LIVERMORE, Calif. (WPVI) -- What was once highly classified can now be found on YouTube-- and this isn't a leak. The Lawrence Livermore National Lab is beginning to publish thousands of films of U.S.
From 1945 to 1962, the U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests, filming each with high speed cameras at about 2,400 frames per second. Decades later, roughly 10,000 reels sat unseen in secure ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From the deserts of southern New Mexico and Nevada to islands in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government conducted dozens of nuclear weapons tests from the 1940s until the ...
On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world's first test of a nuclear bomb. The Trinity test sent fallout well beyond the desert of New Mexico, though, and an unlikely source discovered it ...