Atom Blast, Yucca Flat, Nevada, 03/17/1953 (1953)

1953 · Short film · 10 min

• War

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Synopsis

An atomic test at Yucca Flat, Nevada, 17 March 1953: the blast seen from News Nob, an experimental house burning, and the mushroom cloud at dawn; National Archives footage, sound only for the first minutes.

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Details

Running time

10 minutes

Language

English

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• Atomic Bomb
• Nuclear Test
• Upshot-Knothole Annie
• Operation Upshot-Knothole Annie
• Upshot-Knothole
• Atomic
• A-Bomb
• Cold War
• Mushroom Cloud
• Hodge, John R. (John Reed) 1893

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