Secret Tests Of Project Argus
Secret Tests Of Project Argus
Clip: 356124_1_1
Year Shot: 1959
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1657
Original Film: 032-023-01
HD: N/A
Location: South Atlantic Ocean
Timecode: 00:40:19 - 00:41:21
Secret Tests Of Project Argus Scenes of the Norton Sound - floating laboratory from which the three nuclear devices of Project Argus were launched secretly last September, in the South Atlantic. The Norton Sound served as a seaplane tender in World War II. Was converted in 1948 into an experimental guided-missile launching ship. Admiral M. M. Mustin was at the helm when the Argus Project was carried out. Militarily the findings have great potential significance to the development of an anti-ballistic missile system and to the security of the nation's early warning and global communications system. Ship on the water, crew on deck. Men prepare rocket. Rocket launches from deck of ship.