Synopsis
Color footage of atomic bomb tests with active-duty military personnel at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada Test Site. Soldiers crouch in foxholes and trenches as a nuclear detonation occurs nearby, then climb out and advance toward the mushroom cloud amid light, shockwaves and blowing dust. Some of this footage appears in The Atomic Cafe.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- atomic test
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Boom! Boom! Boom! Let's go! · Spuzz · 2022-06-24
THis amazing footage, part of an RKO Pathe fim, features some astonishing footage of soldiers doing their duty and watching the A bomb go off in the desert wearing very little protection. I just loved it how they looked up after the bomb hit, and getting hit by the aftershock.. BAM! After that, they proceed to walk up towards the bomb target, gawking. The film then cuts to what appeards to be some before and after shots of miltary equiment and dummies set up to see the effects before and after the bomb. So we see tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns just wasted. It would've been…
★★★ · A reminder of bad ideas · Neaituppi · 2024-01-14
I give it 3 stars, but not because of the quality, but the subject. It is a glimpse of evidence of the past, which hasn't changed that much. What is missing from this, but the original soldiers later on revealed, before they passed, though sworn to secrecy by the government, was not only the health effects on the soldiers walking up after, but there were more soldiers in closer proximity that had their skin burned off, in some cases. As well as the native peoples on reservations in the area, like the shoshoni, that were effected, but they were not even considered human then.