US Releases Hundreds of Nuclear Bomb Test Videos Patrick Lejtenyi - AskMen
go to original March 18, 2017

US government declassifies never-before-seen nuke testing video (Fox News)

Between 1945 and 1962, the US conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests, each with multiple cameras capturing the explosions at 2,400 frames per second. The films were stored at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federal R&D center in California specializing in national security.

Now, some of those estimated 10,000 films have been made available on the LLNL’s YouTube page. And boy are they sobering.

There is a point to making the films available to the public, beyond making sure you understand just how quickly a nuclear explosion will vaporize you and everything around you for miles around. The original films are decomposing, and so in order to preserve the data they contain, the lab is digitizing them as fast as it can.

Once digitally preserved, the films will offer a treasure trove of new information for researchers. While the data was originally measured using human eyeballs, new methods of computation will allow scientists to more accurately observe and measure the milliseconds following detonation. The films are worth looking over again: according to the project’s director Greg Spriggs, there are inaccuracies in up to 20-30% of the original data.

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