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Operation Redwing Nuclear Test: Zuni

United States conducts nuclear test shot "Zuni" as part of Operation Redwing nuclear tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds. Bright flash appears due to the Zuni shot bomb blast, the first ever of a three-stage thermonuclear design. Huge fireball boils upward into the sky. Spots of fire in sky as darkness spreads. Zuni was a 3.5 Megaton Hydrogen bomb with 85% of its yield from fusion. This was a companion test to the "dirty" (87% fission) Tewa shot using the same bomb design.

Date: 1956, May 28
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046795
Missiles are aimed and fired from guided 'Terrier' missile cruiser USS Boston in the Pacific Ocean.

United States first radar guided missile cruiser USS Boston in the Pacific Ocean. A sailor stands with head phones on. A 'Terrier' missile comes up to the position on a launching pad. The launch pad at the cruiser. Missiles in position are aimed and fired.

Date: 1956, April 5
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046946
Damaged houses, cars and household spread in the city of Hudson in Michigan.

Tornado destruction at the Midwest in the United States. Damaged houses in Hudson, Michigan. Wrecked cars and the ruins of houses. A broken couch in a house. Men search in the ruins of a house. Two men load beddings on a loader.

Date: 1956, April 5
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046947
The robot weather station nick named 'Grass Hopper' works automatically during an experiment in Washington D.C.

The robot weather station nick named 'Grass Hopper' tested in Washington D.C. Scientists work on a field. Robot lying on the field as it stands up on its own. It's fan rotates. Plate on model reads 'An/GMT-CXG-IJ, Model 2, Serial No. 2', and gives other information. Code sent by it being recorded on a tape recorder.

Date: 1956, April 5
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046948
U.S. Olympic horse jumping team members and their horses board an airplane for Stockholm.

Ten horses of the U.S. Olympic horse jumping team are loaded aboard a Pan American World Airways DC-6 Cargo Clipper in New York City. They are bound for Stockholm, Sweden. A trainer is seen leading a horse up a long ramp, into the aircraft cargo hold. Members of the U.S. Olympic Team: Frank Chapot, William Steinkraus (Team Captain), Hugh Wiley, and Warren Woffard. pose in front of the aircraft: View inside the aircraft, as the horses are being secured in their stalls.

Date: 1956, April 5
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046949
Spring Circus at Madison Square Garden in New York City

Scenes of performances in the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Spring Circus at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Elephants, clowns and ducks perform during the show. Aerialist Pinito del Oro performs her "Mexicanarama Ballet." Balancing wizard Titos performs a head balancing act crossing a span on his head by jumping in hops. Japanese performer walks to top of the Garden on a slack wire (akin to tightrope but tightened by weight of performer) and then slides down backwards while standing, in his "Slide for Life."

Date: 1956, April 5
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046952