test of the Mk-9 fired from a 280mm cannon is shown. This was the 15-kiloton GRABLE test conducted on May 25, 1953, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole.

Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Four - Atomic Weapons Support Operations - 12:22 - The special contributions of nuclear weapons technicians are featured in this video. They inspected, maintained, modified and modernized nuclear weapons at various storage and operation field sites. The video shows training conducted at the Defense Atomic Support Agencys nuclear weapons school in Albuquerque and the U.S. Air Forces weapons school at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. Technicians are shown conducting "fire test set" inspections on all branches of the armed services.

The narrator explains that the storage, maintenance, inspection and modification of nuclear weapons is part of the "mine to stockpile sequence." Also, the video shows that the technicians are a vital part of the "stockpile to target sequence" as they prepare weapons for shipment, load weapons onto strike aircraft, and maintain and modify weapons at forward field sites.

Footage is shown of weapons being loaded on a B-52 and a smaller attack aircraft. The narrator explains that the major function of a technician was to "make the weapon ready for the day when by Presidential decree, nuclear weapons would be sent out on intercontinental bombers, tactical aircraft, missiles, and carrier-deployed aircraft to the target areas."

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• Nukes
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• WMD
• radiation
• radioactive
• testing
• warhead
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• atomic
• cancer

[Sunnydad]

Notice the white bombs that are being loaded onto the planes. I have friend who was in the Air Force during the Cuban Crisis of 1962 who was actively flying. His main reaction at the time what, " what are those bombs doing on the plane that don't have a blue stripe?" (The training bombs have a blue stripe around them, the without are live nuc.s.) He was REALLY freaked out by that. He was REALLY aware that the bombs in his bombay were LIVE nucs! That is pressure! And is Very scarey!

[cornholio2490]

thanks so much for posting these videos! I'm a huge fan of this nuke stuff!

[bossx7kill]

@doh1959 i know your joking but the atomic and hydrogen bomb was the worst creation man ever made atomic is not even close to what a hydrogen bomb would do most nuclear based weapon and mesured in kilotons (atomic) and megatons (hydrogen) it takes 1000 kilotons to make a megaton and the hiroshima bomb was a 10 kiloton and look at what that bomb did russia devolped a 50 MT bomb or tsar bomba or king bomb and was tested olny mabey 100 of them would wipe out the estern unites states.

[SpudMills]

@sw8741 That's common practice for all gauges/instruments with needles.

[seb2455]

@maximumsplinter yeah but its also better then 40 + thousand warheard launching at once and now whit the anti missile shield I am pretty confident a Nuclear war could be adverted considering the fact most belligerent nations are outside the NATO pact.

[maximumsplinter]

@Sunnydad well it really was a hot war, USA and Russia detonated over 1500 warheads from the end of WWII up to the early 90s at the culmination of the cold war. From what I could find there was 140 alone in 1962, then there are another 300 from all the other nations that have nucs, maybe this is why we are having all these problems on the earth, blowing up nucs in the upper atmosphere and in the ocean? Thats some seriously crazy shit they did last century.

[spencnaz]

@10:14, "lock s-foils in attack position"

[geoffreydlang]

And everybody lived happily ever after..

[kcm2011]

@bokuwamon lol same

[bokuwamon]

i will be happy if one of those babies is dropped on my garden.

[doh1959]

i want one. some people have pitbulls or rottweilers i want an atomic bomb

[sw8741]

OMG.......at 8:24 he starts tapping the test equipment to get the needle to work right!! you think they would get the best instruments to test these!