Atomic Veterans History Project
Test Films In Our Archives
October 2003

These video programs are the best visual history ever released by the U.S. government. They show preparations by all U.S. services and many of the detonations filmed by secret Hollywood film crews, service photographers and scientific cameras.

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  • 1953 Upshot-Knothole Project 5401, Effects 20:00 B&W
  • 1953 280mm Atomic (Annie) Gun at NTS 10:29 Color/B&W
  • Civil Defense (2 programs in 1, color) Operation Doorstep (1953 Atomic Annie) 10:00 & Operation Cue (1955 Apple-2 test) 16:00
  • 1954 Military Effects on Operation Castle, Pacific 38:51
      • --Operation Crossroads, 1946 [Pacific]--
    1. Operation Crossroads 41:30 - Black&White

      --Operation Sandstone, 1948 [Pacific]--
    2. Operation Sandstone 20:00 - Color
    3. Operation Sandstone, U.S.A.F. Participation 30:00 - B&W
    4. Operation Sandstone, U.S. Navy 41:30 - B&W
    5. Radiological Safety on Operation Sandstone. 25:45 - B&W
    6. The Story of Operation Sandstone, Atomic Proving Ground. 1:13:50 - B&W

      -- Operation Greenhouse, 1951 [Pacific]--
    7. Operation Greenhouse - 1951 - 22:00 - Color
    8. Joint Task Force Three Presents Operation Greenhouse - 1: 19:30 - Color
    9. Atomic Blasts- Operation Greenhouse--Upshot-Knothole: 1951-53 29:22 - Color - Silent

      --Operation Ranger and Operation Buster/Jangle, 1951 [Nevada]--
    10. Operation Ranger and Operation Buster/Jangle 1:17:00 - Color
    11. Exercise Desert Rock [Nevada] 27:51 - B&W

      --Operation Tumbler-Snapper, 1952 [Nevada]--
    12. Operation Tumbler-Snapper 47:00 - Color
    13. Operation Tumbler: A Photographic Study of Blast and Thermal Effects - 22:20 - Color
    14. Armed Forces Special Weapons Technical Report: Tumbler/Snapper: 12:50 - B&W

      --Operation Ivy, 1952 [Pacific]--
    15. Operation Ivy, Parts 1 and 2 1:02:30 - Color

      --Operation Upshot-Knothole, 1953 [Nevada]--
    16. Operation Upshot-Knothole 35:45 - Color
    17. Operation Upshot-Knothole, Effects on B-50 Aircraft 19:00 B&W (Silent)
    18. Atomic Blasts- Operation Greenhouse--Upshot-Knothole: 1951-53 29:22 - Color - Silent

      --Operation Castle, 1954 [Pacific]--
    19. Operation Castle 20:20 - Color

      --Operation Teapot, 1955 [Nevada]--
    20. Military Effects Studies 30:20 - Color

      --Operation Wigwam, 1955 [Pacific]--
    21. Operation Wigwam, Commander's Report 35:45 - Color

      --Operation Redwing, 1956 [Pacific]--
    22. Operation Redwing 25:45 - B&W
    23. Military Effects on Operation Redwing - 1956 - 31:30 - Color

      --Operation Plumbbob, 1957 [Nevada]--
    24. Operation Plumbbob 22:00 - B&W
    25. Operation Plumbbob, Military Effects Studies 31:45 - B&W

      --Operation Hardtack 1, 1958 [Pacific]--
    26. Military Effects Studies, Part 1-Basic Effects, Structures & Material 26:00 B&W
    27. Military Effects Studies, Part 2-High Altitude Studies 24:45 B&W
    28. Military Effects Studies, Part 3 - Underwater Tests 18:40 B&W
    29. Military Effects Studies, Part 4 - Sub-Kiloton Effects 23:50 B&W
    30. Excerpts from Operation Hardtack 17:30 - Color - Silent

      --Operation Dominic, 1962 [Pacific]--
    31. Operation Dominic Fireballs, Pacific Testing; Long distance aerial views 43:40 Color/Silent
    32. Operation Dominic Nuclear Tests 26:23 B&W
    33. JTF-8 Presents Operation Dominic, Christmas Island; EG&G Operation Dominic Scientific Photography, Bluestone Test Silent 22:29 B&W - Two Films on One Vide
    34. JTF-8 Presents Operation Dominic: Johnston Island 19:23 B&W
    35. Starfish Prime Test Interim Report by Commander JTF-8; Fishbowl Auroral Sequences; Dominic on Fishbowl Phenomenon; Fishbowl XR Summary 1:01:25 B&W/Color All Four Films Silent
    36. Operation Fishbowl - High-Altitude Weapons Effects 28:10; B&W
    37. High-Altitude Nuclear Weapon Effects Part One - Phenomenology 20:53 Color

      --An Overview--
    38. Nuclear Testing Review - Overview of Testing Years - 25:00 - Color
    39. Atomic Weapons Tests Trinity through Buster-Jangle - 22:59 - Color
    40. Federal Civil Defense Administration Presents Let's Face It - No date - 13:25 - Color
    41. "Damage and Destruction" Various Dates 17:00 B&W/Color (Silent)
    42. Atomic Weapons Orientation Part One - Organization for Atomic Energy; Part Two - Basic Atomic Weapons 1961 & 1965 [23:56 B&W/Color]
    43. Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Three - Special Weapons Family; Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Four - Atomic Weapons Support Operations 1961 [18:54 B&W/Color]
    44. Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Five - Effects; Atomic Weapons Orientation; Part Six - Special Weapon Orientation: The Thermonuclear Weapon 1956 [41:34 B&W/Color]

      --Miscellaneous--
    45. 1958 -- Operation Argus 44:40 Color (Sanitized)
    46. 1961-62 -- Vela Uniform Participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome 21:30 B&W
    47. 1961 -- Project Gnome 29:13 Color
    48. 1968 -- Nuclear Excavation, Excavating with Nuclear Explosives 8:45 B&W plus 1973 Plowshare 28:22 Color
    49. 1970s -- Developing and Producing the B-61 26:29 - Color
    50. 1970 -- The Amchitka Program 24:11 Color
    51. 1971 -- Project Cannikin Review 13:00 Color
    52. No date: Enewetak Cleanup, Produced by the Defense Nuclear Agency 13:15 - Color

    Use this link for a short story about the narrator of most of the Atomic Test Films
    The Top Secret Life of Reed Hadley

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