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.
Aerial views from overflying aircraft, of Lighthouses and coast guard stations in the United States. Those seen are: Light Desert Rock lighthouse, followed by Lighthouses: Petit Manan, Nash Island, Avery Rock, Prospect Harbor, Egg Rock, Baker Island, Great Luck Island; Bass Harbor Head, Bear Island, Saddleback Ledge, Browns Head, Herons Neck, Isle of Shoals, Boone Island, Halfway Rock, Portland Breakwater, Pam Island Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, and wood Island. The Coast Guard Stations seen are: Straitsmouth, Gloucester, Cranberry Island, Salem Air Station Isle of Shoals, Cape Elizabeth, and Biddeford Pool.
NASA astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Food Service personnel from Stead AFB prepare meal and lay the table at Desert Command post. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF and other personnel eat food. Service Personnel prepare breakfast.
Soft rock is loosened for steam shovels by blasting it with black powder. A churn drill makes blast holes in the soft rock at a copper mine in Ruth, Nevada.
Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test in Nevada during the Cold War. Smoke forms into a doughnut-shaped cloud as it ascends.
Atomic explosion during tactical nuclear weapons test in Nevada during the Cold War. Smoke forms into a hot, bright mushroom cloud with Joshua tree in foreground. As it ascends higher, the mushroom cloud becomes thicker and gray.
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