Nuclear weapons test "BAKER" in Bikini Lagoon, on July 25, 1946. Ships anchored in the lagoon are seen from aircraft flying above. The nuclear device with yield of 23 thousand tons of TNT equivalent, is detonated from 90 feet below sea level. The screen goes white from the light of the resulting fireball. As that light dissipates, a huge wall of water is seen rising rapidly to create a mountainous ball of water, from which a mushroom cloud starts billowing upwards. A huge column of water is seen falling out of the mass, as the mushroom cloud continues to rise and spread.
Atomic bomb test "Baker" at Bikini Atoll, Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean during Operation Crossroads in July 1946. Aerial view of ships at anchor, grouped in a small area. Broken clouds in sky. Underwater explosion of bomb "Helen of Bikini", shot Baker, occurs as it throws a shock wave. It forms a huge round white cloud, grey smoke curls up its center. Lower clouds around the area dissipates. Nuclear test mushroom cloud hangs over the ships. A large trunk of the bomb blast extends down into the water. Many ships surround the blast area.
1946: Nuremberg War Crime Trials in Nuremberg, Germany. A courtroom. The prisoners in dock showing German politician Hermann Goering and other defendants. An unidentified witness on a stand. People seated on a Bench. Justice Robert H. Jackson presiding. Goering walks to witness stand and sits down. The prisoners in the dock. Goering giving testimony about Vidkun Quisling of Norway. Spectators in the courtroom.
Meeting of the Comite Directeur of the Communist party in Prague, Czechoslovakia held after the 1946 Parliamentary Elections. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek speaks and exposes the political situation. Mr. Nosek talks to another member of the committee. Mr. Nosek talks while Prime Minister Klement Gottwald listens. Gottwald smokes and talks at a table.
First flight of Convair XB-36, on August 8, 1946, piloted by Chief test pilot Beryl Erickson and copilot Gus Green. Air and ground crews doing extensive inspections and preflight checks of the XB-36 parked on ramp. Two of the team standing on horizontal stabilizer examining the vertical stabilizer. Tail number 213570 clearly painted on vertical stabilizer. Two Air Force personnel standing next to one of the huge single main gear tires. Engines are started and XB-36 taxis toward runway. It spins around on active runway towards direction of takeoff, and commences takeoff roll, gradually breaking ground in a shallow climb angle.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh visits Mexico. Lindbergh at Lake Xochimilco known as Mexico's Venice. Numerous boats in the water. Native Mexicans in the boats. Lindbergh arrives with officials. Lindbergh and officials in a decorated boat. Flower sellers in the boats. Tall trees around the lake. Lindbergh with U.S. Ambassador to mexico Dwight Morrow, officers and officials. Lindbergh stands with Mexican Boy Scouts, officials and a little boy outside a building.
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