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.
Men talking outside the Las Vegas City Hall. A man carrying a WHO case enters the city hall. A man plasters a sign that reads “All cameras must be registered at photo desk no binoculars”. Personnel attaches tags on cameras. Sign reads “Joint Test Information Office”. Journalists attend an Operation Doorstep briefing by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Defense Department, and Civil Defense officials. Journalists on bus heading to Yucca Flat of the Nevada Test Site. A man stands in front of a sign that reads “U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Proving Ground Mercury, Nevada”. Bus enters the Nevada Test Site. United States civil defense observers and media representatives gather at Yucca Flat. Cameramen carrying equipment. Two men placing a sign “Main St.”. Personnel inspect House Number 2 in the Nevada Test Site. United States soldiers move into a trench two miles from ground zero. Media, newsmen, Television crews, observers and civil defense personnel gather 7 miles from ground zero for the Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapons test. Sign reads “CIVIL DEFENSE”. TV crew prepare their cameras. A wristwatch moving to 5:20. Atomic bomb blast forms a glaring mushroom cloud over the Nevada Test Site. House is quickly demolished. Civil Defense observers wearing goggles witness the blast. Tremendous glare of the nuclear blast. The house collapsing is then shown in stop motion (slow motion). Narrator details the effects of the nuclear explosion on the house, describing the changes seen in the stop motion frames, and stating that all it happened in 2 1/3 seconds. Blast wave blows house apart.
Applications for social security accounts under the Social Security Act,1935 in the United States. Display of a calendar. After the enactment of the Social Security Act, 1935 on 24 November, 1936, workers sign applications to apply for Old Age Retirement Benefits for the first time. A United States Post Office building. A man fills out an application for a social security card, at the post office. Five ways to return filled applications include handing them to a shop foreman, secretary of labor union, letter carrier or depositing them directly at a post office or dropping in local mail box. After returning the application the workers receive Social Security Account Numbers from the Social Security Board. They receive monthly income for life when they retire at the age of 65 years.
Explosion from nuclear blast. Destroyed houses and debris after a nuclear weapon explosion during nuclear testing by the United States. A mannequin partially covered by wood debris. Two men inspect groups of sitting mannequins. View of male, female, and infant mannequins. A man carries a female mannequin into a truck. Old and new passenger cars parked on the side of a road. Cars are marked with numbers. Cars start to drive in a convoy. Cars driving on the highway to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)’s Nevada Test Site, formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, in Nye County Nevada. Cars are left at Yucca Flat. Joshua trees and weeds on Yucca Flat. Instruments to measure temperature are attached to the cars. A radiation film badge behind a car seat. Parked cars are stationed in various ranges from intended ground zero of shot Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear test during Operation Doorstep. A man places a female mannequin on the passenger seat of a car. A boy mannequin is seen inside the car.
Vehicles parked outside a model framed house at the Nevada Test Site before Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep. United States Civil Defense personnel gather outside the model framed houses. A KTLA news van parked outside a model house at the Nevada Test Site. Venetian blinds on house windows. Mannequins sitting in a model first floor living room and dining room. Girl and toddler mannequins sitting on the floor together. A mannequin lying in a sickbed. A pair of shoes on top of bedside table. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A scale model of a box-type shelter. Mannequin inside a shelter. A bomb tower seen from a distance. Model house and a car near the bomb tower. Outdoor shelter of reinforced concrete at the Nevada Test Site. A scale model shows the interior view of a basement exit type home shelter.
Operation Cue nuclear bomb test at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Packaged food in a container. A Civil Defense staff personnel puts food in a refrigerator. Food containers on racks. Food containers are arranged. Observers place the containers just below the ground level. The containers are covered with mud.
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