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The device used in the blast was a 16 kt Mark 5 Nuclear Bomb - a low yield fission weapon, detonated 90 meters / 300 feet above the ground. [2] The live TV coverage was recorded on a kinescope, so it is a rare record of the sound an actual atomic bomb makes. [3] One of the automobiles after the test.
Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
The short film The 280 mm Gun at the Nevada Proving Ground (1953) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Operation Upshot-Knothole - 1953; Film about Upshot Knothole Tests Archived May 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine; Rice, James. Downwind of the Atomic State: Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society.
"Atom Bomb" By Glenn Barber (1955) "Atom Drum Bop" By The Three Johns (1986) "Atom Tan" By The Clash (1982) "Atomic" By Blondie (1980) "Atomic Dog" By George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars (1982) "Atomic Playboys" By Steve Stevens (1989) "Back to Zero" By The Rolling Stones (1986) "Beat Street" By Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1984)
Makoto reveals that he was the extortionist, and gets into a fight with Yamashita. Eventually the two fall from the roof whilst Makoto holds on to the bomb. He is saved by grabbing on to a power line as Yamashita falls to his death. Still in possession of the bomb, Makoto decides to leave. As he walks away, a ticking sound, then an explosion is ...
Koko Tanimoto (Née Koko Kondo (近藤紘子, Kondō Kōko), born November 20, 1944 [1]) is a prominent atomic bomb survivor, peace activist, and the eldest of at least four children of Kiyoshi Tanimoto, [2] a Methodist minister famous for his work for the Hiroshima Maidens. [3] Both appear in John Hersey's book Hiroshima.
First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (1946) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; Nuclear Test Film – Project Crossroads is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive (42m32s) Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month) (ca. 1955) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet ...
Project Mogul (sometimes referred to as Operation Mogul) was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high-altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The project was carried out from 1947 until early 1949.