A house constructed 3,500 feet from "ground zero" at the Nevada Test Site being destroyed by the "Annie" test shot. The only source of light was the blast itself, detonated on March 17, 1953.
Sign in Desert reads 'Forward Tactical Entrenching Area' during Project Desert Rock in Nevada. . Military Police standing on road in background. Line of vehicles in far distance. Scene of desert area. Smashed vehicles in desert area. Sherman tank and other vehicles demolished. Group of military personnel walking through area of demolished vehicles. Field cannon in sunken area in Earth. Sand bags around cannon. Men in background. Scenes of debris. Men inspecting damaged equipment.
A mobile nuclear artillery cannon nicknamed 'Amazon Annie' (also called "Atomic Annie") passes over a bridge. M65 Nuclear artillery during transport. During the Upshot-Knothole series of nuclear tests, Nuclear artillery Amazon Annie is fired for the first time at Frenchman Flat on Nevada Test Site. Test codename was Grable. Fireball rises from the blast which was the first and only nuclear artillery shell ever fired from a cannon.
An atomic blast in a tunnel in Nevada. Men enter a tunnel. A sign reads 'Danger, Do not enter without proper authorization'. The atomic bomb blast makes news with the disclosure that the shock was detected in Alaska over 2000 miles away. Men wearing helmets and shoe coverings inspect and make observations in the tunnel. A man passes a geiger counter near a tunnel wall spray painted with writing, "Seismometer site."
Donald Campbell sets a speed record in his jet boat on Lake Mead, Nevada. Campbell wears helmet and prepares to set his speed record. He rides his Bluebird II on water surface of Lake Mead at a great speed. A man looks through binoculars. Donald Campbell sets a speed record of 216 miles per hour in the speed boat.
Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic explosion on buildings and houses. Nuclear bomb detonation occurs and a house explodes and fragments fly in the air due to the impact of the atomic bomb explosion. Dummies inside the house. Mannequins or dummies of a mother and a young boy inside the house.
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