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	Today In Perspective Week of November 20, 2008 - Today In Perspective The mission of Today In Perspective is to provide an informational, relevant and entertaining view of current news and events from a historical perspective. This week we take a look at the history of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site and the current state of nuclear weapons in the United States and the world. Keywords: history; news; nuclear testing; Nevada test site; Iran; Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; nuclear weapon Downloads: 37 Average rating: (0 review)
	Alternative Views #497: POTPOURRI 22: CLINTON, TAXES, RELIGIOUS RIGHT, NUKE TESTING - Frank Morrow An assessment of Clinton's new policies and proposals, showing how little things have changed from the Reagan-Bush years; the efforts of the Religious Right in penetrating and controlling the political process; the dangers of nuclear testing. News Copyright May, 1993 ******************************************* * Note: * The Alternative Information Network * address in the video is no longer in use... Keywords: progressive media; alternative media; public access television; Frank Morrow; Doug Kellner; Austin Community Television; Clinton; Religious Right; nuclear testing Downloads: 123 Average rating: (0 review)
	Alternative Views #427: THE WIPP TRAIL - Frank Morrow 427. THE WIPP TRAIL A documentary showing the ravages of nuclear power and nuclear bomb testing on the people and environment, particularly in the New Mexico area. "The WIPP Trail" provides statements from both sides, which reveal governmental collusion with the nuclear industry. "The WIPP Trail" Copyright 1989 Copyright October, 1990 ******************************************* * Note: * The Alternative Information Network * address in the video is no longer in use... Keywords: Alternative Views; progressive media; alternative media; public access television; Frank Morrow; Doug Kellner; Austin Community Television; nuclear power; nuclear testing; WIPP Trail Downloads: 172 Average rating: (0 review)
	OperationHARDTACK Basic Effects Structures and Materiel - Lookout Mountain Laboratory USAF Operation HARDTACK I consisted of 35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between April 28 and August 18, 1958. These tests included balloon, surface, barge, underwater, and rocket-borne high-altitude tests. The first test, Yucca, was a nuclear device attached to a helium balloon launched from the USS Boxer near Enewetak Atoll. HARDTACK I consisted of three portions; the first was the development of nuclear weapons... Keywords: Hardtack; Operation Hardtack; 1958; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; military; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive Downloads: 2,381 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Operation CASTLE Commander's Report - Joint Task Force 7 Operation CASTLE was a six-detonation test series held at the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground in the Spring of 1954. This test series, principally conducted at the Enewetak and Bikini Atolls in the northwestern Marshall Islands, provided proof tests of large-yield thermonuclear, or hydrogen, devices. CASTLE represented the end of a drive for a workable thermonuclear weapon and the beginning of the refinement of large-H-bombs into smaller and more efficient weapons... Keywords: Operation Castle; Castle; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 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 Downloads: 12,117 Average rating: (1 review)
	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 Downloads: 3,957 Average rating: (1 review)
	Joint Task Force 3 Presents Operation GREENHOUSE - USAF Lookout Mountain Laboratory Operation GREENHOUSE was conducted in April and May of 1951. This test series consisted of four weapons related test shots from the 300-foot level on towers on the Enewetak Atoll Pacific Ocean, two of which greatly aided the pursuit of a hydrogen, or thermonuclear device. Carried out by the Atomic Energy Commission, the shots were: Dog, April 7, 81 kilotons Easy, April 20, 47 kilotons George, May 8, 225 kilotons Item, May 24, 45.5 kilotons The George experiment proved an H-bomb was possible and ... Keywords: Greenhouse; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1951; military; Eniwetok; Enewetak; Eniwetak; Atoll; Pacific Proving Ground; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive; thermonuclear test; thermonuclear Downloads: 1,833 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Military Effects on Operation REDWING - AFSWP and Joint Task Force 7 Operation REDWING, a 17-test nuclear weapons series, was conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between May 4 and July 21, 1956. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) tested high-yield thermonuclear devices that could not be tested at the Nevada Test Site. Over 10,000 military personnel and civilian employees of the AEC and the Department of Defense participated in these nuclear tests. The LACROSSE and CHEROKEE tests were observed from aboard the USS Mount McKinley by 15 American press, radio and ... Keywords: Operation Redwing; Redwing; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 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 Downloads: 4,172 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Military Effects Studies on Operation CASTLE - AFSWP Operation CASTLE was a six-detonation test series held at the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground in the Spring of 1954. This test series, principally conducted at the Enewetak and Bikini Atolls in the northwestern Marshall Islands, provided proof tests of large-yield thermonuclear, or hydrogen, devices. CASTLE represented the end of a drive for a workable thermonuclear weapon and the beginning of the refinement of large-H-bombs into smaller and more efficient weapons... Keywords: Operation Castle; Castle; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 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 Downloads: 25,776 Average rating: (0 review)
	Operation ARGUS, Report of Chief, AFSWP to ARPA - Lookout Mountain Laboratory USAF Operation ARGUS was a series of three high-altitude nuclear tests conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission in the South Atlantic Ocean in August and September 1958. The results of Operation ARGUS proved the validity of the Christofilos Theory. This theory proposed that a radiation belt is created in the upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere by high-altitude detonations. The radiation belt affects radio and radar transmissions, damages or destroys the arming and fuzing mechanisms of interconti... Keywords: Operation Argus; Argus; Task Force 88; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1958; 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 Downloads: 1,498 Average rating: (1 review)
	Operation GREENHOUSE - AEC and Joint Task Force 3 "This test took place in the spring of 1951. It was carried out by the 8500 members of Joint Task Force Three; men drawn from the Atomic Energy Commission, its contractors, military, industrial, and educational laboratories, and from the Army, Navy, and Air Force." Operation GREENHOUSE was conducted in April and May of 1951. This test series consisted of four weapons related test shots from the 300-foot level on towers on the Enewetak Atoll, Pacific Ocean, two of which greatly aided the pursuit ... Keywords: Operation Greenhouse; Greenhouse; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1951; military; Eniwetok; Enewetak; Eniwetak; Pacific Proving Ground; national defense; Department of Defense; radiation; radioactivity; radioactive; Dog test; Easy test; George test; Item test; thermonuclear test; thermonuclear Downloads: 3,283 Average rating: (1 review)
	Operation HARDTACK High Altitude Tests - Lookout Mountain Laboratory USAF Operation HARDTACK I consisted of 35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between April 28 and August 18, 1958. These tests included balloon, surface, barge, underwater, and rocket-borne high-altitude tests. The first test, Yucca, was a nuclear device attached to a helium balloon launched from the USS Boxer near Enewetak Atoll. HARDTACK I consisted of three portions; the first was the development of nuclear weapons... Keywords: Operation Hardtack; Hardtack; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1958; 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 Downloads: 2,420 Average rating: (0 review)
	Operation HARDTACK Military Effects Studies: Underwater Tests - United States Department of Defense Operation HARDTACK I consisted of 35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between April 28 and August 18, 1958. These tests included balloon, surface, barge, underwater, and rocket-borne high-altitude tests. The first test, Yucca, was a nuclear device attached to a helium balloon launched from the USS Boxer near Enewetak Atoll. HARDTACK I consisted of three portions; the first was the development of nuclear weapons... Keywords: Operation Hardtack; Hardtack; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1958; 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 Downloads: 15,526 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Operation IVY - Joint Task Force 132 "The island of Elugelab is missing!" President Eisenhower heard this short report on the Mike shot in Operation IVY from Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Mike was the first full-scale hydrogen explosive device to be tested, yet was only a scientific test of a thermofusion implosion device concept. Mike was not a deliverable weapon. The island where the device was detonated was vaporized... Keywords: Operation IVY; IVY; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1952; 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; Reed Hadley Downloads: 15,563 Average rating: (1 review)
	Operation TEAPOT Military Effects Studies - AFSWP Operation TEAPOT consisted of 14 nuclear tests detonated from February 18 to May 15, 1955. The goal of the series was to test nuclear devices for possible inclusion in the nuclear weapons stockpile; improve military tactics, equipment and training; and study civil defense requirements. With Operation TEAPOT, the Atomic Energy Commission intensified its technical effort for "clean" or reduced fallout weapons and missile warheads... Keywords: Operation Teapot; Teapot; Desert Rock; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1955; military; Nevada Proving Ground; Nevada Test Site; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive; thermonuclear test; thermonuclear Downloads: 3,223 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Military Participation on TUMBLER-SNAPPER - AFSWP Operation TUMBLER-SNAPPER consisted of eight nuclear shots in two phases. The TUMBLER phase was of primary concern to the Department of Defense, which called for airdropped nuclear weapons tests. The SNAPPER second phase was a set of experiments conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to help improve effects of nuclear weapons. Able, an airdrop event on April 1, 1952, produced a yield of one kiloton... Keywords: Tumbler-Snapper; Tumbler; Snapper; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1952; military; Nevada; Nevada Proving Ground; Nevada Test Site; national defense; Department of Defense; radiation; radioactivity; radioactive Downloads: 19,400 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	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 Downloads: 4,815 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Operation DOMINIC Nuclear Tests 1962 - Joint Task Force 8 This Dominic I video provides a visual overview of 36 atmospheric nuclear devices detonated in the Pacific Proving Ground from April to November 1962. It was the last atmospheric nuclear test series conducted by the United States. Also, Dominic I was the largest and most elaborate U.S. testing operation ever conducted. In geographic terms, the diagnostic stations receiving data from the tests covering more than 15 million square miles... Keywords: Operation Dominic; Dominic; atomic; nuclear; Cuba; Cuban Missile Crisis; John Kennedy; Nikita Kruschev; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; 1962; 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 Downloads: 9,013 Average rating: (0 review)
	Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE - Lookout Mountain Laboratory This operation conducted at the Nevada Test Site consisted of 11 atmospheric tests. There were three airdrops, seven tower tests, and one airburst. Functioning between March 17 and June 4, 1953, this operation involved the testing of new theories, using both fission and fusion "boosted" devices -- boosted devices are not multistage thermonuclear operation devices. A new and revolutionary method of producing deliverable nuclear weapons for use in a potential nuclear battlefield in Europe was succ... Keywords: Upshot-Knothole; Upshot; Knothole; 280 mm gun; 280 mm; Mark 65 cannon; Atomic Annie; atomic shell; Mark 9 atomic shell; 1953; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; military; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive Downloads: 2,211 Average rating: (0 review)
	The 280 mm Gun at the Nevada Proving Ground - AFSWP The testing of the Mark 9 atomic artillery shell was the Grable event, part of a much larger series of nuclear detonations under the umbrella of Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE in 1953. This operation conducted at the Nevada Test Site consisted of 11 atmospheric tests. There were three airdrops, seven tower tests, and one airburst. Conducted between March 17 and June 4, 1953, this operation involved the testing of new theories... Keywords: 280 mm gun; 280 mm; Mark 65 cannon; Atomic Annie; atomic shell; Mark 9 atomic shell; Upshot-Knothole; 1953; atomic; nuclear; Cold War; atomic testing; nuclear testing; military; national defense; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; radiation; radioactivity; fallout; radioactive Downloads: 6,309 Average rating: (2 reviews)