News in Brief: Nevada, Atom Bomb Test.
News in Brief: Nevada, Atom Bomb Test.
Clip: 351922_1_1
Year Shot: 1952
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1574
Original Film: 025-559-05
HD: N/A
Location: Yucca Flats, Nevada
Timecode: 06:54:18 - 06:55:00
News in Brief: Nevada, Atom Bomb Test. The leathernecks this time participate in one of the most spectacular a-bomb tests held to date on Yucca Flats. Marines wait in trench, duck into foxhole. Then comes the blinding flash of a nuclear explosion; mushroom cloud forms. The Marines - poor, unprotected human guinea pigs - advance in the direction of the nuclear radiation in this exercise.