Book: Einstein

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...

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...

Hydrogen bomb how does it work? The bomb on Hiroshima released the energy equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT. The first hydrogen bomb released the energy equivalent of 10,000,000 tons of TNT.



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At 5:30AM, dawn on July 16, 1945 near a small town called Alamagordo New Mexico, the course of human history was changed. The first atomic bomb was detonated that day, and sealed the fate of humanity....

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...

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...

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...

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...

France conducted 193 nuclear tests not far from Tahiti, exposing the local population and French soldiers to high levels of radiation. <br/>

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...

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...

HD colour footage of shock waves from nuclear bomb testing. Montage. Filmed on 35mm. 1950s

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.

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.

Shots of destruction after a nuclear explosion, 1954. Filmed on 35mm. HD.

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...

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...

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...

""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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...