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Atomic test explosion "Whitney" during Operation Plumbbob nuclear testing by the United States in Nevada

View of the fireball from shot "Whitney," the 22nd full-scale nuclear test of Operation Plumbbob. Flash lights the pre-dawn darkness of Yucca Flat. The "Whitney" device was detonated atop a 500 foot tower. ID Source(s) DOE - NNSA/NSO -- Photo Library.

Location: Nye County Nevada

Date: 1957, September 23

Duration: 15 sec

Sound: No

Color: Color

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

United States nuclear testing during Operation Plumbbob: Shot Owens

"Owens," the tenth shot of Operation Plumbbob, is fired at an altitude of 500 feet from a plastic balloon at 6:30 am civilian time on July 25, 1957. The nuclear test yields 9.7 kilotons (equal to 9,700 tons of TNT). A brilliant flash gives way to an orange fireball which quickly begins to cool and churn skyward. Mushroom cloud forms fast. Cameraman slate at beginning of clip identifies the shot as Owens.

Location: Nye County Nevada

Date: 1957, July 25

Duration: 1 min 54 sec

Sound: No

Color: Color

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

"Owens" shot of Operation Plumbbob U.S. nuclear testing being conducted at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada.

United States conducts nuclear test at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada, during Operation Plumbbob. Desert floor, mountains in the background. Area obscured by the brightness as shot Owens blast goes off in the background. Circular ring of smoke covers the ground area. The fireball and smoke churns upward. The top part of the mushroom cloud rise slowly and moves outward. Cloud dissipates from the blast, it mingles in with natural clouds.

Location: Nye County Nevada

Date: 1957, July 25

Duration: 1 min 50 sec

Sound: No

Color: Color

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Nuclear explosion: View of shot Fizeau, at Yucca Flats location of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County Nevada

United States nuclear testing footage. View of the fireball from the 19th full-scale atomic detonation of Operation Plumbbob, code named "Fizeau." The 11 kiloton shot, fired atop a 500 foot tower, as observed from "News Nob" at a distance of about seven miles.

Location: Nye County Nevada

Date: 1957, September 14

Duration: 2 min 28 sec

Sound: No

Color: Color

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None