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Nevada United States USA 1958 stock footage and images

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Establishment of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and its first launch of a ballistic missile.

Restrospective of the 1954 search for a suitable site for U.S. Air Force testing of ballistic missiles. Coastal area with ocean in the background. Officials look over charts, maps, photographs as they select the site for Vandenberg Air Force Base. In January, 1958, view of building with a sign that reads ' Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base' Entrance of the headquarters as Major General David Wade walks out. U.S. Air Force officers and airmen attend missile training classes. Airmen work on assembly of Thor missiles . U.S. Air Force officers and airmen operate missile launch consoles in a launch control center. November, 1958, Thor intermediate range missile on a trailer being delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base. Trailer backs up to the launch pad. December, 16, 1958, the Thor missile on launch pad venting gases. U.S. Air Forces officers at a launch console. The Thor missile is launched. RAF airmen watch missile in flight.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059981
Power poles, power lines, transformers, radio towers, gases and connections are tested at Nevada site in the U.S.

Operation Cue (part of Operation Teapot) nuclear test preparations at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Views of Nevada site. A sign of civil defense and 'Operation Cue' written on a vehicle of civil defense. A woman exits the vehicle and enters the headquarter building of the 'Civil Defense Operations'. Interior: A Civil Defense staff member working. He talks to personnel. The Civil Defense staff member shows her prospective of entire lay out and models of the system. Men work on constructing shelters and structures. An engineer goes in a corner room of a basement. A man climbs down a power pole. Power poles, power lines and transformers are tested. Transformer substations are tested. Radio towers are tested. In a test house a radio transmitter is used for broadcasting. Liquid petroleum and natural gases are tested. All connections are checked. Installation of equipment is checked. A 18000 gallon supply tank is sprayed. A storage house on the test site.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072219
News reporters and scientists tour site of an atomic blast in a tunnel in Nevada

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."

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1958, March 13
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040884
Nuclear weapons test explosion in Nevada desert sky.

Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test in Nevada during the Cold War. Smoke forms into a doughnut-shaped cloud as it ascends.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078683
Mushroom cloud forms during nuclear weapons test in Nevada

Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test in Nevada testing ground. In a rugged desert, from a distance, a smoke forms into a small mushroom-shaped cloud before dispersing in the sky.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078684
Hot mushroom cloud forms after tactical nuclear bomb detonation in Nevada Desert.

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.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078686
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