Crash Course
World War II: Crash Course European History
Only a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigger, farther-flung, more destructive, and deadlier war began. Today, you'll learn about how the war in...
Crash Course
The Atomic Bomb: Crash Course History of Science
The story picks up where we left off last time, with Einstein writing the president of his new homeland, the United States, urging him to build a nuclear weapon before Hitler. This is the tale of the most destructive force humans have...
Debunked
How To Survive The First Hour Of A Nuclear Blast / Fallout! #SURVIVAL #MYTHS #
How To Survive The First Hour Of A Nuclear Blast / Fallout! The situation has played out in TV and movies for years, but what should you really do if a nuke detonated near you? Will the fireball automatically obliterate your entire city?...
Curated Video
Inside the Making of Oppenheimer: The Legacy of the Little Boy and Fat Man
Little Boy And Fat Man are the nicknames given to the two weapons of mass destruction that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, seem ridiculous when thinking about what they were capable of doing. Little Boy was the first nuclear bomb to...
Next Animation Studio
French nuclear tests contaminated 110,000 people — study
France conducted 193 nuclear tests not far from Tahiti, exposing the local population and French soldiers to high levels of radiation.
Curated Video
How Robert J. Oppenheimer became the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’
Robert J. Oppenheimer, born on April 22, 1904, is known as the father of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was awarded a PhD in theoretical physics and was interested in the emerging field of quantum physics. As a scientist at the University...
Bridgeman Arts
Explosion of RDS-37, the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, November 22nd 1955
RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955 at the Semipalatinsk test site. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live...
Bridgeman Arts
Shock waves and destruction from Soviet nuclear bomb testing, 1950s
HD colour footage of shock waves from nuclear bomb testing. Montage. Filmed on 35mm. 1950s
Bridgeman Arts
Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 heavy-bomber at the Semipalatinsk test site, with the RDS-37 hydrogen bomb. USSR, 1955
HD footage of a Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 heavy-bomber plane (NATO reporting name: Badger) at the Semipalatinsk test site, with the RDS-37 hydrogen bomb. Soviet Kazakhstan, 1955. Filmed on 35mm.
Bridgeman Arts
Trees fall from the shock wave of a Soviet nuclear test at the Totskoye test site, USSR, 1954
Trees falling from the shock wave of a nuclear explosion at the Soviet nuclear test site, the Totskoye range (Orenburg Region). 1954. Filmed on 35mm.
Bridgeman Arts
Aftermath of nuclear bomb test, USSR 1954
Shots of destruction after a nuclear explosion, 1954. Filmed on 35mm. HD.
Bridgeman Arts
Explosion of RDS-37, the Soviet Union's first two-stage H-bomb, first tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, November 22nd 1955 (2K resolution)
2K resolution footage of RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955 at the Semipalatinsk test site. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6...
British Movietone
MR CHURCHILL ADDRESSES CONGRESS
The final highlight of Mr Churchill's visit to America was his address to a joint session of Congress in Washington. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
British Movietone
FRANCE'S 3rd BOMB
Our pictures show the preparations in progress at Reggane in the Sahara desert, before the explosion of France's third atomic bomb. The experiment was called ""Operation Jerboa"" (after a small desert animal), and a considerable amount...
British Movietone
SYDNEY SUFFERS ""BIG WET""
""Sunny Sydney"" has had more rain in the last six months than they usually get in a year. Unlike most people these two young Persian pussy cats actually enjoy getting wet - especially in the boss's heated pool. At the weather bureau,...
Bridgeman Arts
Atomic bomb test, (named RDS-2 or Joe 2), Semipalatinsk test site, USSR, 24 September 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion cloud. Explosion power 38 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, codenamed RDS-2, and nicknamed by the US as Joe 2, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, also known...
Bridgeman Arts
First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of a nuclear explosion in the air, from the first Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 18th October 1951. The device of RDS-3 (known by the US as Joe 3) was tested at the Semipalatinsk test...
Bridgeman Arts
First Soviet Hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4 or RDS-6) August 12 1953, USSR.
HD colour footage of the cloud formation from the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) on August 12, 1953, that detonated with a force equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT. The device, which was nicknamed Joe 4...
Bridgeman Arts
First Soviet H-bomb test (named Joe 4 or RDS-6) August 12 1953, USSR.
Colour restored. HD colour footage of the cloud formation from the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) on August 12, 1953, that detonated with a force equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT. The device, which was...
Bridgeman Arts
Fireball of atomic blast (RDS-2 or Joe 2), Semipalatinsk test site, USSR, 24 September 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball. Explosion power 38 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, codenamed RDS-2, and nicknamed by the US as Joe 2, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, also...
Bridgeman Arts
Operation Teapot nuclear explosive test ("Effects Sub-surface"), Nevada Test Site, USA, 23rd March 1955
Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted by the United States at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. This is the ESS ("Effects Sub-surface") test explosion for ADM (Atomic Demolition...
Bridgeman Arts
Soviet soldiers shelter from the light of nuclear test as part of military exercise, USSR, 1956
Small fragment of footage showing military exercises with the use of nuclear weapons at the Semipalatinsk test site.
Bridgeman Arts
Fireball of atomic explosion (RDS-3 or Joe 8), Totsk Test Site, USSR, 24th September 1954
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball from the RDS-3 (nicknamed Joe 8) device. Explosion power 40 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, "Svetlana" (RDS-3), was tested at the Totsk test site. The...
Bridgeman Arts
Fireball of atomic test (Joe 14) Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1954
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball, from a Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 30th October 1954. The device known by the US as Joe 14, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan....