![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Exercise Desert Rock - U.S. Department of Defense
In 1951, the Army, working with the Atomic Energy Commission, carried out the Desert Rock Exercises, an experiment to "dispel much of the fear and uncertainty surrounding atomic radiation and the effects of gamma and x-rays." A tent encampment was set up about 27 miles from where the atomic explosions were detonated on the Nevada Proving Grounds. The encampment housed about 5,000 Army soldiers, civilian observers and technicians...
Keywords: Exercise Desert Rock; Desert Rock; 1951; nuclear; nuclear testing; atomic; atomic testing; Nevada; Nevada Test Site; NTS; Buster Jangle; Buster-Jangle; Buster; Jangle; military; radiation; radioactive; fallout; Cold War
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| Military Participation on BUSTER-JANGLE - USAF Lookout Mountain Laboratory
Military Participation on BUSTER-JANGLE - 1951 - 1:17:00 - Nevada, Color, Sanitized Operation RANGER was the first continental nuclear test series conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground (now called the Nevada Test Site). With the exception of the Trinity shot in New Mexico, all previous weapons testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands area. From January through February, 1951, five airdrop tests were conducted...
Keywords: Buster Jangle; Buster; Jangle; Nevada Proving Ground; Nevada Test Site; Atomic Energy Commission; nuclear test; atomic test; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive
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| Atomic Weapons Tests: TRINITY through BUSTER-JANGLE - Lookout Mountain Laboratory USAF
This was a broad overview report to carefully qualified members of secret oversight committees of U.S. Congress, as well as a collective archive of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. This film was declassified in 1997 after careful sanitization by experts to edit out secrets sensitive to technical information protected by the U.S. Department of Energy -- the successor to the Atomic Energy Commission -- and the U.S...
Keywords: Trinity; Sandstone; Greenhouse; Buster Jangle; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1945; 1946; 1948; 1951; military; Eniwetok; Enewetak; Eniwetak; Bikini; Bikini Atoll; Pacific Proving Ground; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive; thermonuclear test; thermonuclear
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