Nuclear TechnoPorn: Getty Images
Oh, but this is great! Getty images have a whole load of stock footage from all those years of US atomic testing. Fair enough, the info's not that good - they've not listed which tests (or even dates) the footage comprises - and they've gone and bloody watermarked the Quicktime files, but it's still pretty amazing.
Favourite so far: the effect of nuclear weapons on a fleet. I'm probably wrong, but this is part of Operation Hardtack. Those ships you see caught in the blast are most likely crewed by experimental animals. Seriously.
It's pretty amazing that something like 2,400 nukes got detonated thirty years after Trinity. Almost like a minature WWIII war game played out with the real thing.
Every time I see some atomic test footage, I get jealous of the guys that were there, that saw and felt the nukes going off. Last of the Cold War Kids, I suppose...
Oh, but this is great! Getty images have a whole load of stock footage from all those years of US atomic testing. Fair enough, the info's not that good - they've not listed which tests (or even dates) the footage comprises - and they've gone and bloody watermarked the Quicktime files, but it's still pretty amazing.
Favourite so far: the effect of nuclear weapons on a fleet. I'm probably wrong, but this is part of Operation Hardtack. Those ships you see caught in the blast are most likely crewed by experimental animals. Seriously.
It's pretty amazing that something like 2,400 nukes got detonated thirty years after Trinity. Almost like a minature WWIII war game played out with the real thing.
Every time I see some atomic test footage, I get jealous of the guys that were there, that saw and felt the nukes going off. Last of the Cold War Kids, I suppose...
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